Fallowfox
Are we moomin, or are we dancer?
Do you really want to die someday? Probably not.
Most of us would like to avoid dying- we invent preposterous mythologies about afterlives to evade the idea that one day we simply stop and that's it: Our fear of death is so profound that plenty of people are literally doing this:
[video=youtube;TMjxeZ9FRDE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMjxeZ9FRDE[/video]
Since most of us recognise the idea of dying as unpleasant it would be very nice to postpone or evade it entirely if that were possible. If you're talking about a society that can achieve immortality our current overpopulation problems may not be a problem. Such a society may not breed, or may have already been colonising space for hundreds of thousands of years.
I think it's meant to be humorous. 'Money doesn't grow on trees' is a serious phrase meant to show that cash is difficult to get. It would be funny if a serious phrase's surreal metaphor were categorically wrong. Although the paper that banknotes are made from is cotton and linen, not trees so...yeah.
Most of us would like to avoid dying- we invent preposterous mythologies about afterlives to evade the idea that one day we simply stop and that's it: Our fear of death is so profound that plenty of people are literally doing this:
[video=youtube;TMjxeZ9FRDE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMjxeZ9FRDE[/video]
Since most of us recognise the idea of dying as unpleasant it would be very nice to postpone or evade it entirely if that were possible. If you're talking about a society that can achieve immortality our current overpopulation problems may not be a problem. Such a society may not breed, or may have already been colonising space for hundreds of thousands of years.
If money doesn't grow on trees, where does paper come from?
I don't understand the purpose of this phrase. It just seems a silly figure of speech.
I think it's meant to be humorous. 'Money doesn't grow on trees' is a serious phrase meant to show that cash is difficult to get. It would be funny if a serious phrase's surreal metaphor were categorically wrong. Although the paper that banknotes are made from is cotton and linen, not trees so...yeah.
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