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This weekend ive had this conversation with my neighbour's friend, He told me that age is nothing but a number is how healthy you look for your age. Now i agreed on the health part, but i disagreed on the age thing. If age was nothing but a nimber, why do people lie abouth their ages. If age WAS nothing but a number why do someone go "eww that's disgusting, or that's insane" when a ninteen year old girl and a fifty-something year old man are together? Can love really conquer age?
So.... is age really nothing but a number?
And why?

NevesElocin

Becuase people don't want to admit that they aren't as young as they used to be. Thus they lie to cover that fact up.

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Mini Dev

Ok firstly age is an important part of life, well younger years. You have to be a certain age limit to drink, drive and smoke and watch films or even play computer games. Whether you obay those rules is another matter but if you lie about your age you can get into seriouse trouble and then i doubt that the person being done will think age is just a number. Age will often conflict with love as i disagree with you neighbours friend because if you think about it, if someone who is 18 is going out with a 6 year old, i am sure there will be questions on perveted people etc. a normal sane humanbeing would find that sick would they not? Well this is my point age has many problems between people as you grow older the age barrier between people can increase in age up to around a 20 year diffrence these days, but when your in school it's like a code that you have to go out with someone in your year otherwise it will be found as "gross" age diffrence only matters if the person is really too old for another. So this concludes my opinion, yes age is more than just numbers, it's also marked to check if you are responsible and mature. and the younger you are the more people will mourn if you die (god forbid)

Joe Mage

First off, one of the main reasons why many would find an 18 year old goin' out wit a 6 year old disgustin' has little ta do wit the number of years that separates their ages; it has ta do wit the fact that the 6 year old is a minor and is too immature ta understand the concept of a "meaningful relationship." A 50 year old bein' involved, in a relationship, wit a 20 year old is a totally different concept all together, 'cause it's a relationship involvin' 2 concentin'; mature adults who fully understand what bein' in a relationship is all about. In this regard, the number of years that separates their ages doesn' matter; so long as both adults r fully aware of what it is that they r gettin' inta. If it floats their boats, more power ta them.

And what's this 'bout more ppl mournin' u if u die young than if u die when ur older? It's always been my experience that the same number of ppl, who know u, would mourn u no matter at what age u die at. Heck, look at all of the older famous ppl who died and the entire world mourned their loss. I certainly hope that when I die, no matter what age I am, that all of my friends and family mourn my loss.

I agree wit NevesElocin 'bout ppl lyin' 'bout their ages, the fact is that we all age and there r some ppl out there who don' want ta admit it. So they lie in a feeble attempt ta delude themselves inta thinkin' that they r younger than they really r or ta recapture their lost youth. If there's one thing that I've learned 'bout this it's that "Denial" is not jus' a river in Egypt.

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Astaroth

Definitely..i would agree that age is a very important number.......
In my opinion...I think that it is just plain disgusting when a young girl who had a while life ahead of her marries some old fart..that is not love..that is insaneness and stupidity...does the girl even know anything about love..will love matter when she ends up with a kid all alone while her "husband" is living his new life with someone else...
Lying about the age....that is one of the worst lies imaginable.....do people really think that by saying that they are older that the other person will like or respect them more....I talk to all kinds of people..ranging from 5 year old to 85 year old people.......and I do not find it hard to say that I am 18 years old....people should be proud of their age..not be ashamed of it......

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aceman67

To most people, its not a number. To some, its a very important thing. Think about it this way: You're 17, you're physically an adult, and depending on the person, you're also mature enough to make adult choices, but the law states that you are a minor until you're 18 (in most countries).

Its different for everyone.

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fireandice

I would say if your over 21 age is just a number. Why twenty-one you may ask, well it's because once your over 18 you get freedoms that you didn't have before and you are still trying to find your way in the world. You make alot of mistakes around that time and hopefully you learn from them. Over that age you start to see things as how they really are and what it is that you have to do to live like everyone else. As for the lying about the ages, well most who do it are doing it for reasons that are going to get someone or themselves into trouble. I don't lie about my age, I'm older than I look and act. I'm not ashamed of it. It's who and what I am. But maturity does come with age and always will.

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Yasmine

Age isn't just a number to a lot of people. People really care about reputation and their looks. Older people say between 40 and 70 want to be younger. Youngsters, teenagers want to be older, because this is so called "cooler". And to gain this feeling of acknowledge people simply make little lies about their ages. This often goes wrong though, when it finally clicks with someone you just met, you have to revile your hidden true age somehow. Which makes another person think you can't be trusted if you lie about a simple thing as age.

What is a common thing that I've noticed is... people lie more often about their ages on the net then in real life. Why? It's simple... people intend to lie about all kinds of stuff over the internet, because it's easy to do... none direct contact or communication.

I'm not just talking about ages. Also, fake pictures of themselfs, fake genders, fake names, everything's fake fake fake. I've met some people before who are like that... if you tell them you're 19 they'll answer with an age which is nearby the number 19. Awkward as that, but easy to do so over the internet.

Anyway, not here on AO though... I'm not sure about everyone here that's telling the truth. But I know quite sure that most of the AO members are honest and are themselfs. That is one of the reasons that I love it here... members rather hide their identities then lie about it.

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cantsenditback

No one want to really say how old they really are, people don't want others to know how old they are in reality. some young kids might think "that person is really, really old huh?"

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FallenSpiral

Well, for a 19 year old and a 50 something year old the major thing that I think of is that the "experience" is different for the two of them. The 50 year old has had a lot of worldly experience and the 19 year old hasn't had hardly any. The man could take advantage. If you were to switch the two around. The woman was older and the man was younger. Most would think that the woman would want to settle down and it would be better, but the 19 year old male wouldn't want to settle down. 19 year olds few 50 something as an old person. Age does make a difference.

Just date in a resonable age group. You'll regret it in the long end. If you're a lot older than the other. You'll die long before them; ha-ha!