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Report, edit, etc...Posted by Mp)7-7 on 2006-11-27 at 21:04:45
Well, you get out of life what you out into it. If you drop out from high school and live life a bum tough luck. If you become a millionare life is easier and mostly more enjoyable.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by PwnPirate on 2006-11-29 at 21:44:11
If you want retirement so badly, you just need to have children.


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Green Meklar minerals wont matter to me if I'm in heavan and I'll be damned if when the rapture happens you will think that all those people were right and I have lived a damned life.

He'll see once the end of the world comes. When was that going to happen? Oh yeah, half a year ago.
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Life is the longest thing you'll ever do so how is it short

Quit. Using. That. Argument. Seriously. (QUTAS)
I'm always seeing that argument used by "smart-alecks" who want to make others sound like imbeciles. Well, it's wrong.
You can't compare something to itself. Eg.

Man 1: Seconds are so short
Man 2: How can you say that they are short? Seconds are the longest they can possibly be.
You: WRONG.

When you compare an object, you compare it to a different object. You can't say that bread is staler than itself, that makes no sense.
When people say that "life is short", they obviously mean in comparison to other measurements in time.
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Actually, most drugs aren't that bad for you moderation. Most things aren't bad for you in moderation.

Stabbing yourself isn't bad in moderation.
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I think that everyone will save or try to save for retirement at least once in their lives. I dont see any reaon someone would want to work until they die, it just doesnt make any sence.

Work is great, being idle is being bored.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by EcHo on 2006-11-29 at 21:54:12
If you're complaining about how life is too short, then just live it to your fullest extent instead of playing starcraft 24/7 or going on sen for more than 3 hours.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Mp)7-7 on 2006-11-29 at 22:08:45
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If you're complaining about how life is too short, then just live it to your fullest extent instead of playing starcraft 24/7 or going on sen for more than 3 hours.
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I play Starcraft a couple hours a day and I am on SEN for way longer than 3 hours a day. I still have a good life. I have had a girlfriend longer than I have been on SEN. I get descent grades. I like life the way it is!
Report, edit, etc...Posted by EcHo on 2006-11-29 at 22:12:32
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I play Starcraft a couple hours a day and I am on SEN for way longer than 3 hours a day.  I still have a good life.  I have had a girlfriend longer than I have been on SEN.  I get descent grades.  I like life the way it is!
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Except the fact you cant do any hobbies like going outside. I reduced my time in SEN because I noticed my grades were going down, i've been sleeping late and got only 5 hours a sleep( which isnt good for my age), and I havent gotten the time to work out and skate.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by green_meklar on 2006-11-29 at 22:12:32
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He'll see once the end of the world comes. When was that going to happen? Oh yeah, half a year ago.

Well, the failure of the world to end on 6-6-6 was a good laugh against the apocalypse buffs, yeah. But not nearly all christians actually thought the world was going to end then.

Of course, maybe he did and posted it on here back then, but I wouldn't have seen it. If not, my point stands: It doesn't really make sense to accuse all christians of automatically being 6-6-6 apocalypse buffs.
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Quit. Using. That. Argument. Seriously. (QUTAS)
I'm always seeing that argument used by "smart-alecks" who want to make others sound like imbeciles. Well, it's wrong.

Couldn't agree more. I think it goes in the same category as 'Arguing on the Internet is like running in the Special Olympics'. People use it to sound intelligent and witty when in fact it's a load of BS.
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If you're complaining about how life is too short, then just live it to your fullest extent

Doesn't really matter. There is no such thing as living long enough, so long as you eventually do die. After it's all over and you reach that point, there's nothing left to look forward to. However much fun you may have had, you can never have fun again. Everything after that is pointless. Get what I mean? Seriously, the only way you can live long enough is to live forever.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by EcHo on 2006-11-29 at 22:16:33
QUOTE(green_meklar @ Nov 29 2006, 10:12 PM)
Well, the failure of the world to end on 6-6-6 was a good laugh against the apocalypse buffs, yeah. But not nearly all christians actually thought the world was going to end then.

Of course, maybe he did and posted it on here back then, but I wouldn't have seen it. If not, my point stands: It doesn't really make sense to accuse all christians of automatically being 6-6-6 apocalypse buffs.

Couldn't agree more. I think it goes in the same category as 'Arguing on the Internet is like running in the Special Olympics'. People use it to sound intelligent and witty when in fact it's a load of BS.

Doesn't really matter. There is no such thing as living long enough, so long as you eventually do die. After it's all over and you reach that point, there's nothing left to look forward to. However much fun you may have had, you can never have fun again. Everything after that is pointless. Get what I mean? Seriously, the only way you can live long enough is to live forever.
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Well if you enjoyed life and did some good things that made a difference in the world, life wasnt really too short. Yeah eventually you will die but what is life for? One of the characteristics of living = dying. (Source from Science Text book)
Report, edit, etc...Posted by PoSSeSSeDCoW on 2006-11-29 at 22:47:36
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When you compare an object, you compare it to a different object. You can't say that bread is staler than itself, that makes no sense.
When people say that "life is short", they obviously mean in comparison to other measurements in time.

If they say that, then the statement loses it's meaning. Yeah, 100000000000 (10x10^12) years is short, when you compare it to 1000000000000 (10x10^13) years. They are both outrageously long, so you can't logically call 10x10^12 years short.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Mp)7-7 on 2006-11-29 at 23:23:45
Im not sure what your getting at. If I do know, you could have used 1 year and 2 years. Though 2 years is twice as long as 1 year. 1 year is still very long. This is a dumb topic. Life is long.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by EcHo on 2006-11-29 at 23:31:08
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Im not sure what your getting at.  If I do know, you could have used 1 year and 2 years.  Though 2 years is twice as long as 1 year. 1 year is still very long.  This is a dumb topic.  Life is long.
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Some people complain life is too long. Especially people in college, so they suicide most of the time.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by PoSSeSSeDCoW on 2006-11-30 at 00:53:58
The length of life is merely a matter of point of view. Some people think it is long, others think it is short, and others think it is just right. It isn't really anything you can argue about because everyone is right.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by green_meklar on 2006-11-30 at 20:13:48
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Well if you enjoyed life and did some good things that made a difference in the world, life wasnt really too short.

Nope, because when you reach the end of it, same scenario. Doesn't matter how much past you have, if you don't have a future (or a present), you aren't living for long enough.
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Yeah eventually you will die but what is life for?

From a subjective point of view, having fun. The more of it the better.
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One of the characteristics of living = dying.

Doesn't make it good.
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If they say that, then the statement loses it's meaning.

Agreed. I mean, an hour is long when you measure it in seconds, but it's short when you measure it in years. Time intervals are a good way to measure how long someone lives, but it doesn't give any indication as to whether it's too short or not, because to do that you have to have a definition of 'too short'. Keep in mind that life can be long and still be too short at the same time, if 'long enough' is longer than 'long' (which it is).
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Life is long.

Say that again when you have terminal cancer and two months to live.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Lithium on 2006-12-01 at 13:00:00
Life is short. I wish I were able to live up to millions of years. Or forever.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by [SmC]DiNO-X on 2006-12-20 at 13:54:50
Life is terribly short for us.
Remember that since the earth creation are millions of years.Then live 70-80 years, it just a tiny amount of time.Besides if you don't enjoy your life,you will feel that you're eternal. While you more happy are, more fast you will feel the time run.
~XTD (I have cleaned up my mind)
Report, edit, etc...Posted by PwnPirate on 2006-12-29 at 22:29:33
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If they say that, then the statement loses it's meaning. Yeah, 100000000000 (10x10^12) years is short, when you compare it to 1000000000000 (10x10^13) years. They are both outrageously long, so you can't logically call 10x10^12 years short.

I don't understand what you are trying to get at. The reason that they are both outrageously long is because you are comparing them to the span of your own life.
Eg. If there were 3 bricks in one place, and 6 bricks in another, you would be a man with 1 brick.
6 is more than 3, however you are comparing both 6 and 3 to yourself (1), which is why they are both big.



"Too" means a surplus amount so large that it has reached a point where it is detrimental,
"Short" means a length that is lesser than the desired amount.

Life has a surplus amount of undesirable length.
When this is said, you are also to assume that it applies to an amount of individuals over 50% of the group that is being discussed (that's just common sense). So therefore, life is too short.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Andy on 2006-12-31 at 11:35:00
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Thinking of what you just said.  To maker of this topic.  Life is too short, Like give me an example of what you are going to do that is longer.  When you come up with something longer than life, let me know.
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The eternal afterlife.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Rantent on 2007-01-04 at 08:34:35
Why does length of time matter in the least?
It doesn't matter if you live one year or 100 years, it all matters in how you live that amount of time. So many people waste it; it's surprising they care so much about losing it.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by green_meklar on 2007-01-04 at 11:37:42
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Why does length of time matter in the least?

How could it not matter? We live to be happy, and on average, the total amount of happiness we experience scales directly with the amount of time we live. If as you say time doesn't matter, then living for only one more second is somehow okay because it's the longest thing you'll ever do? NOT. The human desire for happiness does not include death; that is to say, it is always bad to stop being happy, for any reason, including dying.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Rantent on 2007-01-05 at 20:27:25
I'd prefer being happy for a second then being miserable for a lifetime...
Report, edit, etc...Posted by PwnPirate on 2007-01-06 at 00:47:29
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I'd prefer being happy for a second then being miserable for a lifetime...

That's comparing an empty bathtub to a full cup of water, it's the same thing. We weren't saying anything about being miserable.
"I would prefer being happy forever, rather than for a second." That is what we are saying.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by green_meklar on 2007-01-07 at 00:02:19
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I'd prefer being happy for a second then being miserable for a lifetime...

Maybe so. But the nice thing is, until that lifetime is over you still have the hope of being happy for more than a second. So while you are alive, it would make sense to go on living as long as possible.
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"I would prefer being happy forever, rather than for a second." That is what we are saying.

Exactly.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Rantent on 2007-01-07 at 01:37:42
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But the nice thing is, until that lifetime is over you still have the hope of being happy for more than a second.
Again, it all depends on how you choose to live your life. You are able to be happy because of the choices you make.

Unless you are arguing that it is hope, rather then happiness which should be the reason to strive for a longer life. But I have hoped plenty, and things generally didn't happen unless I did something about it.

And I don't think the topic is about being happy forever, but living for a longer period of time. The cause of the short life is the lifestyle we choose, which Andy noted saying he drinks and smokes, which can cause short term pleasure but in the long term are detrimental. So it comes down to, living a short intense lifestyle or living a mediocre, yet long, life.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by PwnPirate on 2007-01-07 at 01:57:59
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Again, it all depends on how you choose to [B]live your life. You are able to be happy because of the choices you make.

Unless you are arguing that it is hope, rather then happiness which should be the reason to strive for a longer life. But I have hoped plenty, and things generally didn't happen unless I did something about it.

And I don't think the topic is about being happy forever, but living for a longer period of time. The cause of the short life is the lifestyle we choose, which Andy noted saying he drinks and smokes, which can cause short term pleasure but in the long term are detrimental. So it comes down to, living a short intense lifestyle or living a mediocre, yet long, life.

People are saying life is short, we are agreeing and saying that life can never possibly be long enough because you can never have enough happiness. Therefore the topic is very relevant to being happy forever. It doesn't matter how concentrated your happiness is, you will still want more afterwards, and in order for that to happen you need a longer life, therefore life is always short. As for Andy.. Andy isn't thinking ahead of his current life and he will regret his decisions when he is 50 and has lung cancer, because he will want to be happy for longer, which wont be possible because he will be breathing out of a hole in his neck (which isn't very pleasant).
Report, edit, etc...Posted by green_meklar on 2007-01-07 at 10:58:28
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Unless you are arguing that it is hope, rather then happiness which should be the reason to strive for a longer life.

No, happiness is the reason. But if you aren't happy, hope of being happy works too. I mean, you don't kill yourself as soon as you are not happy, do you? Of course not, rather you wait until things get better.
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People are saying life is short, we are agreeing and saying that life can never possibly be long enough because you can never have enough happiness. Therefore the topic is very relevant to being happy forever.

Exactly.
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It doesn't matter how concentrated your happiness is, you will still want more afterwards, and in order for that to happen you need a longer life, therefore life is always short.

More accurately, it's always too short.
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