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Konrad Karaghiosis, in Zelazny’s “…And Call Me Conrad.”

those who say they have confronted their mortality at a young age are called liars

Sorry, but that implied things against younger people with your own words. You only have yourself to blame for that.

No one comes to terms with their own mortality

You’re certainly welcome to your own vague opinions that you apparently think blanket the rest of humanity.

I’m not sure what your point is, but that’s ok; I’m not sure you know what it is either.

From what you’re saying, you obviously haven’t come to terms with death nor your own mortality. You’d be better off speaking for yourself in the future instead of projecting your fears onto others.

How do you define “confronting death” and what gives the elderly a monopoly on this?

Please enlighten me as a person who has had to cope with multiple, near-death experiences for myself including one that sent me to a wheelchair for a while…  and a loved one who has been on death’s door for the last 3-4 years where many nights I have to come to terms with the fact it may have been the last day I ever see this loved one again especially after watching this person go completely unresponsive in my arms at the hospital… and I guess this loved one is too young to appreciate death and mortality as well?

Oh, and past deaths of family and friends surely didn’t educate me… and maybe also one of my marine friends who lost his entire platoon in Iraq and has permanent injuries from a fall out of a helicopter?  Is he also too young and naive to “confront death” or “his own mortality”?

Where’s the specific age that this true appreciaton of death and mortality kicks in? 80 years old?

It’s a shame so many younger people who’ve died before that age can’t ever appreciate nor confront death.

Please, enlighten all us liars.  :/

The entire name of a significant artistic movement has just been randomly coopted into another related, but dissimilar movement!

I realise this is a largely baseless complaint, as language will adjust over time anyway, but the original futurist movement seems to be entirely forgotten in popular culture now, replaced, and that makes me sad. I guess it would just be nice if people used the word ‘futurism’ with more awareness that it does in fact refer to at least 2 very different movements, both very important in their own right.

It’s a kids bookstore that recently added a well-edited section for grown-ups. If they close, I’m moving. 

But then, I said that about the last record store too. Damn you kids, get offa my lawn!

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I’m 55 – when does the grumpy old fart stage kick in?

Futurists = historians? epidemiologists?

Hahahaha!  In before Antinous!

- The Last Time I Saw Richard, Joni Mitchell

I think the best thing we can do is just realize it in ourselves and others, and take just about everything that is said (even by ourselves to ourselves) with a big grain of salt.

Above point not withstanding.