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 Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2011 9:15 pm
What if you, so long as you didn't track time for more than a month's span, would not age? You could go for years and years without aging so long as you remained ignorant of how much time was passing... but the moment you learned how much time had passed you would immediately age that many months or years... would you stop paying attention to the flow of time and cut yourself off from civilization keeping only others like yourself for company?
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Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2011 1:46 pm
I don't think I would. It would be no fun to cut myself off from the rest of the world (even if my friends did come with me) just to keep myself ignorant of that information. That would mean no internet, no new movies, no new books or television shows.... Lame.
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Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2011 2:24 pm
I have a poor sense of time anyway, so that would be easy for me whee
In all seriousness, though, how long one lives and how they appear during that time is not nearly as important as what they do with their lives. Or at least that is my view on it. If one were to live a million years, but have made no gains in knowledge or even so much as helped a single person in some way, be it through advice or some other means, then that million years is no better than a normal lifespan. It is just wasted time.
Living just for the sake of living is pointless.
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Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2011 8:41 am
One would need to be in a self contained society cuz the sun itself is a time keeper.
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Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2011 9:11 am
Am I aging? I never keep track.
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Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2011 1:18 pm
Penny Parker One would need to be in a self contained society cuz the sun itself is a time keeper. Really, who could keep track of a month's time without a calendar?
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Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2011 1:19 pm
bandaidd Am I aging? I never keep track. I mean physically aging.
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Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2011 6:35 pm
I couldn't manage it. Even if I tried. I'm too picky and pay too much attention to detail.
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Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2011 9:22 pm
Rei Inaba Penny Parker One would need to be in a self contained society cuz the sun itself is a time keeper. Really, who could keep track of a month's time without a calendar? What about the moon? The phases of the moon were the origin of the month. Plus there's the seasons... You'd be aware of the passage of time no matter what.
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Posted: Fri Sep 02, 2011 5:19 am
Kits Rose Rei Inaba Penny Parker One would need to be in a self contained society cuz the sun itself is a time keeper. Really, who could keep track of a month's time without a calendar? What about the moon? The phases of the moon were the origin of the month. Plus there's the seasons... You'd be aware of the passage of time no matter what. I don't know, the days all merge together for me so I think I could potentially live forever in that scenario.
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Posted: Fri Sep 02, 2011 5:31 am
What an interesting question. It reminds me of the question that I once put to some people, which was if they were in the mythical Garden of Eden would they want a paradisaical and eternal existence in ignorance of a limited, mortal life-span in which they could learn all that they might.
In this instance, I think that I would live life normally. Really, I want desperately to learn all that I can, but taking part in the lives of other human beings is the most worthy and valuable use that we can make of our time (with the arguable exception of engaging in creative endeavors). One could not remain ignorant of time for long while interacting with others, so this would not increase my life... Though when my mortality began to bear down on me and I was approaching my twilight years, I may reconsider and withdraw.
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