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icevrething · 01-20-2009, 08:58 PM

Currently, I am reading The Outline of History, by H.G. Wells. It is a fantastic book, but I find myself drifting off into reflection after reading a particular sentence or passage that catches my attention. While reading about how Neolithic men began to bury the deceased, I immediately stopped reading and started thinking. I had come up with this thought: Life, which every man experiences, is a parallel to placing a frog in a lukewarm water kettle, and slowly heating until the frog is dead before it realizes it. Each year slips past humans unnoticeably, just as the single degree increments in temperature flies by unbeknowngst to the frog. Thus, we are all dead before we know it, regardless of having acceptance of our mortality or not. Just a thought, even though it is quite depressing.

inBOIL · 01-20-2009, 11:37 PM

Years don't slip by unnoticeably. Even at the age of 28, I feel some of the effects of aging on my body. I imagine this accelerates as you age. It can escape your attention at times, but sooner or later something happens to bring into focus the fact that your remaining years are dwindling.

Anormalguy · 01-21-2009, 05:11 PM

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Originally Posted by inBOIL

Years don't slip by unnoticeably.
...It can escape your attention at times, but sooner or later something happens to bring into focus the fact that your remaining years are dwindling.

01-20-2009, 08:58 PM	#1 (permalink)
icevrething Upright Location: Lincoln, NE	Life's Truth in an Analogy Currently, I am reading The Outline of History, by H.G. Wells. It is a fantastic book, but I find myself drifting off into reflection after reading a particular sentence or passage that catches my attention. While reading about how Neolithic men began to bury the deceased, I immediately stopped reading and started thinking. I had come up with this thought: Life, which every man experiences, is a parallel to placing a frog in a lukewarm water kettle, and slowly heating until the frog is dead before it realizes it. Each year slips past humans unnoticeably, just as the single degree increments in temperature flies by unbeknowngst to the frog. Thus, we are all dead before we know it, regardless of having acceptance of our mortality or not. Just a thought, even though it is quite depressing. __________________

01-20-2009, 11:37 PM	#2 (permalink)
inBOIL I have eaten the slaw	Years don't slip by unnoticeably. Even at the age of 28, I feel some of the effects of aging on my body. I imagine this accelerates as you age. It can escape your attention at times, but sooner or later something happens to bring into focus the fact that your remaining years are dwindling. __________________ And you believe Bush and the liberals and divorced parents and gays and blacks and the Christian right and fossil fuels and Xbox are all to blame, meanwhile you yourselves create an ad where your kid hits you in the head with a baseball and you don't understand the message that the problem is you.