26 replies to this topic

[seanait]

Hey, just out of curosity, anyone heard of the show Highlander? That show was the one that really got me going on Immortality.

[Bruce Klein]

yeah... cool show.

[thefirstimmortal]

Nice Avatar Seanait [thumb]

[advancedatheist]

Hey, just out of curosity, anyone heard of the show Highlander? That show was the one that really got me going on Immortality.

So, when we become immortal, we're supposed to go around trying to cut off each other's heads with swords for "the Quickening" until "There can be only One"?

I can see a need for a positive portrayal of immortality in popular culture that relies on something plausibly scientific instead of violence, predation, parasitism or the supernatural. Stargate SG-1 comes close, but none of the main characters has taken advantage of radical life extension.

[DJS]

There can be only one [thumb] [tung]

[John Doe]

One of the many advantages of this message board is that pop culture, as opposed to philosophy, science, and politics, is rarely mentioned.

[Bruce Klein]

True. And one of the few advantages of pop culture is that such works as Highlander portray reference to physical immortality, which can provide a nice commonality for general discussion.

[seanait]

thanx for defending me!

[Da55id]

The thing I like about Highland is that it shows how bad it stinks to be the only one not aging. So, we ALL need to be cured of this disease!

How old am I?

What does that mean?

[seanait]

Yeah, but there's several of them that don't age. Like Duncan, Connor, Richie, Amanda, etc. Still like the idea. I'm just being argumentive.

[Bruce Klein]

thanx for defending me!

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[John Doe]

thanx for defending me!

[thumb]

James Hughes has published an excellent article on the relationship between media and transhumanism at betterhumans:

http://www.betterhum...ID=2003-12-22-3

[Da55id]

Yeah, but there's several of them that don't age. Like Duncan, Connor, Richie, Amanda, etc. Still like the idea. I'm just being argumentive.

No you're not! [tung]

[seanait]

Yes i is
That's just how i am

[faolan]

I know what it is

[Lazarus Long]

MethuselahMouse you don't happen to be an aficionado of old Monty Python skits are you?

Because I came here for an argument not simple gainsay and contradiction!

And JD thanks for James' article it was wonderful. Are you folks members of the tribes also?

[Da55id]

Yes - I love Monty Python!

Lazarus - In all seriousness, I find all your posts to exhibit great powers of observation, experience, to be very wonderfully thoughtful, prescient and beneficial. Feel free to argue...

[Lazarus Long]

Thanks Methuselah the feeling is mutual. But I paid for an argument! [ang] )

[Da55id]

Show me the money!

[Lazarus Long]

Good point. I must attend to some things but I think I will make a donation in the next few months to the "Prize." I want to review the circumstances of the guarantees and safeguards of protecting the pot but I have nothing but praise for the goals and the method.

[Da55id]

aaack! I didn't mean that. I was just trying to help you start an argument

[seanait]

advancedatheist, i actually think that being a Highlander Immortal would be fun. A life that's consistly surprising you. I like life that changes like that.

[Hypermere]

this thread is amusing for two reasons...first, i almost shuddered at the mention of SG-1. around the time of the quake in Bam, let's just say i didn't sleep well. if anyone has heard about the now declassified Stargate Program, you know what i mean.
one really, i guess you could say trippy, experience i had when watching Highlander a while back was when they showed the tombstone of James Horton. hopefully that's the only time i should see my name on one of those useless slabs.

[seanait]

Oh.... wow... Hehe... scary.... Hmm, so... your name's Horton? hehe... (stated haltingly) :0

[seanait]

Hehe, no offense, James. It just shocked me a little when I wrote that. Sorry if I offended you in any way.

[chubtoad]

Great show, almost as good as Walker Texas Ranger.

[Hypermere]

LOL, no offense taken seanait...I'm just on the road and don't have the opportunity to log on as much as I'd like...am hitching to Raleigh to try to gain entrance to grad school. Should be there soon. Anyhow, yes, and I did hear a "Who"