There are people still alive from the 1800's

My great grandmother born in 1915 is still alive. She can only lay in bed all day and hasn't known who the hell she is for probably 5+ years
 
They ain't human. They are Elves or Asari. Must check ears for pointedness or skin for blue pigmentation.
 
theincognito said:
My great grandmother born in 1915 is still alive. She can only lay in bed all day and hasn't known who the hell she is for probably 5+ years
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Alive but not living. I don't think I would want to see family or friend in that state.
 
Madmick said:
All the WWI vets are gone. In another 10 years almost all of the WW2 vets (and survivors of the Great Depression) will be gone. As they go, so too does a firm grasp of what those times really meant, and the perspective they brought to the world ever-refreshing problems.
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Thank God for the millions of pages that have been written about those eras.

Have you ever had a discussion topic simmering in your mind that you really wanted to explore, but it was so big you never initiate it because you want to be prepared and do it right?

I have one; I think of it as "snapshot in time". Every single point in time has a distant, vanishing past, and a distant future you can just barely start to see materializing. Your perspective on those extremes is determined by who you are at that exact moment.

I mention this now because my grandmother passed a couple of years ago, just shy of her 100th birthday. I miss talking to her, because she was from another world; she didn't live in the same reality as I do. I think about this all the time, as I get older.

I'm not the same person I was when I first started considering this topic, and a discussion now would probably be very different from that discussion ten years ago.
 
RollSonnenRoll said:
I would love to sit down with a WWII vet and hear stories. Doesn't even have to be some crazy Omaha Beach tale but just to hear about what the state of things were back then and what they were thinking would just be fascinating.
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Volunteer for your county agency on aging. You'll make someone's day in a home by simply sitting and listening to their stories.
 
Loiosh said:
Have you ever had a discussion topic simmering in your mind that you really wanted to explore, but it was so big you never initiate it because you want to be prepared and do it right?

I have one; I think of it as "snapshot in time". Every single point in time has a distant, vanishing past, and a distant future you can just barely start to see materializing. Your perspective on those extremes is determined by who you are at that exact moment.
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I once had a discussion with this brilliant mathematician in a casino restaurant. We were talking about time and I said time is just a point. So whereas you see time as a bunch of points (snapshots) I see only one point. We experience in an elongated fashion, but the reason we have premonitions and the like is because those events we think are in our future have already happened or are happening.

I thought the mathematician would laugh at me, but we had a nice chat.
 
1898 my lord. What a good run!
 
RollSonnenRoll said:
I would love to sit down with a WWII vet and hear stories. Doesn't even have to be some crazy Omaha Beach tale but just to hear about what the state of things were back then and what they were thinking would just be fascinating.
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I got to hear some from my grandpa before he passed. One where he was riding in a jeep when a grenade blew it up, another where he mentioned there were some sort of badge or something that had a radio receiver on it that some guys wore where it was used to keep track of soldiers or something or other (not a two way communication device). He eventually became a high ranking colonel. I just wish I heard more before he passed.
 
A bit of weird one and a little off topic, but the lat Civil War widow died in 2003. It's a little bit unfair though, she was born in 1909 and married an 81 year old Civil War vet. What a weird ass life she must have had...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gertrude_Janeway
 
they probably lived boring lives where they never drank, smoked, or did any drugs. not saying that you should do these activities. but as someone who has done all these on occasion, it would suck to have gone through life without doing this.

moderation with most things is a-okay with me.
 
I'm 34 and my grandfather was born in 1875. Always spun me out. Our family is long lived with big generational gaps. My father was conceived when my grandfather was 72..
 
They were old when Kennedy was shot.

The prime of your life is really short, kiddos.
 
IIIIIIII said:
they probably lived boring lives where they never drank, smoked, or did any drugs. not saying that you should do these activities. but as someone who has done all these on occasion, it would suck to have gone through life without doing this.
moderation with most things is a-okay with me.
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I've done drugs. If you don't do them, you aren't missing much.
 
I kid you not, there's a friend of my parents who had her 99th birthday in November. She still drives herself everywhere she goes, lives on her own, and planned her own 99th B-Day. I met her and she looks and acts like she's in her 70s. Very with it mentally and physically in every way. She's one of my real-life examples to me.
 
Joe McPherson said:
I kid you not, there's a friend of my parents who had her 99th birthday in November. She still drives herself everywhere she goes, lives on her own, and planned her own 99th B-Day. I met her and she looks and acts like she's in her 70s. Very with it mentally and physically in every way. She's one of my real-life examples to me.
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I have a buddy from Russia who told me a similar story about a guy he knew who worked at a nuclear plant. I'm sure he's putting me on but he always says "radiation does funky things". Weird.
 
Loiosh said:
Thank God for the millions of pages that have been written about those eras.

Have you ever had a discussion topic simmering in your mind that you really wanted to explore, but it was so big you never initiate it because you want to be prepared and do it right?

I have one; I think of it as "snapshot in time". Every single point in time has a distant, vanishing past, and a distant future you can just barely start to see materializing. Your perspective on those extremes is determined by who you are at that exact moment.

I mention this now because my grandmother passed a couple of years ago, just shy of her 100th birthday. I miss talking to her, because she was from another world; she didn't live in the same reality as I do. I think about this all the time, as I get older.

I'm not the same person I was when I first started considering this topic, and a discussion now would probably be very different from that discussion ten years ago.
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That's an interesting thought. I looked at a little baby yesterday in my buddy's arms and I said "you're going to be very mad at us about the weather someday". People looked at me funny.
 
EgonSpengler said:
I have a buddy from Russia who told me a similar story about a guy he knew who worked at a nuclear plant. I'm sure he's putting me on but he always says "radiation does funky things". Weird.
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Strange side-effect if true lol. Or just funny if not.
 
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