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Despite several thousand years of existence, immortality remains firmly out of our grasp.
Myths of the vampires, Elvis, fountains of youth hidden in deepest Africa...all don't exist and never did.
Right now, scientists across the world are still investigating the secrets of the Human Genome Map, the building blocks of life itself. Locked within our own genes and genetic makeup may be the key to immortality for the human race.
There are obvious disadvantages to immortality; seeing firnds die, places disappear, memories fade, illnesses affecting you....but suppose for one moment that immortality could be granted to everyone, not just a select few.
Would it be a good idea ? A planet full of immortals ? I don't think it would. What defines our lives is how we use the time we have, it urges us on to better things as individuals and groups, even nations. Without any limit on our lives the world could become a very boring place. Why bother doing anything, there'll always be a tomorrow !
Maybe at some stage then immortality would suit us, but I think we have a long way to go before we reach that stage, there's still so much we haven't done or discovered.
The scary thing is that at some point in the future, one of these many teams working on the projects surrounding the human genome project may crack the secret. Conspiracy theories aside, I'm willing to bet that there are a considerable number of interested parties that would silence or destroy that knowledge. And I'm not entirely sure that it woudn't be a bad thing.....
~~Belldandy~~
Myths of the vampires, Elvis, fountains of youth hidden in deepest Africa...all don't exist and never did.
Right now, scientists across the world are still investigating the secrets of the Human Genome Map, the building blocks of life itself. Locked within our own genes and genetic makeup may be the key to immortality for the human race.
There are obvious disadvantages to immortality; seeing firnds die, places disappear, memories fade, illnesses affecting you....but suppose for one moment that immortality could be granted to everyone, not just a select few.
Would it be a good idea ? A planet full of immortals ? I don't think it would. What defines our lives is how we use the time we have, it urges us on to better things as individuals and groups, even nations. Without any limit on our lives the world could become a very boring place. Why bother doing anything, there'll always be a tomorrow !
Maybe at some stage then immortality would suit us, but I think we have a long way to go before we reach that stage, there's still so much we haven't done or discovered.
The scary thing is that at some point in the future, one of these many teams working on the projects surrounding the human genome project may crack the secret. Conspiracy theories aside, I'm willing to bet that there are a considerable number of interested parties that would silence or destroy that knowledge. And I'm not entirely sure that it woudn't be a bad thing.....
~~Belldandy~~
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I, the sea is full of dead sailors - lost for all eternity in the mysterious depths.
As the saying goes:
"When there's lightning,
It always brings me down,
Cos it's free and I see that it's me,
Whose lost and never found.:
As the saying goes:
"When there's lightning,
It always brings me down,
Cos it's free and I see that it's me,
Whose lost and never found.:
Nomad Soul wrote:
> ......?
Worse things happen at sea
> ......?
Worse things happen at sea
The human soul is forever coming & going - forever a rainbow in the dark.
Concerning death & the soul there is but one thing to say: I shall return with a different face.
-Sorry, that was cheesy.-
What about:
Death is the end of struggle, the rediscovery of peace, and the dawn of a secret becoming.
-Nope. Pretentious.-
Perhaps:
In the lottery of life our days are numbered, and when our numbers are "up", the jackpot will be full and brimming with nothingness - for in the end, every winner will lose the ultimate prize of life, and be left with not so much as two moments to rub together.
-Too grim.-
......?
Concerning death & the soul there is but one thing to say: I shall return with a different face.
-Sorry, that was cheesy.-
What about:
Death is the end of struggle, the rediscovery of peace, and the dawn of a secret becoming.
-Nope. Pretentious.-
Perhaps:
In the lottery of life our days are numbered, and when our numbers are "up", the jackpot will be full and brimming with nothingness - for in the end, every winner will lose the ultimate prize of life, and be left with not so much as two moments to rub together.
-Too grim.-
......?
Highlander!
One love must die and all that stuff.
One love must die and all that stuff.
Nomad Soul wrote:
> But the thing is: if I beheaded an immortal person, how would he still
> be alive?
Urm,..... that's a tricky one. :-)
> But the thing is: if I beheaded an immortal person, how would he still
> be alive?
Urm,..... that's a tricky one. :-)
If everyone on earth became immortal we would be faced with a massive problem. Overpopulation. With most of Africa currently going at it like rabbits, judging by population explosions. We would quite quickly begin to starve of resources. Unless of course immortal people dont need to eat/drink/breathe. But who knows.
blahpro wrote:
> What a deep and philisophical* post Belldandy.
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> * I CAN SPELL!
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> What a deep and philisophical* post Belldandy.
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> * I CAN SPELL!
Er...
I know Elvis doesn't exist now, but never? Are you sure? :)
Everytime I think of immortality I have different perceptions - sometimes I want the state I'm in now to last forever, with me the same age, my parents and my family, not aging and just enjoying life, whereas sometime I want to live forever myself to see what happens to the world, advances in technology etc. But the idea of staying alive and outliving family, friends, just doesn't appeal to me. And what state would the body be in? Would the ageing process slow down, or would you stop at a certain age? Would the skin get wrinklier? There's just so many questions.
Everytime I think of immortality, I think of that knight bloke in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, and wonder that if that is what eternal life is like, stuff it.
Everytime I think of immortality I have different perceptions - sometimes I want the state I'm in now to last forever, with me the same age, my parents and my family, not aging and just enjoying life, whereas sometime I want to live forever myself to see what happens to the world, advances in technology etc. But the idea of staying alive and outliving family, friends, just doesn't appeal to me. And what state would the body be in? Would the ageing process slow down, or would you stop at a certain age? Would the skin get wrinklier? There's just so many questions.
Everytime I think of immortality, I think of that knight bloke in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, and wonder that if that is what eternal life is like, stuff it.
What a deep and philisophical* post Belldandy.
* I CAN SPELL!
* I CAN SPELL!
I would argue that an abstract immortality already exists along the lines of reincarnation/transmigration of souls/eternal recurrence - nearly all the great spiritual teachers and philosophers past and present point their wise fingers in this direction.
But stepping back from that to a more obvious physical immortality, I think a planet full of immortals would improve matters greatly, simply because 'fear' on all levels would suddenly disappear.
Love and understanding would just grow and grow, and the human consciousness would evolve out of all recognition, and in effect become 'transhuman'.
It would be pointless starting a war because no one could be killed.
Greed and envy would become pretty much irrelevant because we'd have all eternity to make of ourselves what we will.
Every kind of angst would vanish because the feeling of pressure to do things before it's too late would no longer be there.
Physical immortality would improve this world no end. The ramifications would be massive.
But the thing is: if I beheaded an immortal person, how would he still be alive?
But stepping back from that to a more obvious physical immortality, I think a planet full of immortals would improve matters greatly, simply because 'fear' on all levels would suddenly disappear.
Love and understanding would just grow and grow, and the human consciousness would evolve out of all recognition, and in effect become 'transhuman'.
It would be pointless starting a war because no one could be killed.
Greed and envy would become pretty much irrelevant because we'd have all eternity to make of ourselves what we will.
Every kind of angst would vanish because the feeling of pressure to do things before it's too late would no longer be there.
Physical immortality would improve this world no end. The ramifications would be massive.
But the thing is: if I beheaded an immortal person, how would he still be alive?
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