Is it wierd? It makes me sad.

**Half/Dreaming** · 08-12-2008 07:41 AM

Is it wierd that I get depressed when I think about the future and all the important shit I'm going to miss out on? I mean, inter-planatary colonization and flying cars. The discovery (or being discovered) by aliens and the acceptance of stem cell research. It depresses the FUCK out of my every month or so.

I don't know why I posted this in Senseless Banter. I'm being serious here. I have always thought that our age is a transition age, and only the bare beginning of technology and what is has to offer. We ARE just the beginning. Recent findings ARE the future. A future we will never see. Now you see why I am depressed.

**Siиdяed** · 08-12-2008 09:16 AM

I don't plan on dying. Simple.

**Sandform** · 08-12-2008 11:11 AM

Are you upset that you wont be there when it first happens or that you wont be there to experience all the benifits beyond just the first time?

**Half/Dreaming** · 08-12-2008 01:59 PM

Originally Posted by Sandform

Are you upset that you wont be there when it first happens or that you wont be there to experience all the benifits beyond just the first time?

Both. I want to be around when all that shit happens. See, we have reached a stalemate in the aforementioned tasks. We can understand how it would be possible, but just can't make it work now.

**werwun** · 08-12-2008 02:09 PM

Be happy with what you have. It's just your ego which wants "more".

**slayer** · 08-12-2008 02:16 PM

Well...I guess you could just freeze yourself?

**Sornaensis** · 08-12-2008 02:54 PM

Originally Posted by werwun

Be happy with what you have. It's just your ego which wants "more".

Yup.

It's my ego telling me I would like to be around to see my Great Grandkids.

Selfish me.

**Sandform** · 08-12-2008 03:13 PM

Lol Seis don't be a troll.

What Wer was saying is that the situation is like a tub of different flavored ice cream in one house with six people. You get a bite and that is about it. You get what you get and there is really no way you can get more...so be happy with you have, besides your not so important that you deserve more ice cream than the rest of the people that ate the other bites.

Also the future will suck because the internet is going to under go horrible restriction some day soon. Soon being in years not days lol... Without the internet I would freaking kill myself.

**kichu** · 08-12-2008 03:52 PM

TOO weird. Had the EXACT same thought yesterday. Not depressed or anything, but definitely kinda..."sad?" that I would be entering old age and passing, JUST as all this amazing stuff was on the verge of occurring.

**Abra** · 08-12-2008 04:37 PM

The solution to your problem is simple. If you want to see these things in your lifetime, you've got to make them happen. Perhaps everybody thinks like you, as if the future were some passive experience. And if that were the case, if everyone was an observer, the future they wait for will never come.

**really** · 08-12-2008 04:55 PM

Originally Posted by Half/Dreaming

Is it wierd that I get depressed when I think about the future and all the important shit I'm going to miss out on? I mean, inter-planatary colonization and flying cars. The discovery (or being discovered) by aliens and the acceptance of stem cell research. It depresses the FUCK out of my every month or so.

I don't know why I posted this in Senseless Banter. I'm being serious here. I have always thought that our age is a transition age, and only the bare beginning of technology and what is has to offer. We ARE just the beginning. Recent findings ARE the future. A future we will never see. Now you see why I am depressed.

It is weird.

"You are depressed upon mere illusions."

God has given you everything you could ever ask for.

BE

Originally Posted by Half/Dreaming

Is it wierd that I get depressed when I think about the future and all the ~~important~~ shit ~~I'm going to miss out on?~~ I mean, inter-planatary colonization and flying cars. The discovery (or being discovered) by aliens and the acceptance of stem cell research. ~~It depresses the FUCK out of my every month or so~~.

~~I don't k~~now ~~why~~ I posted this in Senseless Banter. I'm being ~~serious~~ here. I have always thought that our age is a transition age, and only the bare beginning of technology and what is has to offer. We ARE just the beginning. Recent findings ARE the future. A future we will never see. Now you see why I am ~~depressed.~~

You Are ~~Half/~~Dreaming.

The future does not exist. The past does not exist. Eternity; Now exists.

**High Hunter** · 08-12-2008 06:52 PM

What if there is no future? Or what if the future is miserable?

Why ponder on the future so much? You don't know what will happen...
Don't be depressed yet, wait a few decades, then we will see if it's worth being all stoked about or not.

Enjoy the now! ....while we have it.

**werwun** · 08-13-2008 03:26 AM

Originally Posted by Seismosaur

Yup.

It's my ego telling me I would like to be around to see my Great Grandkids.

Selfish me.

That is indeed selfish.

**starfire** · 08-13-2008 04:38 AM

Originally Posted by Half/Dreaming

Is it wierd that I get depressed when I think about the future and all the important shit I'm going to miss out on? I mean, inter-planatary colonization and flying cars. The discovery (or being discovered) by aliens and the acceptance of stem cell research. It depresses the FUCK out of my every month or so.

I don't know why I posted this in Senseless Banter. I'm being serious here. I have always thought that our age is a transition age, and only the bare beginning of technology and what is has to offer. We ARE just the beginning. Recent findings ARE the future. A future we will never see. Now you see why I am depressed.

"Life" isn't a one chance thing. This society seems to be convinced it is, but it can't be further from the truth. You live many, many lives. You just can't remember that right now, it would ruin the point of being encased in your body and subject to this worlds rules.

Now go ahead and go

at me :-)

**Sandform** · 08-13-2008 08:11 AM

Originally Posted by starfire

"Life" isn't a one chance thing. This society seems to be convinced it is, but it can't be further from the truth. You live many, many lives. You just can't remember that right now, it would ruin the point of being encased in your body and subject to this worlds rules.

Now go ahead and go at me :-)

<ok>
What proof do have of this? What makes you think this is true?

**Bearsy** · 08-13-2008 08:31 AM

Originally Posted by Abra

The solution to your problem is simple. If you want to see these things in your lifetime, you've got to make them happen. Perhaps everybody thinks like you, as if the future were some passive experience. And if that were the case, if everyone was an observer, the future they wait for will never come.

This.

**ClouD** · 08-13-2008 08:41 AM

Wow fuck, what happened to living?

All this talk of tomorrow and yesterday.

Everyone seems to be missing reality.

**Sandform** · 08-13-2008 09:54 AM

My yesterdays and tomorrows have and will, respectively, suck. My now is in a constant state of blows as well.

**really** · 08-13-2008 10:43 AM

Originally Posted by Sandform

My yesterdays and tomorrows have and will, respectively, suck. My now is in a constant state of blows as well.

Illusions. "Your" Now, as "ours", can never "suck"/"blow".

**ClouD** · 08-13-2008 12:15 PM

With or without.

This or that.

Leave both aside. Leave all and nothing.

In death, in life. So that you may be.

Be/not be.

Just.

**CryoDragoon** · 08-13-2008 12:24 PM

Originally Posted by ClouD

With or without.
This or that.
Leave both aside. Leave all and nothing.
In death, in life. So that you may be.
Be/not be.
Just.

I wonder whether you'd do this when going on a date also.

"Say, do you really like me?"

"Tit or tat

With or without.

Yes/no.

Just."

"So, which movie do you want to see?"

"This or that.

Both. Nothing.

Just."

But anyways, back on topic: no, it isn't weird. I'm feeling a bit frustrated/sad also whenever I think of space exploration, colonies on the terraformed mars, etc. If I could, I'd really wanna be there. But alas. I'd say the chance is very slim I actually would be. I'd say just get over it and make the most of the time we have now. We can have a great life even without flying cars and space monsters.