In the year 2025: Did you ever imagine you would make it this long.....????

[GammaGlobulin]

Dear Folks,

 

I never thought I would make it to the year 2525.

 

Yet, here we are.

Why?

 

Must be good genes....

Right?

 

So, the question is.....

 

Do you think you will make it to 3535?

 

 

If you believe in God, then you will.....indubitably so.

 

But, will Man still be alive?

 

Already, we have cried a TRILLION Tears.....

 

Has it all been worth it?

 

If so, and you believe it, then do you have any valid evidence to support your view?

 

I really never believed that I would live to the year 2000, at least I never believed this back when I first heard this tune.

 

1969 was a very good year.....

It was a very good year for small town girls
And soft summer nights
We'd hide from the lights
On the village green
When I was seventeen

 

Now, having lived to the year 2525, which really was not so easy....

We will be sad to go, when we must.

 

Yet, maybe better to go now, rather than to live until the year....

3535.

 

Nothing remains the same.

At least for us.

Those who see Time progressing in only one direction.

 

Do you ever try to escape, if only in your own mind....

To better times.

When you were seventeen.

 

 

 

Does anybody still recall:  FRIDAY WITH FRANK?

 

I know that I do.

 

Such nostalgia, you don't want to know about it.

 

2525 will be a very good year for all.

But, still, this year will be shorter than last year.

The aging process, so tragically, causes time to be perceived as traveling faster, and faster, the older we become.

 

2524 has now passed, and RIP.

On with 2525...now....

 

Only a few more days to go...until 2526.

 

Best regards,

And don't dwell too much on your waning years.

Gamma

 

 

 

[ChumpChange]

That makes two of us, Gigi. I am 100% surprised that you made it to 2025 myself. Trust me, nobody ever expected it either. Well, look on the bright side, there’s always next year.

[GammaGlobulin]

16 minutes ago, ChumpChange said:

That makes two of us, Gigi. I am 100% surprised that you made it to 2025 myself. Trust me, nobody ever expected it either. Well, look on the bright side, there’s always next year.

 

If only I would (or could) stop posting 'from the heart', then I might live longer.

Still, I hope to last until the year 2526, and I remain filled with optimism.

 

I believe that people here see some hope for me, yet.

 

Just as I see great hope for our forum.

 

Let's all grow together, this New Year.....

 

My best wishes, for sure.

 

 

[Jingthing]

Never trust anyone over 30.

Remember that?

I really didn’t expect to make it to 30 and with good reason.

When I did I said oh <deleted> I'm gonna have to sell out and get a corporate job as I've got expensive tastes.

[GammaGlobulin]

6 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

Never trust anyone over 30.

Remember that?

I really didn’t expect to make it to 30 and with good reason.

When I did I said oh <deleted> I'm gonna have to sell out and get a corporate job as I've got expensive tastes.

 

Would it be better to have:

 

a. Expensive tastes

b. Good taste

c. Or, like Trump:  Both good taste and expensive tastes

 

In your opinion....

 

 

[GammaGlobulin]

Fritz Lang: Incredible film.

 

AI:  Cannot TOP Lang, not even in 3535

 

 

Perhaps, the less humans rely on AI, then the more creative they become.

 

Note....  Very nice YT HD Metropolis here....

 

 

This is what Germany was before the Nazi.

Such a blessing.

 

And, such a creative culture, in the arts.

 

Unfortunately, they created a monster.

 

It can happen here, too....

 

 

[VBF]

38 minutes ago, GammaGlobulin said:

 

Would it be better to have:

 

a. Expensive tastes

b. Good taste

c. Or, like Trump:  Both good taste and expensive tastes

 

In your opinion....

 

 

Odd how you put Trump and good taste in the same sentence.

Must've been a typo... 😊 

[Lacessit]

21 minutes ago, VBF said:

Odd how you put Trump and good taste in the same sentence.

Must've been a typo... 😊 

I could be wrong, but I think the OP was being sarcastic.

[thaibeachlovers]

58 minutes ago, GammaGlobulin said:

c. Or, like Trump:  Both good taste and expensive tastes

I never thought I'd see "good taste" in the same sentence as "Trump". First time for everything I guess.

Expensive, yes. If he was Joe Average the chances of him marrying Melania would be less than mine of being on the first expedition to Mars.

[thaibeachlovers]

22 minutes ago, VBF said:

Odd how you put Trump and good taste in the same sentence.

Must've been a typo... 😊 

I hadn't seen your post when I said basically the same thing. Wasn't trying to copy you.

[thaibeachlovers]

1 hour ago, GammaGlobulin said:

Just as I see great hope for our forum.

Hope is always good.

[VBF]

2 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

I hadn't seen your post when I said basically the same thing. Wasn't trying to copy you.

Then again, as @Lacessit said.......  🙄🙄🙄

[thaibeachlovers]

1 minute ago, VBF said:

Then again, as @Lacessit said.......  🙄🙄🙄

I have that poster on ignore, so didn't see his post either.

[Jingthing]

1 hour ago, GammaGlobulin said:

 

Would it be better to have:

 

a. Expensive tastes

b. Good taste

c. Or, like Trump:  Both good taste and expensive tastes

 

In your opinion....

 

 

Trump does have good taste 

...

in dictators.

He's like a flippin' sommelier of

...

dictators.

[ChumpChange]

7 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

If he was Joe Average the chances of him marrying Melania would be less than mine of being on the first expedition to Mars.

Or the chance of you being on the cover of playgirl magazine. 

[thaibeachlovers]

2 minutes ago, ChumpChange said:

Or the chance of you being on the cover of playgirl magazine. 

I assume that that magazine doesn't exist any more then.

[Lacessit]

Definitely not. I thought I was toast when I was diagnosed with bladder cancer 19 years ago, the same cancer that killed David Ogden Stiers. An actor who absolutely nailed his role in M#A#S#H, and a man of culture.

 

Then again 3 years ago with leukemia and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.

 

Yet here I am, and here I remain.

[Lacessit]

8 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

I have that poster on ignore, so didn't see his post either.

A badge of honour, thank you.

 

I was not even aware you had me on ignore, which IMO is a demonstration of your significance.

[KhunLA]

I've surpassed mine and everyone's expectations.  May ever see 2030 or 35.  

 

Atheist, but do have to wonder if 'GOD was my co-pilot' more than a few times.

 

Got past 50 yrs old, so apparently, you can fix stupid 

 

 

[blaze master]

3 hours ago, Jingthing said:

When I did I said oh <deleted> I'm gonna have to sell out and get a corporate job as I've got expensive tastes.

 

Surprise you're a sell out. Shocker.

[Ben Zioner]

4 hours ago, GammaGlobulin said:

I never thought I would make it to the year 2525.

Ask again in ten years time.

[rwill]

7 hours ago, GammaGlobulin said:

I never thought I would make it to the year 2525.

You still have not.  Give it another 500 years.

[Bundooman]

Sorry if I'm being thick - I just don't get it.

I remember the song "In the year 2525 ..."

But the poster is making it sound like he talking about it being this year????

The year is 2025, 0r, in Thai years, 2568.

What is he talking about. I don't understand.

Is he confused?

I am!

 

[spidermike007]

My favorite quote about aging and getting old.

 

Older people are perceived as cynics and misanthropes. But, they are simply people who have at last heard the still, sad music of humanity, played by a mediocre rock band howling for fame. 

 

Do not go gently into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Dylan Thomas

 

30s is too soon. Dying in your 30's is tragic. As is the 40s

Sympathy dissapates from there. 50s is such a shame 

60s is too soon 

70s a good run 

80s a life well lived

90s - a fricking hell of a ride

 

Ya' know what though, I don't mind. I mean if my muscles ache, it's because I've used 'em. It's hard for me to walk up them steps now, its 'cuz I walked up 'em every night to lay next to a man who loved me. I got a few wrinkles here and there, but I've layed under thousands of skies with sunny days. I look and feel this way, well cuz I drank and I smoked. I lived and I loved, danced, sang, sweat and screwed my way thorough a pretty damn good life if you ask me. Getting old ain't bad Ben. Getting old, that's earned.

 

 

[georgegeorgia]

6 hours ago, ChumpChange said:

Or the chance of you being on the cover of playgirl magazine. 

Oh don't be sexist and Gender inflammatory 

I'm glad those magazines are in the past 

[georgegeorgia]

19 minutes ago, Bundooman said:

Sorry if I'm being thick - I just don't get it.

I remember the song "In the year 2525 ..."

But the poster is making it sound like he talking about it being this year????

The year is 2025, 0r, in Thai years, 2568.

What is he talking about. I don't understand.

Is he confused?

I am!

 

Not your fault mate ,I was going to say your starting to get the old Alzheimer's....but then I looked at your other posts and changed my mind ....it your intelligence ! 

 

[Gandtee]

Nope. I was ninety-one three weeks ago. I'm not looking forward to old age.😉

[Surasak]

I don't have a defeatist attitude and never gave time a thought when I moved here. What's your excuse??!!

[Enoon]

In 2008 I thought I would last until 2010.

 

I was once assessed, by a college tutor, as "tends to rely excessively on his wits".

 

It will take all of them to make it through the next 10 years.......I fear I may live that long.

 

Happy New Year to one and all:

 

 

 

[worgeordie]

Made it to 80 this year , when we were young'un's that sounded ancient 

and they looked ancient , wife says i look the same as when she met me 

37 years ago , and she doesn't lie , 😫 , I never ever thought that I would

reach that age , as I have always eaten what I want ,lived in Chiang mai smog

for so many years,

 

when I see folks reporting they don't eat sugar ,fat ,Animals and all that bad stuff

how long are they hoping to live ? , I don't drink alcohol or smoke maybe that helped.

 

It's not how long you live it's what you do in those years, some people living around

me in Gateshead never went further than the pub down the road , I was a traveler

from an early age ,seen the World ,don't think I would like to return to many of those

places now , glad I did it when I was younger and fit enough to 

 

OK take care , who knows what the future holds for us ,just do your best now....

 

regards worgeordie