In 500 years if this forum still exists it will still be filled with people refusing to bathe or poop properly
Does It Ever Bother You That No One Will Have Given a Shit That You Lived and Died 80 Years After You Die (At Best)?
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Being remembered at all is a human privilege to begin with. To be remembered after the lifetime of one's closest people requires some kind of documentation. Even putting up a gravestone is beyond most creatures.
Also, everyone makes some kind of footprint. If you're a builder, there will be buildings you helped make. If you're a teacher, there will be thousands of kids you educated. Even if you don't work, if you're sick and being taken care of, your existence might mean that your caretaker was in the right place at the right time to change their life. I absolutely don't think there's a grand plan to all this, but it's fascinating enough that anything can affect anything else.
Also, everyone makes some kind of footprint. If you're a builder, there will be buildings you helped make. If you're a teacher, there will be thousands of kids you educated. Even if you don't work, if you're sick and being taken care of, your existence might mean that your caretaker was in the right place at the right time to change their life. I absolutely don't think there's a grand plan to all this, but it's fascinating enough that anything can affect anything else.
World will be dealing with massive pollution and climate change. I think people will have bigger issues to deal with than remembering Grandpa Joe.
I couldn't care because I'm dead. I'm moving on. Making an impact on those around me I would care by doing good
No, it took some time to wrap my head around the fact that I'm not special. I'll also not have any offspring. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I just try to be the best person I can be and surround myself with love. The people I directly interact with will remember me and I'm ok with that.
The forum probably won't exist, but the record of it might survive.
Also, I want to state for the record and for any of my descendants who come upon these posts: I am not part of that faction of resetera members that doesn't know how to clean themselves or doesn't know how to handle basic bodily functions. Personally, I try not to think about the fact that some folks here claim to have the personal management skills of an 18-month old, and I kinda hope they're posting some of those wild hygiene confessions for attention and not out of truth, but I also try not to judge them too harshly. Because life in the early 21st century of the common era could still be rough, and stress affects people in peculiar ways.
Not one bit, it wouldn't even bother me that no one remembered me after 1 second. The thing is, when I'm dead I'm dead, and nothing that happens after will ever matter to me beyond that point. Everything that I do is to be entertained while I'm alive, stuff to get through the duration without going crazy.
Edit: All this stuff on Earth, family, friends, societies are all about survival. That's it, without all that life would be a bit pointless and chaotic, and our species wouldn't have survived well.
Edit: All this stuff on Earth, family, friends, societies are all about survival. That's it, without all that life would be a bit pointless and chaotic, and our species wouldn't have survived well.
I don't care. I just want to leave this world a better place than I found it. I'm a meaningless being in the grand scheme and I find comfort in that. I just want to do my best and lead a happy life
you can have some reassurance, perhaps, in the fact that your deeds will have fundamentally determined many aspects of the life of your progeny. your 5x grand kids will never so much as know your name but what you have done will cascade down to their own lives. you're the endpoint of millions of generations of humanity and if just one person along that line had decided to not fuck you wouldn't exist
I want paramoons descendants to know he pooped into his hands and not into the toilet
I have nothing to prove to this world. Seems narcissistic to worry about this kinda stuff too much.
I do believe that the question has come to mind of certain dictators like Hitler. He will be remembered for a long time, that is his legacy... With lots of other stuff.
For me, i couldn't care. That is life.
For me, i couldn't care. That is life.
If I'm remembered it will be for something negative or humiliating (that hasn't happened yet) so I'm all for being forgotten.
it was wascallywabbit's hands which i mistook for a toilet.
Hitler is one of very few.
There was some sci-fi story that was fairly accurate in saying that there is barely a handful of humans that have had any long term impact on the planet. They considered 200 years the point where civilization changes so much in that time frame that even world leaders have little or no impact in the long term.
We're just another animal on this rock. We live, we die. The self-importance we put on ourselves as a human race is meaningless.
Think of it like this: chances are, if they aren't a Michael Jackson or Jordan or Prince or Princess Diana or Icon of some sort no one's going to remember them either.
We're animals, we better not forget that. We aren't better than other beings just because of sophisticated thought.
We're animals, we better not forget that. We aren't better than other beings just because of sophisticated thought.
Hate to burst your bubble, but how many writers can we honestly say reach that kind of immortality? less than one per generation? Even getting a book published is insanely tough and competitive, and even then most books get a printing or two and then go out of print, basically forgotten about.
Definitely write a book and try to get it published if you think you'll find that experience to be fulfilling, but if immortality is your goal there's about a .0000000000001% chance that you'll succeed.
