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bumble
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Aubrey de Grey: Why we age and how we can avoid it
#8019535 - 02/13/08 08:41 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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-------------------- progressive trance: Brian Rogers
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im_on_a_boat
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Re: Aubrey de Grey: Why we age and how we can avoid it [Re: bumble]
#8019577 - 02/13/08 08:50 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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rip van winkle-havin ass..
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Nephlyte
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Re: Aubrey de Grey: Why we age and how we can avoid it [Re: im_on_a_boat]
#8021455 - 02/14/08 08:51 AM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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For many years now i've been a supporter of immortality. Not just because i don't want to die, but because the opportunity to not die is actually in humanity's hands.
Luckily i'm only 25. I will have a great chance to see a world where i do not have to age. Since i've gone to this ideology, i now take vitamins everyday and work out.
This way i preserve my biological processes until we can intervene with better and more advanced processes.
His idea of having a mouse rejuvenation program is awesome. I hope this actually gets funded from somewhere. Like he said, maybe if we stop spending a hundred billion a year in Iraq, we could spend it on something in direct opposition to death.
-------------------- "To do right is to know what you want. Now when you are dissatisfied with yourself it's because you are after something you don't really want. What objects are you proposing to yourself? Are they the objects you really value? If they are not, you are cheating yourself. I don't meant that if you chose to pursue the objects you most value, you will attain them; of course not. Your experience will tell you that. But success in getting after much labor what you really don't care for is the bitterest and most ridiculous failure." -George Santayana
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ThirdEyeOpening
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Re: Aubrey de Grey: Why we age and how we can avoid it [Re: Nephlyte]
#8041891 - 02/19/08 08:18 AM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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I have no problem with stoping aging, or reversing it. I have a problem with the fact that, you are now going to put the power to make people live forever (or close enough to) in to the hands of a government and soceity, that has the maturity level of a 5 year old, and wants to throw your ass in jail for a plant.
Those are EXACTLY the people i want to control my life even more, now we can make people live the whole 400 year prison sentence for dealing, or just completly deny them because they are of the lower crust.
However i do agree, aging is painfull and not fun, but i dont beleve any one should be allowed to live longer.
And i dont understand the problem with death. If your that afraid of it, or hurt that much by your gandmother passing away of old age, you my need to do some soul searching.
If we want to have the position of god, then lets stop acting like fucking kids.
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Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity. Im not too sure about the former. -Einstein Of course the rules need to be enforced, but the goal of law and order should be to create a just society, not to enforce laws. -Unknown “I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.” -Stephen Roberts
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blackegg
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Re: Aubrey de Grey: Why we age and how we can avoid it [Re: ThirdEyeOpening]
#8051276 - 02/21/08 10:15 AM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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Quote:
i now take vitamins everyday and work out.
guess it depends what kinda work out. body builders have notorious short life spans.
-------------------- 'Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they're wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain. It's all in how you carry it. That's what matters. Pain is a feeling. Your feelings are a part of you. Your own reality. If you feel ashamed of them, and hide them, you're letting society destroy your reality. You should stand up for your right to feel your pain and leave the Shroomery.' ~ Jim Morrison
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TheCow
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Re: Aubrey de Grey: Why we age and how we can avoid it [Re: ThirdEyeOpening]
#8051287 - 02/21/08 10:17 AM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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Quote:
ThirdEyeOpening said:
If we want to have the position of god, then lets stop acting like fucking kids.
Nah I think Ill do both
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