how to live longer

i invented a quote:

"through imagination you can simulate virtually living for a thousand years.if you study history through reading, documentaries, and movies especially imax". if it makes you sad that you will not be around to know what the world will be like a thousand years from now, cheer up and just simulate the reverse by studying what the world was like a thousand years ago, spend time imagining or fantasizing living in that era, and then waking up a thousand years later to know what the world is like. that is why i love imax movies where the setting is historical.

it was like i have my own private imax theater. usually when i watch imax it's the last showing which is tuesday where nobody else watches.

i visited europe 20 thousand years ago. the plot of the movie wasn't that great but i don't watch imax for the story or twists i just want to travel to different worlds except i don't have to deal with flight delays and jet lag. it's my way of virtually extending my lifespan because to me life is all about experiences so for example if you are a lawyer and a musician then virtually you lived 2 lifespans. or virtually you lived 200 years. true wealth is measured by the diversity of one's experiences, career, social environment, cultural environment, natural environment (e.g. you lived in a desert for a few years then in snowy mountains for a few years and also as an ocean sailor for a few years), passions and hobbies, the number of children you have, etc .. quality over quantity so if you had 20 different girlfriends from different parts of the world but you never had a long and everlasting love then your experiences are actually less diverse than someone who was married for 75 years and had 27 great grand children. by my assessment i've probably lived a thousand years as refelected in the 59 videos in my youtube channel which now has 47 thousand views - (search @oplok-videos in youtube and go to "ian crystal" channel)

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update 1/16/22 from my article "negative-value-conundrum":

i discovered a brilliant way for idiots like me to learn history. i watch history channels in youtube that are over simplified for kindergarteners to understand (history scope, oversimplified, kings and generals, etc ...). but even if the videos are oversimplified, i still cannot absorb the information which means i'm even dumber than a kindergartener. but i found a way. first i listen to the audio in the car TWICE (https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10165717318750321&set=a.240841375320) to ease the pain of traffic. then i watch the video and enjoy the pleasures of absorbing information that teaches me how humans and the world work. humans are really not that different from 2 thousand years ago. i mean that's just 20 full lifetimes and 1 lifetime is really not that long considering i'm 50 years old and i feel like i was just born yesterday.

the more i study history the more i feel like i'm living for hundreds of years. the only reason why i want to be alive a thousand years from now is simply to know how mankind is doing. example what clothes we wear, or if technology has finally made capitalism obsolete and if humans are competing for the honor of who gets to work the 4 hour a week job still required for society to function. then i realized i can actually already do that but IN REVERSE. i could simulate waking up every day for the past 2,300 years and reading the newspaper on what's going on around the world. i also realized history becomes more interesting if you imagine various world events in parallel instead of focusing on 1 geographical location at a time. example while napoleon was stubbornly and carelessly invading russia in 1812, filipinos who settled in louisiana after escaping from the manila-acapulco galleon trade assisted the united states in the defense of new orleans against the british. i am so embarassed to learn filipinos are white supremacists for siding with the slave owners. it's so amazing to wake up wishing slavery will end then a few decades later factory machines made slavery obsolete. that means there is a chance my libertarian socialist utopic dream will finally come true. right now it's like i'm playing in the NBA but my teammates are soccer super stars such as lionel messi, christiano ronaldo and ronaldino. in this article, i urge my teammates to wait for technology to naturally transform the NBA into the world cup of soccer.

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