Bloggers are Immortals... Just like the guy next to this text. Think about it... Imagine travelling 100 years to the future. Find a PC and type your blog's name. It should be the place it is now. The only way not to exist is that blogger, newspress and other free blog services shutdown. Like "cutting the head off", get it?Some 25-30 years ago, noone was able to retrieve every article someone writes in a newaspaper, you could try to collect them, but what about 365 articles?
Your blog ost will stay as long as the Internet exists... Maybe your children or your grand-children will read about your thoughs in your own personal pages... Somehow it gets weird when you get that feeling! A non-destructable piece of yourself free to everyone and endless in time...
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I really is weird! Every a couple of years or so I google my name and see what comes up. The results (the relative ones) are quite interesting!
Anyway, this is both a good and a bad thing. Imagine wishing a piece of information (text, audio, video) never existed - You can't withdraw something from the Internet. Right now, hundreds of web spiders are crawling this blog, archiving my message. What if I ever want to delete it?
People are too careless when it comes to exposing their information on the web. Creating an online profile with your real name is something you may never be able to delete and, worse, it may be correlated with your Internet alias to expose your identity at a critical moment.
So, I guess Internet users are immortals... whether they like it or not!
You do not need a blog to become immortal my fellow Blogger. You already are. You are a person, therefor unique, as everyone else is- and since everything unique is irreplaceable in this infinite total we call "universe", your very existence validates your immortality. The fact that you are also a blogger will simply prolong the possibility of accessing information that regard you, for as long as internet will exist, after your journey in this life ends.
Still sooo coool to have a blog man...
Mitsos what do you know about your Great-grand-grand father? Not much I pressume. Imagine your grand-grand-grand children. They'll know much more now...
The problem with humans is that they are mortals. I do not intend to be as famous as Einstein or Gagarin, yet these kilobytes of HTML code can make some of my thoughts to live on... And not perish like paper or other stuff that may not exist in 70 years...
I do agree that as a person you are unique but, please, do not confuse it with immortality.
You may be irreplaceable but if you leave no legacy to the next generations, you will cease to exist after your death. Imagine a man who is born out in the wild, has no human contact, has no children or any other public activity. After he dies, noone will ever know he existed!
Intellectual property (blogging is a part of this) is what makes one immortal. Years forward someone may read this and know that a couple of guys lived in the past and had an argument.
Immortality, according to the ancient greeks, is having your name written for ever. Tales were made about those who fought bravely and died in battle. People still mention their names, centuries after they were gone. Sure, thousands of other men lived among them but who knows anything about them? And if nobody does, how can we be sure that any of them ever existed?
Weird al, my friend, how sure are you that our grand-grand-grand children will have internet...? If they do, surely they will know more about me than i have heard of my great-great-great grandfather...i agree on that part, still i wonder for how long will this internet thing last...
Also wanted to clarify that i do not confuse uniqueness with immortality, i simply mentioned that i believe these two are connected in the way i explained...As for immortality according to the ancient Greeks, -that i am a proud descendant of-
we should distinguish it from the term <<"υστεροφημία">> -which refers to someones reputation after death according to their lives- that is of course very relevant, but not the same... If people know about us after our deaths, if our names are being mentioned by other people after we die, does that make us immortal...? I believe it simply prolongs our reputation good or bad... So what if i live amongst billions of other people and nobody knows me...? Does that make me less immortal than the most famous person of the world...? I think not! -but i guess it is all a matter of how each and everyone of us defines words and their significances...
If people know about us after our deaths, if our names are being mentioned by other people after we die, does that make us immortal...?
-Yes.
Weird al, my friend, how sure are you that our grand-grand-grand children will have internet...?
-Pretty damn sure.
Does that make me less immortal than the most famous person of the world...?
-We have different aspect of immortality.Take an example from ancient Greece: Every scrit we have found reffering at least one name, it is recorded and can be found. But ancient Greeks were not only the ones who were recorded on the scripts. Who knows what the others were? Do you know where your great-grand-grand father lived? Or what was his opinions or at least a bit of his thoughts? You become immortal, when at least one man from this planet has any interest in you after your death...You could leave a message to the future here. Wouldn't you like to leave a message to the generations to come? Isn't that we are struggling for?
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