Comment Re:Quality, not quantity (Score 3, Insightful) 554
A beautiful sentiment, but naïve. A lot of these "I want to live forever" statements lack wisdom which usually comes with aging, at some point.
It's about time. Time is the most valuable currency we have. We have a finite amount of it. It helps define us and give each moment meaning.
Hypothetical immortality (think Tolkien's elves) would remove all value in time.
Can you imagine a world where people no longer cared about time any longer? They no longer cared about change? I don't think we've met a true conservative until we've met someone who is a thousand years old.
Those who say that life is beautiful and people are wonderful--well yes, the glass is half full. This is so because it's also half empty. If you take away our problems (a key one being mortality), then what is left is not a wonderful, indefinite life. It's simply existing. Forever. Not good. Not bad. Just existing. When you've done everything there is to do, and time has no meaning, you just are.
Sounds like hell, to me.
There must be change, and there must be uncertainty.
It's about time. Time is the most valuable currency we have. We have a finite amount of it. It helps define us and give each moment meaning.
Hypothetical immortality (think Tolkien's elves) would remove all value in time.
Can you imagine a world where people no longer cared about time any longer? They no longer cared about change? I don't think we've met a true conservative until we've met someone who is a thousand years old.
Those who say that life is beautiful and people are wonderful--well yes, the glass is half full. This is so because it's also half empty. If you take away our problems (a key one being mortality), then what is left is not a wonderful, indefinite life. It's simply existing. Forever. Not good. Not bad. Just existing. When you've done everything there is to do, and time has no meaning, you just are.
Sounds like hell, to me.
There must be change, and there must be uncertainty.
