From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Sat Jun 02 2001 - 00:45:20 MDT
Anne Marie Tobias wrote:
>
> I would certainly hope that if I lived a thousand years that I would
> be vital, strive to grow, sharpen my wit, increase my grasp, expand
> my understanding, and continue developing as a human being, if not
> then I'm a waste of metabolism... a space heater without anybody
> to keep warm.
I agree with most of that except that I hope that long before a
thousand years I have developed into a lot more interesting
possibilities than those constrained by "human being". Being a
human being is a fine beginning but it is ruinous as a
destination or condition on never goes beyond.
- samantha
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