A link dump of vaguely philosophical musings, ramblings, agitations, yearnings, questions and answers from the staff and students at Bridgwater College, deep in the dark heart of Somerset...
That article was most interesting Saxon, well done, good find! And the comic was quite intriguing too. However taking the article first, I do think that immortality is still quiet impossible, I think that life is meant to go hand in hand with death, so even if you take away our gradual decay of our bodies, you are still left million other issues that might eventually ‘pick us off’ it could be, a disease or virus that eventually kills us, or maybe a drunk driver.
I do not think is possible for any person to live beyond on a certain amount of time, we all have our times, but our times do end. There will always be new diseases, there will always be drunk drivers and other deaths waiting to happen, the only way you could avoid certain death even with a an ‘anti-aging drug’ would be to lock yourself in an underground bunker away from the world from it’s drunk drivers and diseases, and never knowing what the world above you is like. Surely that defies the point of being immortal, surely if you were immortal you would want to watch the world pass you by, changing and growing?
I think the article was a good read, and yes, I agree that bodily decay may be able to be slowed down, maybe even stopped one day, but at the end of it, we could still die, are we any less mortal than we were before?
well, it's not possible NOW but in the future...who knows? we'd certainly have to change the way we viewed life if it continued forever... at the moment we're working with a finite amount of time, so the pressure to find what you really OUGHT to be doing is quite intense... with immortality, you'd never have to miss the boat... and, for that matter, 25 years in prison wouldn't be such a bad idea would it?
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That article was most interesting Saxon, well done, good find! And the comic was quite intriguing too. However taking the article first, I do think that immortality is still quiet impossible, I think that life is meant to go hand in hand with death, so even if you take away our gradual decay of our bodies, you are still left million other issues that might eventually ‘pick us off’ it could be, a disease or virus that eventually kills us, or maybe a drunk driver.
I do not think is possible for any person to live beyond on a certain amount of time, we all have our times, but our times do end. There will always be new diseases, there will always be drunk drivers and other deaths waiting to happen, the only way you could avoid certain death even with a an ‘anti-aging drug’ would be to lock yourself in an underground bunker away from the world from it’s drunk drivers and diseases, and never knowing what the world above you is like. Surely that defies the point of being immortal, surely if you were immortal you would want to watch the world pass you by, changing and growing?
I think the article was a good read, and yes, I agree that bodily decay may be able to be slowed down, maybe even stopped one day, but at the end of it, we could still die, are we any less mortal than we were before?
well, it's not possible NOW but in the future...who knows? we'd certainly have to change the way we viewed life if it continued forever... at the moment we're working with a finite amount of time, so the pressure to find what you really OUGHT to be doing is quite intense... with immortality, you'd never have to miss the boat... and, for that matter, 25 years in prison wouldn't be such a bad idea would it?
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