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Originally posted by: ribbon13
One of my most favored topics ever.
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Cool, mine too. It is my main interest in life. I plan on becoming an M.D. / Ph.D. and help research a cure for aging.
 
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Originally posted by: HamburgerBoy
No. Maybe a few hundred years, but I'd like to go to heaven eventually.
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I heard it sucks there. No drugs, no alcohol, can't touch the women.. and the hotdogs there are made out of tofu.

Bah.

lol
 
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I'd like to choose when to die, yes, I'd probably like to live for around 500 years. I think after a certain point, you start to forget who you are, your brain just can't keep track anymore. So while your body is still healthy, you've essentially forgotten who you are, and you have no past. I couldn't live with that.
 
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I kind of like the method the late Robert Heinlein advocated in his Future History: The Howard Foundation was dedicated to extending human life by approaching the problem from the point of view of breeding animal stock. They would match men and women together on the criteria that they would have long-lived parents/grandparents, and keep track of all of the lines of lineage thus created over generations, working toward optimizing this trait.
 
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Originally posted by: Sunbird
Living as long as Yoda would be nice (with better looks of course!).
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Fvck Yoda, I wanna be sexy like Aragorn, have a hot wife like Arwen, and live for ages.
 
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Assuming I didn't go senile or crazy, I think the benefits of immortality would outweigh the disadvantages, for me.
 
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Originally posted by: jagec
Assuming I didn't go senile or crazy, I think the benefits of immortality would outweigh the disadvantages, for me.
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The whole point of biological immortality is to live healthy, indefinite lifespans.
 
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but since we can't all live that long, do we really want George Bush and Pope Benedict to reign for 10,000 years? :p
 
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Originally posted by: Landroval
but since we can't all live that long, do we really want George Bush and Pope Benedict to reign for 10,000 years? :p
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Georgy boy will be gone in 08' thankfully, and if benedict reigns for 10000 years, the prophecy will be fulfilled about him being the last pope.
 
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Originally posted by: Landroval
but since we can't all live that long, do we really want George Bush and Pope Benedict to reign for 10,000 years? :p
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But there can only be one. Benedict will send his assassin to kill GW and reign for 10,000 years.

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Originally posted by: Dofuss3000
As of now, 7 people out of 20 wouldn't mind disappearing into nothingness.
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I fully intend to see the dawn of the 22nd century, if only to, in the year 2101, say, "HAH, suck it twenty first century, you couldn't kill me!" and then die.
 
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I want to live long enough to see what the future has to bring, perhaps travel to another planet, see the universe...
 
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Don't want to be a "party pooper", but everyone's got to go at sometime, if for no better reason than to give the younger generation space to breathe and flourish ;)

Our progenies will carry on our genes, and as such, in a sense, we will live forever :)
 
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Our genes are not US (it's like saying that humens are chimpanzee, and we share 98% of u'r genes with them)
 
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I feel that it's necessary to voice my opinion on this subject since this topic comes up repeatedly in different forms.

Considering your other post on God, it seems that you are really afraid of death, like most atheists. You seem to believe that death is oblivion. That's not true. Is it? Do you know for sure?

Where does the mind go after death? It has to exist somewhere, in some form. Your consciousness can't fade into a void. Otherwise, dreams have no basis.

Following this train of logic, death leads to eternal oblivion. Not a very heartening outcome. Isn't it more encouraging then, to have faith in God. I would take the latter over the former anyday of the week.

Well, if God doesn't exist or in other words, heaven and hell don't exist, then I have wasted my life worshiping a non-entity. Not true. Such a life gives one purpose, meaning, order and direction. Most importantly, hope. That is something exclusive for people who have faith.

What if you wake up one day and discover that heaven and hell do exist. That leaves you in a position that is entirely hopeless. God, if He is just, then, can't treat you the same as someone who has spent his/her whole life in His sincere worship and devotion. Why not be on the safe side?
 
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Originally posted by: kobymu
Our genes are not US (it's like saying that humens are chimpanzee, and we share 98% of u'r genes with them)
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Pssst our genes regulate the production of the amino acids that provide the building blocks of what we are, and

You can't honestly say that our children (progeny) is as far removed from us as that of the chimpanzee.

Your genes are what make yourself a human being instead of a worm or jellyfish, and while

it's true that we share about 98% of our genes with chimps, we also share 96% of our genes with rats.

Try again. ;)

 
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