"underground"

[MattLeft]

I've been an ALCOR member for 5 years.  If anyone has any questions or curiosities, I'd be glad to share my knowledge (or maybe if you're a Ted Williams fan??).

[cathleeninnh]

Gosh, everyone I know gets alot more responsible when they realize they aren't going to live forever.

Cathleen

Now you know one person who does not, me.? advocate asks:
Can you please explain your sentence?

Olehenry

Something plentiful is cheap. Something limited is precious. As we age, life and what we can make of it gets more important.

Cathleen

[olehenry]

The Long Now Foundation 10,000 Year Clock

That was a fun read.  I *should* be finishing my chem lab reports and working on my calc take-home but no, I'd rather imagine living 10,000 more years in order to simply celebrate the clock's birthday.

How about that Orrery?
"The Orrery is a ten foot tall planet tracking display. The lower half is a mechanical binary calculation engine. Each layer is calculating the orbit if one of the six human eye visible planets (Mercury through Saturn) to 28 bits of accuracy. The Orrery is primarily made of monel (a nickel copper alloy), and stainless steel. The planet spheres are ground from natural stones that resemble each planet they represent."
http://www.longnow.org/projects/clock/orrery/

[Pat McCotter]

BTW, olehenry, anxiety isn't conducive to long life (your mood )

[olehenry]

BTW, olehenry, anxiety isn't conducive to long life (your mood )

I'm working on it...

[olehenry]

Gosh, everyone I know gets alot more responsible when they realize they aren't going to live forever.

Cathleen

Now you know one person who does not, me.? advocate asks:
Can you please explain your sentence?

Olehenry

Something plentiful is cheap. Something limited is precious. As we age, life and what we can make of it gets more important.

Cathleen

Dear Cathleen,
Your additional 3 sentences are a good start toward an explanation.  Please continue.

Why?  I cannot rely on any of those sentences as valid ideas without a context.  1) Not everything plentiful is cheap (think about government-regulated products and services  ).  2) Limited things are not always precious.  3) The value of life IMO does not increase as the time remaining decreases.
If you would like my participation, please expand.
Olehenry

[KBCraig]

Am I the only one hearing the Twilight Zone music in the background?

[Pat K]

Am I the only one hearing the Twilight Zone music in the background?

Oh good I thought it was just me.

[olehenry]

Gosh, everyone I know gets alot more responsible when they realize they aren't going to live forever.

Cathleen

Now you know one person who does not, me.? advocate asks:
Can you please explain your sentence?

Olehenry

Something plentiful is cheap. Something limited is precious. As we age, life and what we can make of it gets more important.

Cathleen

Dear Cathleen,
Your additional 3 sentences are a good start toward an explanation.? Please continue.

Why?? I cannot rely on any of those sentences as valid ideas without a context.? 1) Not everything plentiful is cheap (think about government-regulated products and services? ).? 2) Limited things are not always precious.? 3) The value of life IMO does not increase as the time remaining decreases.
If you would like my participation, please expand.
Olehenry

What do others think of being satisfied living in a world in which you expect to die somewhere along a continuum (0-100 years)?

What do others think of the relationship between "percent of responsibility" and lifetime?

I understand that this country (maybe the world now) has a heavy influence from the Christian ideals which were further developed by contemporary philosophers:
that one *should* sacrifice values in order that "society" or "everyone" or "the future generations" be happier and healthier.  Does this influence have meaning to anyone here?

Why is this a mutually beneficial motivation for living?

Why is it maximally beneficial?

[Caleb]

Success is counted sweetest
By those who ne'er succeed.
To comprehend a nectar
Requires sorest need.

Not one of all the purple host
Who took the flag to-day
Can tell the definition,
So clear, of victory!

As he, defeated, dying,
On whose forbidden ear
The distant strains of triumph
Burst agonized and clear!

[John]

I live now.  I plan to be here tomorrow.
Each day that I live is another opertunity towards more freedom.

What kind of future do you plan to create?
This is the first "underground" of the future.

[Michael Fisher]

I live now.? I plan to be here tomorrow.
Each day that I live is another opertunity towards more freedom.

What kind of future do you plan to create?
This is the first "underground" of the future.

[Russell Kanning]

The underground can be common knowledge and yet some of it can be secret or some of our members can be unknown.

To me the nickname has never been important ..... if another one comes along, we can go with it.

[olehenry]

BTW, olehenry, anxiety isn't conducive to long life (your mood )

I'm working on it...

...have been curious all day today 

I predict anxiety tomorrow as I finish my calc test.