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20/06/24
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Originally posted by Parsifal
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for a short while I was a member of a singularity group on Facebook I removed myself when I realised that the idea of living for thousands of years (which was apparently the goal of sone of the members ) held no appeal. I realised I was getting old and the thought of people simply repeating history and thinking they were novel (which is what most of us do to some extent) and doing that for centuries held no fascination for me.
I realised I was getting old when I started noticing that life really is an indulgence. Worrying about how long we might live is the privilege of the youthful or the folly of the hopeful. Death has a habit of taking us all - and sometimes most unexpectedly
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Hi P
There is also the theory that physical life on Earth is just a stage of the whole process like a caterpillar which then blossoms into an advanced life stage