I am interested in why you want to become immortal, or if not immortal, to live for thousands of years?
What is your motive. What are your reasons?
Posted 07 June 2003 - 03:12 AM
Posted 07 June 2003 - 10:09 AM
Edited by XxDoubleHelixX, 07 June 2003 - 10:11 AM.
Posted 07 June 2003 - 01:44 PM
Posted 07 June 2003 - 02:45 PM
Edited by Utnapishtim, 07 June 2003 - 02:52 PM.
Posted 07 June 2003 - 11:22 PM
One cannot become immortal in a universe where the conditions for sustaining intelligent, conscious life are forever contingent ~ in other words, "the unknown" is an inherent feature of the universe, no matter who or what you are ~ or seek to become. Intelligent, conscious life can, however, continually seek to improve the conditions that make it ever more likely that it can subsist and thrive forever. A subtle, but important difference.I am interested in why you want to become immortal, or if not immortal, to live for thousands of years?
To fully realize the potential of consciousness in perpetuity, in relation to existence. To fully realize my own potential and to enjoy my life to the fullest each and every day for as long as the universe can sustain intelligent, conscious life ~ or for as long as intelligent, conscious life can sustain the universe if or when that becomes necessary (if or when it acquires the power to do so).What is your motive. What are your reasons?
Posted 08 June 2003 - 03:53 AM
I am interested in why you want to become immortal, or if not immortal, to live for thousands of years?
What is your motive. What are your reasons?
Posted 08 June 2003 - 12:20 PM
To simply exist, to live simply, to live fully ~ are not synonymous. Certainly, no one requires a reason (justification) to exist, but there are many who require reasons (motivation) to live, whether simply or fully ... or indefinitely. But the desire to live indefinitely may imply a desire to simply exist, or to live simply, or to live fully. For me, a desire to live indefinitely implies all three, at different times, in different places, for different reasons. Although we don't need a justification for wanting to live, we do need sound motivation to keep us from dwelling on whether we need a justification. To live fully and to realize your potential answer the need for motivation; they embellish the fact that we need no justification for wanting to live.I don't know of many people, even very old ones, who don't want to keep living, unless of course, they are in excruciating pain. Even the vast majority of those who are in excruciating pain and wish to die believe in, or wish they could believe in, a continued existence in some supernatural realm where their pain is gone. All the other reasons, enjoying life, self-actualization. etc., strike me as ex post facto rationalizations (no disrespect intended) for the simple fact that we desire to keep living. Why must we have a justification for wanting to live?
Posted 08 June 2003 - 01:36 PM
To simply exist, to live simply, to live fully ~ are not synonymous. Certainly, no one requires a reason (justification) to exist, but there are many who require reasons (motivation) to live, whether simply or fully ... or indefinitely. But the desire to live indefinitely may imply a desire to simply exist, or to live simply, or to live fully. For me, a desire to live indefinitely implies all three, at different times, in different places, for different reasons. Although we don't need a justification for wanting to live, we do need sound motivation to keep us from dwelling on whether we need a justification. To live fully and to realize your potential answer the need for motivation; they embellish the fact that we need no justification for wanting to live.
Posted 11 June 2003 - 06:16 AM
wanting to live was some strange freak's dream rather than a universal human drive
Edited by Casanova, 11 June 2003 - 06:25 AM.
Posted 11 June 2003 - 08:36 AM
Posted 12 June 2003 - 03:51 AM
As we would live on longer advancements would be sought and implemented to lessen the ability to die.
Posted 12 June 2003 - 08:12 AM
Edited by XxDoubleHelixX, 12 June 2003 - 08:17 AM.
Posted 16 June 2003 - 09:33 AM
I am interested in why you want to become immortal, or if not immortal, to live for thousands of years?
Posted 17 July 2003 - 06:26 PM
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