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what if they get an organ transplant? does their average age change?
"Want to see a photo of me when I was younger?"
"Every photo is of you when you were younger."
- Mitch Hedburg
so Thought that i'm gonna go Shower
So you see people more than once ? Damn I knew I was doing something wrong.
What do you mean, "again"?
In German there is a saying: „So jung kommen wir nicht mehr zusammen“ („We’ll never be this young together again”). You say it when you’re with friends or family and it means something like “Let’s live in the moment and celebrate, because who knows how long we can still do this.”
The German "Carpe Diem" basically
Nice :-)
So deep
Everything you see is just the past because of how slow light is and how slow signals in your body are. We're living with a constant lag!
The even more fucked part is that everyone's lag is different, and there is no universal "now". Check this out if you want to lay awake for a few nights:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rietdijk%E2%80%93Putnam_argument
I can recommend neurological research too. Turns out individuals have different "clock speeds", influencing their reaction time and even the "frame rate" of their visual perception (Fighter jet pilots!). Time is a funny thing, even without taking spacetime into account.
Personally, I like the Roller Coaster Tycoon version.
Exactly what i thought of!
And never further from death.
Yay
For you
Time is inexorable
I see dead people (because movies and such exist). In person, though, you're right unless you've got a time machine hiding somewhere.
It... would be pretty horrific if that wasn't the case. Like, wake up tomorrow and my parents are teenagers? People I work with are babbling babies? There are people out there filing my taxes. I need them to not crawl back into their mother's womb. Who in this scenario may as well be a toddler. No, thanks.
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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
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- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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