Live Long Enough to Live Forever

ZeeJustin · #1 12-01-2005, 07:41 AM

Live Long Enough to Live Forever

This is the first blog I've written with no poker content that I think can have a profound impact on some of the readers. I really hope some of you will take the suggestion and read the book in question.

Anyway, I'd love comments from people that think I'm crazy, or people that have read the book already.
-ZJ

Yeti · #2 12-01-2005, 08:09 AM

You are the new Bruiser!

#3 12-01-2005, 09:48 PM

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You are the new Bruiser!

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GuyOnTilt · #4 12-01-2005, 08:16 AM

I did some reading on this subject a while back and was actually skimming thru this book last week at the bookstore. I'll probably end up reading it, but I have a few others to get thru first. Good entry, good stuff.

GoT

BradleyT · #5 12-01-2005, 09:42 AM

ZJ,

The world would run out of natural resources before anyone reaches age 5,000.

craig r · #6 12-01-2005, 09:44 AM

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The world would run out of natural resources before anyone reaches age 5,000.

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Plus, isn't our generation the first generation in U.S. history that will have a lower standard of living than the previous one?

craig

ZeeJustin · #7 12-01-2005, 10:00 AM

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Marty, you're thinking three dimensionally. You have to think in the 4th dimension!

diebitter · #8 12-01-2005, 10:08 AM

Frankly, believing any of this tosh is a waste of the 4th dimension. And it's place on your bookshelf is a waste of the other three.

IMHO.

ZeeJustin · #9 12-01-2005, 10:11 AM

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Frankly, believing any of this tosh is a waste of the 4th dimension. And it's place on your bookshelf is a waste of the other three.

IMHO.

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The idea of living longer by eating a more nutritous diet is absurd to you? I guess some people just don't like facts / common sense.

GuyOnTilt · #10 12-01-2005, 07:01 PM

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Frankly, believing any of this tosh is a waste of the 4th dimension. And it's place on your bookshelf is a waste of the other three.

IMHO.

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Frankly, you don't know what you're talking about. Eating healthy is a smart move, and making a big effort to do so is admirable esp given how much effort it takes under current American conditions. As for the secondary point of the book, the curing of aging (senescence actually, but aging's become the commonly used term) is something that is very doable and very possibly within our generation's grasp. Do some reading on senescence, what it truly is biologically, how there's a lack of it in some species already in our ecosystem, and then go do some reading on current research aimed at reaching such a state in the human species (Methuselah Mouse is the most public and a good place to start). This would be a good start although the very near possibilities extend much further, for as ZJ pointed out nano-tech and other bio or AI technology could possibly give us the ability to go far, far beyond what a natural lack of senescence would acccomplish. If you don't want to read up on any of that that's fine, but if you are going to be ignorant re: the subject then don't be so pompous as to tell others these things are "a waste".

GoT