If we here at Imminist support super longevity and look at death as a blight, an insult to our humanity, than isn't there a contradiction of sorts where we are in danger of becoming our own religious/cult, in this case people who lean very strongly towards absolute freedom to do what we want pertaining to life extension and our right to life as a sacred thing unto itself? Couldn't a religious zealot accuse us of being ourselves religious in our own right, exclusive and intellectually headstrong mired only in our own ideological belief systems like the idea that death=oblivion. People could easily point the finger at us and say those guys are bunch of headstrong frat boys whose mascot is an hourglass while commercialy preaching ideas of conquering death as if it were an opressive political force when in reality it is a natural affect of being alive that does not discriminate at all. I'm playing devils advocate here because I'm just as adament about this cause as anyone else, but it is interesting to see how some people might view organizations such as ours as out of touch with reality and the traditions of the past ideologies. Now there are a whole range of people here from top scientists in the field to casual hangers on/writers like myself and I love this site and respect it dearly. So how can we continue to keep our head above ground so to speak without feeling we are in danger of becomine a whining bunch of generation Xers who don't want to die! What would a war hero say [lol]
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