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Mar. 17th, 2005
Thought number one: Tracks 9 and 11 from The Beastie Boys To the 5 Boroughs kick. I've been listening to them on heavy rotation at work, and that they kick is an incontrovertible fact.
Thought number two: What will it take to keep us from dying? That is, it seems to me, more good life is something nearly all other activities aim at, so how can we keep that up? I'd love to get some feed-back on this one (I'm sure it doesn't seem so cut and dried to everyone out there).
Thought number one: Tracks 9 and 11 from The Beastie Boys To the 5 Boroughs kick. I've been listening to them on heavy rotation at work, and that they kick is an incontrovertible fact.
Thought number two: What will it take to keep us from dying? That is, it seems to me, more good life is something nearly all other activities aim at, so how can we keep that up? I'd love to get some feed-back on this one (I'm sure it doesn't seem so cut and dried to everyone out there).
posted by P. Robinson at 12:55 PM
3 Comments:
But there has to be a balance between enjoying life, and extending life. For example, I've been told heroin feels very good on your body. However, it's not exactly a great habit to have if your going for longevity. Same with eating fast food, or alchohol. You have to strike a balance between enjoying your life, and also living well so you can have a long life.
I should have been more clear. What I meant was, how can we keep from dying EVER. Certainly we need to keep our various parts in good condition, and we should also like to be able to enjoy ourselves (one cannot live on protein shakes alone), but is it not true that more of that balance, that balance extended in time, is what our other activities aim at?
Ah, the eternal "immortality" question.
Well, I agree that "balance" is important, I don't know that balance alone will ever be the answer. I don't know that mankind will ever discover a way to live forever, or that such a thing is even possible. My proof? The fact that we have never come across another species that has done so.
Imagine if it were possible. Humans, always aging, never dying, continueing to reproduce and expand as a species. We would eventually overpopulate this planet, and would need to move on to another. Then another. And so on, filling up planet after planet with immortal versions of ourselves. If the universe has existed in it's current state for billions and billions of years, and many of those planets have, or at some time, have had life and an evolutionary process like ours does, then wouldn't it have likely already happened? Given that much time (or even an infinite amount of time when you think about it) wouldn't another species have already accomplished this? And wouldn't we have met them, since our planet is one that can and does support carbon based life?
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