I can't say I'm for inmortality at this time. Or any time in the near future. Because, there are better things to invest our effort in. I mean...we're not the greatest thing for the world to have around forever. I'm not saying we're not supposed to or it's unnatural, but things do end. This endeavor, while it might be done with the best of intentions, is a little immature of us as a species. We haven't even colonized other planets, and this one is getting smaller and nastier by the decade. There is still famine, and in other places culinary arts. There is still poverty, and in other places gold toilets. War, inequality, injustice, not saying get rid of em all together, just work on it, with the same resources as other things. While quality of life is better than before...it can get worse. Knowledge, history and culture has been lost before. I'm not saying it would be a bad thing. Just that we want to live forever healthy, and damn the rest. We fear death, I get it. But we don't know what it means really. We can describe scientifically, but though we're sure we can get around that 'design flaw', no one knows why EVERY SINGLE LIVING THING DIES. boo. Yes, it's scary, but I don't want to tell my children's children's children that granpappy's generation couldn't really leave em a cleaner planet, better society or most of the wildlife that used to be around cause they had to make their teeth whiter, create better penile enhancement drugs, tinier cell phones, make lots of money and find a way to live forever...so we could meet them all. Maybe dying is like paying back what you borrowed to able to goof around all this time. Gimme better humans, without taking away the human part, then you can make em live forever. If not, let's just all get together and agree to change species. Humans living forever is not good for anyone or anything, even humans.

Originally posted by Notecreo
I can't say I'm for inmortality at this time. Or any time in the near future. Because, there are better things to invest our effort in. ....
... We haven't even colonized other planets...

That's just it. If people lived for hundreds of more years they would be that much more wise and educated and experienced.

That much more equipped to solve all the issues you listed

Including the colonizations of space

Or they are the same rich people who make the same mistakes over and over in order to maintain their wealth for their eternal life..

If they do come up with a way to extend the lifespan, what makes you think that it will be available to you?

I wonder if it will make you end up like Vamp from the Metal Gear Solid series?

i agree with others, theres no way this will be availble for the average joe.

does it really matter how long people live for as long as they die of natural causes and not by avoidable means or somebody elses evil intent. its very hard to comprehend the end, most people picture it as black. but i'm stuggling to find any evidence or examples of nothingness. there is something everywhere even outside our viewable sight, where is nothingness? and why do people assume there is nothing after death when there is no evidence of it anywhere?

believing in nothing after death is more bizarre than believing in life after death. at least there is evidence of life or something being everywhere, there is no evidence of nothingness anywhere, except in our minds and people imagine that to be a color. if there was evidence of nothingness then maybe i would want one of those pills.

so who cares i'd rather live out my life here and then see what i become/where i go/what i experience once i'm dead. it's not like this planet is worth experiencing anyway, i'd rather take the chance i'd go on to experience something better, whilst everybody here are robbing eachother for greed, and killing eachother because they have been told to by somebody who told them they are enemies. valuable lessons learnt but some outgrow the same old same old. so no pill for me, if i ever did have a choice. imagine 500 decades of recycled same old same old, but with slighty better technology each time.

yawn, besides if the PTB allowed people to live that long people would cotton onto the recycled tactics of manipulation over each century. i doubt they would allow that, they need to shaft each generation not the same one forever.



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No vampire bites? You just took the fun out of it completely.

Can I opt for vampire bites? Or at least, the fangs?

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Death?
No, I like it here, where everything is.

For as long as humans have lived, we continue to make the same mistakes over and over again. This is because after one generation dies, the next forgets history and repeats the same mistakes, it's a never ending circle.

If people lived longer, we would have a more mature generation, who are more likely to not repeat it's past mistakes, and will learn from it, evolve from it, mature from it.

Imagine a world where people can spend all the time they want on certain subjects, becoming knowledgeable beyond any person today, becoming wiser, imagine what Einstein could have accomplished if he lived for hundreds of years. Imagine what YOU could accomplish. Imagine...

Most humans become depressed because of stress, most of the time this stress comes from the fact we never have enough time to accomplish what we want. We are in a rush to get that degree, get that job, get that family etc etc.

With more time, humans can actually feel more relaxed and happy.

A lot of people think we need to change. In my opinion this is the change humanity needs for us to finally have the time to grow up.

Even with longer lifespans we will all eventually die somehow. If we move on to a better place, it wont matter how long you spent on earth, because yesterday feels like a dream. Time is like a dream The only moment that feels real is now.



[edit on 23-11-2008 by _Phoenix_]

Originally posted by crimson ghost
YEAH, AND BIGFOOT GAVE THE POPE A BJ. HOW NAIVE CAN ATS MEMBERS GET? I WONDER THIS, AND AM AMAZED DAILY. ASSHATS!

Do you want daddy to buy you some ice cream? Will you behave then?