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An elixir of immortality

An elixir of immortality

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@pb1022 said
Inequality likely getting even worse and people becoming violent in their anger and desperation?
Well, the world has been steadily becoming a better place for a bigger proportion of humanity for over 50 years. I imagine this would continue.

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And immortality might be a curse if one, say, got hit by a car or became paralyzed in an accident. Or if one were in excruciating pain.

Taking that elixir might prove to be the worst decision of your endless life.

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@fmf said
Well, the world has been steadily becoming a better place for a bigger proportion of humanity for over 50 years. I imagine this would continue.
Sure, why not?

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@pb1022 said
By government fiat?
No, but through improving education making it more accessible which could be, in part, to how society governs itself.

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@pb1022 said
Taking that elixir might prove to be the worst decision of your endless life.
Maybe so.

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@pb1022 said
I thought this was going to be widely available.
Make it into one of your conditions or assurances if you should decide to get into the spirit of the OP.

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@fmf said
No, but through improving education making it more accessible which could be, in part, to how society governs itself.
I think you have too much faith in the number of people who would make decisions on what’s best for society and not on what’s best for themselves.

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@fmf said
Make it into one of your conditions or assurances if you should decide to get into the spirit of the OP.
I think I’ll leave this one for atheists or Christians who would either contemplate taking the elixir or think it’d be a good idea. I don’t think I could offer anything but negativity on this one 😞

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@pb1022 said
I think you have too much faith in the number of people who would make decisions on what’s best for society and not on what’s best for themselves.
Well, if I'd drunk the elixir, I would be able to find out what happens. Maybe in 1,000,000 years from now my wife and I would be camped out by a lake in the wilderness where Colchester, UK, used to be.

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@pb1022 said
All these people not dying and more and more babies being born?
Indonesia's birth rate has gone from 44.5 per 1,000 population in 1960 to 17.3 in 2020. People still cling to the apocalyptic predictions of the 60s and 70s as if, subsequently, no governments in the developing world acted upon them.

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@pb1022 said
I think I’ll leave this one for atheists or Christians who would either contemplate taking the elixir or think it’d be a good idea.
Thanks.

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@pb1022 said
I don’t think I could offer anything but negativity on this one 😞
Some of the stuff you've posted so far has benefitted the thread.

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@fmf said
What sorts of conditions or assurances would be necessary or sufficient to make it worthwhile to consume an elixir of immortality?
What's this useless time speaking of mortality.
It's only a theory based on science and their flawed theory of cause and effect.

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@pb1022 said
You mean immortality in this life?
See FMF, it's quite unclear as to (im)mortality actually is

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@karoly-aczel said
What's this useless time speaking of mortality.
It's only a theory based on science and their flawed theory of cause and effect.
Thanks for the perspective.

Science's flawed theory of cause & effect.

It would make a good thread topic.

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