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Celestial Traveler
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At what age did you realize that your time in the world is finite?
#23585354 - 08/27/16 10:16 PM (7 years, 5 months ago) |
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When I say "your time in the world is finite", I'm not referring to the realization of inevitable death, or moving beyond the youthful stage of feeling invincible.
I'm referring to the point where you realized that your life, your dreams, your goals, and all the things you ever wanted to do or become when you "grow up" were on the clock. Basically when you realize that you only have x number of years to achieve these things.
Around what age were you when you came upon this realization?
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Re: At what age did you realize that your time in the world is finite? [Re: Celestial Traveler]
#23585426 - 08/27/16 10:46 PM (7 years, 5 months ago) |
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At 4 years old I killed some bugs and realized I could be killed too. At 28 I realized that I was entirely made of thought and that I didn't actually exist as a person.
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Re: At what age did you realize that your time in the world is finite? [Re: Celestial Traveler]
#23585431 - 08/27/16 10:50 PM (7 years, 5 months ago) |
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I don't recall but between 4 and 7 I'd imagine. I dwelt on it a lot around age 7 and 8 I recall
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Re: At what age did you realize that your time in the world is finite? [Re: Celestial Traveler]
#23585432 - 08/27/16 10:50 PM (7 years, 5 months ago) |
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Re: At what age did you realize that your time in the world is finite? [Re: PartoftheSource]
#23585441 - 08/27/16 10:52 PM (7 years, 5 months ago) |
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24 to 27, those three years man, fucking mindfuck
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Re: At what age did you realize that your time in the world is finite? [Re: Rhizohunter]
#23585453 - 08/27/16 10:59 PM (7 years, 5 months ago) |
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6 months ago when I almost died. Then again a couple of days ago when I almost died. currently 31.
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Re: At what age did you realize that your time in the world is finite? [Re: Rhizohunter]
#23585460 - 08/27/16 11:00 PM (7 years, 5 months ago) |
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No, we always knew that our time is infinite, we always knew.
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Re: At what age did you realize that your time in the world is finite? [Re: qman]
#23585468 - 08/27/16 11:04 PM (7 years, 5 months ago) |
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Quote:
qman said: No, we always knew that our time is infinite, we always knew.
Beating time, that was my ultimate task and I conquer it heavenly. Living forever, its just gotta be true
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Re: At what age did you realize that your time in the world is finite? [Re: qman]
#23585470 - 08/27/16 11:05 PM (7 years, 5 months ago) |
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I'm 33 and feel like I "get it" now...now or never.
My son is 4 and just realized that we will all die someday. Pretty heavy as a parent, to see him come to that realization...
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Re: At what age did you realize that your time in the world is finite? [Re: MOTH]
#23585478 - 08/27/16 11:09 PM (7 years, 5 months ago) |
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Yeah, human life will come to an end but we are infinite in nature, there is no finite in us.
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Re: At what age did you realize that your time in the world is finite? [Re: qman]
#23585481 - 08/27/16 11:10 PM (7 years, 5 months ago) |
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qman said: Yeah, human life will come to an end but we are infinite in nature, there is no finite in us.
That's more or less what I tried to explain to my son. That our bodies may fall away, but the energy inside of us goes on forever.
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Re: At what age did you realize that your time in the world is finite? [Re: MOTH]
#23585495 - 08/27/16 11:15 PM (7 years, 5 months ago) |
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Nah, I'm gonna live forever, you will see me at 60 and I will say I am 18 because I will not look 60.
I am either the most delusional person in the world or legit.
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Re: At what age did you realize that your time in the world is finite? [Re: MOTH]
#23585497 - 08/27/16 11:15 PM (7 years, 5 months ago) |
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I don't believe our time in the world is finite any more than I believe we are the only sentient life-forms in the Universe
I believe that as far as our mind and spirit goes, death is not the end but merely a new beginning.. I believe that when our physical form dies, every aspect of our personality that once defined us & made us who we are is gone forever, washed away by the never ending waves of eternity.. But since energy cannot be created nor destroyed, I do not believe that our spiritual energy simply ceases to exist.. Rather I believe that after death our energy is transferred into a new form somewhere else in the Universe, be it the form of an insect, bird, or any other organism
I believe that this exchange of energy has been going on for as long as life itself has existed and it will continue to go on as long as there are still physical vessels to contain this spiritual energy.. Basically I believe that we have lived infinite lives before this one and that we will live infinite more after we die, in a never-ending cycle of birth, life, death and reincarnation
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Re: At what age did you realize that your time in the world is finite? [Re: OhMrJohnson]
#23585530 - 08/27/16 11:24 PM (7 years, 5 months ago) |
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I can't honestly remember. It's one of those things I understood at a young enough age that it's not in my memory. Probably 4 years old or so. It was a source of huge anxiety when I was 7 or 8 though.
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Re: At what age did you realize that your time in the world is finite? [Re: OhMrJohnson]
#23585737 - 08/28/16 02:06 AM (7 years, 5 months ago) |
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Quote:
OhMrJohnson said: I don't believe our time in the world is finite any more than I believe we are the only sentient life-forms in the Universe
I believe that as far as our mind and spirit goes, death is not the end but merely a new beginning.. I believe that when our physical form dies, every aspect of our personality that once defined us & made us who we are is gone forever, washed away by the never ending waves of eternity.. But since energy cannot be created nor destroyed, I do not believe that our spiritual energy simply ceases to exist.. Rather I believe that after death our energy is transferred into a new form somewhere else in the Universe, be it the form of an insect, bird, or any other organism
I believe that this exchange of energy has been going on for as long as life itself has existed and it will continue to go on as long as there are still physical vessels to contain this spiritual energy.. Basically I believe that we have lived infinite lives before this one and that we will live infinite more after we die, in a never-ending cycle of birth, life, death and reincarnation
I agree with almost every word
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Re: At what age did you realize that your time in the world is finite? [Re: Celestial Traveler]
#23585742 - 08/28/16 02:11 AM (7 years, 5 months ago) |
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I wouldn't really say there is an age I realized it. It's really been there for as long as I can remember, I didn't think I was immortal (even when I didn't know what the word was) or anything. It's more like the older I get, the more significant it becomes.
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Re: At what age did you realize that your time in the world is finite? [Re: Shroomslip]
#23585753 - 08/28/16 02:26 AM (7 years, 5 months ago) |
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It's almost the opposite for me. It becomes less significant as I age. While I'm not suicidal nor apathetic of life or depressed at all, I feel like I'd be a okay with dying at any given moment.
That would probably change if I had kids or something though.
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Re: At what age did you realize that your time in the world is finite? [Re: PatrickKn]
#23585858 - 08/28/16 04:51 AM (7 years, 5 months ago) |
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9. I had been to funerals before, old relatives that seemed so far removed from me that the whole thing never really affected me, even staring at the open caskets, it never quite sank in until a kid from down the street died in a fire. I remember my mom telling me he had passed - it was night time, I had just run down from my friends house who lived up the hill from me - I can't remember if she called me home or if she let me come home at my own volition, I just remember what it felt like to fully grasp the gravity and permanence of death. I felt dizzy and I remember I was flat out wailing in my mom's arms.
For a while after that I couldn't sleep, I was never great about sleeping in general, but I would get up and walk around the house late at night feeling super lonely and worried my house would also burn down. The only thing I knew to do was to make sure that there were no lit flames and that the oven was off, so I would obsess over that, double or triple checking. In those days I had a tv and a vcr in my bedroom, my parents had pretty much accepted that I wouldn't sleep - I remember I watched VHS's of Space Jam and Hook and The Mighty Ducks over and over and over again, just trying to preoccupy my mind.
That was when I first started to understand death, but I think like most young kids and adults, I had a bit of an immortality complex up until I was around 20 or 21, even seeing other people die, it never fully sank in until more recently that I'm gonna die too and there's no telling when. I think that's a pretty common process people go through as their brain begins to fully mature.
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Re: At what age did you realize that your time in the world is finite? [Re: pirate-blues]
#23585885 - 08/28/16 05:45 AM (7 years, 5 months ago) |
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That question popped up in my head when I had my first Psilocybin trip
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Re: At what age did you realize that your time in the world is finite? [Re: Rollin.n.Strollin]
#23585891 - 08/28/16 05:52 AM (7 years, 5 months ago) |
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I remeber telling my mom that I wasn't scared to die at a Christmas parade when i was probably 8. Don't know what my mind set was I just remeber saying it to her followed with akward silence lol.
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