Writer's Block: Forever young

[vvvexation]

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With dying? What the hell wisdom comes with dying?

As for growing old, you get wisdom from being around longer, not from your body physically aging. So yeah, I'd totally skip aging if I could--or at least put it off.

I wouldn't freeze myself any time soon, though; I like the friends I've got now. Though it would be kinda cool if some of us could arrange to get froze and unfroze together.

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[flwyd.livejournal.com]

What the hell wisdom comes with dying?

There's a certain amount of wisdom that comes from realizing that your own death is imminent, I suppose.

[vvvexation.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. But is that wisdom or merely prudence?

[uncledark.livejournal.com]

Can you define the difference?

[vvvexation.livejournal.com]

Prudence mostly involves not taking risks. Wisdom is all kinds of things besides that.

[uncledark.livejournal.com]

Ah, OK. Thanks.

[uncledark.livejournal.com]

I'd have said the the knowledge (moreover, the realization) that one's time is finite changes the way one appreciates that time, and changes how one perceives the value of life.

[capnkjb.livejournal.com]

I'd consider it, but only if I'm guaranteed a position of wealth, importance, and privilege when I was unfrozen.

Of course, given how these things often work out, it'd be a brief position, because we will have picked up that whole human sacrifice thing again and guess who gets to be the Incan Mummy Girl now.

[pielology.livejournal.com]

As for growing old, you get wisdom from being around longer, not from your body physically aging.

I'm not convinced that this is true; lots of things keep changing in our brains as we grow older. Presumably, though, by the time science has advanced enough that we're unfreezing people, we will also have a better handle on what those age-related changes really do.

[vvvexation.livejournal.com]

Good point.