This thread is for reflecting on our extremely short lives.
On average, men get 75 years and women get 80.
Population pyramids indicate our frailer comrades start dying in their mid-50s with half gone in their mid-70s followed by the rest around 100 years old.
https://www.populationpyramid.net/united-states-of-america/2017/
This feeling is usually addressed by religion, but I personally feel that after I die I'll go to where ever I was before I was born.
Back when Cicadas took over a summer, they were so loud is was like having a new species on Earth.
Yet they were silent after only a few weeks.
An extremely mortal feeling.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periodical_cicadas
People who own hamsters also know how helpless it is when they are born, live, and die of old age after 2.5 years.
Check out these old history pictures.
All those people are gone.
http://www.whizzpast.com/amazing-vintage-3d-photos-industrialized-world/
Same for history books.
I feel like those people in the pages sometimes, and I realize I'm slowly becoming like them, bound to a page every single day.
There was that King of Persia once.
Xerxes stopped on his way to go beat on the Greeks because he felt the same way.
I know the feeling has hit Conan O’Brien.
None of his late night stuff will be remembered even if he is currently famous.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/01/cultural-icons-popular-today-unknown-tomorrow/
Anyway, if you've never had a near death experience or are younger than 25, this thread isn't really for you.
How do you folks deal when that mortal feeling hits?
More religion?
Brainwash a younger person with your values and turn them into a mini-me?
Paint something?
Get more kids / pets?
I think I'll just stay away from the doom threads for a few months
On average, men get 75 years and women get 80.
Population pyramids indicate our frailer comrades start dying in their mid-50s with half gone in their mid-70s followed by the rest around 100 years old.
https://www.populationpyramid.net/united-states-of-america/2017/
This feeling is usually addressed by religion, but I personally feel that after I die I'll go to where ever I was before I was born.
Back when Cicadas took over a summer, they were so loud is was like having a new species on Earth.
Yet they were silent after only a few weeks.
An extremely mortal feeling.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periodical_cicadas
People who own hamsters also know how helpless it is when they are born, live, and die of old age after 2.5 years.
Check out these old history pictures.
All those people are gone.
http://www.whizzpast.com/amazing-vintage-3d-photos-industrialized-world/
Same for history books.
I feel like those people in the pages sometimes, and I realize I'm slowly becoming like them, bound to a page every single day.
There was that King of Persia once.
Xerxes stopped on his way to go beat on the Greeks because he felt the same way.
According to Herodotus, the size of Xerxes’ expeditionary force was over two million men and four thousand ships. Diodorus Siculus and Quintus Curtius Rufus confirm the enormity of Xerxes’ army, though their numbers differ from Herodotus and from each other. In order to move his ships freely, he had a canal dug across the Isthmus of Actium near Mr. Athos, the remains of which are still visible in the present day. He assembled his forces to cross the Hellespont into Europe and, Herodotus reports, watched them as they stood in formation.
The size of the army and its majesty first gave Xerxes a feeling of deep self-satisfaction, but later he began to weep. When his uncle, Artabanus (the one who had at first freely expressed his opinion and advised Xerxes not to attack Greece) noticed that Xerxes was crying he said, `My lord, a short while ago you were feeling happy with your situation and now you are weeping. What a total change of mood!’ `Yes,” Xerxes answered. `I was reflecting on things and it occurred to me how short the sum total of human life is, which made me feel compassion. Look at all these people – but not one of them will still be alive in a hundred years’ time’(VII.45-46).
I know the feeling has hit Conan O’Brien.
None of his late night stuff will be remembered even if he is currently famous.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/01/cultural-icons-popular-today-unknown-tomorrow/
Anyway, if you've never had a near death experience or are younger than 25, this thread isn't really for you.
How do you folks deal when that mortal feeling hits?
More religion?
Brainwash a younger person with your values and turn them into a mini-me?
Paint something?
Get more kids / pets?
I think I'll just stay away from the doom threads for a few months