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post 1623333431 11-21-2020, 09:18 PM
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How much do you care about longevity? Out of 5 (Poll)

In the sense of a long life...

There is a lot of information out there on the bluezones(The handful of areas in the world that have the highest density of centenarians) and their specific diets. Typically its high in beans, whole grains, fruit, veg, and nuts, while being lower on meat and dairy.

What are your vices?

Do you make decisions today with the intention of that decision potentially prolonging your life?

Do you have interest in seeing your kids or grandkids growing up and still being able to kick ass at a high level while they grow up, giving them a great example and standard on how to live by?

Do you want to be the example for your wife when she thinks its okay to just LDAR because she now has a ring and a kid?

Is your diet more for building muscle or for eating healthy?

How important is cardio to you in comparison to gymmaxxing?

What kind of liquids do you drink throughout the day?

We all have different opinions on this. Longevity usually comes at the expense of balance, which is where I stand.

Live fast, die young?

YOLO + You can technically die any day?

Advances in modern science and high level of income?

Genetics > Everything?

No care to live to the max you can?

Just some of the things to think about when you answer....



I'm a 4, probably 4.5. I want to live a long time, but gotta risk it sometimes.
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For my age pretty high importance

I just do the right things

and hope the right things happen in return
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post 1623334241 11-21-2020, 09:30 PM
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Originally Posted By lawlessly⏩
For my age pretty high importance

I just do the right things

and hope the right things happen in return
You're really 50? Yeah, I'd be a 5 at that age. No doubts.
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post 1623334341 11-21-2020, 09:31 PM
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IMO it's really about maintaining quality of life.

Once you start losing that life stops being fun.
The billionaire and the beggar both have 24 hours in a day.

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post 1623334661 11-21-2020, 09:37 PM
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I don’t expect to live a long life. If I do, who cares? Why does it matter? If I could live a long life, it would only be worthwhile if my health was optimal.

The sad fact is that we all die from something. Either we get unexpected cancer in early age, or die from some accident...or we live long enough to fall and break our hip and can’t move for months and die from pneumonia at age 86.

Welcome to being a Human. We have the worst of it because we are aware of everything.
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Originally Posted By CougarP01⏩
You're really 50? Yeah, I'd be a 5 at that age. No doubts.
Almost but what I meant was since Im young it couldnt really be that high compared to someone older but not considering that I rank it highly
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post 1623335081 11-21-2020, 09:43 PM
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Jesus is coming, I don't want to be sticking around any longer than I have too.
You may have it all friend
post 1623335131 11-21-2020, 09:44 PM
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Originally Posted By Paul
Jesus is coming, I'm not sticking around any longer than I have too
What do you mean by that? Just curious
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Originally Posted By Ausaric⏩
What do you mean by that? Just curious
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Revelations states that no man shall be able to buy, sell or, trade without the Mark of the Beast & will be beheaded for not taking it. People laughed, then we were told we cannot do these things without a mask.. it's conditioning, we know a mask has no effect on viral transmission. What we are being prepped for is outright scary.
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1..

I don’t understand the obsession with living as long as possible. Most of you don’t even do anything with it.

Literally just hanging around to draw more breaths.

If you were actually working on accomplishing something I could understand but most people have wrapped up any endeavors to accomplish stuff in the middle stages of life and then float the rest of the way.

Real talk, there’s too much bullsh*t and drama to want to live long. I’m cool dropping dead in my 50s tbh. Hell if I went tomorrow I wouldn’t even be upset about it.
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post 1623336121 11-21-2020, 10:04 PM
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Originally Posted By MBisonSon⏩
IMO it's really about maintaining quality of life.

Once you start losing that life stops being fun.
I agree. QoL, as important as it is right now, gets really magnified as you get older.

From interviews I've seen with centenarians, they possess a profound sense of purpose even after they have lost everyone. Their QoL can't be defined by possessions or even experiences. They live extremely simple lives, but have a high level of faith that everything is going to work out as it should. Its almost like they blue pilled themselves or simply have an unwavering viewpoint.

It makes me think if its possible that people will continue to live longer than they already do. Life was so much simpler back then, and by comparison, life cant be too much different for them compared to when they were growing up in the 1940s...outside of being 70-80 years older that is.
Originally Posted By Ausaric⏩
I don’t expect to live a long life. If I do, who cares? Why does it matter? If I could live a long life, it would only be worthwhile if my health was optimal.

The sad fact is that we all die from something. Either we get unexpected cancer in early age, or die from some accident...or we live long enough to fall and break our hip and can’t move for months and die from pneumonia at age 86.

Welcome to being a Human. We have the worst of it because we are aware of everything.
Top line is your opinion, which is a very respectable pov, middle paragraph is fact, and the last line I believe is fascinating. Watching interviews with these people is cool simply because they seem to be in their own little world and disconnected from everything.

Centenarians now did not have the knowledge nor the access to knowledge that they do right now. It was plenty of whole foods, blue pilled living. Even with science, it will be hard to see modern people living extremely long lives because they know too much.
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Its all about the healthspan, no point in living a long time if youre sick af.
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Originally Posted By Paul
Dark Winter
Covid
Temple being rebuilt
Alliances forming that only are spoke of in Revelations
Vaccine that has potential to alter the brain
Making beheadings now legal under Medical Billings
I can go on and on..it's not all coincidence 2020 is full of it all

Revelations states that no man shall be able to buy, sell or, trade without the Mark of the Beast & will be beheaded for not taking it. People laughed, then we were told we cannot do these things without a mask.. it's conditioning, we know a mask has no effect on viral transmission. What we are being prepped for is outright scary.
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You don't want to be here when it starts getting real bad
Thanks for explaining yourself a little bit, but could you go on further in your explanation? I mean this genuinely. Can you expand on this?
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All things equal, as long as quality is roughly where it is now, I would rather have the option to persist and not die prematurely. But in terms of delaying gratification or prioritizing things around long term health vs. enjoyment, I don't care very much. I'm also not one who fantasizes about retiring.

I do calculated damage to my health to optimize the utility I get out of doing so.
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I’d rather eat and live however the fuk I want and then die in 20 years as opposed living for 50 years and worrying about every little thing
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Originally Posted By notbadnotbrad⏩
I’d rather eat and live however the fuk I want and then die in 20 years as opposed living for 50 years and worrying about every little thing
We know brah lol
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Originally Posted By rubyharo⏩
Excuse moi. When is the mexico misc meet gonna happen?
When I get free access to your onlyfans. Bring avocados.
Originally Posted By SoutheastBeast1⏩
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I don’t understand the obsession with living as long as possible. Most of you don’t even do anything with it.

Literally just hanging around to draw more breaths.

If you were actually working on accomplishing something I could understand but most people have wrapped up any endeavors to accomplish stuff in the middle stages of life and then float the rest of the way.

Real talk, there’s too much bullsh*t and drama to want to live long. I’m cool dropping dead in my 50s tbh. Hell if I went tomorrow I wouldn’t even be upset about it.
Idk man. I agree with the bulk of your statement. Tons of BS in this world. It can almost be viewed as irresponsible to bring kids into the world right now, especially if you live a garbage lifestyle. The bad part is that an overwhelming majority live horrible lifestyles. I think its that I can't see myself retiring. There will always be stuff to do, and god willing my eventual kids grow up properly, I will find tons of joy in watching them continue to attempt the dominance. Once the joy is gone and insalvagable, there is no need to continue, that part I am 100% behind.
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Originally Posted By DizzySmalls⏩
We know brah lol
I’m not afraid of death I’m afraid of not living brah

Cliche quote I know
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I do not really think of things this way.

I think of the optimal pathway I want as fairly straightforward, and I enjoy the process most on the pathway best for my future. I would not want to not enjoy the journey. This does not involve degeneracy. It involves conscientiousness and legacy.

I suppose seniority with less responsibility sounds desirable. I do care about a leadership structure to allow longevity, without a failing economy, war, etc.

Socially, life seems to motivate this. I do not take the same risks I took as a child. Shutting down your test I think leads the known methods of life extension. If anything, I'll hop on rad or trt after a while. I do try to buy great insurance before investments, if this says anything about me.
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Originally Posted By notbadnotbrad⏩
I’m not afraid of death I’m afraid of not living brah

Cliche quote I know
I'm the same way. Your life is probably objectively better though just because of women. My cope is on point though
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If you asked me about 3-4 years ago would have been a hard 1. Now I’d say 3 as things for my future are looking up and I could see wanting to be alive longer than 30. That 3 would become 4-5 If my current plans for the future in the fairly short term come to fruition (no homo)
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Originally Posted By mesobuild⏩
I do not really think of things this way.

I think of the optimal pathway I want as fairly straightforward, and I enjoy the process most on the pathway best for my future. I would not want to not enjoy the journey. This does not involve degeneracy. It involves conscientiousness and legacy.

I suppose seniority with less responsibility sounds desirable.I do care about a leadership structure to allow longevity, without a failing economy, war, etc.
The bolded part is what I believe will cause my demise if I happen to be healthy while older.
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Vices would be beer. Liquids I drink on the weekdays though are water and tea. I'll do a waterfall of soda here and there just to get a taste and The last canned soda i had was on my bday. But soda been out the rotation for years

Not interested in Kids or Marriage

Diet i try to keep 80/20 with a lil of "If it fits macros" here there and low carb. But the diet's healthy whether I'm cutting or bulking.

Cardio and Lifting go in hand to hand miss me with the bloat bullchit. I've added in jump roping in my regimen so I'll mix between treadmill and jump roping throughout the week. When gyms were open I mixed in treadmill and swimming.

You can technically die any day yea but for the most part, living life on YOLO crew aka Sprint crew vs living life like a marathon(setting up goals that'll take 5-10 years), the marathon runners usually win. The YOLO squad are the ones popping out kids in their 20s, got baby mommas, fat asses, etc, aint did chit in their 20s

Im trying to be in my 80s and 90s but i think technology will be so advanced that you can look and feel like you'll be in your 40s-50s at that age, not even counting collagen, retin-a, skin supplements and lifting and diet.
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Originally Posted By Ausaric⏩
Thanks for explaining yourself a little bit, but could you go on further in your explanation? I mean this genuinely. Can you expand on this?
Sure, let’s just stick with our current situation. let me ask you..we know this Virus has a 99.9% survival rate. We know a mask has no effect on viral transmission, actually, it would be a paradox if masks and respirators worked, given what we know about viral respiratory diseases: The main transmission path is long-residence-time aerosol particles (< 2.5 μm), which are too fine to be blocked, and the minimum-infective dose is smaller than one aerosol particle. We know that suicide deaths now exceed Covid deaths from all the lock downs. On top of that, for every 1% unemployment increases, 30,000 deaths occur, not from suicide, but from primarily heart disease. The stress of not being able to survive in itself is not survivable. And we know the lockdowns do not help anything one bit. Now I know what is happening..but what do you think this is all about?

Take your time. Think about not just what is happening here in the US (assuming you are in the US) but around the world.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9wuFazgpc4
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While I am not living live in an ultra passive way to maximise my lifespan, I do want to live forever and it is my singular goal.

COnsider for a moment that all the stress and pain in life are directly linked to the fact that you will die, likely in under 100 years.
- You work a job you dislike because there is a clock counting ,so you need to make X money if you want to be able to retire at a certain comfort level, X money to get a high quality woman, look after your kids so they struggle less than you ect.
- If you had an infinite time to accumulate wealth, and in turn build passive investments you would likely do a job you love even if it paid less
- You settle or stay with someone you dont love anymore because you have limited time and diminishing prospects as you get older.
- You are more risk averse because the older you get the less room there is to recover. Which is why so many people are employees rather than entrepreneurs, and why most successful entrepreneurs started very young.
- You need to choose to invest rather than spend more, including traveling less, enjoying your wealth less because you could die at any time
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Originally Posted By lawlessly⏩
For my age pretty high importance

I just do the right things

and hope the right things happen in return
My thoughts too, I want to get the most out of my life, so much I want to see and do..........so little time!
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