I’m asking why people fight to live longer, and you think I’m concerned about the finiteness of life? No. I didn’t say it would have meaning if we didn’t die. My point is, what does life mean? Why want to live forever?
You don’t even begin to address the question.
Good, different perspective. I like it
My understanding of what you said:
I may not leave a legacy, but I WILL leave a mark.
Things exist outside of our observation, but they aren’t interpreted until we see them.
But, that also means that you don’t have to live up to anyone else’s idea of what your life should be. You can make your own path, your own meaning, and fuck the people in funny hats who try to tell you otherwise. You are you and no one else gets to define what that is.
Oh but you do. Unless you want the men in funny hats to take you off and put you in a funny jacket in a padded room, or place you in a room with bars instead of walls.
EVERYONE else’s idea of what your life should be is the standard, and if you deviate more than the standard deviation you will suffer the consequence of eeking out existence with very few choices.
Read “The Politics of Experience” by RD Laing.
It’s not valuable, it’s a convention. You may as well use conch shells or Bitcoin. Don’t matter what it is, it doesn’t have value until we all agree it has value
Paper money isn’t worth anything innately. Gold isn’t either. Not diamonds. Nothing has innate worth except food, air, drinking water, and possibly shelter.
My very own meme!
Exactly. A fail at all levels, but I kind of knew that. It was intended as something funny, but 'I speak cheese" is just weird.
BTW, when I explained they told me the word they use in Cuba to make a smile face. I’ve forgotten it.
Edit: I just remembered, it was Whiskey!
I remember when I grew tall, 6’6" or almost 2 meters, I had moments when I was aware of being a full head above everyone else in a crowd.
Does that sort of thing happen when you’re very smart? Times when you realize you have abilities others don’t?
You have both corrected me well, I admit I was wrong. Sorry.
It would have a hell of a lot of economic power, and natural resources.
Alabama. Not enough federal money in the world to keep that state afloat.
If they split from the Union, everyone starves.
None of our accomplishments. The great things we do as humans.
World trade center. Library in Alexandra. etc.