Comment on "YOLO" and "Memento Mori" mean pretty much the same thing

carmanut@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• SwingingTheLamp@midwest.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It does seem like YOLO = memento mori + carpe diem.

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  • colmear@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This is the only correct comment.

    Memento mori = Remember that you are going to die Carpe diem = Enjoy the day YOLO = enjoy your life, because you only have one and you are going to die

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    • Lmaydev@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I always took it the opposite. You only live once so be super careful and don’t do anything dangerous.

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      • kamiheku@sopuli.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        This is hilarious

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      • reev@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        There’s actually a song by The Lonely Island about exactly this.

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      • orgrinrt@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        The way people use it should’ve risen some eyebrows on your part if that is the case.

        Shouting “YOLO” as one jumps off a roof seems to be the contemporary stereotype for its usage. I’ve only seen it used that way.

        If you’ve stuck with the interpretation this long, you must have very curious views on carefulness and safety 😁

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      • volvoxvsmarla@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        You oughta look out

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    • DrBob@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      This couldn’t be more incorrect. Memento mori is a call for humility. Carpe diem is a call for purposeful action. YOLO is a “hold my beer” moment preceding a calculated stupidity.

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      • intensely_human@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        What if waiting for conditions to be perfect before you come out of your shell is placing too much value on one’s own dignity?

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  • Kolli@sopuli.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    While I meant what I originally said, this is a great thought! Thanks for the comment!

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• Hope@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I think they meant what they said. “Remember that you will die” does mean something similar to “you only live once.”

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  • FierroGamer@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It does if you remove it from its context where they used it more like “you should be humble, you’ll die like everyone else”, carpe diem was used more similarly to yolo

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    • DrBob@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Carpe diem is a call to action - to not fritter your life away on inconsequential things. YOLO is a polite way to say “fuck it”.

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      • FierroGamer@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I said more similar, as in more than memento mori

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• Earthwormjim91@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  No?

  Memento Mori means “remember that you have to die”. That is pretty much the same “you only live once”.

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  • remotelove@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    YOLO is a little more… eh… pro-active? Knowing that you are going to die is not quite the same as saying fuck-all and leaping to a possible death.

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