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jajdude



Joined: 18 Jan 2003

PostPosted: Sat Nov 22, 2008 11:32 am    Post subject: Your mortality Reply with quote

Recently this has been on my mind. It's not so bad. I don't want 50 more years, but 20 or so would be fine. I have a friend who is knocking on the door. Frankly, I'm a bit tired of people and the disappointment. (Then again, one should not expect much from a bunch like us)

I try to see good, but you know, truly, most people suck.

Still there is quite a lot of beauty.

Yeah, I'm bored and posting a lot of late.


(Knew I should've got some good stuff earlier.)
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the_beaver



Joined: 15 Jan 2003

PostPosted: Sat Nov 22, 2008 3:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

We're on the cusp of immortality, and dude, it is too cool.

Simple longevity is being approached in things like this: http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/11/next-generation.html

But bigger things are near: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/aubrey_de_grey_says_we_can_avoid_aging.html
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aboxofchocolates



Joined: 21 Mar 2008
Location: on your mind

PostPosted: Sat Nov 22, 2008 4:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Calculate when you will die!!

http://www.findyourfate.com/deathmeter/deathmtr.html
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Kuros



Joined: 27 Apr 2004

PostPosted: Sat Nov 22, 2008 4:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

aboxofchocolates wrote:
Calculate when you will die!!

http://www.findyourfate.com/deathmeter/deathmtr.html


Prometheus is rolling in his grave.
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aboxofchocolates



Joined: 21 Mar 2008
Location: on your mind

PostPosted: Sat Nov 22, 2008 4:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Kuros wrote:

Prometheus is rolling in his grave.


Not getting his liver ripped out for eternity? Missing something....
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Tiger Beer



Joined: 07 Feb 2003

PostPosted: Sat Nov 22, 2008 6:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

aboxofchocolates wrote:
Calculate when you will die!!

http://www.findyourfate.com/deathmeter/deathmtr.html

May 7, 2056 for me.
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ED209



Joined: 17 Oct 2006

PostPosted: Sat Nov 22, 2008 6:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

It's nothing to write home about. I'm around 300,000 years old.

the man from earth
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crusher_of_heads



Joined: 23 Feb 2007
Location: kimbop and kimchi for kimberly!!!!

PostPosted: Sat Nov 22, 2008 6:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Tiger Beer wrote:
aboxofchocolates wrote:
Calculate when you will die!!

http://www.findyourfate.com/deathmeter/deathmtr.html

May 7, 2056 for me.


July 6, 2053.

I would have guessed sooner, even though I'm proactive with a lot of that stuff. Of course, the beer didn't help.
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T-J



Joined: 10 Oct 2008
Location: Seoul EunpyungGu Yeonsinnae

PostPosted: Sat Nov 22, 2008 7:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

It calculated 2048 for me. Puts me out at eighty. Not too bad. So I changed my smoking habits from often to never to see how many years it would add.





TWO.


Two years, which at first sounds like a long time, but remember those two years I'm adding on aren't two extra years in my forties. It's two more years in my eighties!

I don't know, on one hand I know I should quit. On the other, isn't life to short to spend it worrying about this and that so much that you don't enjoy the now?
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VanIslander



Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!

PostPosted: Sat Nov 22, 2008 9:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

June 22, 2054. That would make me 85.

I gave what I thought were a lot of poor health answers but I don't smoke and my grandparents lived into their nineties so maybe that skews it quite a bit.

Guess I better plan for retirement after all.
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Rae



Joined: 10 Oct 2007

PostPosted: Sun Nov 23, 2008 4:19 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Our dates of reckoning: Feb 22, 2073 and Sep 14, 2069.
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itaewonguy



Joined: 25 Mar 2003

PostPosted: Sun Nov 23, 2008 4:32 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Most humans do suck!
Because we have corrupted leaders who set the example!

Look what we can achieve! Putting man on the moon! Curing disease!
ETC ETC ...
All those genius things and we still can�t love each other! we still can�t help each other! And we still can�t be kind to each other!

No room for forgiveness and kindness in natural selection!
KILL OR BE KILLED!

I also wonder when killing another human was considered wrong.

I mean must of been a time in history when it was fine, if someone is trying to get in on your kill, and it�s a matter of him eating tonight or you. Just kill him and then you and your tribe eat tonight!

In what year was it considered bad? Ohh that�s right... its still ok, but only on a government scale!

End of the day you can only count on your family.
And for true unconditional love your pet dog!
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okokok



Joined: 27 Aug 2006

PostPosted: Mon Nov 24, 2008 3:15 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

That things kinda messed up. It gave me until 2060 originally. I was surprised because I gave some not so good answers. For instance I am not exercising now because of a bad shoulder, but usually I exercise a few days a week. So initially I clicked on 'never' for exercise. I go back later and change it to 3x a week and I lose 2 years off of my lifespan.

If you know what's good for ya, don't exercise I guess.
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