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[Dmitri]

Hi everyone,

this is going to be a bit difficult, as I can't mention our company name in this post because of the board's rules, but here goes:
This was initially posted on the resveratrol forum, and I was asked to copy it here to see if folks are interested.

Many folks on this board already purchase our resveratrol on a monthly basis...

To that effect we will be sending 10% of what you already purchase from our company to help the thefirstimmortal.
To help get things going, we will provide a 5% discount on your purchases made at our site for this objective.

The simple fact is that you will automatically help a fellow member by purchasing what you already do, and get a 5% discount on top of it all. Please remember to use the following code at checkout to get 5% off, and allow us to place 10% of your purchase toward help of this lifetime member:

The Code is: "IMMORTAL"


Thank you, and I hope this helps.
Anthony Loera

BTW: if you are wondering what company we are talking about, we have a banner in the resveratrol forums here:
http://www.imminst.o...atrol-f312.html

What do you mean you can't post your company's name? I see people posting the name of several brands and companies from the supplements they take, so why shouldn't you be able too?

[thefirstimmortal]

What kind of family members would worry about getting their money back, when you are dying?

Anyway, I hope you get better. Don't give up hope; if Lance Armstrong was able to survive testicular, brain, lung and abdomen cancer why shouldn't you be able too?

Hi Dmitri,
I don’t feel entitled to their money Dmitri, it’s theirs to dispose as they please. For that matter, I don’t feel entitled to any of the money this organization has, or the member’s personal wealth here. It is an act of charity and grace that they give.

And thank you, I’m not giving up hope Dmitri, far from it. I remain cautiously optimistic.
Live Long and Well

[thefirstimmortal]

I had to let my Kuglers go a few days ago. Unlike my washer and drier, which are easily replaceable, these items are not. Should I survive, these are assets I would like back, so I gave a very favorable price to a private collector in exchange for terms of buying back for 15% over the sale price.

I have enough to keep this computer line open until snow flies, filling Carols freezer, and I just figured out fuel for the rest of the riding season. My bike gets a high of 46 miles to the gallon to a low of 40 mpg. I have enough left over to purchase 50 gallons, which gets me at least 2,000 miles. The doctor is 43.26 miles, one way, or 86.52 round trip. I have at least 5 more trips for this round of chemo cycle, making that 432.miles. My grandparents are 120 miles away or 240 miles round trip, I would l would like to visit them at least 4 times before the snow flies. That’s 960 miles. That leaves 608 miles or 202 miles per month, or 6.7 miles a day. It’s 6 miles to the post office every time I check the mail, 12 miles round, and 12 miles to town, or 24 round trip. But that’s doable if I conserve and consolidate my trips.

For those of you not familiar, J.C. Kugler was born in Dortmund, West Germany. His father and grandfather were established artists who were involved with much of the restoration of the art on the walls and ceilings of cathedrals in Germany after World War II. The environment around J.C. was a major influence; he began to paint at an early age, and earned his first awards in high school. J. C. attended Stephen F. Austin State University, and has since been a full-time artist.

I find his works innovative and creative. I found his works peaceful and they had a boldness at the same time. I never tire looking at these works.

Kugler’s work has met with enthusiastic acceptance in the art world. In dealing with elements of illusionism and abstract expressionism, it exists firmly within the current of contemporary art, but it is fresh and spontaneous in its approach. This pic is me in front of my painting years ago.

Today J. C. Kugler’s work is featured in fine galleries around the country, in many private collections, and in major corporate collections, including Compac Computer, Shoney Corporation, General Electric Corporation, Aurora, IBM, Motorola, Jiffy Lube, Piccadilly, The Software Connection, HL&P, Near Systems, Stone Fort National Bank, Frank Hammett AMC, Union National Bank, Meyerland Bank, and The Greenway Hotel, just to name a few.

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Different angle

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Different angle

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Set behind my gladiola.

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My second Kugler

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Another angle of 2nd Kugler

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This is a sample of his work.

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Edited by thefirstimmortal, 31 July 2008 - 02:19 PM.

[thefirstimmortal]

Another fine work.

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The only copy of his work I really would have wanted to add to my collection. Mostly because of the music note, and I'm a big music fan.

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[Varkaus]

....Quick questions

Wheres the food?
How do you afford all those viatimns?

[thefirstimmortal]

....Quick questions

Wheres the food?
How do you afford all those viatimns?

That picture is old, because it's been years since milk has been part of my diet, and see those nasty white bread English muffins. I see a ripe banana, red onion, a dozen eggs. The two food crispers held my food. That’s plenty of room, and don’t forget, had a freezer too, no vity’s in there.

[thefirstimmortal]

My sister just e-mailed me some pics she took while up here for her class reunion. This is a pic of her, she is the one on the left in the black and white dress.

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This is one of us with our Mother. My Mother was diagnosed with leukemia sometime in March. Her Mother, my Grandmother died 2 years ago at the age 89 from stomach cancer.

I don’t know if you caught it or not, but you see I’m wearing an upside down flag, with phoenix flames wrapped around the P.

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Edited by thefirstimmortal, 07 August 2008 - 02:07 AM.

[thefirstimmortal]

This is one she took of me in front of my bike. I’m wearing my Dale Earnhardt senior Jacket. I don’t imagine there are many NASCAR fans here.

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[thefirstimmortal]

This shot is from 6 or 7 years ago. I post this because in the next post you will see a picture of what my arm currently looks like as far as muscle mass goes. Not that I ever really had much in the way of muscles, but you can see that there is some muscle on my shoulder and a small amount of bicep.

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[thefirstimmortal]

My upper arm now isn’t much larger than my forearm, whereas you can see a noticeable difference in the previous picture. This was taken after I got my weight up closer to 140. I’m currently 128.5 and dropping.
That boney little nub high up on my shoulder on the back part, that just plain looks wrong.

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Edited by thefirstimmortal, 07 August 2008 - 03:02 AM.

[thefirstimmortal]

Why is my thread Prognosis and Medical up-date for The First Immortal closed and locked? Who locked it, and why. Please open it back up.

[thefirstimmortal]

Now, besides my brain as the single most important organ to keep, I'd likely be okay with giving up the rest of my body and merge with robots, i'd even be secretly glad transform into a transhuman, post-human cyborg, no such thing as lung cancer then right? i guess no sex either, bummer. In some of the more dangerous activities i did, a moment seemed to last for an eternity and i was happy. If you had fun riding motorcycles, that was well worth it.

WOW HYP86,

I was all exited about the cyborg thing, are you sure about the no sex thing, because up until you said that given the choice, I would rather have been a cyborg instead of 100 percent human. I like the thought of technology becoming part of my body. As a human, I am constantly running to the toolbox in my garage to get a tool to deal with some new household malfunction. If I were a cyborg, I might have an electric drill on my arm, plus a metric socket set. That would save a lot of trips. From what I’ve seen, the cyborg concept is a modular design, so you can add whatever tools you think you’d use most.

I’d love to see crosshairs appear in my viewfinder every time I looked at someone. It would make me feel menacing, and I’d like that. I’d program myself so that anytime I saw a censoring Navigator, a little message would appear in my viewfinder that said “Target Locked On.”

It would also be great to have my computer built into my skull. That would have been really useful in the past I could have surfed the Net during useless periods of life, such as when my exgirlfriend was trying to talk to me. All I’d have had do have done was to initiate a head-nodding subroutine during boring conversations and I could amuse myself in my head all day long.

I think that if anyone could become a cyborg, there would be a huge rush of people getting in line for the conversion. Kids would like it for the look. Adults would like it for its utility. Cyborg technology has something for everyone. So, I can imagine everyone wanting to be a cyborg.



The only downside I can see is that when the human part dies and you’re at the funeral, the cyborg part will try to claw its way out of the casket and slay all the mourners. But that risk can be minimized by saying you have an important board meeting at Imminst, so you can’t make it to the service.

[Heliotrope]

Well I don't want to be a complete cyborg anytime soon, maybe gradually shifting to cyborg status when I'm getting frail as a 70 year old man and realizing the singularity, biological immortality, virtual living, etc are unlikely. I'd try to keep as much of my own CNS (central nervous system) so as to have cryostasis as an option, but the cyborg is not as likely to be destroyed as pure human, but just in case and allow Alcor the option to preserve brain if body completedly broken and not repairable, but getting a new cyborg body may be easier.

By that time, I hope "necessities" like food, sex will not be necessary for cyborg. Some part of my brain may still feel the desire, but these things should not be vital to survival. That's still decades into the future tho, and by then, if a % of me becomes machine, say 70% machine, i may not feel that much desire for food, sex because I'll have other necessities to worry about, like recharging of batteries, getting solar power thru panels for an hour per day, etc. I'll have had a lifetime of food and sex by then. It should be enough and leave me with fond memories. Most people on earth don't even get to live to be 60 or 70, like in some African societies, expectancy is only 30 to 40 years old, that is, most of those people die before they get to 40. The most attractive thing is that if I become cyborg/robot/android whatever and the successful merger of organic body and machine happens, then much greater chance for me to exist for 1000's of years and wait for better technology. Existence would be the top goal. Continuity of thought and hopefullys same personality

Now, besides my brain as the single most important organ to keep, I'd likely be okay with giving up the rest of my body and merge with robots, i'd even be secretly glad transform into a transhuman, post-human cyborg, no such thing as lung cancer then right? i guess no sex either, bummer. In some of the more dangerous activities i did, a moment seemed to last for an eternity and i was happy. If you had fun riding motorcycles, that was well worth it.

WOW HYP86,

I was all exited about the cyborg thing, are you sure about the no sex thing, because up until you said that given the choice, I would rather have been a cyborg instead of 100 percent human. I like the thought of technology becoming part of my body. As a human, I am constantly running to the toolbox in my garage to get a tool to deal with some new household malfunction. If I were a cyborg, I might have an electric drill on my arm, plus a metric socket set. That would save a lot of trips. From what I've seen, the cyborg concept is a modular design, so you can add whatever tools you think you'd use most.

I'd love to see crosshairs appear in my viewfinder every time I looked at someone. It would make me feel menacing, and I'd like that. I'd program myself so that anytime I saw a censoring Navigator, a little message would appear in my viewfinder that said "Target Locked On."

It would also be great to have my computer built into my skull. That would have been really useful in the past I could have surfed the Net during useless periods of life, such as when my exgirlfriend was trying to talk to me. All I'd have had do have done was to initiate a head-nodding subroutine during boring conversations and I could amuse myself in my head all day long.

I think that if anyone could become a cyborg, there would be a huge rush of people getting in line for the conversion. Kids would like it for the look. Adults would like it for its utility. Cyborg technology has something for everyone. So, I can imagine everyone wanting to be a cyborg.



The only downside I can see is that when the human part dies and you're at the funeral, the cyborg part will try to claw its way out of the casket and slay all the mourners. But that risk can be minimized by saying you have an important board meeting at Imminst, so you can't make it to the service.

[thefirstimmortal]

Well I don't want to be a complete cyborg anytime soon, maybe gradually shifting to cyborg status when I'm getting frail as a 70 year old man and realizing the singularity, biological immortality, virtual living, etc are unlikely. I'd try to keep as much of my own CNS (central nervous system) so as to have cryostasis as an option, but the cyborg is not as likely to be destroyed as pure human, but just in case and allow Alcor the option to preserve brain if body completedly broken and not repairable, but getting a new cyborg body may be easier.

By that time, I hope "necessities" like food, sex will not be necessary for cyborg. Some part of my brain may still feel the desire, but these things should not be vital to survival. That's still decades into the future tho, and by then, if a % of me becomes machine, say 70% machine, i may not feel that much desire for food, sex because I'll have other necessities to worry about, like recharging of batteries, getting solar power thru panels for an hour per day, etc. I'll have had a lifetime of food and sex by then. It should be enough and leave me with fond memories. Most people on earth don't even get to live to be 60 or 70, like in some African societies, expectancy is only 30 to 40 years old, that is, most of those people die before they get to 40. The most attractive thing is that if I become cyborg/robot/android whatever and the successful merger of organic body and machine happens, then much greater chance for me to exist for 1000's of years and wait for better technology. Existence would be the top goal. Continuity of thought and hopefullys same personality

I don't know if you got it or not HYP86, but I was being facetious.

Edited by thefirstimmortal, 10 August 2008 - 11:23 PM.

[Lazarus Long]

What are you worried about anyway, sex is really in the mind and a cyborg still has that and more. It is possible to conceive of sensory ability far more intense than mere flesh but there are so many possibilities.

Anyway I thought you would like the cover story of this month's Popular Science, a wearable motorcycle. It is being developed by an engineering student that I think saw too many Transformer cartoons as an infant. The article calls it the love child between a Segway and Ironman. Now that sounds like a wet dream, Well at least wetwear for your software. Let's just say it is not your average crotch rocket.



A motorcycle you can wear

The machine's motors get their juice from a hybrid power pack of doped Nanophosphate batteries and ultracapacitors. It's straight from the imagination of Jake Loniak, who foresees acceleration of zero to sixty in three seconds and a top speed of 75 mph. It also has seven artificial vertebrae, 36 pneumatically activated "muscles" and an attached helmet, just the thought of which gives us a phantom neck ache.

It is being made by a design group called Hell for Leather

The PopSci cover shows it in full speed mode where it descends down to a very low CG and the driver is the body of the bike.

[Lazarus Long]

BTW for the life extensionists that want to ride but feel there is perhaps too much risk in your regular motorcycle there is always the Peraves MonoTracer. Though that assumes you have a spare $70K lying around for your daily commute.

[thefirstimmortal]

BTW for the life extensionists that want to ride but feel there is perhaps too much risk in your regular motorcycle there is always the Peraves MonoTracer. Though that assumes you have a spare $70K lying around for your daily commute.

Give me #62

[Heliotrope]

Well I don't want to be a complete cyborg anytime soon, maybe gradually shifting to cyborg status when I'm getting frail as a 70 year old man and realizing the singularity, biological immortality, virtual living, etc are unlikely. I'd try to keep as much of my own CNS (central nervous system) so as to have cryostasis as an option, but the cyborg is not as likely to be destroyed as pure human, but just in case and allow Alcor the option to preserve brain if body completedly broken and not repairable, but getting a new cyborg body may be easier.

By that time, I hope "necessities" like food, sex will not be necessary for cyborg. Some part of my brain may still feel the desire, but these things should not be vital to survival. That's still decades into the future tho, and by then, if a % of me becomes machine, say 70% machine, i may not feel that much desire for food, sex because I'll have other necessities to worry about, like recharging of batteries, getting solar power thru panels for an hour per day, etc. I'll have had a lifetime of food and sex by then. It should be enough and leave me with fond memories. Most people on earth don't even get to live to be 60 or 70, like in some African societies, expectancy is only 30 to 40 years old, that is, most of those people die before they get to 40. The most attractive thing is that if I become cyborg/robot/android whatever and the successful merger of organic body and machine happens, then much greater chance for me to exist for 1000's of years and wait for better technology. Existence would be the top goal. Continuity of thought and hopefullys same personality

I don't know if you got it or not HYP86, but I was being facetious.

lol, sorry i didn't really notice. i had my suspicions that you were joking, but i did not know you as well as the veterans. i thought you were probably half-hearted, half-serious tho. Good job man, keep on living well.

Nice to see you have humor in terminal-stage cancer. sometimes that's what it takes to beat your deadly form of cancer, attitude and humor (and high tech and the megadosing etc).

i was kinda on the extreme, edgy side, but if merging with the machines/robotics will be better and grant me more life and time to do more for universe (provided it's very safe and secure for me personally, pose no big threat etc), then i may happily take it with some safety valves like still neuro-cryo-suspendable etc. by then, i'm afraid my body may deterioriate and weaken a lot, and i wont exactly be tall, dark, handsome or anything i look like right now as a young 22-yo guy, so i'm okay to be a durable, long-lasting, and hard-to-destroy being. i still like my body right now and hopefully exist as long as possible, try to beat the 120-yr psuedo-limit. hopefully the technology matures by then.

Edited by HYP86, 11 August 2008 - 05:23 PM.

[thefirstimmortal]

I don't know if you got it or not HYP86, but I was being facetious.


lol, sorry i didn't really notice. i had my suspicions that you were joking, but i did not know you as well as the veterans. i thought you were probably half-hearted, half-serious tho.

Yeah, not everyone gets my brand of humor.

Good job man, keep on living well.

Nice to see you have humor in terminal-stage cancer. sometimes that's what it takes to beat your deadly form of cancer, attitude and humor (and high tech and the megadosing etc).

I am an Immortalist/Life Extensionist, this is why this isn't throwing me for a loop. After all, I have a whole future to look forward to. I really believe that, if I didn't, who knows, maybe I would be brooding and depressed. But what do I currently have to brood or be depressed about?
Live Long and Well

[thefirstimmortal]

Posted on cryonet

Mike Perry wrote;
Yes, you are right. Apparently at ImmInst where Mr. O'Rights has been
posting the focus now is on beating the cancer rather than the
expensive path of arranging for cryopreservation. (To me a form of
denial, granted that he should be fighting the cancer too.)

Bill O’Right writes;
Mike (William O’Rights smiles warmly) I am comprised of equal parts of Immortalist and Life Extensionist.

[thefirstimmortal]

Posted on Cryonet

YOU’VE GOT CANCER”, they’re the 3 words you never want to hear Mike. If any Immortalist/Life extensionist should ever find themself in the future being diagnosed with cancer, don’t let your world be turned upside-down. If you can’t get over the initial shock you may not be capable of making sound decisions about your health and treatment options. I can’t stress enough, don’t panic. You will need to be clear-headed, so that you can make the right choices. Always keep in mind that others have been down this road before and have received this diagnosis. Some have recovered and are surviving today and of course others have not. If you’re a true Immortalist/Life extensionist, you should think differently about situations such as these.

As a life extensionist/Immortalist the first thing you have to do is establish hope, there is reason for hope. Everyone responds differently to learning about a terminal illness, but an optimistic attitude is vital right from the beginning. A strong positive outlook cannot be underestimated in its power to contribute significantly to a successful outcome. I’m talking real hope, not denial. Denial is one of those textbook first-stage reactions that people go through after learning they have a terminal disease. It may be the best approach for non-life extensionists who would rather sweep the issue under the rug, after all denial does work to numb your reality. Denial can be a wonderful drug, though it often comes at a high price.

I am no ostrich with my head in the sand. I am fully aware of the grim statistics about small cell lung cancer and the overwhelming mortality rate associated with the disease. My odds are currently less than 1 and 200 of surviving this. Let me put it to you this way, if you were to take a gun with 200 chambers in it and fill it all with bullets all except for one chamber and pointed it at my head (and I’m not suggesting for moment that you do) spin the chamber and pull the trigger the odds that the hammer would come down on the empty chamber are my odds of survival.

Live Long and Well
William Constitution O’Rights

Edited by thefirstimmortal, 19 August 2008 - 06:11 PM.

[thefirstimmortal]

Hey Sentinel, these are some flowers William O'Rights style.

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