Date: 22/01/2019 21:16:39
From: roughbarked
ID: 1334038
Subject: It is of constant bewilderment tyhat life is so short for us.

It constantly amazes me about how much I not only don’t know but have never even bothered to investigate, within my own specific spheres of investigation.

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Date: 22/01/2019 21:22:46
From: roughbarked
ID: 1334041
Subject: re: It is of constant bewilderment tyhat life is so short for us.

I don’t really fit on the autodidacts list but for much of my life I’d say I learned more out of school than in.

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Date: 22/01/2019 21:25:47
From: roughbarked
ID: 1334045
Subject: re: It is of constant bewilderment tyhat life is so short for us.

Circumstance seems to be the real issue. Lots of people who could do all the work are born elsewhere unrelated to the process of recruiting.

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Date: 22/01/2019 21:32:23
From: mollwollfumble
ID: 1334050
Subject: re: It is of constant bewilderment tyhat life is so short for us.

roughbarked said:


It constantly amazes me about how much I not only don’t know but have never even bothered to investigate, within my own specific spheres of investigation.

I tend to find the opposite. For several reasons. One is that my mind is so full of junk that I can’t learn anything more unless I deliberately forget what I already know.

It also constantly amazes me that life is so long. Humankind is the only animal I know that lives so long that it literally wears out in every possible way. Other animals almost always (in 99.5% of individuals) succumb to war, predators, accidents and curable illnesses long before they reach total self-collapse.

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Date: 22/01/2019 21:41:01
From: roughbarked
ID: 1334054
Subject: re: It is of constant bewilderment tyhat life is so short for us.

mollwollfumble said:


roughbarked said:

It constantly amazes me about how much I not only don’t know but have never even bothered to investigate, within my own specific spheres of investigation.

I tend to find the opposite. For several reasons. One is that my mind is so full of junk that I can’t learn anything more unless I deliberately forget what I already know.

It also constantly amazes me that life is so long. Humankind is the only animal I know that lives so long that it literally wears out in every possible way. Other animals almost always (in 99.5% of individuals) succumb to war, predators, accidents and curable illnesses long before they reach total self-collapse.

You can actually fit both directions in which is the totally amazing part.

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Date: 23/01/2019 11:35:49
From: Cymek
ID: 1334243
Subject: re: It is of constant bewilderment tyhat life is so short for us.

Life is not only short but starts to go downhill way before you die.
Not sure though if you’d want to live for hundreds or thousands of years stuck on the one planet doing the same monotonous things, dependant on working to live

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