Quote from: Assassin 11D7 on February 02, 2015, 12:26:56 AMQuote from: Kupo on February 02, 2015, 12:22:13 AMQuote from: Assassin 11D7 on February 02, 2015, 12:11:42 AMQuote from: Kupo on February 01, 2015, 11:50:55 PMWe're alive during such a boring time period. By the time something like space travel or space colonies become a thing, we'll be old at best, dead at worst.You live in a period in time where there is constant war, strife, lack of education, poverty, hunger, and corruption. It is a time where many people are just trying to live their lives while all this happens around them. You have the choice to be one of those many people, or you can choose to deal with these issues and ensure that time period you dream of becomes a reality, because if your generation doesn't do anything about this world and just keeps dreaming of the stars, then you will never get there.There is nothing boring about this.It's the same problems humanity has always had. Yes, I can make some people's lives better. But people are bastards to each other and that's never going to change.People are always going to fight each other and hate, but people are also always help each other and love. What do you gain by giving up or doing nothing? What do you have to lose by experiencing and making the most out of the life you've been given, and make sure that your children and grandchildren will be able to go where you've always wanted them to be?I have no intention of ever having children. When I'm dead, that's it. No legacy for me....That sounded really selfish in context. But I guess I am, a bit.
Quote from: Kupo on February 02, 2015, 12:22:13 AMQuote from: Assassin 11D7 on February 02, 2015, 12:11:42 AMQuote from: Kupo on February 01, 2015, 11:50:55 PMWe're alive during such a boring time period. By the time something like space travel or space colonies become a thing, we'll be old at best, dead at worst.You live in a period in time where there is constant war, strife, lack of education, poverty, hunger, and corruption. It is a time where many people are just trying to live their lives while all this happens around them. You have the choice to be one of those many people, or you can choose to deal with these issues and ensure that time period you dream of becomes a reality, because if your generation doesn't do anything about this world and just keeps dreaming of the stars, then you will never get there.There is nothing boring about this.It's the same problems humanity has always had. Yes, I can make some people's lives better. But people are bastards to each other and that's never going to change.People are always going to fight each other and hate, but people are also always help each other and love. What do you gain by giving up or doing nothing? What do you have to lose by experiencing and making the most out of the life you've been given, and make sure that your children and grandchildren will be able to go where you've always wanted them to be?
Quote from: Assassin 11D7 on February 02, 2015, 12:11:42 AMQuote from: Kupo on February 01, 2015, 11:50:55 PMWe're alive during such a boring time period. By the time something like space travel or space colonies become a thing, we'll be old at best, dead at worst.You live in a period in time where there is constant war, strife, lack of education, poverty, hunger, and corruption. It is a time where many people are just trying to live their lives while all this happens around them. You have the choice to be one of those many people, or you can choose to deal with these issues and ensure that time period you dream of becomes a reality, because if your generation doesn't do anything about this world and just keeps dreaming of the stars, then you will never get there.There is nothing boring about this.It's the same problems humanity has always had. Yes, I can make some people's lives better. But people are bastards to each other and that's never going to change.
Quote from: Kupo on February 01, 2015, 11:50:55 PMWe're alive during such a boring time period. By the time something like space travel or space colonies become a thing, we'll be old at best, dead at worst.You live in a period in time where there is constant war, strife, lack of education, poverty, hunger, and corruption. It is a time where many people are just trying to live their lives while all this happens around them. You have the choice to be one of those many people, or you can choose to deal with these issues and ensure that time period you dream of becomes a reality, because if your generation doesn't do anything about this world and just keeps dreaming of the stars, then you will never get there.There is nothing boring about this.
We're alive during such a boring time period. By the time something like space travel or space colonies become a thing, we'll be old at best, dead at worst.
Quote from: Assassin 11D7 on February 02, 2015, 12:26:56 AMQuote from: Kupo on February 02, 2015, 12:22:13 AMQuote from: Assassin 11D7 on February 02, 2015, 12:11:42 AMQuote from: Kupo on February 01, 2015, 11:50:55 PMWe're alive during such a boring time period. By the time something like space travel or space colonies become a thing, we'll be old at best, dead at worst.You live in a period in time where there is constant war, strife, lack of education, poverty, hunger, and corruption. It is a time where many people are just trying to live their lives while all this happens around them. You have the choice to be one of those many people, or you can choose to deal with these issues and ensure that time period you dream of becomes a reality, because if your generation doesn't do anything about this world and just keeps dreaming of the stars, then you will never get there.There is nothing boring about this.It's the same problems humanity has always had. Yes, I can make some people's lives better. But people are bastards to each other and that's never going to change.People are always going to fight each other and hate, but people are also always help each other and love. What do you gain by giving up or doing nothing? What do you have to lose by experiencing and making the most out of the life you've been given, and make sure that your children and grandchildren will be able to go where you've always wanted them to be?I have no intention of ever having children. When I'm dead, that's it. No legacy for me....That sounded really selfish in context.
Quote from: Kupo on February 02, 2015, 12:30:47 AMQuote from: Assassin 11D7 on February 02, 2015, 12:26:56 AMQuote from: Kupo on February 02, 2015, 12:22:13 AMQuote from: Assassin 11D7 on February 02, 2015, 12:11:42 AMQuote from: Kupo on February 01, 2015, 11:50:55 PMWe're alive during such a boring time period. By the time something like space travel or space colonies become a thing, we'll be old at best, dead at worst.You live in a period in time where there is constant war, strife, lack of education, poverty, hunger, and corruption. It is a time where many people are just trying to live their lives while all this happens around them. You have the choice to be one of those many people, or you can choose to deal with these issues and ensure that time period you dream of becomes a reality, because if your generation doesn't do anything about this world and just keeps dreaming of the stars, then you will never get there.There is nothing boring about this.It's the same problems humanity has always had. Yes, I can make some people's lives better. But people are bastards to each other and that's never going to change.People are always going to fight each other and hate, but people are also always help each other and love. What do you gain by giving up or doing nothing? What do you have to lose by experiencing and making the most out of the life you've been given, and make sure that your children and grandchildren will be able to go where you've always wanted them to be?I have no intention of ever having children. When I'm dead, that's it. No legacy for me....That sounded really selfish in context. But I guess I am, a bit.Your specific children, the next generation, it's really just a figure of speech here.You might not want to have children now, or even in the future, but that doesn't mean there won't be more people in the future.
Quote from: Assassin 11D7 on February 02, 2015, 12:33:36 AMQuote from: Kupo on February 02, 2015, 12:30:47 AMQuote from: Assassin 11D7 on February 02, 2015, 12:26:56 AMQuote from: Kupo on February 02, 2015, 12:22:13 AMQuote from: Assassin 11D7 on February 02, 2015, 12:11:42 AMQuote from: Kupo on February 01, 2015, 11:50:55 PMWe're alive during such a boring time period. By the time something like space travel or space colonies become a thing, we'll be old at best, dead at worst.You live in a period in time where there is constant war, strife, lack of education, poverty, hunger, and corruption. It is a time where many people are just trying to live their lives while all this happens around them. You have the choice to be one of those many people, or you can choose to deal with these issues and ensure that time period you dream of becomes a reality, because if your generation doesn't do anything about this world and just keeps dreaming of the stars, then you will never get there.There is nothing boring about this.It's the same problems humanity has always had. Yes, I can make some people's lives better. But people are bastards to each other and that's never going to change.People are always going to fight each other and hate, but people are also always help each other and love. What do you gain by giving up or doing nothing? What do you have to lose by experiencing and making the most out of the life you've been given, and make sure that your children and grandchildren will be able to go where you've always wanted them to be?I have no intention of ever having children. When I'm dead, that's it. No legacy for me....That sounded really selfish in context. But I guess I am, a bit.Your specific children, the next generation, it's really just a figure of speech here.You might not want to have children now, or even in the future, but that doesn't mean there won't be more people in the future.Don't get me wrong, I get your point, but... it all just feels so pointless. Anything I can do is only going to have a small or limited effect on the world. Most people probably won't even notice. Nobody is going to remember. As opposed to like, landing someone on Mars, or making some breakthrough in stem cell research or computer AI, or something else that would really advance humanity in some huge way. I'm just an average Joe Schmoe and I don't have half the vision of someone who's actually at the forefront of this stuff.
>lives in the era of the dawn of the personal computer and the world wide web and therefore near infinite knowledge>says it's the most boring time periodCome on, mang.
No single person is capable of changing the world, it has always been the efforts of a group. Alone our efforts might indeed be pointless and we might feel we aren't capable of reaching any goal, but it's only when we are together that we are capable of making a difference. Everyone has something to add, that's why we need to be together in that group.
Quote from: TheOneTrueDesticle on February 02, 2015, 12:50:44 AM>lives in the era of the dawn of the personal computer and the world wide web and therefore near infinite knowledge>says it's the most boring time periodCome on, mang.So many interesting things have already happened >.>With all these computers right now and corporations and governments that couldn't give a flying fuck about security and privacy, this is such a... it's ripe for abuse and there's so much drama for the wrong reasons. Hacking, doxxing, spying, all this stuff for stupid political games or simply for the lulz. What is it really doing that's worth remembering, like, 10 years from now?Quote from: Assassin 11D7 on February 02, 2015, 12:50:50 AMNo single person is capable of changing the world, it has always been the efforts of a group. Alone our efforts might indeed be pointless and we might feel we aren't capable of reaching any goal, but it's only when we are together that we are capable of making a difference. Everyone has something to add, that's why we need to be together in that group.Every group has its leaders. Most people are just cogs in the machine, doing what they're told.
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