udosuk wrote:On second thought, that doesn't make as much sense as first heard...MCC wrote:Cec wrote:(a) Even if we never win the Olympics or get in the Guiness Book of Records, there is one record each of us holds at one point in our lives. What is it?
When we die, each of us holds the record of having lived the longest being ourselves.
Nobody else can hold that record.
udosuk wrote:Surely when one dies there could be other alive people having lived longer as themselves...
That is true, they are living their lives as themselves not as you, only you can live your life as you, when you die nobody takes over your life, nobody can increase the lenght of your life after you die.
udosuk wrote:If you meant "having lived the longest being that particular person" (e.g. Arnold Schwarzenegger), then you don't need the "when we die" condition... Each of us holds that record at any particular time... Just that when one dies that record will stay unbroken forever...
Any thoughts?
You could say that at any point in time 'you have lived the longest being yourself' but a second later you could say exactly the same thing, there is only one point in time that the record cannot be broken and that is when we die, so the need to qualify my statement with 'When we die'.
MCC
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