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Originally posted by Colon™
I intend to witness the colonisation of Mars.
I intend to witness the colonisation of Mars.
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And then you'll probably start killing all those nice marsians - typical belgian
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
Steven Weinberg -
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I don't think I'd want to watch my family die around me and me stay young etc.... then again there could be some advantages to being young forever.Welcome to earth, my name is Tia and I'll be your tour guide for this trip.
Succulent and Bejeweled Mother Goddess, who is always moisturised yet never greasy, always patient yet never suffers fools~Starchild
Dragons? Yup- big flying lizards with an attitude. ~ Laz
You are forgiven because you are FABULOUS ~ ImranComment
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Nope.
It is not possible to live forever. Something will get you eventually. Even be it the end of the universe.
It is the height of folly to be wanting something which is not possible to have. Equally folly to fear something which is inevitable (ie Death).
I've always believed in rebirth (in a non-kooky way, I claim no proof :P) so death is not a particularly big deal. Eternity is actually a more innately disturbing concept to me... or at least was (eternity is pretty long, but no big deal
). In the context of rebirth, being an old person for too long is not really appealing - old body, old brain - no difference, rigid and inflexible, stagnation.
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why isnt this a poll?
science damnit!Co-Founder, Apolyton Civilization Site
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giannopoulos.info: my non-mobile non-photo news & articles blogComment
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I've asked that very question reduntantly.
Why ask a question, and have no poll.
WE WANT RESULTS!
Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.
"Hating America is something best left to Mobius. He is an expert Yank hater.
He also hates Texans and Australians, he does diversify." ~ BraindeadComment
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Nice cover Blake, but I heard that you were designing an immortal AI that you plan to transfer your consciousness into.Comment
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Of course I would. My condition is eternal youth, with an emphasis on the brain."Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master" - Commissioner Pravin Lal.Comment
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I would gladly do so. My procrastination problem would cease to be a problem."I realise I hold the key to freedom,
I cannot let my life be ruled by threads" The Web Frogs
Middle East!Comment
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I have to. Without me, what's the point in anyone or anything else existing?Exult in your existence, because that very process has blundered unwittingly on its own negation. Only a small, local negation, to be sure: only one species, and only a minority of that species; but there lies hope. [...] Stand tall, Bipedal Ape. The shark may outswim you, the cheetah outrun you, the swift outfly you, the capuchin outclimb you, the elephant outpower you, the redwood outlast you. But you have the biggest gifts of all: the gift of understanding the ruthlessly cruel process that gave us all existence [and the] gift of revulsion against its implications.
-Richard DawkinsComment
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I'd love to, but it might happen that after a few hundred years my thoughts change.
I'd also dislike if I was the only person with such ability, too much pain seeing the people you love getting old and die while you stay.-- What history has taught us is that people do not learn from history.
-- Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.Comment
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I've lived 57 years and even that, not very long, period has been long enough so that lots of things start coming round for the second, third, fourth or fifth time - and anything really fresh and new becomes a rarity.
Which makes me think that the first few hundred years of an endless life might still have enough savour in them to make a life of that length tolerable. But a thousand years? Or ten thousand? Or a million? Or a million million?
What I think would happen is that the weight of future time would weigh heavier and heavier and would quite soon be nightmarish.
And the availability of suicide might not alleviate that enough. It takes a great deal of fortitude to bring a life with an eighty year span to a premature end. The fortitude needed to say goodby to immortality might be beyond any of us. Dementia would, I think, come first.Comment
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I don't believe in an afterlife, so of course I want to live forever..Comment
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East Street Trader sighting!
Poly's post-purge improvement continues apace."I have as much authority as the pope. I just don't have as many people who believe it." — George CarlinComment
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You sir, deserve a cookie.Poly's post-purge improvement continues apace."You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours."--General Sir Charles James NapierComment
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