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Re:John Gray: 'What can we learn from cats? Don't live in an... by tasty_freeze on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @11:49AM (#24920173)
> Besides, if you had to eat a billion gallons of it, but over a billion years

That is changing the analogy. The billion years of life would be experienced every waking minute of every day.

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Re:John Gray: 'What can we learn from cats? Don't live in an... by TeMPOraL on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @12:34PM (#24920811)
Why? You won't be experiencing a billion years a minute, you'll be experiencing a minute a minute.
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Re:John Gray: 'What can we learn from cats? Don't live in an... by tasty_freeze on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @02:05PM (#24922072)
Here is the difference. If I eat one gallon of ice cream per year, that is 0.1% of my life eating ice cream, whereas I spend 67% of my time experience my life (assuming 8 hrs sleep per day).
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