Quote:
Originally Posted by arista
"If you think about it - they would seem like 'gods' among short-lived men."
Yes
Utter Bliss
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It could be utter bliss. In some of the ancient eastern texts the 'great sages' were patriarchs that lived for many centuries and some of the stories describe them achieving states of 'bliss' and these kind of meditative mastery techniques.
Now here is the other side of that - imagine how so many dictators and emperors became increasingly corrupt and twisted and evil?
The good news is that they usually die after some maximum reign of 50 or 60 years.
Imagine some evil bastard full of twisted and increasingly bitter sick intentions just kept living and living accumulating power, wealth and perfecting all manner of evil practice?
Seriously - I'm all for advancing biotechnology and gene therapy and all this,
but,
wow.. we are surely asking for trouble too. We have ethical dilemmas we never even knew existed.
Crazy world.