You are alive

ronbyrne2005

at this time which must rank as the greatest time in mankinds history.
We have medical technology to prevent most premature deaths. We have easy access to food ,energy etc. Our understanding of the universe is expanding daily. Do you feel lucky to be alive now?

Cupcake_Crisis

They have yet to discover a cure for getting a smack of a bus....so yea...i feel pretty lucky :rolleyes:

Dartz

This may well be the peak of human civilisation. It's all downhill from here on in.

Then again, the Victorians were saying as much.

bluto63

But we're about to enter into an age, where all fossil fuels have been used up, so the basis of our economy will be gone and the world will fall apart. Gimme Roman times, I woulda loved to be there!

Doyler92

Life should feel lucky it has me.

gramlab

Dont feel lucky I'm alive, just lucky I happened to be born in a country where I dont run a daily risk of being be stoned, starved, enslaved, ethnically cleansed etc

KungPao

ronbyrne2005 wrote: »

Do you feel lucky to be alive now?

Well do ya, punk?

DazMarz

Once all the oil dries up and so on, I fully intend to place a bullet squarely in my own temple. Unless we find more or an alternate energy source crops up or something...

Until then, I'm living life as I want it and I'm enjoying it!

chin_grin

Someones' been hitting the peace pipe a little too hard.

War,famine,recession,depression,death,aids,cancer,ad infinitum.

Too much "wacky baccy" mate..Tunnel vision is the plague of the developed world.

stovelid

I think of it as being more grateful than happy. Like beating the odds. It's always hard to be completely happy when you know how bad it is for so many millions of others.

Agricola

chin_grin wrote: »

Someones' been hitting the peace pipe a little too hard.

War,famine,recession,depression,death,aids,cancer,ad infinitum.

Yep.

Didnt every age think it was the peak of civilisation though?

I think since we all still have to work (alot of us in jobs we hate) to keep food in our bellies and a roof over our heads, is indication enough this isnt a great time for humanity! I think once we live in a utopia like that of Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek where theres no money, and everyone just strives to better themselves through education and philantropy, then we will truely be at a plateau of human existence.

AnonoBoy

Prove it.

Duggy747

I think this is a great time to be alive..........the world has me for a relatively short period.

Feel my wrath *cough*

Thornography

Well I don't know whats gonna happen in the future but defiantly wouldn't wanna be in any age before now.

A 100% cure for cancer in a swallow able pill would be nice doh.

Takk

gramlab wrote: »

Dont feel lucky I'm alive, just lucky I happened to be born in a country where I dont run a daily risk of being stoned, starved, enslaved, ethnically cleansed etc

Not the same country as the OP then.

ShaneU

Thornography wrote: »

Well I don't know whats gonna happen in the future but defiantly wouldn't wanna be in any age before now.

A 100% cure for cancer in a swallow able pill would be nice doh.

I dunno, the 60's seemed like a great time to be young, maybe not in this country though.

BrokenArrows

eh well it does not really matter when you live your kinda always living at the peak of human civilization.

im sure the guys in the middle ages thought they were at the peak when they invented their shiny armor.

WIZE

My dad passed away 4 weeks ago so Ive only bagan thinking how important life is so don't take it for granted

dsmythy

I'm sure in 2109 they will look back at us and wonder how we survived without <name currently unfathomable invention yet to come>

OutlawPete

ronbyrne2005 wrote: »

at this time which must rank as the greatest time in mankinds history.
We have medical technology to prevent most premature deaths. We have easy access to food ,energy etc. Our understanding of the universe is expanding daily. Do you feel lucky to be alive now?

We may be have medical technology but the vast amount of it used to reverse illness that we have created. Man has destroyed and poisened the planet more in the last 100 years than in any other time in it's history.

This time on earth is the calm before the storm. WE are lucky to be living in this part, that much is true but our grandkids are f**ked.

orourkeda

Cupcake_Crisis wrote: »

They have yet to discover a cure for getting a smack of a bus....so yea...i feel pretty lucky :rolleyes:

However they have invented the cure to smack on a bus and a smack to a bus

bigeasyeah

Enjoy it while it lasts.

ronbyrne2005

Im not a stoner. All drugs (apart from alcohol) make me paranoid so dont take them.

Banter Joe

ronbyrne2005 wrote: »

at this time which must rank as the greatest time in mankinds history.

Sorry to tell ya man but that was yesterday.

DonkeyStyle \o/

We've all been led by Back to the future 2 to believe we'd have hover-boards and inflatable jackets... but we don't! ... and we're slowly realizing that... and we're very, very pissed off.
/tyler

sock puppet

AnonoBoy wrote: »

Prove it.

Maybe the OP's just a spambot that's become sentient?

dsmythy

sock puppet wrote: »

Maybe the OP's just a spambot that's become sentient?

I think he's from the future and telling us to enjoy things how they are now for a reason.....