"Childhood's over the moment you know you're gonna die"

[00Pyro]

I was in 6th grade with above-average grades, a dependable group of friends, a simple, loving relationship when I realized I had an incredible talent for lying. So for a while I told everyone stories so I could control them, and it worked. I guess I realized death was real when my girlfriend (not the nice one) dumped me for the tenth time. Or maybe when I figured out Duke Nukem Forever was terrible. Or maybe it was when I opted not to order onion rings because they're unhealthy.

 

[thecoreyhlltt]

how can you say for certain since you didn't experience it? who's dumb now, oh wait that's right you...

Do you mean that I haven't experienced childhood, or life?
Is there a certain age where childhood ends? Is there a certain age where life begins?

god you're dense,
the IT i'm reffering to is contemplating death at a young age and having it ruin your childhood.

well the law say when you're 18 so i'll with that. and i'd imagine your "life" doesn't start until your heart forms and starts beating. you know, if you want to continue being so damn literal...

 

[Foxbat Flyer]

when i was about 7 or 8... Started with thoughs of my parents in coffins, cryed myself to sleep many nights then...

 

[crop52]

god you're dense,
the IT i'm reffering to is contemplating death at a young age and having it ruin your childhood.

well the law say when you're 18 so i'll with that. and i'd imagine your "life" doesn't start until your heart forms and starts beating. you know, if you want to continue being so damn literal...

Damn you're rude.

Yes I haven't experienced any childhood ruining, but I have experienced contemplating death at a young age.
It didn't ruin my childhood, and it didn't make me mature, so my point still stands.

 

[sivlin]

What happens if we invent immortality?

You get... me.

No one can technically prove that I didn't create the world when I decided to exist. As far as I or anyone knows, I have lived forever and I will never die.

 

[J_Monsterface]

there can be only one (person claiming to be) highlander! (at a time)

but seriously, i dont consider myself a dumb man, but its hard to say that ive really ever accepted my own death, sometimes i fear it

but sometimes i think ill believe it when i see it

 

[thecoreyhlltt]

Damn you're rude.

it didn't make me mature, so my point still stands.

thank you for noticing

so does mine then, cause that's what in the first one i think... that it doesn't make you smarter or more mature.

 

[Vault101]

reading the book Pet semetary really hit home......(and the fact my dog would die)

 

[PAGEToap44]

I was 2. My Grandad died. Them one of my dogs died. But I was pretty meh about the whole thing. I was 2 after all.

 

[Saulkar]

When I was three years old and I went to my Uncle's funeral I thought he was sleeping so I did not understand why he was being put into the ground. Later the next day after getting home I asked my mom what happened to him. She replied that he died of a heart attack. I asked if someone attacked his heart. She replied no, that his heart stopped beating and he stopped living. It then somehow clicked that I would die as well eventually. It made me so depressed for the rest of the week.

 

[Lukeje]

Death is something that happens to other people. I will never die.

 

[AmaterasuGrim]

Age 5 many things but just one main thing i was told childhood how it sucked =/

 

[Robert Ewing]

The realization I'm going to die, I took very well. The realization that i'm going to die by human hands is not one I've taken so well. At that moment my trust in humanity went down by 8%. Because I know that humans are at the top of food chain, and freaking good at killing things. Especially other humans. I dunno, I guess it's just paranoia. But I'm perfectly open to the fact that I could wake up tomorrow with thousands of North Korean nukes hitting European soil. It's possible that it could happen. And I fully expect a catastrophe to happen. But it's just when it will happen.

I know humans are assholes, and don't respect human life as much as they should. I've been stabbed before, and trust me. Thinking you're going to die while laying in a hospital bed isn't as scary as you think. The world is a dangerous place, and the cheat console appears to be broken. Probably a dev fault. All I'm saying is, I won't mind leaving this buggy game.

 

[x EvilErmine x]

No, childhood is not over until the first time you see snow falling and don't immediately want to go out in it and mess around even for just five minutes, but instead think 'oh wonderful this is going to make getting around a pain in the ass'.

That's the moment you know you've lost the innocence of childhood.

 

[SckizoBoy]

Wow .. you mean people didn't know why it happened as in you just dropped dead suddenly, or they don't know why you 'came back'? Sounds interesting - first hand experience n' all. Obviously, no pressure to discuss it though!

Thankfully, I was already in hospital for a routine operation, but as they were doing post-op stuff and I was coming round from the anaesthesia, for one reason or another, I stopped breathing as I drifted off again (whether one was the cause of the other or not I don't know), but I 'came back' with one fucking massive jolt and bricks... were... shat... seriously, I was beyond the normal level of little kid being scared... Being surrounded by on edge, but very kind, medical staff constantly checking I was OK for the next twelve hours helped.

Next time I die, hopefully it'll be permanent, and not for another forty to fifty years... ish, because I wouldn't really care to go through that again (even if I know what it's like, not that it makes it any better).

 

[tzimize]

What happens if we invent immortality?

We cant. At least not immortality in the true sense. If we find a way to beat old age, we still have to beat all the diseases of the mind. If we beat those, and store ourselves in a computer for example, we still have to beat power outages, STUFF just aging and rusting away...etc.

True immortality only comes into the picture when we talk about eternity. And eternity...heh...thats a concept too big for even human minds to truly understand. If you dont believe me...watch this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zE-IZynfKM .

Eternity and infinity is hard if not impossible to grasp, true immortality is on the same level.

OT: I cant really remember when I understood I'd die, but I spent an annoyingly big part of my teenage years thinking about it. As I guess most people do. I'm not sure childhood ends when you realise you'll die, but some sort of innocence does at least.

I hate the title of this thread.

What's up with the notion that being unhappy makes you mature and wise?

I think the notion is the other way around: being mature and wise makes you unhappy. :>

 

[tzimize]

Edit: Double post sorry :S