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1. www.mentalfloss.com › article › 7205711 Swindling Slang Terms from The Grifters - Mental Floss

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   Dec 7, 2015 · Opposed to the short con is the long end, also known as the big con, the long con, and the long game. The long end is more complex than the short con and can take months or even years.

2. www.psychologytoday.com › au › blogLife Is Short and the World Will End, Can It Have Meaning?

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   May 4, 2020 · Life Is Short and the World Will End, Can It Have Meaning? Life is rendered all the more urgent and purposeful by its evanescence. Posted May 4, 2020 | Reviewed by Kaja Perina

3. www.psychologytoday.com › gb › blogLife Is Short and the World Will End, Can It Have Meaning?

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   Life is rendered all the more urgent and purposeful by its evanescence. Everything is finite, even matter itself. Some of the world’s best science writers show us why.

4. theconversation.com › life-is-short-and-for-goodLife is short, and for good reason – here’s how to make it ...

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   Dec 16, 2022 · Life is short, and it is so for good reason. The German philosopher Martin Heidegger defended a similar view in his book Being and Time, which is undoubtedly a work of genius, but there’s a ...

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5. philosophybreak.com › articles › seneca-on-copingSeneca On Coping with the Shortness of Life - Philosophy Break

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   • We do not fully appreciate the preciousness of time. Firstly, Seneca claims we do not fully appreciate the preciousness of time. We attribute value to things like money, belongings, and property, and guard them closely.
   • We are preoccupied with a future that doesn’t exist. As well as placing too much value on possessions rather than time, another human attitude that makes life fleeting is that we tend to spend our day-to-day lives looking forward to a future that doesn’t exist.
   • We give away our lives to things that don’t matter. So far, Seneca has established that we don’t value time, pay too much attention to possessions, and spend much of our lives preoccupied with the future.
   • So how should we spend our time? The answer for how we should spend our lives, of course, lies in philosophy. “Of all people,” Seneca writes, “only those are at leisure who make time for philosophy, only those are really alive.”

6. medium.com › @airjoshb › why-life-is-short-is-a-copWhy “life is short” is a cop out (and how to have a long life)

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   Aug 30, 2017 · When someone passes away, we say “life is short” as a way to move away from our grief in an effort to “feel better”. When we throw our inhibitions to the wind, “life is too short to have...

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   What is a con & a long end?

   • Con here is a shortening of confidence trick, in which a dupe hands over valuables as a token of confidence or trust in a con man (or woman, as the case may be). Opposed to the short con is the long end, also known as the big con, the long con, and the long game. The long end is more complex than the short con and can take months or even years.

   11 Swindling Slang Terms from The Grifters - Mental Floss

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   What if our lives are short?

   • If our lives are short, all life is short. Words collected into sayings are powerful things, they set our subconscious down roads that form behaviors, habits, and core beliefs about who we are and how we should behave.

   Why “life is short” is a cop out (and how to have a long life)

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   Is life short?

   • Life is short, and it is so for good reason. The German philosopher Martin Heidegger defended a similar view in his book Being and Time, which is undoubtedly a work of genius, but there’s a friendlier version of the idea in the TV Series The Good Place (where the “good place” is the eternal afterlife).

   Life is short, and for good reason - The Conversation

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   What happens if life is short?

   • Migrations, feeding, and even life itself managed to happen without time. Looking at life at a universal scale of billions of years makes it all too easy to concern ourselves with things like global warming, endangered species, and our grandchildren’s children. If our lives are short, all life is short.

   Why “life is short” is a cop out (and how to have a long life)

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   Are we given a short life?

   • But when it is wasted in heedless luxury and spent on no good activity, we are forced at last by death's final constraint to realize that it has passed away before we knew it was passing. So it is: we are not given a short life but we make it short, and we are not ill-supplied but wasteful of it… life is long if you know how to use it.

   Seneca On Coping with the Shortness of Life - Philosophy Break

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   Why do people say life is short?

   • To say “life is short” is intended to help you seize the moment and create purpose, but it is a veil that gives us permission to hide behind our impulses in exchange for relief, momentary happiness, and instant gratification. When someone passes away, we say “life is short” as a way to move away from our grief in an effort to “feel better”.

   Why “life is short” is a cop out (and how to have a long life)

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8. greatergood.berkeley.edu › article › itemHow to Find Your Purpose in Life - Greater Good

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   Jan 10, 2018 · Here are six ways to overcome isolation and discover your purpose in life. 1. Read. Reading connects us to people we’ll never know, across time and space—an experience that research says is linked to a sense of meaning and purpose. (Note: “Meaning” and “purpose” are related but separate social-scientific constructs.