Time Is Money

[James Comey]

(04-02-2017 03:31 AM)Jop Wrote:  A few years ago I stopped falling for the notion that dying is inherently unavoidable. It's only unavoidable if people say it is. It's clear that society tries to hamper doctors from doing their job.

Jop, I think you're on the right path. Except when you realize that billions of people before you died, and your ancestors birthed you.

I like that you are questioning the concept of death and what it actually means, from a philosophical and practical point of view. Some people say that death is what it is. Other people take that death is some kind of act that's supposed to keep things in check.

In the end I think that one concept that a person needs to get rid of is the idea that things are "good" or "bad. Things aren't really "good" or "bad", but just that, things. The notion that "God doesn't exist because he lets bad things happen to good people" is pointless because it ignores the fact that even a shitty thing can lead to something good. One example is slavery; nowadays slavery is considered to be an evil thing, but how many people who created invaluable things today came from that system?

I'm going to put this Elliot Hulse video here which I think perfectly sums it up.



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(04-02-2017 03:53 AM)SoulRiser Wrote:  Time is way more important and valuable than money, because it's such a finite resource. People say they "make time" for stuff, but that's impossible. Time passes regardless of what you do, you can never make more of it. You can however make more money.

So:
Time >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Money

A fun browser extension to install is Mortality (only for Chrome I think). Every time you open a new tab, it tells you exactly how old you are, down to the millisecond. So if you were about to Google some random mindless entertainment thing, and you see those numbers increasing like that, it really does make you think twice about what you were going to do with that tab.

Technically, time is a theoretical concept, so you can't really create it. Time is always moving in the now. Everything happens in the now. What you do will lead to another thing.

Also, that browser extension sounds awesome. It reminds me how in 2013 I used to just browse this site, YouTube, and Wikipedia almost fucking endlessly and even then I realized how fucking depressing that cycle was, but alas, I had no damn initiative.