Lu Norton Posted December 30, 2004 Report Share Posted December 30, 2004 If someone discovered the cure for aging , I wonder.. what would an Objectivist do if he/she chose to live a longer/immortal life? These are the top three in my list : a. Be an archaeologist b. Be a professional violin player c. Go to the moon and explore space Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patrick N. Posted December 30, 2004 Report Share Posted December 30, 2004 I would learn everything there is to learn about everything worth learning about. I would become a master in every discipline. I would spend a lifetime on each worthy science, art, or skill in existence. However, since I am mortal, I cannot do all of the above. The good new is that I can choose one discipline and a few hobbies which to spend my lifetime pursuing and enjoying! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Kufr Posted December 30, 2004 Report Share Posted December 30, 2004 If someone discovered the cure for aging , I wonder.. what would an Objectivist do if he/she chose to live a longer/immortal life? 1.Be the Greatest warrior in the History of the World. 2. Spend my free time looking for my perfect woman 3.Since Ill live forever ill run for preseident every chance I get. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottkursk Posted December 30, 2004 Report Share Posted December 30, 2004 a. Be an archaeologist Easy, since you're immortal, just remember where you placed everything. In enough time, it'll be worth a fortune and make for writing an easy disertation on what occured. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Citizen Publius Posted December 30, 2004 Report Share Posted December 30, 2004 I would finish college. Seriously though, I would learn about and master every discipline that catches my fancy. I would cetainly save up a ton (literally) of money. I would build my own spaceship, and explore the cosmos. As far as stopping the aging process, I hope they do. This is something I want to contribute to but, presently, I am just a middle aged man with a computer and relatively limited knowledge. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ex_banana-eater Posted December 30, 2004 Report Share Posted December 30, 2004 There are some projects like the Methuselah Mouse Prize you can donate to if you want to spur research. I am not affiliated with the project, but it has achieved relative success and is based completely on private donations rather than government funding. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Citizen Publius Posted December 30, 2004 Report Share Posted December 30, 2004 There are some projects like the Methuselah Mouse Prize you can donate to if you want to spur research. Thank you for the link. I cannot afford to donate but I will certainly keep an eye on this! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
visaplace Posted December 30, 2004 Report Share Posted December 30, 2004 I would be very sad and maybe terminally depressed because there are no values if life is immortal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unskinned Posted December 30, 2004 Report Share Posted December 30, 2004 I would be very sad and maybe terminally depressed because there are no values if life is immortal. I think we're talking about the prospect of an unbelievably long life. Not an indestructable robot or the absence of values. I would start a university in Chile, Colombia, or South Africa. Most likely Colulmbia. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Betsy Posted December 30, 2004 Report Share Posted December 30, 2004 I think we're talking about the prospect of an unbelievably long life. Not an indestructable robot or the absence of values. I hope so. If I had a longer life, I would take on projects that are longer-term than I can manage now at the age of 61, like having more children, and I'd speculate more and invest less. Other than that, I'd pretty much do exactly what I am doing now. I LOVE what I am doing and I could go on like this for a few thousand more years. Even if we could expand our lifespans, the fact that there are only 24 hours in a day is still my major limiting factor. Now if the scientists could do something about THAT ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bryan Posted December 30, 2004 Report Share Posted December 30, 2004 How about just living for 1000 years? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramKatori Posted December 30, 2004 Report Share Posted December 30, 2004 I would be very sad and maybe terminally depressed because there are no values if life is immortal. Is this what you consider the philosophically correct position or is this what you would really feel? If the latter, are you saying that you enjoy life now, but would not take any medication that would extend it, because that would be anti-life, in a paradoxical way: i.e., in that you earnestness to live is driven by your knowledge of impending death? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ex_banana-eater Posted December 30, 2004 Report Share Posted December 30, 2004 I would be very sad and maybe terminally depressed because there are no values if life is immortal. See the first post in this thread, the author wrote "if someone found a cure for aging." [Emphasis mine] This dosn't mean that you wouldn't die by being run over by a truck, having a ski accident, or being swarmed by a thousand locusts. It dosn't mean that you wouldn't have to work to feed yourself, clean yourself, and please yourself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oakes Posted December 30, 2004 Report Share Posted December 30, 2004 How about just living for 1000 years? I didn't read the whole article, but I thought the last bit was pretty admirable: And finally some people are worried that it would mean playing God and going against nature. But it's unnatural for us to accept the world as we find it. Ever since we invented fire and the wheel, we've been demonstrating both our ability and our inherent desire to fix things that we don't like about ourselves and our environment. We would be going against that most fundamental aspect of what it is to be human if we decided that something so horrible as everyone getting frail and decrepit and dependent was something we should live with forever. If changing our world is playing God, it is just one more way in which God made us in His image. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capitalism Forever Posted December 31, 2004 Report Share Posted December 31, 2004 c. Go to the moon and explore space Why stop at the Moon? I would travel to faraway galaxies! (Or better still, pay someone else to travel and do more interesting things while I wait for him to come back and tell me what he saw.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lu Norton Posted January 1, 2005 Author Report Share Posted January 1, 2005 (Or better still, pay someone else to travel and do more interesting things while I wait for him to come back and tell me what he saw.) It will be more fulfilling if I will see the space with my own eyes and physically experience the travel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed from OC Posted January 1, 2005 Report Share Posted January 1, 2005 Even if we could expand our lifespans, the fact that there are only 24 hours in a day is still my major limiting factor. Now if the scientists could do something about THAT ... Ditto. There are so many things I'd like to do in parallel, rather than sequentially. Like work full time AND do grad school AND have a social life AND martial arts AND writing AND ... Until we solve this 24-hour day problem, we're stuck with prioritizing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nxixcxk Posted January 2, 2005 Report Share Posted January 2, 2005 I would become a master in every discipline. I second that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Posted January 2, 2005 Report Share Posted January 2, 2005 Listen to Xanadu by Rush Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dagny Posted January 2, 2005 Report Share Posted January 2, 2005 If I could live 1,000 years.... 1. Travel the world and outer space 2. become the richest person in the world (at least once) 3. master all disciplines 4. buy an island and write books Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alon Posted January 3, 2005 Report Share Posted January 3, 2005 After making a few billions in the first decades (or centuries) of my new immortal life, I would buy a remote castle atop a mountain, where I would build the world's largest rare books & antiquities collection. I would master Latin and Greek to a level of fluency, as well as French, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian, and Arabic. I would study the Koran and Arab mannerisms, and then, disguising myself as an Arab, join a Bedouin caravan and trek the Muslim world from North Africa to China. Also, as someone else mentioned, I would create scholarships and funds for archaeologists and scholars. As well as chairs for Objectivist or classical liberal professors. Lastly, I would build a lab with the best scientists on earth to build me Star Trek warp technology, and then explore the universe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solomon Eagle Posted January 3, 2005 Report Share Posted January 3, 2005 See the first post in this thread, the author wrote "if someone found a cure for aging." [Emphasis mine] This dosn't mean that you wouldn't die by being run over by a truck, having a ski accident, or being swarmed by a thousand locusts. It dosn't mean that you wouldn't have to work to feed yourself, clean yourself, and please yourself. That should cheer you up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
individualistchick Posted January 3, 2005 Report Share Posted January 3, 2005 Hmm ... yeah, I'd tour the world as a non-tourist. I can't stand being in a tour. I'd rather be on my own or with friends to look about the world. While working my way around the globe, I'd study anything it is I want to know. Oh, wait ... I was going to do that anyways. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoodOrigamiMan Posted January 4, 2005 Report Share Posted January 4, 2005 If someone discovered the cure for aging , I wonder.. I would do everything the same except wait a little while longer (a century or so ) before having kids – at which time I could take a break from engineering (find somebody to manage my company) then build or buy and run my own school… I could manage part time engineering, teaching and parenting (a group of 3 kids every 30 years) until the technology developed to explore space Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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