Spoilers Star Trek: Prodigy 1x03 - "Starstruck"
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It had better be. My son is older than that.
Again, it will depend on whom you ask.
But I will say this: older people don't hold ANY kind of authority of 'knowing better' than younger people about life in general... or that some things will happen with 'absolute certainty'.
Different life experiences and all that, different levels of education, understanding, etc.
I've met too many older people whose understanding of how the natural world works, and life in general, was extremely poor.
Also, there's the fact that just because large amounts of people experience certain things, it doesn't mean EVERYONE will... mass majority of people on the face of this planet are incredibly uneducated when it comes to important things... and these same people keep thinking existing systems in place are the best, keep putting up with lower quality of life, and all kinds of nonsense imposed on them.
Billions of people can share certain values/notions and still be wrong (such is the case today).
I'm not quite as cold as Deks, but I've always been a rather solitary person - even now having a wife and two kids. I could imagine myself living on past them (even my children) and while their passing would of course be painful, I'm sure I'd find new meaning (or, at least shiny things to distract me) along the way.
Of course, in any scenario of biological immortality, you presume it's not just being offered to you anyway.
Of course, in any scenario of biological immortality, you presume it's not just being offered to you anyway.
Didn't expect it to.
Well, it's a case-by-case situation. You can prove anything with generalities. I once met a janitor who didn't have much luck in his life his parents died early so he had to take care of his younger brothers and sisters and therefore never graduated from High school let alone from college but boy was he a smart cookie, much smarter than people I went to engineering school with.
This hit home for me. I'll tell you why in a sec, but none of us have any right to judge another. IDIC
Why this whacked me upside the head: all my life, whenever I said I didn't want kids, I'd get a condescending, "you'll change your mind." Well, I didn't.
I love my friends' kids and would do anything for their wellbeing, but watching my friends and seeing what it *really means* to want and raise a child. I never felt that way and I truly believe one should if one is to have that responsibility. I know that better now than I did in my 20s - but I always knew I didn't have that desire.
So everybody, lay off the kid.
(38 is young to some of us and probably not so much to others. It's all perspective.
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I'm 47 with worsening knees and even I wouldn't consider 38 "old."
I'll never tell anyone to have kids. Having kids means dealing with a lot of emotions, both yours and theirs, and you have to be willing to take on things you never thought you would. It is not for the faint of heart, or the ignorant of emotions. I completely support those not wanting to have children but it's a new way of seeing the world.
Regardless of parental status, awareness of one's emotions is more critical than how old someone is/feels.
You wanna join me on going bionic? I got a total knee replacement coming up 12/10.
I'm going to get bionic knees and elbows so I can bench press a minivan. I'm gonna impress SOMEONE with my lifting before I shuffle off this mortal coil.
I REALLY want the bionic sound effect!
Now you're just reminding me of the "Bionic Six" cartoon from the 1980's
We'll be laughing as you run in slow motion.
Watch it. I'll get the late Richard Anderson to come after you. If I can learn to use bionics to reanimate the dead.
I'll reanimate Chuck Connors...he had ample experience dealing with Anderson on The Rifleman.
His spit is known to detonate oil barrels.
Are you posting this on a coconut computer you made?
"I'm 37, I'm not old."
Sarcasm (if that's what this was) doesn't become you.
When I said I gave society the middle finger a long time ago, I meant in the sense that I don't particularly care what other people think.
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