Want to feel a strong sense of mortality?

[CavaliersFTW]

This is film of Berlin in color, year 1900.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-m9A8mY-U0

Every single one of those masses of people have died so long ago that neither you nor anyone else at this point has an idea who they are or what they ever did. All we know is that at one time, 115 years ago, those people existed and were filmed for a few moments of their lives. They had families, they had friends, they had ambitions, some may have accomplished great things, some may have got by. This was more than a decade before the first world war. Many of these people were dead of old age and natural causes by the second world war. Some of those children may have grown up only to die in combat in the first world war.

In a blink of a cosmic eye this will be how people view us, that is if any information survives that long of us at all. We are just mysterious nameless people of the past. And after enough time passes, we will not even be that.

[StephHamann]

This is film of Berlin in color, year 1900.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-m9A8mY-U0

Every single one of those masses of people have died so long ago that neither you nor anyone else at this point has an idea who they are or what they ever did. All we know is that at one time, 115 years ago, those people existed and were filmed for a few moments of their lives. They had families, they had friends, they had ambitions, some may have accomplished great things, some may have got by. This was more than a decade before the first world war. Many of these people were dead of old age and natural causes by the second world war. Some of those children may have grown up only to die in combat in the first world war.

In a blink of a cosmic eye this will be how people view us, that is if any information survives that long of us at all. We are just mysterious nameless people of the past. And after enough time passes, we will not even be that.

You're Wilt Chamberlain gay love posts will exist forever. ISH makes us immortal

:applause:

[pastis]

This is film of Berlin in color, year 1900.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-m9A8mY-U0

Every single one of those masses of people have died so long ago that neither you nor anyone else at this point has an idea who they are or what they ever did. All we know is that at one time, 115 years ago, those people existed and were filmed for a few moments of their lives. They had families, they had friends, they had ambitions, some may have accomplished great things, some may have got by. This was more than a decade before the first world war. Many of these people were dead of old age and natural causes by the second world war. Some of those children may have grown up only to die in combat in the first world war.

In a blink of a cosmic eye this will be how people view us, that is if any information survives that long of us at all. We are just mysterious nameless people of the past. And after enough time passes, we will not even be that.

I already watched it some weeks ago. it made me sad. how beautiful was germany? how clean the streets and then the beautiful buildings. Germany was a proud country, the people were proud being german.

look how the little girl in her sunday-dress turns around once she passed the camera. look how proud the young germen men were.

and now? invasion of african and muslim men. more and more due to lack of perspective and birth surpluss in their countries....

and then you know that a whole generation will die in WW1 and the little kids playing outdoor will probably die in WW2


also: look from 3:13-3:16. "photo"-bomb.


edit: i think its more 1910. but it doesnt matter

[Akrazotile]

I already watched it some weeks ago. it made me sad. how beautiful was germany? how clean the streets and then the beautiful buildings. Germany was a proud country, the people were proud being german.

look how the little girl in her sunday-dress turns around once she passed the camera. look how proud the young germen men were.

and now? invasion of african and muslim men. more and more due to lack of perspective and birth surpluss in their countries....

and then you know that a whole generation will die in WW1 and the little kids playing outdoor will probably die in WW2


also: look from 3:13-3:16. "photo"-bomb.


edit: i think its more 1910. but it doesnt matter


It is extremely sad. Minorities are all encouraged to embrace and retain their ethnic identities. White people are belligerently rebuked for doing the same. Becaus it might make a poor foreigner feel unwelcome.

Liberals with an axe to grind about their own lack of confidence and solid footing in their societies desperately trying to make everyone else feel their pain. If they cant ascend to the top, nobody should. Absolute fukking losers.

[CavaliersFTW]

I already watched it some weeks ago. it made me sad. how beautiful was germany? how clean the streets and then the beautiful buildings. Germany was a proud country, the people were proud being german.

look how the little girl in her sunday-dress turns around once she passed the camera. look how proud the young germen men were.

and now? invasion of african and muslim men. more and more due to lack of perspective and birth surpluss in their countries....

and then you know that a whole generation will die in WW1 and the little kids playing outdoor will probably die in WW2


also: look from 3:13-3:16. "photo"-bomb.


edit: i think its more 1910. but it doesnt matter
I recently saw 8mm film of my dad (who is now old and has alzeimers, and has actually had grey hair for as long as I've ever been alive) at age 24, 46 years ago, at a family outing with his own mom and dad who I never met and his brothers and sisters the oldest of which is now 86 and many of which are dead from old age, and it changed how I look at things. The film also showed the public square of the town I was born in. And at that time it looked even better and more pristine/clean/prosperous than I ever knew it to be in the years I've been alive.

Old film makes me realize we - and the things around us all - have a very definitive expiration date. Makes me value my time and my momentary youth.

[Akrazotile]

I recently saw 8mm film of my dad (who is now old and has alzeimers, and has actually had grey hair for as long as I've ever been alive) at age 24, 46 years ago, at a family outing with his own mom and dad who I never met and his brothers and sisters the oldest of which is now 86 and many of which are dead from old age, and it changed how I look at things. The film also showed the public square of the town I was born in. And at that time it looked even better and more pristine/clean/prosperous than I ever knew it to be in the years I've been alive.

Old film makes me realize we - and the things around us all - have a very definitive expiration date. Makes me value my time and my momentary youth.


Just wait until dondadda attacks you for wanting to live likes its 1954 :rolleyes:

[pastis]

its an amazing work of colouring. Because its colored, the people appearing in that film seem very "close", they are sort of "palpable". you nearly feel (especially as a german) like you are a part of them. a part of thei lives. a part of their history.

[Dresta]

wow, i did find that quite striking. I was in Berlin a couple of weeks ago, and it's remarkable how cold, uninviting and desolate the place was in comparison to the warmth, character and vibrancy it seemed to have back then.

[pastis]

O tempora, o mores

[jongib369]

This is film of Berlin in color, year 1900.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-m9A8mY-U0

Every single one of those masses of people have died so long ago that neither you nor anyone else at this point has an idea who they are or what they ever did. All we know is that at one time, 115 years ago, those people existed and were filmed for a few moments of their lives. They had families, they had friends, they had ambitions, some may have accomplished great things, some may have got by. This was more than a decade before the first world war. Many of these people were dead of old age and natural causes by the second world war. Some of those children may have grown up only to die in combat in the first world war.

In a blink of a cosmic eye this will be how people view us, that is if any information survives that long of us at all. We are just mysterious nameless people of the past. And after enough time passes, we will not even be that.
This is part of why I respect what you do so much. You only have so much time yourself, yet you've done so much to legitimize the hard work of people who played the game we all love in the past. People who troll you are garbage, and deserve to be apart of the nameless mob

[GIF REACTION]

Kaiser Wilhem the 2nd: How to destroy a country

Should have listened to old man Otto Von Bismarck

Check out the Russian revolution period where the Czars where murdered, and millions died under a quote on quote "necessary" national starvation from the Bolshevik communist jew Lenin.

[Dresta]

O tempora, o mores
Catiline would be a fitting figurehead for the modern age and its worship of the spirit of expediency and profusion, the abnegation of duties and responsibilities (particularly to posterity) - alieni avidus, sui profusus as the slogan of the age (grasping the property of others while being prodigal with one's own possessions).

Wasteful, envious, greedy, base and entitled - we live in grotesque times for sure.

[jongib369]

We are a result of countless other peoples hard work, laziness, mistakes, planning, love, hate, and any kind of daily decisions. So in otherwords, don't sweat the small stuff, not everything can work out perfectly....But don't be the lazy one, fight for what will 'really' make you happy in life alongside those who love you. It's as simple as that. *cues dramatic music

[JohnnySic]

That is just amazing. :eek:

[FreezingTsmoove]

I'll get to know them in heaven

[tmacattack33]

Well damn, how did they do that?

[NumberSix]

I already watched it some weeks ago. it made me sad. how beautiful was germany? how clean the streets and then the beautiful buildings. Germany was a proud country, the people were proud being german.

look how the little girl in her sunday-dress turns around once she passed the camera. look how proud the young germen men were.

and now? invasion of african and muslim men. more and more due to lack of perspective and birth surpluss in their countries....

and then you know that a whole generation will die in WW1 and the little kids playing outdoor will probably die in WW2


also: look from 3:13-3:16. "photo"-bomb.


edit: i think its more 1910. but it doesnt matter
Is "German people" even a thing anymore? Is it like how Britain pretends like there's no such things as British people?

[Pushxx]

I recently saw 8mm film of my dad (who is now old and has alzeimers, and has actually had grey hair for as long as I've ever been alive) at age 24, 46 years ago, at a family outing with his own mom and dad who I never met and his brothers and sisters the oldest of which is now 86 and many of which are dead from old age, and it changed how I look at things. The film also showed the public square of the town I was born in. And at that time it looked even better and more pristine/clean/prosperous than I ever knew it to be in the years I've been alive.

Old film makes me realize we - and the things around us all - have a very definitive expiration date. Makes me value my time and my momentary youth.

I have a lot of older crazy relatives, but when I saw videos of them in their 20s they seemed as normal as everyone else.

It scared me into thinking everyone turns into a kook. Cocaine is a hell of a drug.

[UK2K]

This is film of Berlin in color, year 1900.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-m9A8mY-U0

Every single one of those masses of people have died so long ago that neither you nor anyone else at this point has an idea who they are or what they ever did. All we know is that at one time, 115 years ago, those people existed and were filmed for a few moments of their lives. They had families, they had friends, they had ambitions, some may have accomplished great things, some may have got by. This was more than a decade before the first world war. Many of these people were dead of old age and natural causes by the second world war. Some of those children may have grown up only to die in combat in the first world war.

In a blink of a cosmic eye this will be how people view us, that is if any information survives that long of us at all. We are just mysterious nameless people of the past. And after enough time passes, we will not even be that.

Be lead vic in a convoy.

As a turret gunner, I had the highest risk of death if we hit an IED, rarely was I ever buckled in.

But I always thought, if we do hit an IED and it decimates this truck, what then? One second I am chilling, the next, it's just black or what?

Then it starts you down the path of 'I wonder what its like to be 30' or 'I wonder if anyone would remember in 30 years' or 'I never had kids, I'd leave nothing behind'.

Kinda creepy. You would be on 110% alert for however long you got to lead.

[senelcoolidge]

I've thought of these things since I was a little kid. When I was a little boy I would try to imagine myself as an adult and how my kids would be like, how my parents would one day get old and so on. I'm a man with 2 kids and my father just turned 70, my mom is no longer here. My kids are the next generation and I know that my decline is just around the corner. That's life. Time is not forgiven. Our progenitors were children, adults, grew old, am sure they pondered mortality and they are long dead just like the people on that movie. We'll be long dead before you know it.
I have old pictures of my great grandfather with his brothers. Young men at the turn of the 20th century/end of the 19th century. I never met him, he died back in the 1960's at an old age. It's all really fascinating and sad.
Call me strange but I really like the way people dressed. The more formal dressing.

[jongib369]

Be lead vic in a convoy.

As a turret gunner, I had the highest risk of death if we hit an IED, rarely was I ever buckled in.

But I always thought, if we do hit an IED and it decimates this truck, what then? One second I am chilling, the next, it's just black or what?

Then it starts you down the path of 'I wonder what its like to be 30' or 'I wonder if anyone would remember in 30 years' or 'I never had kids, I'd leave nothing behind'.

Kinda creepy. You would be on 110% alert for however long you got to lead.
I want to be a firefighter, but **** that. I couldn't handle that pressure. Got any photos during your time?

[jongib369]

Home Movies Color 1955 Sound RARE Footage-Nowak Family Chicago,IL
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKERpqKvr68)

Footage of Civil War Veterans at 50yr Anniversary in 1913 & 75yr Anniversary in 1938
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVjD2DaB4bY)

Part 1 Hear Former Slaves Speak
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VTFkyDrH3M)

85 YEAR OLD Civil War Veteran Lauren Higbie Recorded On Early 78rpm Record (Absolutely Captivating!)
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKiBTSOWVZA)

Confederate soldier Julius Howell Interview What The south Fought For
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPiDqUB9k1I)

Children of U.S. Civil War Vets Reminisce About Fathers
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UCRBZ-qlWM)

Dream of the 1890s :roll:
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2mAs5pnA34)

[jongib369]

Confederate "General" Julius Howell Recalls the 1860s
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHDfC-z9YaE)

[BasedTom]

you guys should check out Prokudin-Gorsky colour photos

he died in 1944 btw

[ace23]

Skimmed through vid. No strong sense of mortality felt.

[CavaliersFTW]

Skimmed through vid. No strong sense of mortality felt.
Do you think it makes you special to not sense your own inevitable demise when shown real examples of it with others? It's often used as an example of intelligence in humans. That we, and not animals, are able to be acutely aware of our own mortality. If I was to guess, I'd guess you're either 25 or younger and still feel invincible or you're just of below average intelligence.

[oh the horror]

Only existing video footage of Anne Frank always fascinated me


http://youtu.be/4hvtXuO5GzU



Not just because of who she became known for in history but just the general backdrop to the video. Truly as one gets older do we suddenly think about what came before us and then what will come after us and our place in all of that.

[Akrazotile]

Only existing video footage of Anne Frank always fascinated me


http://youtu.be/4hvtXuO5GzU



Not just because of who she became known for in history but just the general backdrop to the video. Truly as one gets older do we suddenly think about what came before us and then what will come after us and our place in all of that.

Our cameo is a brief one indeed. Gotta make it count!

[tomtucker]

I already watched it some weeks ago. it made me sad. how beautiful was germany? how clean the streets and then the beautiful buildings. Germany was a proud country, the people were proud being german.

look how the little girl in her sunday-dress turns around once she passed the camera. look how proud the young germen men were.

and now? invasion of african and muslim men. more and more due to lack of perspective and birth surpluss in their countries....

and then you know that a whole generation will die in WW1 and the little kids playing outdoor will probably die in WW2


also: look from 3:13-3:16. "photo"-bomb.


edit: i think its more 1910. but it doesnt matter

100% right.......looked beautiful back then........now all the fukkwaste is destroying europe......

[Dresta]

Only existing video footage of Anne Frank always fascinated me


http://youtu.be/4hvtXuO5GzU



Not just because of who she became known for in history but just the general backdrop to the video. Truly as one gets older do we suddenly think about what came before us and then what will come after us and our place in all of that.
Yes, but i think it is taking longer for people to grow up and recognise and value it (think of the 60s generation, for example) - so many still are rooted in the permanent present. I thought this was relevant (to your post and the thread in general):


This is my pity for all that is past: I see how all of it is abandoned-abandoned to the pleasure, the spirit, the madness of every generation, which comes along and reinterprets all that has been as a bridge to itself.

A great despot might come along, a shrewd monster who, according to his pleasure and displeasure, might constrain and strain all that is past till it becomes a bridge to him, a harbinger and herald and cockcrow.

This, however, is the other danger and what prompts my further pity: whoever is of the rabble, thinks back as far as the grandfather; with the grandfather, however, time ends.

Thus all that is past is abandoned: for one day the rabble might become master and drown all time in shallow waters.

-Thus Spoke Zarathustra, book 3.

We have lost our sense of continuity and permanence, our faith in that unshakable chain that binds one generation to another, and so we've stopped making sacrifices for posterity, and stopped caring for our elderly relatives, who we increasingly disrespect and shunt away on paid carers. History, increasingly, ends with the Grandfather - the past is downplayed and undervalued, and change praised and vaunted only for the sake of itself. People can only see back as far as their eldest living relative, usually the Grandfather; concepts such as family (community, national) heritage and traditions fade, and along with it, respect for history and for the great historical achievements upon which our own comfortable lives have grown.

We are the rabid and ungrateful little children of the cults of scientism and progress, lusting after change for the sake of change and knowing not 'what we do' - not even bothering to think about what the consequences of dismantling the moral fabric of Europe might be, not even thinking such moral changes precipitate consequences - a farrago of blindness and madness.

I also thought that little bit on the dictator could be a rather accurate portrayal of Hitler (who was def a shrewd monster - and it was always from the Germans that Nietzsche thought the disasters of the 20th century would come - there's something overly rigid and fanatical about them and their enthusiasm for following orders).

[ace23]

Do you think it makes you special to not sense your own inevitable demise when shown real examples of it with others? It's often used as an example of intelligence in humans. That we, and not animals, are able to be acutely aware of our own mortality. If I was to guess, I'd guess you're either 25 or younger and still feel invincible or you're just of below average intelligence.
No