• @Cruxifux@lemmy.world
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    1037 months ago

    I don’t give a fuck about being remembered. I just wanna enjoy my time while I’m here.

    So far, it’s not going great.

  • @Usernamealreadyinuse@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    It pains me that I probably never do something so important that I will be remembered.

    On there other hand, who was the right hand of Napoleon? Who decided the great pyramid should be build exactly there? What was the name of the guy who put the last stone in the Chinese wall? (Figurative speaking)

    So to be remembered you need:

    • do “great things” (not great specifically… You know what I mean)
    • be the number one (second places don’t count)
    • make such a major impact on the world that even after your society has collapsed, people still remember you.

    So the chances that I am in a position to do this would require some massive effort and even then, chances are slim…

    When I started typing this reply I was a bit depressed. Now I am finished it just highlights the importance of enjoying oneself while it lasts.

    • @Selmafudd@lemmy.world
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      137 months ago

      Honestly it doesn’t even matter if you do an incredible thing, you’ll still be forgotten. Even somebody like Einstein will eventually be forgotten. Like what’s the name of the first person to make fire? And sure you can argue that we didn’t keep records back then like we do now right? Ok so whats the name of the first person to keep records?

      • Flying SquidOPM
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        107 months ago

        Like what’s the name of the first person to make fire?

        I’m pretty sure it’s Steve.

    • @slaacaa@lemmy.world
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      Mostly agree, but the right hand of Napoleon (and other “helpers” of the famous) is well remembered, just not by everybody.

      I have a training on mgmt. in a few weeks, and we are reading a case study on him, with a lot of names thrown around, including e.g. Berthier, his chief of staff.

      I’m just saying that you don’t have to be the one in the spotlight to make an impact, and be remembered - maybe it’s even better to stay in the shadows and only be remembered by those who actually know the topic, and truly appreciate your work.

    • @bearwithastick@feddit.ch
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      37 months ago

      Your point with the “great” things is so true. All the “great” people of history that get remembered for a really long time are mostly some despots / royalty / tyrants that have done TERRIBLE things. Genghis Khan, Napoleon, Alexander the Great, Hannibal etc. and we now treat them like some super geniuses that built great empires. Some of them are even ‘worshipped’ in pop culture. Oh and yeah they killed a bunch of people but eh… price of being a great man I guess.

      I wonder if Hitler will ever be talked about like this.

    • Stantana
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      37 months ago

      Set your own goals, I’m in awe of people who’ve done magnificent things just for themselves.

  • F_Haxhausen
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    257 months ago

    I want the peace of never having existed in the first place. So, being entirely forgotten is a second best kind of peace. Best one can get now.

        • @pirat@lemmy.world
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          27 months ago

          On a somehow related note, I just remembered this memory of me burning DBAN to a CD-ROM as a kid, and drawing a skull head on the disc to warn about its dangers!

          I don’t exactly remember actually using DBAN back then. Though, I remember changing a forgotten Windows user password more than once by booting from some disc I had burned too, but I don’t think that was a DBAN feature?

  • @linuxdweeb@lemm.ee
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    247 months ago

    This is a screenshot of a reddit comment replying to a screenshot of a 4chan thread, posted on lemmy.

  • Decoy321M
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    7 months ago

    Yes. Even if you eat the Mona Lisa. The heat death gets everything in the end. Sorry, bubz.

  • @averagedrunk@lemmy.ml
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    57 months ago

    I will be forgotten by the world, but eventually the universe will remember as I’m turned back into star stuff.

    • Flying SquidOPM
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      77 months ago

      Why you should care about a shitpost is a question that has been asked by philosophers since the dawn of time.

  • @SrTobi@feddit.de
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    47 months ago

    I realized this when walking along Hollywood Boulevard. I didn’t think I had to go that far until I saw a star with a name I knew. Showed me that even if you are famous, it won’t take long until you are forgotten.

    There are only two ways to be remembered. First, alter the way of history in a significant way (or at least make everyone believe it’s because of you), or second, write a book with really good ideas. Arguably both are the same.