An Incomplete Life?

RE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plEzcAq1MuQ

Category:

Education

Tags:

• death
• life
• whole
• existence
• temporality
• time
• existentialism
• completion
• frame of reference

[mojomanhand]

My life has seemed very short and only seems shorter as I get older. Granted I remember thinking when I was a child that I would never be a adult, now more than half my life I have been a adult and it seems like not very long ago I was a child. The candle just burns faster and faster as I get older. It was the awareness of time and how we as humans used it in the way we do that helped me become self aware as a young teenager.

[beachcomber2008]

That was exactly the way I saw it in the early sixties. Fifty years later, it's STILL the same.

But THAT minute sure gets shorter...

Favorited.

[almafarag]

/watch?v=YtyDnO683ow

[Lpoolboy]

Not so sure what you're getting at here Anton. Ofcourse whenever you die you will have lived up to that point and so you've been fully 'alive' until you died, but you do have a frame of reference or comparison. You can look at someone else and say 'Hey, it's not fair, they had so much more than me!' Imagine you lived in a box for ten years and you were then let out and five seconds later died. Having found out that there was so much more to see, you'd certainly feel hard done by, and rightly so.

[HigherPlanes]

There's that pesky language again, granting us access to that world, not of sensory experience, but to the world that was before this moment, and to the world that will be, to say nothing of the world that might have been or the world that may yet be or, the root of morality, the world that someone thinks should be.

[Ramiiam]

I read about an experiment that a psychologist did a while back. He asked people of different ages to estimate the duration of a minute (that is, to press a button when they thought a minute had elapsed). What he found was that younger people underestimated and older people overestimated. He concluded that the perception of time changes as we age. Younger people really do perceive time as passing more slowly. I tried it myself. Sure enough, I overestimated the duration of a minute!

[tyrbolo]

it is all comparative rate, an hour to a child is a long time because it is a big slice

of what they have experienced. This diminishes and even a day or a week seems short when you get old. Any life extension will make years seem to fly past in a

blur. Arriving at Alpha Centauri we will remark that it seems like only yesterday

that we left Earth behind.

[pronchie1]

viva la muerte!

and she unfolds her arms and wraps them around me like a smooth blanket of heavy fog resting heavy on my eyelids taking away the fear and soothing away the pain her cool kiss liberating, frees me from the shackles of life.

[TWITfromURANUS]

Yes. Comparing can be a key component in people's suffering. The good old ego shooting itself in the foot again.

Nice vid.