Can you imagine the train of thought a 1000 year old would have?
2006-11-23 14:06:18 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
a thousand years..how many books a person could read in such a time, how many wonderful opportunities we would be afforded to educate and enlighten ourselves. What wonders we might become witness to. I could have seen Leonardo Da Vinci paint the Mona Lisa, watched as Copernicus developed Heliocentric theory, met William Shakespeare, John Calvin..the list is endless..and stayed around long enough to know what the future might entail in another five hundred years. What might happen, what scientific and technological advances might occur is entirely beyond my rather limited imagination...
I wonder though..would the point come at which quasi-immortality began to tire us? At 36 I find myself less tolerant of others then I was at 26. Should things continue in this manner, by five hundred I would be labeled a tyrant, by a thousand..perhaps I would be a literal outcast. And what of family, by our five hundredth year we might well have survived through 15 generations a family reunion might well require one to rent a 'small nation', and could you imagine the bar bill?
Do we wish to know everything, do we wish to go absolutely everywhere? Probably not..for it would leave us little to dream about. By a thousand I think our thoughts would be very tired, very old, and probably very outdated. We generally stick to what we are taught when we are children, by the time we are 80 we are considered wise yet rather 'out of touch'. I don't believe I would enjoy the same sentiment tenfold.
2006-11-23 15:31:07 · answer #1 · answered by KED 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
At 1000 we would have so much experience and so much wisdom. Whoever lives to be 1000 should be president. They should make a positive, dramatic change in this world. They will have more of an understanding and knowledge than we will ever do.
Great question.
2006-11-23 23:44:55 · answer #2 · answered by Dweet 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well I am now 40 and realize that I don't know very much and have probably traded true ideas for false ones. So by the time I am a thousand, I will probably know that I never had a clue to begin with. Hopefully my surroundings will have changed by then.
2006-11-23 23:20:25 · answer #3 · answered by Bye Bye 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Opinions change or atleast opinions differ.
Just because an opinion is different doesn't mean we should laugh at it.
Because if you think you're still the same person when your 1000... then I'll laugh at you...
2006-11-24 07:34:09 · answer #4 · answered by Daniel B 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
when I turned 1000, I laughed at my 900 year old self.
2006-11-25 02:09:58 · answer #5 · answered by ỉη ץ٥ڵ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What was I doing when I had 100 years old?
2006-11-23 22:07:45 · answer #6 · answered by Dark Knight 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Long before 1,000 you figure out how little you still know and that you were doing the best you could at every age with what you understood at the time.
2006-11-23 23:02:15 · answer #7 · answered by Arrow 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How great the cure for Alziemers was 900 years ago.
2006-11-23 23:20:38 · answer #8 · answered by artcoreguitar 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hopefully by that age you have given up thinking about such things
2006-11-24 01:57:44 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
are u a alien my friend ure question does not match the reality of life , but may be for a creative works u can use it..
2006-11-24 01:11:56 · answer #10 · answered by Creative zest 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋