Why shouldn't we let people decay into oblivion? List your reasons in this topic.
There are many reasons to not want to let people decay into oblivion if they dont have to.
People should get to see the future if they can. There’s no reason to stop them if we don’t have to, even if it means hard work. We shouldn’t be afraid of hard work, it’s fun and pioneering. Humans are entrepreneurs and it’s the entrepreneurs spirit. Where there is not need for limit, then limits must not be had. Progress continues to open doors and we must continue to keep up.
Like Theodore Roosevelt once said, "Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing."
We cannot be content to die if we don’t know what is going on.
strange_unexplainable_world_indefinite_life_extension.jpg 58.98KB 5 downloadsIf you woke up tomorrow on a pink planet with walking trees and birds that flew backwards singing Elvis songs then you need to figure out what is going on. You would be looked upon with shame if you weren’t deeply interested in figuring it out, but rather were indifferent to it and content to live out the rest of your life on that planet. That is exactly what this earth is like. Just because we have gotten used to it doesn’t mean its normal. This is an off the charts bizarre, seemingly infinite mystery. If you don’t fully realize this yet then this is because you are unable to spot fallacy in your thinking. In order to alleviate this, read up on fallacy and work to learn how to spot when your thoughts are fallacy or not. Those of us who view our entrapment and as of yet inevitable decay on this earth as normal need to realize that we have succumbed to what many call the Stockholm syndrome for one, and realize it for what it is.
Like the people trapped in the cave in Platos parable, we cannot ever remain content to live out a life with limited understanding. We must constantly seek to uncover the mystery. We must do this until we finally know, and can decide what to do next, live or die, and other things, based on the big picture, and not be eager to jump into our graves, be content to be pushed into our graves, based on such a limited understanding of what is going on. We must do this until we finally know, or until we are crushed by the randomosities of existence.
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People are trained in to guide the world only to be continuously massacred and replaced by people who have to learn everything over again from scratch.
wild_horse_indefinite_life_extension.jpg 44.33KB 2 downloadsIts like the world is a wild stallion. We are like horse trainers with week long life spans. In one week we have to try to learn how to train horses. Then we get on the wild horse, try to train it and rein it under control, but we die after a week and another trainer jumps on, tries to put the reins on it, but they die after a week and so on. If we had longer life spans we would have time to get on the problems of this world, put the reins on it and get it under control.
People are unique, extremely valuable and rare wealths of knowledge and insight.
Many of you are probably familiar with the fate of the library of Alexandria one of the largest and greatest libraries of ancient times. It was burned to the ground by invading forces and lost forever to time. It is widely regarded as one of the biggest losses of ancient knowledge in history. What would we do to be able to get our hands on just one of those scrolls? What kinds of fantastic wonders might they go over, what epic stories might they be able to tell us about, what morals and lessons have been lost there? What advancements were made long before we think they were? What great thinkers are we now unable to give credit to for where we are today? What inspirations are lost forever to the landfills of time? It is a great loss no doubt but why aren’t we wishing for the writers back? Rather than the scrolls themselves, why not wish for the very writers of the scrolls themselves back? Every person who dies is like many library of Alexandria’s being burnt to the ground and lost forever to time. Let’s make sure we don’t lose any more of them, lets fortify our walls and send the invaders back into the sea.
We owe it to our ancestors for struggling to achieve all we have today.
ancestors_struggle_to_deliver_to_transhuman_era_indefinite_life_extension.gif 420.12KB 3 downloadsThis is the next great human mission. Through blood, sweat and tears, progress, joys, and dreams, our ancestors have delivered us to this cusp at the end of the technology era, which is emerging into the grand new Transhuman era. In a way, we have been preparing through out all of human existence for this. We cannot let our ancestors down. This is an immense homage we owe to them for their great sacrifices and hard work, as well as an obligation that we owe to ourselves and all of our dear progeny of the future.
The pain that comes with end of life years is unreal.
We must sacrifice for the movement for indefinite life extension like we were on fire, because we are. Aging is burning us alive from the inside out. The price is not too high. If you doubt it, ask the 36,500,000 people that are living in the fires of aging, getting set to die in this next year. That’s an astonishing 100,000 every single day until the movement for indefinite life extensions goals are all accomplished.
Ask the Hospice patients across the world whether great sacrifice for this cause is worth it. elderly_pain_immortality.jpg 49.96KB 3 downloads
Ask the cancer patients amongst them that are dissolving away on the inside, wracking in pain, sweating in the empty, many times compassionless nursing home rooms.
elderly_pain_movement_life_extension_indefinite.jpg 12.26KB 0 downloadsAsk the heart disease victims, in their 80s and 90s, going under the knife, through the horrifying procedure of having your ribs sawed and cracked open, long arteries cut from their arms and legs and wrapped around their hearts so that they may contemplate their severely deteriorated states as they wait in the flames of aging for imminent death.
Ask those dreamers whos joys and aspirations have been truncated and met with their new hospital death beds.
Ask those families who are being strangled by the reality of being forced to come to terms with the eternal obliteration of their loved ones. elder_pain_movement_indefinite_life_extension.jpg 9.98KB 0 downloads
Ask the rich, vibrant, colorful, fascinating annals of history, that are having their hard earned, profound and original volumes ripped from their shelves, burned and buried, lost forever until the end of time.
elderly_pain_movement_for_indefinite_life_extension.jpg 40.52KB 1 downloadsAsk them what sacrifices are enough.
To quote Felicia Nimue Ackerman, professor of philosophy at Brown University, “The blanket presumption that the latter states [of poverty, pain, ill health] bring ‘misery’ that is worse than death is disrespectful to those who, having experienced them, disagree.”
This movement cannot be impeded by the faint of heart, those who would make excuses, and those who would put their own limited selfish interests above those of the worlds indefinite life extension.
Not only do the fires of affliction consume us in horrible mind melting torture for many years. They also rob us of an endlessly big and multifaceted gift of existence. The universe and all of existence is a big, incredible mysterious place that we hardly know anything about. All of humanities combined experience with it to date is equivalent to not even having taken it out of the box yet. These countless opportunities can be summed up in this list of 8 things.
There are many more reasons to not want people to decay into oblivion as well. Fight death, stop aging, join the cause. If you want your life, if you want to try to learn more about the wonders of the universe and existence then join the cause.
Edited by brokenportal, 06 March 2012 - 08:52 PM.