its all genetics...

some of us are gonna die from this and some of us are gonna die from that...you could run ten miles a day all your life and be a vegetarian...do yoga...meditate and open doors for old people and fucking die of a heart attack at 38...

get to fucking know it...and piss off with your health bullshit...

there are 100 year old people who have been smoking 2 packs a day all their lives and still chug jack daniels DAILY!

this was a public service announcement...

 

Damn right!!!

 

This is why It is not how long you live, but how you live

 

genetics are bullshit

 

but ALSO...quality of life. the people who do care for their health, well they have a higher quality of life even if they did die younger than someone unhealthy

 

yes, but genes are pretty fucking cool. one thing that bothers me is that the Human Genome Project is done exclusively with mitochondrial DNA, which is passed on only maternally (also mitochondria divide seperately of the cell, and have their own specific DNA . . hence the theory of endosymbiosis) anyways. i think they should use DNA produced from the nucleus of the cell for some reason or another

 

Just forget any notion or fear of death. It's all in your head. Everyone dies, and that is beautiful. And everyone dies without accomplishing something they wanted to accomplish. It'll happen to you. So do what you want. It's the only way to remove yourself from that cycle.

If we're so comfortable with the nothingness before our life, what's so uncomfortable about the nothingness after it?

 

even with all the shit i do to my body, i do lots of healthy shit too
and last psychical i got i was very health
i was surprised

 

fucking A man, fuckin A...

 

That is false

Epigenetics is a term in biology used today to refer to features such as chromatin and DNA modifications that are stable over rounds of cell division but do not involve changes in the underlying DNA sequence of the organism. These epigenetic changes play a role in the process of cellular differentiation, allowing cells to stably maintain different characteristics despite containing the same genomic material. Epigenetic features are inherited when cells divide despite a lack of change in the DNA sequence itself and, although most of these features are considered dynamic over the course of development in multicellular organisms, some epigenetic features show transgenerational inheritance and are inherited from one generation to the next.

In other words, environmental stresses such as smoking alters which genes are turned on and off, and therefore impacts the person's health and can even harm the health of that person's descendants for several generations.

 

You've missed the point entirely.

 

i dont believe everything science tells me...just like how i dont believe in god...

 

No you missed Cate's point. It's all about the quality of life.

 

remember 15 years ago when we were the only solar system with planets according to many scientists???

PPPSSSSHHH!

im pretty sure the number of extra solar planets discovered now is closing on the 200 mark...

scientists have their heads up their asses almost as much as christians...

 

thats deep

 

Maybe so, but your "point" was a non sequitur, as it had absolutely nothing to do with my understanding of the subject I was addressing. And if you think you've got the whole universe wrapped up in a nutshell, come back in 20 years and we'll see how well it held up.

 

but i mean, what if there was something before our life here, and we just dont remember it? i personally believe that there is something before and after life, but because our brains hold our memories, and our bodies are only temporary, that we forget those things. the experiences we have affect us, but we don't know why. thats how our conciousness develops and matures, and gives shape to our personalities. so essentially, you are always you, and you always live, but its just a never ending cycle.

 

^ That is more enlightened IMHO.

 

Christ, I'm not saying I have anything figured out. I'm just saying I finally know what makes me happy. I know what I want to do, but I'm happy to let that change. I wouldn't claim to know anything at all at 20-years-old, let alone 40 or 200, except that I know what I know and I'm content with that and hopefully I will continue to be content with it as my ideas adjust and expand.

My "point" was that, in focusing on his factual errors, which I have no knowlege or opinion of either way, you missed out on his greater point, which is the point I addressed. Maybe you didn't miss that point, I can only go with what you posted. But the way I see it, it's like John Belushi's rallying speech in Animal House, and I'm quoting Boon.

"Forget it, he's rolling."