What would you do if you had the money to stay 25 for 1,000 years?

Originally posted by Shakyamunison
You will not be free of religion. You just showed me your religion. Sorry, but I am a Buddha, not a robot. I inhabit a flesh machine made by nature. You will never be able to top that.

What's so good about being human anyway? I'm sure a neanderthal thought he was superior to the homo-sapiens that killed his kind off.

Humans are an affront to nature - we unbalance the eco system. Before us no single mammalian species was able to multiply to the billions and alter the eco-system; our technology seems to be transcendental, and you know for a fact that it's not going to be? We've outsourced our knowledge into it, its a apart of our flesh and blood now, as unnatural as us.

If you know humans are the end of the line, or that you can't change into something that transcends the definition of human (apart from death and rebirth), than you're very narrow minded.

As I said, the human species, and all the philosophers and scientists within it, live very short lives, their understanding has been limited to their life-span (which is why science helps us understand so much more, a collaborative enterprise spanning the generations down the line). So if there are more free-thinking minds, that have longer to develop in an exponential cycle - we will understand so much more about what is "natural" by not giving up and dying because it's "natural".

I get certain rush thinking about evolving, my mind becoming better and better, my abilities, my skills, my knowledge, better and better for thousands of years. Can you imagine the product? My body, my mind, my very dna will be totally different, I would be an entirely different person.

That's if I don't switch substrates with an in vivo neuron--->nanite transformation. Probably in pill form.

In the late 20th century this mad scientist mumbo jumbo has put the fear of God into any aspiring transhumanist. But that is all the New Order's public reputation - not at all what it is hyped up to be.

A religious group operates a lot like the New Order, preaching the word, handing out Bibles and Bhagavad Ghitas, trying to sale what they preach and hope for buyers to read it over and maybe initiate themselves and affiliate with this cult. It is all very nonsensical to me, what I preach is understood as crazy sci fi mumbo jumbo, and all the better for it.

A leader inspires through actions, not through words or doctrines or philosophies, but through results. In every religion a Savior or a Prophet performs miracles - yet we've never seen the actual miracles.

For me, I wouldn't want to inspire through supernatural miracles, but through abilities that can be understood and quantified - yet are miraculous in their own right, tasks that defy the odds. Magnus Carlsen is one such person.

@ Dolos

You have Anakin Skywalker as your avatar, and you don't get the lesson of Darth Vader.

Originally posted by Shakyamunison
@ Dolos

You have Anakin Skywalker as your avatar, and you don't get the lesson of Darth Vader.

Homer wrote a similar character to Vader in his Iliad.

A man named Achilles - who would inspire Alexander the Great - who would inspire Augustus Caesar who would rule as the first Roman Emperor - who, incidentally, would inspire me.

In this way, am not inspired by the failures of the Achilles archetypes, like Vader, but by this notion to be exclusively great enough to conquer the evils that beset man.

Originally posted by Dolos
Star Wars is fictitious.

Homer wrote a similar character to Vader in his Iliad.

A man named Achilles - who would inspire Alexander the Great - who would inspire Augustus Caesar who would rule as the first Roman Emperor - who, incidentally, would inspire me.

I am not inspired by Achilles' failure, but by his plan to succeed.

Homer is fiction.

Originally posted by Shakyamunison
Homer is fiction.

Alexander the Great and Octavius Caesar were entirely real. Alexander is my greatest inspiration. And while he purportedly died short of his goal, he paved the way for Rome - a nation that shaped the modern world.

Originally posted by Dolos
No, he was a real author, who wrote the Iliad based on a long-forgotten war that actually didn't take place anywhere near Troja. The war was not fought over a woman, it was fought over tin. Many people speculate that Troy was, in fact, Atlantis.

Alexander the Great and Octavius Caesar were entirely real. Alexander is my greatest inspiration. And while he purportedly died short of his goal, he paved the way for Rome - a nation that shaped the modern world.

I was just kidding with you.

You know Homer Simpson?

No?

Originally posted by Dolos
No?

D'oh?

If I could be 25 for a 1,000 years I'd do a lot... seriously. I'd learn to whistle really good, and run really fast, and play the kazoo, and I'd also learn to make one kickass cup of joe...

Oh the things I would do...

So many...

Pointless....

Hilarious...

Things.

I don't agree that aging is a disease.
I liked being young but I like being older better.
I'd stay the age I am today though.