Zmid Posted December 3, 2003 Share Posted December 3, 2003 I can see your point, Ancalagon, and I agree with it, but I think the topic is about the entire human race becoming immortal, not just one member of it, so, all your friends and family would be immortal as well (unless, of course, you are the first person to benefit from this). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switch Posted December 3, 2003 Share Posted December 3, 2003 ... You said something about "playing God" now.. See, IF god created us, he gave us the intellegence to play god right?... and you may question "Well why would God want us to be as intellegent as him" the answer is "God wants all to be equal, so therefore (s)he is allowing us to be equal with him"...we just have to reach that intellegence still :P So I do not think it is playing God at all...Wouldnt giving someone medication for a serious disease playing God? because that person should have died... ... That first bit is in reference to the afterlife I think. If what it says is true, then when we die we will be one with him and be equal to him, after being released, our sins lifted etc etc. Or some words to that effect. So we would have our evil nature removed. But what half responsible super being would allow us to become immortal in the normal world!??? :lol: Like I said, humans are evil by nature, in fact a gene has been found that specifically makes it so our bodies age, and we die a lot earlier than it would be otherwise. I wouldn't be surprised if this was put there by God to ensure we NEVER achieve immortality. Even if we manage to remove the gene, methinks something else will intervene. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Akrid Posted December 3, 2003 Author Share Posted December 3, 2003 Who's to say a group of scientits haven't already discoverd it?!!! :o !! Relizing the negitive impact it could have on the world but wanting eternal life they used it on them selfs and hid away? I say let's find them take their immortality, and as for what to do with them, we'll let the Dark One decide. Then we can continue this chat in the acent history section. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ancalagon Posted December 3, 2003 Share Posted December 3, 2003 Immortality isn't a bad idea. It's just that I think the corrupt politicians and so forth would use it, and then hide the secret from the rest of us. Every man wants to become Immortal, whether he admits it or not. For many, Power is Immortality, and people always want more Power for themselves but no one else. The only way Immortality would work is if we discovered the gene for longevity and understood how to manipulate it. then we could guarentee every person living longer. But if it was a vaccine or some secret procedure discovered in a Government lab....forget about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThetaOrionis01 Posted December 3, 2003 Share Posted December 3, 2003 http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/1999/...er_script.shtml While immortality, or at least greatly enhanced lifespan might be possible, who could handle it mentally? Even assuming that your body doesn't age, and you won't spent eternity crippled with arthritis or excruciating back pain or other degenerative diseases - how long would it take you before you got bored, before you've seen and done everything? 100 years? 500? 1000? HOw long a life can you handle? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Akrid Posted December 3, 2003 Author Share Posted December 3, 2003 I don't know how long I could handle being immortal (hell just being mortal is hard enuff) but I would like find out. I think back pain and old people problems are less far away from being cured than imoratilty anyway. ^_^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ancalagon Posted December 3, 2003 Share Posted December 3, 2003 I think that mentally only very few people could handle Immortality. Again grief and the wearing of the World would get to you. Unless you could better yourself in hobbies like Atheletics and such. That one part in the article about genetically engineering our children to never age sounds a tad creepy. It's right about never going back, that we would doom our race to an indefinite existance, and many people can't handle their own mortal lives right now as it is. I would still try to be first in line when they find the cure for aging and such though...^_^ if only my family can take it as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Akrid Posted December 3, 2003 Author Share Posted December 3, 2003 Here is somthing else not considered. Human adapt, living forever may be adaptable as well, I find that just as a child is to a adult a immortal would be super intellegent and intellegence is power. I think that in another 20 years everyone of us will be so diffrent from what we are now that we would be a totally diffrent person, simular but evolved by time. I changed in everything I believed in, I was raised a Christan, I despised my Goverment and the world's, I pre-judged people. Now from only five years of growth I'm Athiest, support my Goverment and the worlds, I judge all people on a individual basis after I get to know them. If I ran into my old self I would probaly kick his snotty ass. But that would only leave scars on me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zmid Posted December 3, 2003 Share Posted December 3, 2003 While immortality, or at least greatly enhanced lifespan might be possible, who could handle it mentally? Even assuming that your body doesn't age, and you won't spent eternity crippled with arthritis or excruciating back pain or other degenerative diseases - how long would it take you before you got bored, before you've seen and done everything? 100 years? 500? 1000? HOw long a life can you handle? It really depends on whether you mean true immortality (you cannot die) or simply death through old age no longer existing. If you mean true immortality, I believe this is simply not possible whilst we have a physical body to worry about, so, as such, we will no longer be confined to one single planet, but have the whole universe, or perhaps a whole multiverse to explore. If you mean old age being defeated, if you truly get to the stage where you've been absolutely everywhere and done absolutely everything and life is utterly boring and no longer worth living, there's always suicide, but to get to this stage, I think you would have to have lived a very, very long time indeed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeLLL Posted December 4, 2003 Share Posted December 4, 2003 I believe immortality is achievable as it goes part in parcel with my beliefs <Taoism>. Taoism is about survival. To acomplish this you take the road the requires little interference with your surrondings. Instead of taking the lead you fall back to the rear. In doing so you can prolong ones life by not exposing yourself to harm. Wu Wei. Action through Non action. When you die your soul that is your body gets put back into the earth and your other soul acends and you live for ever. This is just a very quick summary its a lot more in depth than that. Infact I have probably done it in justice by simplifying it like that; but you get the gist of it :lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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