Your Age

by **bobeau** » Wed 20 Jul 2005, 01:49:25

A couple weeks ago, to my surprise, I talked to an ex-girlfriend who knows about PO and actively reads this forum. I'm 29, she's 28. Frrom the quality of discussions I tend to assume the average PO.com reader/poster is quite a bit older. So, um, make me not assume so much

by **UIUCstudent01** » Wed 20 Jul 2005, 01:52:21

18-25 Category.

by **farmingengineer** » Wed 20 Jul 2005, 02:10:29

I'm 39. Could be that my 40's will be much like my teen years in that I'll be riding my bike everywhere. Some aspects of PO I really do look forward to.

by **Free** » Wed 20 Jul 2005, 02:17:05

If you turn the results 90 degrees (so far) it looks like a bell curve, peak age! What is it called, Gaußian normal distribution?

by **0mar** » Wed 20 Jul 2005, 02:41:40

by **gego** » Wed 20 Jul 2005, 03:44:36

At 61 I only hope that I get to see how the next 30 years turn out. If I don't make it because of the fall from the peak (oil), I should not be too disappointed in my early demise. After all, I would have had the experience of living most of my life at the zenith of the human species. Given the odds, each of us here on earth should consider ourselves extremely lucky to have ever made it into life (how many sperm and eggs were you competing with, and how many people in the past had to survive, just so that you could have the possibility of life?).

I feel badly more for you young people who will likely have a huge portion of your lives snatched from you, or at least have an extremely difficult life span. Astrology is bull, but the date of your birth does determine what period of history you live thru.

by **savethehumans** » Wed 20 Jul 2005, 03:46:11

Looks like 25-55 have the majority. This is no surprise--this covers the pre-senior ADULT population. (Sorry 18-24. Too many of you are still assuming a better technological future, a career, family, house, cars, etc. Too many of our age group is, too. I'm afraid most of us are in for a VERY rude awakening, VERY soon. . . .

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by **MonteQuest** » Wed 20 Jul 2005, 04:14:31

I'm 54

by **turmoil** » Wed 20 Jul 2005, 04:19:56

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I') feel badly more for you young people who will likely have a huge portion of your lives snatched from you, or at least have an extremely difficult life span. Astrology is bull, but the date of your birth does determine what period of history you live thru.

by **gego** » Wed 20 Jul 2005, 04:33:42

There was indeed a si-fi movie "Logan's Run", where those over 30 (age), as I remember, were forced to die so that the remainder of the young population (forced to live underground by prior nuclear war) could use the scarce resources.

I would gladly give my life for my children and grandchildren. I would not gladly give my life for some competing genetic material such as stupid_monkey or any others, no matter what age; this is a rule of nature.

Maybe if you want to survive, you need to be one of the fittest, and prepare so that you will have the means to aid in your survival. We are in a competition, even though we sometimes cooperate for mutual advantage, but you cannot expect others to get out of the way so that you can survive at their expense. Otherwise, you could be asked to give your life so that someone yet younger than you might go on in your place.

This does bring up the idea that the future will be a violent struggle over the much smaller economic pie. Conventional morality in an affluent society will not be conventional morality during the dieoff.

by **pea-jay** » Wed 20 Jul 2005, 04:43:29

Well, I am just a touch past 30. 31 to be exact so I am too old to be youthful and carefree, but yet too young to be taken seriously.

Not that I am complaining or anything.

by **gego** » Wed 20 Jul 2005, 04:51:12

Stupid_monkeys,

There is no blame on any generation for the way the world is. I have no more control over history than my father or no more control than my daughters. You have no control either or else you would make things the way you want them instead of the way they have happened.

In order for a species to survive, it must be programmed to acquire what it needs. A species that did not exploit its environment would be prone to extinction. Humankind just followed the rules of nature and used up to its immediate advantage what was exploitable in the environment.

I am no more to blame than the early generation of yeast in a wine vat. Take what is available and reproduce is the rule for all species.

It will not serve you well to direct your energy into anger and blame. That energy would be better spent in finding a nitch where you might survive. Whether you notice it or not, survival of the fittest is at work right now, and will have an effect on who survives the coming dieoff. Those who have a higher drive to independently take care of themselves, and who can form useful alliances, will likely be around while those waiting to be taken care of by the existing power structure will have a distinct disadvantage.

by **The_Toecutter** » Wed 20 Jul 2005, 04:51:22

by **eastbay** » Wed 20 Jul 2005, 04:54:30

I'm 51, but I can still kick your ass.

by **jato** » Wed 20 Jul 2005, 05:18:20

by **Neuromancer** » Wed 20 Jul 2005, 05:22:16

28

Glad to be alive in such an era. Even if I'll be there to watch the Great Fall I will keep my eyes open. To witness, to learn, to acquire experience for Existence.

by **turmoil** » Wed 20 Jul 2005, 05:22:48

there is a simple rebuttal to your arguments: survival =/= excess

rationalize it any way you want, but your generation specifically had a clear choice...and boy did you choose.

by **VinceG** » Wed 20 Jul 2005, 06:15:36

I'm 24...

by **navyswan** » Wed 20 Jul 2005, 06:25:55

I'm 23

by **killJOY** » Wed 20 Jul 2005, 07:32:55

45.

So I'm sitting in this bar with other musicians last Friday after jamming on the streets for a couple of hours and my banjo player looks at me and says, "How did everyone get so young?"

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