this twisted my head

cm1179 said:
oh do explain please? makes sense to me
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You might want to think of it as almost a wave form, your chances of making it to the next day increase with every day you survive up to the age of say 15 (at which point you should be almost physically mature and able to fend for yourself) - there will then be a relatively long period of time where you have reached the status of as likely to remain alive as die (i.e. there is no immediate threat of death in the normal run of things) and then there will be a downward slope towards the end when you are say 70+ as at that age there is considerably more likelihood of death than at say 40 from an ailment.

A good picture to imagine for this might be a product life cycle e.g. start-up is when it is most likely to die, it reaches a saturation point and then finally it tails off as demand falls.
 
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It's the snapshot theory - my guess.

Take a snapshot of your life, paused right now, and consider yourself in relation to how variables are this instant. It's not an accurate representation of how your actions should behave if the future was known.

Much like a moving arrow, take a snapshot, and it hides the forces that hold it. No motion yet we expect it to be moving and not drop to the ground. Unconceived and unknown of it's prowess and true value. We compare ourselves as if this moment is everything. Whereas the full picture is, in fact, quite simple!

You were drunk.
 
The only possible argument you could make is that if "survive" any given minute, then you have a good chance of surviving a comparable minute the next day, because you have "learnt" how to survive that bit better with each minute you live.

That's on very shaky ground, though, and to extrapolate from that, that watching a terrible film is not time wasted because it will help you avoid being hit by a bus next week, is a bit of a stretch.
 
Nah, its just someone making something up and you didnt have the wherewithal to tell him he was talking crap.

Its just an expression that suggests the fact that what you just did was so **** that it made you think about your own mortality and the fact that you could have been doing anything but what you did, and you would be better for it. Time wasted.
 
[FnG]magnolia;17945827 said:
I feel closer to death after reading your post.
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This got the lolliest of lols that the walls in this office have probably ever seen/heard.
 
cm1179 said:
you will still die but the chances of you living for another 50 years are greater than you living for another 50 minutes.
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interesting viewpoint... ;)

What if the film was 60 years long? Would you still be no closer to your death? The fact that you've survived those 60 years doesn't change the probable date of death by 60 years... Sure, the average 60 year old will die older than the average 1 year old, but not 59 years older.

Age of death isn't fully random like radioactive decay, where if an atom hasn't decayed after 100 years, it is just as likely to not decay after another 100 years as a newly formed identical atom.
 
well, some people may be interested in watching something for 60 years from the age of 20 as their chance of then living to 80 would be increased. their diet and intoxication intake would need to be of a very healthy level, as would their excercise and mental stimulation. there is a place one could maybe do this - it's called a prison. life is for living and by its very nature throws up probabilities of it being ended, no one who was killed by a bus actually thought they might be the small statistic of people this actually happens to but they were living their life how they wanted and thus took the risks associated with it, ie crossing the road. you cross a road today and live, the odds of you doing it again tomorrow are in your favour, and although you are older, you aren't closer to death, more close to hitting your average life expectancy.
 
cm1179 said:
well, some people may be interested in watching something for 60 years from the age of 20 as their chance of then living to 80 would be increased. their diet and intoxication intake would need to be of a very healthy level, as would their excercise and mental stimulation. there is a place one could maybe do this - it's called a prison. life is for living and by its very nature throws up probabilities of it being ended, no one who was killed by a bus actually thought they might be the small statistic of people this actually happens to but they were living their life how they wanted and thus took the risks associated with it, ie crossing the road. you cross a road today and live, the odds of you doing it again tomorrow are in your favour, and although you are older, you aren't closer to death, more close to hitting your average life expectancy.
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what in the blazes are you blithering on about?? omg.

and you're mixing up odds and time. wtf.

Better to keep your mouth closed and be thought a fool than to open it and remove all doubt
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everyone in history has a time of death. We experience time linearly, for the most part, and even when it's not linear, it always flows in the same direction in our local experience. Therefore, for every second that passes, you are closer to your naturally-caused time of death.
 
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Life's predetermined anyway, we're all just following the string infront of us. Everything we do is predicted. You were always going to waste that time watching Road Trip and now you bring my string into it.

I don't believe in fate by the way. It's ball bags.
 
I think i have found the main flaw with your statement.

Eurotrip is 93 minutes long.

Your statement should now read:

All it did was put me 93 minutes closer to death, not including time spent travelling to the cinema, queuing for tickets and watching trailers and avertisements etc.
 
Snooble said:
Life's predetermined anyway, we're all just following the string infront of us. Everything we do is predicted. You were always going to waste that time watching Road Trip and now you bring my string into it.

I don't believe in fate by the way. It's ball bags.
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So you don't believe in the first paragraph then? It's just to illustrate a point?

cm1179 said:
and for every second that passes, the odds are in your favour that the time of death are further away
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Then you're essentially saying that if you live for an infinitely long time your time of death is infinitely far away plus a little bit?

It's a nice little theory but simply can't be right. You cannot at present (and possibly never will) be able to extend life indefinitely so at some point you must reach the stage where death is no longer further away but must be getting closer.

Bennie-Mac said:
Your statement should now read:

All it did was put me 93 minutes closer to death, not including time spent travelling to the cinema, queuing for tickets and watching trailers and avertisements etc.
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Ah but you're forgetting he must be time-travelling to watch Eurotrip at the cinema*, in which case trivialities such at how long the film takes pale into insignificance.

*Or possibly in Wigan, they're a bit behind the times up there. I've got nothing against Wigan, it was just too easy a joke to miss.
 
semi-pro waster said:
So you don't believe in the first paragraph then? It's just to illustrate a point?
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I just threw it out there. It's a reasonably common viewpoint, and one I find quite amusing. It couldn't be much more of an irrelevant opinion. And seems to me, it's used nowadays as more of a 'comfort' view. Excusing actions that were handled with less care than they should have etc. A "written in the stars" perspective on life just sucks drive and determination from me...but each to their own -

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