From: Dossy (dossy@panoptic.com)
Date: Fri May 03 2002 - 07:28:53 MDT
On 2002.05.02, outlawpoet - <outlawpoet@stealth.hell.com> wrote:
> [...] aren't we doubling our chances with cryo-suspension? We get to
> bank on both afterlife and rethaw as well!
Imagine this:
Cryo-suspension kills you. There is an afterlife, you go to it.
You enjoy it immensely. All of a sudden, without your consent,
you're ripped from it only to be brought back into the world
you left when you're resuscitated and awoken from your cryo-sleep.
You essentially _died_ in the afterlife to be brought back to
this life. Ouch!
And, committing suicide in your old life doesn't guarantee you
going back to the afterlife you just left. What now?!
> So it may be future shocking, but that doesn't mean it's bad. Just
> different. I can understand a little fear of unusual things. But I
> don't understand writing it off because of that.
Your description fits what I go on to classify as "the terminally
curious" ...
> I had a grandfather who was terminally curious. [...] But perhaps he
> and I are rarities. He was in the NAVY because he wanted to see
> strange and beautiful places. I'm into life extension and
> ultratechnology for the same reason.
Your curiousity stems from knowing today and wondering about
tomorrow. There's a continuity there that lets you connect
things in a way you find interesting.
Suppose you skipped tomorrow entirely and are now in a today
that is so far into the future that everything you know about
no longer exists and everyone you meet only knows of what you
recall as "folklore" in the same way we think of fairies and
dragons today.
Not only is what you know meaningless in the distant future
you're now in, but everything that does exist is so outside
your scope that you fail to understand most of it. Quite
literally, you're almost reborn, learning things as though
you were a baby.
Now, I can't remember what it was like to be a young toddler,
but raising one myself today, I can only imagine that your
day consists of activities punctuated by frustration. I
don't know if I'd voluntarily do that to myself through
cryo-sleep ...
-- Dossy
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Dossy Shiobara mail: dossy@panoptic.com
Panoptic Computer Network web: http://www.panoptic.com/
"He realized the fastest way to change is to laugh at your own
folly -- then you can let go and quickly move on." (p. 70)
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