boy, ten years has got me thinking
you know what i think about sometimes that really trips me out? the progress of time. think about it.
THREE years ago, myspace wasnt yet a phenomenon. i had never even heard of facebook.
TEN years ago the internet wasn't even close to being the dominant form of media
THIRTEEN years ago i'd never been on the internet, people still used modems and were lucky if they could even access a chatroom.
there are still a few WWI veterans alive. theyre like 100 + years old, but theres like 1 or 2 left. and that war was in 1917. before the great depression.
when my mother was born it was the early 60s. which means that people who were alive during the time of the CIVIL WAR were still alive when she was born.
during WWII, people were still alive who had FOUGHT in the CIVIL WAR
during the Civil War, people were still alive who had fought in the REVOLUTIONARY WAR
ADOLF Hitler died 60 years ago. people are STILL ALIVE who lived through the nazi prison camps.
time is extensive only to individual man, which is why we feel these events so far off in the past. we have no concept of linear communal experience. the revolutoinary war was like 3 generations ago. the crusades probably like 10 or 12. the birth of christ maybe 20. which really is nothing.
nothing at all.
james 4:13Now listen, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money." 14Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes."
tomorrow is no guarantee.
THREE years ago, myspace wasnt yet a phenomenon. i had never even heard of facebook.
TEN years ago the internet wasn't even close to being the dominant form of media
THIRTEEN years ago i'd never been on the internet, people still used modems and were lucky if they could even access a chatroom.
there are still a few WWI veterans alive. theyre like 100 + years old, but theres like 1 or 2 left. and that war was in 1917. before the great depression.
when my mother was born it was the early 60s. which means that people who were alive during the time of the CIVIL WAR were still alive when she was born.
during WWII, people were still alive who had FOUGHT in the CIVIL WAR
during the Civil War, people were still alive who had fought in the REVOLUTIONARY WAR
ADOLF Hitler died 60 years ago. people are STILL ALIVE who lived through the nazi prison camps.
time is extensive only to individual man, which is why we feel these events so far off in the past. we have no concept of linear communal experience. the revolutoinary war was like 3 generations ago. the crusades probably like 10 or 12. the birth of christ maybe 20. which really is nothing.
nothing at all.
james 4:13Now listen, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money." 14Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes."
tomorrow is no guarantee.
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TheJoeD on
I've thought about this too in much the same way, although at the expence of sounding dickish, a generation is really only like 20-30 years.
We're like one of the first generations that is undefinable. You know, you've got like the pioneers, baby boomers, the greatest generation, etc. What are we? Oh well.
It blows my mind that people born in the 1800s are still alive. Like, that would be the greatest time to have lived. You were there when electricity came along, the Titanic sunk, both World Wars, men landing on the moon, the internet, and all kinds of crazy other stuff.
My 48 pickup has me thinking about stuff too, like...there's nothing on that truck that wouldn't have been available in 1948 (except for tubeless tires) and yet it still starts, runs, and drives. Man if that thing could talk.
We're like one of the first generations that is undefinable. You know, you've got like the pioneers, baby boomers, the greatest generation, etc. What are we? Oh well.
It blows my mind that people born in the 1800s are still alive. Like, that would be the greatest time to have lived. You were there when electricity came along, the Titanic sunk, both World Wars, men landing on the moon, the internet, and all kinds of crazy other stuff.
My 48 pickup has me thinking about stuff too, like...there's nothing on that truck that wouldn't have been available in 1948 (except for tubeless tires) and yet it still starts, runs, and drives. Man if that thing could talk.
