Dave Martin | Sports + stupidity ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
How would what we consider to be ‘living’ change if we could live forever? Well for one, you probably wouldn’t be investing a fuckload of time and money and effort in learning skills that in 10, 20, 30, 50 years you won’t be needed for, because well, either for reason #1: automation or reason #2 AI-go-bang-bang-and-make-humans-go-byebye. And how many more risks would…
The problem with death is that a lot of us are shit scared of it and hate to talk about it, even though it’s the only thing guaranteed to happen (well unless this curing age thing is for reals). But we have a fear of it, a fear that’s going to end exactly when it happens. Death and telephones If…
The only reason I didn’t want to get a tattoo on the weekend was because I wouldn’t be able to go swimming in the ocean for 2,3 weeks or whatever, which I do almost every day. So the last time getting out of the ocean before I got it felt somewhat melancholy and bittersweet. But just because I had 2 weeks…
Humans understand a bunch of shit. We can split the atom, build the Large Hadron Collider and launch and then land a rocket back on Earth. But there’s one thing we have no clue about, one thing that’s physically impossible to experience and share knowledge about (and therefore impossible to know what the fuck we’re on about), and that’s… yep… Death.¹ The one…
With Halloween days away, this is a I-haven’t-decided-how-many part long form examination of the one emotion that drives most, if not all, of our major life decisions – Fear. Here’s part one – The Fear of Death ——- So, if it’s physically impossible to understand death, how can we possibly know what’s going to matter to us when it’s actually about…
Halloween’s only a few days ago so it’s a perfect time to explore the emotion that drives most, if not all of our major life decisions – Fear. James Spader kicks ass. And so did his character Robert California in The Office. This is him in season 8’s Halloween episode… Fear plays an interesting role in our lives. How dare we let…
I love death. But not because it’s cool and I want to do it, but because acknowledging the fact it’s 100000000% going to happen to all of us, teaches us how to truly live. Yesterday I talked about the verb ‘to last’ with the class (as in ‘oh man, I hope my grandma’s breakdancing career lasts for ages’). And when you actually think about…
Time goes in one way. Never in history has it gone backwards (except this one time, at 1:10). Yet, from the second you are born, the only thing that is guaranteed, the one thing, is that you’re going to die. And you may have heard this before (at 0:13): ‘AAAAAHHHHH. I don’t wanna die!’ or: ‘AAAAAHHHH I’m going to die!’…
Today in my class I had my students complete the end of conditional sentences so they were true for them (like, ‘I won’t stop studying English until…’ or ‘I’ll always live here unless…’ etc.) And for the sentence: ‘I’ll have more free time when…’ I caught one of my students finish it with: ‘…when I die.’ Yes. So fucking good.…