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RE: Is age merely a number?
March 12, 2014 at 8:55 pm
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
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RE: Is age merely a number?
March 12, 2014 at 9:17 pm
Well I turn 40 in a couple weeks. Not sure how I feel about that.
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RE: Is age merely a number?
March 12, 2014 at 9:27 pm
(March 12, 2014 at 9:17 pm)Rahul Wrote: Well I turn 40 in a couple weeks. Not sure how I feel about that.
It's just a number.
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RE: Is age merely a number?
March 12, 2014 at 9:29 pm
I'm so bummed I'm 23. To be honest, I wanted to be young enough to be considered a "kid" forever, because adults are stupid.
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RE: Is age merely a number?
March 12, 2014 at 9:31 pm
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(March 12, 2014 at 9:27 pm)Beccs Wrote: It's just a number.
Yeah, a number that represents how old my body is. I can physically feel the difference between this age and my twenties when I was in the military.
I can still do the same things I did then.
But it hurts so much more now.
(March 12, 2014 at 9:29 pm)futilethewinds Wrote: I'm so bummed I'm 23. To be honest, I wanted to be young enough to be considered a "kid" forever, because adults are stupid.
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RE: Is age merely a number?
March 12, 2014 at 9:35 pm
(March 12, 2014 at 9:34 pm)KUSA Wrote: 40 is when everything starts going to shit. You can't focus on fine print and your joints start aching.
Thanks, fucker. That makes me feel better about it.
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