it does make you wonder doesn't it. if we can live to a 1,000 then 24hour fitness is going to be the biggest business in the world. can you imagine how fat you'd become in a thousand years?

and this is seriously going to piss off the holders of the longest fingernail/hair world records.

I really cannot imagine anything worse than the prospect of having to live a 1,000 years.

Originally posted by j_kalin

Do you want to be immortal? What concrete steps have you taken? Do you have any hard evidence that these actions are working or any data to support your strategy?
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My number one strategy is to put my faith in Jesus Christ as Lord and savior. He promises us an incredible immortable, interdimensional body, with capabilities that we can't even imagine. It's far better than any human, high tech. life extension program.

I happen to believe in this promise because I have personally seen miracles performed in his name.

Originally posted by ladyinwaiting
I really cannot imagine anything worse than the prospect of having to live a 1,000 years.

Awww come on! Then you aren't having enough fun!!!


I would love to live for as long as I am capable and willing.

I think not enough people consider that when we die, our fundamental nature does not change. Time and place may change but something more fundamental to us will not, ie our experience of being aware, which is essentially what "we" "are."


I agree with the scientist in the article, extremely long lifespans are possible. Literal immortality (ie you live "forever"), I wouldn't know anything about that, as I don't know anything about "eternity" or the concept of endless linear time. I'm not saying it can't exist by any means, simply that I can hardly fathom it, except that it would probably be cyclical....

Anyway, props to everyone seeking to live for hundreds of years or more.

There were Yoga teachers in ancient times who are recorded as having lifespans of up to about 500 years, recorded just as plain as any other historical fact for these people.


Another poster above said that we generate chaos in our lives which eventually brings them to an end. I also agree with that. But we can also bring so much consciousness and awareness into our lives, that we more than balance all the entropy, and actually grow healthier and stronger and more intelligent as we get older, indefinitely.

All of the cells in our body die and are replaced something like every 7 years. Think about that. Supposedly the reason we eventually age and die is because our chromosomes and DNA begin to mutate and so as our cells constantly reproduce and die, they gradually stray more and more from optimal health. I say that as a rule is bullocks. It may be a common case for most people, but certainly is not a strict law that cannot be broken. We change our active genes (activating and de-activating genes, possibly even changing DNA itself) on a daily basis, or at least the possibility for changing them on a daily basis is there. It depends on us to make those adjustments. There is a cancer gene but it isn't activated in people that have it unless certain conditions (many different possibilities) activate it. Why activate that gene? Why not activate more positive, healthy ones? Or even integrate something altogether new into your life and make your body accordingly adjust to that? The possibilities are all there.



I honestly believe we are on the threshold of an entirely new age, an age of light. We just came out of an age of darkness, from which we have totally forgotten our true nature. In this next age, however, we will remember, and old abilities will be unlocked to us once again. Those people in the Bible that lived to incredible ages? That will be us once again, because we are about to re-inherit that knowledge, from a totally novel path, this path we are taking now. And this whole ride -- is beautiful. I love life.