### - well, it seems to have gone suddenly very quiet around here since applying the killfile to our 2 last resident loonies heh (peace at last in shantytown? lol thaaat'll beee the daaay!) :)
so will tell ya's a story
in the meantime about a perhaps wiser humanity,
wiser because they live long enough to actually reach wisdom instead of having to die just as their 'real' life is only just beginning...
i.e., in the vast majority of cases, unless they're particularly intelligent,
it takes a human being around 50 or 60 years to even 'start'
calming down enough to really start getting their shit together,
all those
years of following fashions and getting rowdy with their mates,
a near
lifetime of following some kinda career/belief-system and of making ends meet, of having families and getting homes together to pass on to them;
ALL our time is literally taken up with all this frenetic crap and it's
only when we've been saturated with it that we start to feel sated, at
which point we then usually die from old age should we have been lucky enough to even last that long??
that if only human beings lived longer, say 300 years instead of only an average of 70,
indeed...
for instance: we'd probably spend the first 100 years just growing up, ya know? working our way through it all and getting all that societal-crap outta the way; finances, families, houses et-al, the whole works in the majority of cases, even amongst them that didn't do too well the first
time around and say spent time long times in prison; the ageing process nevertheless puts everything into a different perspective and, apart from
a few exceptions
wise-up anyway, coming around more and more to just the wonder of living
and being alive itself...
having gotten all that earthly + young crap outta the way (having
worked-off all that karma heh) the second 100 years would perforce be very likely lived entirely differently altogether... the desires and urges of youth having now burned away/been-exhausted we'd likely set out on a different quest altogether, one probably filled with the study of
literature and history and whatever else takes people's fancy, the less academically inclined (and/or perhaps those who feel they've already absorbed/exhausted that entire body of information) living almost like zen monks and exploring life that way...
having been through ALL that, and survived, our last 100 years would thus
be the glory of humankind, the passion & confusion of youth, the searching to understand during our middle-aged years, followed by then 100 MORE
years of living completely in-harmony with life, the universe &
everything,
like they say in the movie (no time to die)
"you have all the time in the world to live)
so meantime we have a horse tomorrow
at Santa Anita (Calif) in the 8th race.
Durante is the number 1 horse. don't know
much about him, but he is up against a couple
of Baffart horses. show money would be smart
bet in this case. we'll see how he or she does.
place your bets bitches
if ya pick 5 horses and all 5 win ya might
never have to bet again if'n the odds are good enough, and although it's actually asking a lot to win maybe a 200,000/1 shot like that it's still vastly more attainable than backing the lottery with odds of nearly half a billion to 1 ;)
### - well, it seems to have gone suddenly very quiet around here since >applying the killfile to our 2 last resident loonies heh (peace at last in >shantytown? lol thaaat'll beee the daaay!) :)
so will tell ya's a story in the meantime about a perhaps wiser humanity, >wiser because they live long enough to actually reach wisdom instead of >having to die just as their 'real' life is only just beginning...
i.e., in the vast majority of cases, unless they're particularly
intelligent, it takes a human being around 50 or 60 years to even 'start' >calming down enough to really start getting their shit together, all those >years of following fashions and getting rowdy with their mates, a near >lifetime of following some kinda career/belief-system and of making ends >meet, of having families and getting homes together to pass on to them;
ALL our time is literally taken up with all this frenetic crap and it's
only when we've been saturated with it that we start to feel sated, at
which point we then usually die from old age should we have been lucky
enough to even last that long??
that if only human beings lived longer, say 300 years instead of only an >average of 70, things on this planet would likely be very different
indeed...
for instance: we'd probably spend the first 100 years just growing up, ya >know? working our way through it all and getting all that societal-crap
outta the way; finances, families, houses et-al, the whole works in the >majority of cases, even amongst them that didn't do too well the first
time around and say spent time long times in prison; the ageing process >nevertheless puts everything into a different perspective and, apart from
a few exceptions (the mentally incurable perhaps) we slowly begin to
wise-up anyway, coming around more and more to just the wonder of living
and being alive itself...
having gotten all that earthly + young crap outta the way (having
worked-off all that karma heh) the second 100 years would perforce be very >likely lived entirely differently altogether... the desires and urges of >youth having now burned away/been-exhausted we'd likely set out on a >different quest altogether, one probably filled with the study of
literature and history and whatever else takes people's fancy, the less >academically inclined (and/or perhaps those who feel they've already >absorbed/exhausted that entire body of information) living almost like zen >monks and exploring life that way...
having been through ALL that, and survived, our last 100 years would thus
be the glory of humankind, the passion & confusion of youth, the searching
to understand during our middle-aged years, followed by then 100 MORE
years of living completely in-harmony with life, the universe &
everything, for real, our world and culture would be a very different
place, run and organised by genuinely educated + very wise and experienced >people... if there was such a thing possible as 'heaven on earth' we'd be >living it and it would probably be very beautiful...
alas though we only live to around 70 or so, cut-off in our prime JUST as >we're actually beginning to finally see through ALL that crap and passion
of youth that had created such prolonged confusion and suffering in the
first place, and that my friends is kinda sad is it not? it's as though we >always lose by default!
it's like in that movie 'Logans Run' where everyone is set-up to only live
to 30, no one ever ageing enough to even question anything, a tiny clique >amongst them suspecting that something's not quite right with everything >they've been led to believe but don't know exactly what, only that there's >more to it all, them choosing to take their chances and 'run' rather than >just die when their time is up, no one knowing what really happens to them >once they escape, IF they escape that is, and aren't killed by the
'Sandmen' hired to stop them!
our 2 heroes do manage to escape for real, however, only to discover that >they are the first to do so, that the city they escaped from is thus a lie >and a farce set-up only to preserve life after a nuclear war, the movie >ending on a hopeful note when everyone there ("all the young people") are >then later forced to abandon the city and live outside where they
ultimately belong but which humanity had sadly forgotten all about...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKdPjwmNSlY
good movie! maybe even a true story albeit in hollywood code...
;)
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