Everyone that has ever lived, has died.

[checkyourprez]

This sounds like an obvious statement, and quite frankly it is.


I don't know why I think about these but I do.


Everyone that has ever lived has died. However many people it has been, billions you would think. But like think about everyone you know, and one day they will all be gone. Everything you know will be gone, and then one day you will be gone. No matter what you do, how successful you are, how much money you make, how shitty your life is, how notorious, or how meaningless your life is, it will end, just like everyone's before you.


I think thats why I don't really worry about things. At least at this time in my life. Everything is like "whatever man". I have a somewhat cushy life at the moment, and I am well aware that contributes to this feeling. But I think its deeper than that. We are on a little blue dot in a vast space of gas balls and nothingness.


I think people just take shit too seriously. They take life too seriously. You're only here for a fraction of a millisecond in the grand scheme of space and time, so fuck it, ya know?

[Bob]

i'll try telling that to my landlord this month in lieu of rent

[b i o n i c]

i think that if you explain this way he'll be understanding

[RobMoney$]

...and everyone you know, one day, will die.

[Adam]

I'm a hypnotist.

[HAL 9000]

..about 6% of the people who have ever lived, are alive right now.

But like think about everyone you know, and one day they will all be gone. Everything you know will be gone, and then one day you will be gone. No matter what you do, how successful you are, how much money you make, how shitty your life is, how notorious, or how meaningless your life is, it will end, just like everyone's before you.


I think thats why I don't really worry about things. At least at this time in my life. Everything is like "whatever man". I have a somewhat cushy life at the moment, and I am well aware that contributes to this feeling. But I think its deeper than that. We are on a little blue dot in a vast space of gas balls and nothingness.


:)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wupToqz1e2g:)

love Carl Sagan...

[checkyourprez]

i'll try telling that to my landlord this month in lieu of rent

try getting a job first you deadbeat!!!

[Adam]

There is a strong argument that the babies being born today could live to be 200 years old. This is gonna be one over crowded pale blue dot very soon if that becomes the case.

[ms.peachy]

I remember when I was pregnant looking around all all the people I could see and thinking "Every single one of these people was born. Out of a woman's belly. Every single one."

[100% ILL]

This sounds like an obvious statement, and quite frankly it is.

I don't know why I think about these but I do.

Everyone that has ever lived has died.


...........Unless of course you happen to believe the Bible, then your statement is inaccurate.

[Schmeltz]

Actually it's totally accurate no matter how many people believe the Bible. It's like how the earth is round even though some people don't think it is.

[DIGI]

...and everyone you know, one day, will die.

Took the words right out of my fingers. My fiancee and I's first dance at our reception will be to that Flaming Lips song.



Prez,

You chillin with some Being and Nothingness at the library or what?

[HAL 9000]

I remember when I was pregnant looking around all all the people I could see and thinking "Every single one of these people was born. Out of a woman's belly. Every single one."

There is a line in a Streets song

For billions of years since the outset of time, every single one of your ancestors survived...
Every single person on your Mum and Dad's side successfully looked after and passed on to you life...

Which neatly expresses the crazy thought that for every person, there is an unbroken chain of ancestors, millions of individuals long, all of which were born, survived predation and disease at least until being old enough to reproduce, found a mate and conceived another of your ancestors. Think how many near misses there must have been along the way, how many times one of your ancestors nearly got killed or eaten before having the critical descendant that led to you.

which leads to...


We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Arabia. Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton. We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively exceeds the set of actual people. In the teeth of these stupefying odds it is you and I, in our ordinariness, that are here.


which I like :)

[Adam]

Also remember that >99% of species are extinct.

[b i o n i c]

Everyone that has ever died, has lived.

[Waus]

http://talker96.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/work-die.jpg

[Guy Incognito]

I think thats why I don't really worry about things. At least at this time in my life. Everything is like "whatever man". I have a somewhat cushy life at the moment, and I am well aware that contributes to this feeling. But I think its deeper than that. We are on a little blue dot in a vast space of gas balls and nothingness.


I think people just take shit too seriously. They take life too seriously. You're only here for a fraction of a millisecond in the grand scheme of space and time, so fuck it, ya know?

All matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves

seriously CYP, when you have little cyp's running round your gaff this outlook will change, you will worry, at least a little bit more

[100% ILL]

Actually it's totally accurate no matter how many people believe the Bible.

My bad, I should've said his statement is inaccurate.

It's like how the earth is round even though some people don't think it is.

According to the Bible, the earth is round.

[ms.peachy]

seriously CYP, when you have little cyp's running round your gaff this outlook will change, you will worry, at least a little bit more

Seriously. You can't imagine.

[roosta]

"Decay is inherent in all component things! Work out your salvation with diligence."

The Buddha's final words.

[Freebasser]

There's a guy who lives across the street from me who's just been told he has 6 weeks to live.

I saw all the cars of family, nurses, etc that were parked outside his house on my way to work yesterday, and it was odd because at the same time on my side of the road there was a garden full of happy children playing, blissfully unaware of how short life is.

The cycle of life continues :(:)

[Freebasser]

we're all doomed

[MCD]

..about 6% of the people who have ever lived, are alive right now.

hal my old friend i don't know if if accept your math.

[Adam]

hal my old friend i don't know if if accept your math.

I can see it being right. At first I thought nah. But then we've more than doubled the world population in the past 30 years. That bumps the alive average up a hell of a lot.

So there is 7 billion people alive atm (7,000,000,000). If that is only 6% of the people who have been alive then its a hell of a lot over all...

...I tried to work it out but I'm so hung over I've no clue where to even start and I'm not even so sure I'd know if I was at my sharpest.

edit: I do know. My calculator says 1,166,666,666,666 - (one thousand one hundred and sixty six billion) - some1 tell me if that is right(ish)?

[Kid Presentable]

What about all the poo?

[Guy Incognito]

What about all the poo?

:D:D yoink

[Kid Presentable]

I mean, there's been shitloads.

[HAL 9000]

If 6% of humans who ever lived are alive right now, then it implies the total number of humans who ever lived is a little over 100 billion.

It is complicated by considering what does the concept of the first human mean anyway? Most people would say it is the oldest ancestor that could, theoretically produce viable offspring with a modern human. As we dont really know when this person lived, it is going to be all estimate. Whoever that individual is, you can bet they would have been physically very very similar to their parents in the same way that we are to ours.

But a number of papers have estimated the number of humans ever at 100 - 115 billion. The most cited article I can find is this one

http://www.prb.org/pdf/PT_novdec02.pdf (page 3).

[Laver1969]

We are on a little blue dot in a vast space of gas balls and nothingness.


That means that our whole solar system could be, like one tiny atom in the fingernail of some other giant being.

That means one tiny atom in my fingernail could be--Could be one little tiny universe.

[checkyourprez]

That means that our whole solar system could be, like one tiny atom in the fingernail of some other giant being.

That means one tiny atom in my fingernail could be--Could be one little tiny universe.

yes. just like animal house.



i was thinking more about it in class tonight. we were talking some stuff about world war II and the cold war and what not and all the evil and destruction and death that happened. then that got me to thinking about whole civilizations have just risen and fallen and everything really is just the blink of an eye. we are all so meaningless its hilarious even. whats even more funny to me is how serious some people take things and their lives in general.

[b i o n i c]

old war and what not and all the evil and destruction and death that happened. then that got me to thinking about whole civilizations have just risen and fallen and everything really is just the blink of an eye. we are all so meaningless its hilarious even. whats even more funny to me is how serious some people take things and their lives in general.


im pretty sure that along the way a lot of the people who took some shit seriously were right

[checkyourprez]

im pretty sure that along the way a lot of the people who took some shit seriously were right

right meaning...?


1+1=2 am i right?


boom, you're dead, does it matter to you anymore?

[b i o n i c]

things would suck a lot if no one ever took life seriously