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Old 03-23-2005, 03:17 PM   #1
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I strongly dissagree with that. If you lived everyday as if it were your last you would freak. I say live everyday like youve got all the time in the world.

When you live everyday as if it were your last, it would suck. Everything would be in chaos, people would be doing everything they always wanted to do so fast that they wouldnt sit back and enjoy it.

If you lived everyday as if you had all the time in the world you could sit back and enjoy things more. It wouldnt be as strenuouse.
(off topic but a good point)
our society is crumbling, washing away in the fierce waters of the media. We are all controlled by it, they tell us how to dress and how we should look. They tell us how we should live our lives, they say we need a good education to get anywhere in life. not neccisaraly. You can still get a highschool diploma and live a great life. Sure its great to get a good education, you can go be some network executive or you can be stuck in a cubical -_-. not very fun eh?

My message to you is that you live everyday as if you have all the time in the world, and dont let the media control you

how you live your life is your desicion, make the one that is best for you.

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Old 03-23-2005, 03:22 PM   #2
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What the hell does the media have to do with this?
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Old 03-23-2005, 03:24 PM   #3
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lolol did you see the off topic sign, no? read it next time.

id like intelligent comments please not dumb ones like that.
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Old 03-23-2005, 03:24 PM   #4
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Only the weak-willed, and frail-minded let themselves be controled by the media.

I think you should live life how you want to. If you feel like always being tense, then so be it. But if everyone lived their life as if they had all the time in the world, there would be no work done. And you read way to far into "live life as if it was your last." All it's saying is enjoy life, because you're not going to live forever.
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Old 03-23-2005, 03:31 PM   #5
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your right i did read way too much into that, and i guess your right if you lived like you had all the time in the world no work would get done. life has just been really intense for me lately, but anyways if you think about how much time you really have on this earth i mean really think about it. not just sitting for five min. throwing around ideas youl see where im comin from.
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Old 03-23-2005, 04:14 PM   #6
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Or, you know... die. It's all the same for you, falcon.
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Old 03-23-2005, 04:38 PM   #7
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hey i said intelligent commments only man. i dont want some f'ed up ct discussion about me again.
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Old 03-23-2005, 04:58 PM   #8
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Live for no one but yourself. Live for everyone. Live for those that cannot live, live for friends that don't have time to, but for the love of God, don't live like you have all the time you want. Life is meant to be lived. You only get one chance at this, so have as much fun as you can, because you don't know what's going to happen after you die. Don't piss it away doing nothing, and don't piss it away doing everything.

Just live.

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Old 03-23-2005, 05:04 PM   #9
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Beautiful. That's the way it's done.
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Old 03-23-2005, 06:15 PM   #10
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Dude mal that is just what i wanted man, awsome post thats exactly how i feel i just couldnt put it in to words.
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Old 03-23-2005, 06:23 PM   #11
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Tell me, do you think that's why some people join the military? To live?
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Old 03-23-2005, 06:58 PM   #12
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well in the military you live a very exciting life, with the guns and stuff and its good for life outsiude the military, you know?
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Old 03-23-2005, 07:17 PM   #13
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When you live everyday as if it were your last, it would suck. Everything would be in chaos, people would be doing everything they always wanted to do so fast that they wouldnt sit back and enjoy it.

If you lived everyday as if you had all the time in the world you could sit back and enjoy things more. It wouldnt be as strenuouse.
Not necessarily. Let's take someone with alot of hate on their mind. Someone who hates a good bunch of people from their family/school/community/etc... If they were to think one day that they should live it as if it was their last, one message might go through their mind. "Do I want to die with all this hate/all these people hating me, or die without these grudges and hopefully have them forgive me?" If I were put into that place, I'd rather die without the hate and immediately run off to apologize to each and every single person I've ever hated/started a rumor about/thought badly of.

Also,"Live every day as if it were your last" is a total generalization. It's one of those phrases that were SUPPOSED to mean live life happily, cheerfully, etc... A generalization means it is based on the MAJORITY. Therefor, the minority are automatically considered EXCEPTIONS. For example, a phrase often used telling you not to copy others is "So if ____ jumped off a bridge, you would too?" Same deal. Sometimes it's a good thing to follow suit. If everyone in your class did their homework, you wouldn't NOT (olol double negative) do your homework just to avoid doing the same as others now would you?
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Old 03-23-2005, 07:23 PM   #14
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Mal, that was sweet.

Yeah, like falconsfan said, some people might enjoy that kind of stuff... Might, because I've heard too many bad things about war to consider glorifying it. Reserve and stuff is (I guess) a different story, and again, I guess it would help with discipline and stuff in civilian life.

How interesting. We just had to write an essay on a poem in class today on something similar to this subject. The poem was called "The Lesson of the Moth". The theme was about whether or not it is worth it to view true beauty for a single second before perishing; the alternative to that was to live a long life, but have it be boring. I would say that I agree with the moth, who burns himself up for a single glance at the fire. A long life in the doldrums just wouldn't cut it for me.
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Old 03-23-2005, 07:28 PM   #15
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do you know if that poem is on the internet somewhere? lol dumb question of course it is but i would love to read it.
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Old 03-23-2005, 10:35 PM   #16
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Falcon, I was praying you would come to the real reason as I read your post. I remembered that it's too obvious for you and simply gave up after a while. I was rather disappointed. I was even more disappointed in Sam, though. C'mon, what did I tell you about being respectful to people?

Anyway, the real reason for not living like everyday were you last is because it simply costs too much. Admit it, living like that would cost a lot for you, physically, mentally and financially. I guess what I'm trying to say is that anyone who has any sense of economics would never live like that. People like having smooth lives, not too much good, not too much bad. When you suggest that you have excessively good times you imply that excessively bad times will follow. No, who's to say "why not have the good times and then suck it up all at once through the bad? A huge dose of poverty followed by (or following) a huge period of wealth can't be that bad.

Ask someone from the Great Depression whether they liked that idea. It's that kind of mentality that is wrong with our world. The idealistic, hollow bullshit that is flung out at us in English class.

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falconsfan you are so cliché, it's as though you don't have thoughts of your own,

Mal, you did a great job of summarizing a good philosophy in a very aesthetic way.

Since it's pretty much been covered how people think they should live thier lives, how about coming to face with the reality of how they live their lives.

People spend the first 12 years of their lives the way it should be spend, then they spend three quarters of their lives planning ahead, and finally spend the last bit wondering why they aren't happy like they planned for. This is merely a general observation.
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Mal, that is why I plan to move out of the States after I finish my education.

In America, we go around with our "anything goes, just live" philosophies, then go around trying to "have as much fun as we can" regardless of the lives of others.

So let me tell you: You don't necessarily not have to know where you are going after you die, and for the love of God, don't live an empty life of living for the next moment, for the next temporary distraction from reality. Don't become lost in the sea of those who can't quiet their minds for five minutes because they're too afraid to stop and think about the things really worth living for.
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Well that's where the religious dissagree with the others because you feel like you should live your life to get into heaven and we know (for ourselves) that this is not a concern, for obvious reasons in our difference in beliefs. It would be wrong to now bring your religion into this discussion to say how live should be lived, or we will no longer be arguing principles of living, and will be arguing beliefs. Instead of telling us what you'be been preached, discuss your own ideas of what is valuable about life.
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I'm not afraid of some deity that threatens hell fire and beinged damned to eternal suffering. I'm free of that, and even if God does exist, I'm going to be with some fun people in Hell. JFK, Al Capone, a close friend that killed himself two years ago, Ghandi.

You can stifle your life all you want. I feel for you, but at least you won't be in America any more to try to make people live in accordance with your beliefs.

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