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Mid-life crises DO exist
#11
RE: Mid-life crises DO exist
I find 29 to be slightly a depressing milestone.
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#12
RE: Mid-life crises DO exist
(March 23, 2014 at 2:25 pm)tor Wrote: So Christopher Hitchens talked bullshit?

I'd have to see the quote you mean in order to evaluate it. But at any time during human civilization it would not be hard to find older humans in their 60-70s maybe even 80s.
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#13
RE: Mid-life crises DO exist
(March 23, 2014 at 2:24 pm)Rahul Wrote: The idea that our ancestors routinely died young has no basis in scientific fact. Average lifespan has increased for the most part simply because of decreased infant mortality.

Hell, Socrates died in his 70's back in 400 BC and the cause of death was execution, not old age.

I'll agree with this. People were capable of living longer lives, but other factors caused them to die early.
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10 Christ-like figures that predate Jesus. Link shortened to Chris ate Jesus for some reason...
http://listverse.com/2009/04/13/10-chris...ate-jesus/

Good video to watch, if you want to know how common the Jesus story really is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88GTUXvp-50

A list of biblical contradictions from the infallible word of Yahweh.
http://infidels.org/library/modern/jim_m...tions.html

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#14
RE: Mid-life crises DO exist
(March 23, 2014 at 2:32 pm)Rahul Wrote:
(March 23, 2014 at 2:25 pm)tor Wrote: So Christopher Hitchens talked bullshit?

I'd have to see the quote you mean in order to evaluate it. But at any time during human civilization it would not be hard to find older humans in their 60-70s maybe even 80s.

In almost every debate hitchens talked how shitty god is because humans didn't live longer than 25 years and had horrible teeth. After which he started talking about how jesus appeared in desert and not in china.
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#15
RE: Mid-life crises DO exist
If they don't exist how am I going to explain the Harley I bought after taking an aussy walkabout?
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#16
RE: Mid-life crises DO exist
(March 23, 2014 at 2:33 pm)tor Wrote: In almost every debate hitchens talked how shitty god is because humans didn't live longer than 25 years and had horrible teeth. After which he started talking about how jesus appeared in desert and not in china.

If he said that humans on average didn't live longer than around 25 that may be true. A shockingly large number of children died before their 5th birthday.

So if you took a study from two brothers, one that died at age 1 and the other that died at age 89, you'd have an average lifespan of 45 years.

Certainly our midlife mortality has dropped because of better medical care, but old people have always been around.
Everything I needed to know about life I learned on Dagobah.
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#17
RE: Mid-life crises DO exist
(March 23, 2014 at 2:37 pm)Rahul Wrote:
(March 23, 2014 at 2:33 pm)tor Wrote: In almost every debate hitchens talked how shitty god is because humans didn't live longer than 25 years and had horrible teeth. After which he started talking about how jesus appeared in desert and not in china.

If he said that humans on average didn't live longer than around 25 that may be true. A shockingly large number of children died before their 5th birthday.

So if you took a study from two brothers, one that died at age 1 and the other that died at age 89, you'd have an average lifespan of 45 years.

Certainly our midlife mortality has dropped because of better medical care, but old people have always been around.

It's true that many people throughout history have lived long lives. Ramses the Great lived until his late 80s.

Lifespan is conditional on many factors: Lifestyle, culture, living conditions, the individuals constitution, etc. While Ramses lived for a very long time, many of the labourers in the fields and building the monuments rarely lived beyond 40-50.
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#18
RE: Mid-life crises DO exist
I'm sure rulers have a greater chance to live longer, as long as they aren't licking lead or something.
Poe's Law: "Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of Fundamentalism that SOMEONE won't mistake for the real thing."

10 Christ-like figures that predate Jesus. Link shortened to Chris ate Jesus for some reason...
http://listverse.com/2009/04/13/10-chris...ate-jesus/

Good video to watch, if you want to know how common the Jesus story really is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88GTUXvp-50

A list of biblical contradictions from the infallible word of Yahweh.
http://infidels.org/library/modern/jim_m...tions.html

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#19
RE: Mid-life crises DO exist
(March 23, 2014 at 1:49 pm)Rahul Wrote:
Quote:Social economists say the life cycle of human happiness is U-shaped. We're really happy when we're young, and happy again when we're old. That low point in the middle? We call it a mid-life crisis.

Researchers at the University of Melbourne in Australia tracked the happiness levels of thousands of people in Australia, Britain and Germany over multiple decades. They found people in all three countries were unhappiest between the ages of 40 and 42.

http://thechart.blogs.cnn.com/2014/03/21...pt=hp_bn13

Great. I turn 40 next week.

Buckle in man, I haven't gone through one but I saw my dad go through it and it was....interesting. This was about 10 or so years ago but he bought a brand new PS2 (when they just came out), a flat screen, and a motorcycle in the course of a month. Needless to say my mum wasn't thrilled.
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#20
RE: Mid-life crises DO exist
(March 23, 2014 at 1:51 pm)LastPoet Wrote: Yeah, look at Min and how he transpires happiness. Tongue

Fuckers never mention how your knees ache and you can never remember where your keys are.
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