Your words are immortal?

Question

Everything that you write in the internet will be stored for years to come. You words are immortal.
Your great great grand children can trace you .

Have you ever thought about this?

Answer 1

Whatever I contribute to the Internet – Yahoo Answers, is stored there possibly permanently. All words here become permanent available for generations to come - eternal are only the worsds of Truth, wrtitten or unwritten. We do not have to have books published, and still my great grand children will be able to tap into vast reserve of wisdom left by me here for them and all quit unwittingly.

This is a great and very reassuring but should this be considered that important? Should we be doing all this for the sake of some distant relative in the future, whereas the time is here and now? I for example do regret the first ever question that I answered. I thought 'lets try and see what happens’, but now I realise that what I did just for fun will stay there at the first spot forever. That was then and this is now. My then coming so powerfully to influence my now!

This nevertheless is a good to express myself and learn from the opportunity to interact with many gregarious and gargantuan minds that could actually be out there. It is like looking into a crystal ball – an amazing metamorphic realty for human thought we delve into with such an appease and freeness that hours even days go by without leaving any notice behind.

If this is an opportunity to record yourself literally in your very words that in your words ‘will be stored for years to come’, then and I say to this, Amen!

Answer 2

My Mom once said " if you can't say something nice then keep your mouth shut" I think this also might apply to interaction on the internet. The internet in the future will certainly give access to a great amount of information related to our lives. They will point a finger right at your nose and remind you that you're not perfect.

No one is perfect, so if you are a good and loving human being and you have questioned yourself, then let others stand in judgement. And be prepared to stand alone

Answer 3

My words are but mere extensions of myself, one of the many attempts towards the expression of my soul, when I seek to communicate outside of my self.

Since my words are extensions of myself, I hold them out freely for all to share, as I have no fear or shame in myself.

These words are the songs of my soul, sometimes simple and some times sublime. These words are filtered through my mind, but they arise from a much deeper well.

I will sing out my songs to all who will hear, and I pray that my grandchildren will hear them from my lips and read them anywhere they may.

You have touched on what may be the highest hopes we may hold for the Internet and the so-called information age.. that knowledge and sharing will go further than ever in history.

To think -- how relatively few are the years since the world was revolutionized by Gutenberg's printng press.

Today, I type these words into my computer and onto the Internet, and at nearly the speed of light they are seen and read by another on the other side of the world.

Yes, I think about this very often. The Internet is an amazing force with vast potential for spreading knowledge; and the spread of knowledge along with understanding are what will take humanity into a new age of enlightenment.

There is, as always, a caveat. This same powerful tool may be (and often is) easily usurped to spread ignorance and misunderstanding.

I prefer to believe that the good will inevitably out the bad, and my grandchildren will live in good days, and be free to read mine and any others' words, and be free to add their own voices to the amazing human saga.

Thank you for asking this question. Your words and the words of those who answer here will endure here and in other places as well. I, myself, will make a copy of this question and its answers, and add it to my personal journals. So you see, my friend, even now your own words are spreading in other ways that perhaps you did not consider when you asked your question.

That is the way of it, always has been and I pray it always will be. Words passing from mouth to ear to mouth, from hand to page to minds, the endless cycle of communication. The passage of lore, the relating of anecdotes, or a simple hello, or good day, sir.

Answer 4

interesting thought. but so much is said & done on the internet, searching for things i've said even a few months ago takes a major effort. so as to say that my great great grand children can trace me, they'll be going through tons of straws of hay befor they find the needle.
;)

Answer 5

It already happened to me, so I don't care. People trace me all the time. Even now I am being watched, and I don't even care anymore. Even the story of my life in higschool is on the internet and I can't delete it.

Answer 6

Have you ever owned more than one computer? I have some antiques and the words written in them cannot be read by the one I now type on. The software no longer exists. Immortal? I think not!

Answer 7

O_O
Wow I never really thought of that! Good question! Better watch what I say. But really what if your every thought and deed were played back? And what if everyone who ever existed got to watch? And God was in the balcony seat?

Answer 8

Have you read Shakespeare's 'Sonnet 18' - those are words that he knew would live on, and do. Unless our pearls of wisdom on the Internet are studied, they won't be immortal. Are words aliive if they're not read?

Answer 9

Well at least they will be more accurate than the history books and I've got nothing to hide.
P.S Hi kids,good luck with the search.

Answer 10

Depends whether you think the INTERNET is immortal?


Phew, just as well I use a pseudonym then...If they ever read some of my answers on HERE.......