Posted on 01/05/2023 5:43:48 PM PST by algore
Experts are airing concerns that deep-pocketed billionaires will soon be able to use their vast wealth to increase their lifespans - allowing them additional time to add to their billions.
The scary hypothesis - which seems like something out of a science fiction novel - has been laid by an increasing amount of scientists in recent years, amid recent strides in anti-aging science.
Long just a pipe dream, the concept of a modern-day Methuselah - the biblical grandfather of Noah who lived to 969 - is becoming more and more likely.
That said, the concept of a driven mogul like Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates being blessed with an ever-lasting lifespan is not so appealing to some.
Included in that camp is bioethicist Christopher Wareham, who believes such advances could 'exacerbate all the kinds of existing inequalities that we have' already.
Wareharm is not alone in his concerns - as figures such as Bezos, 58, Israeli entrepreneur Yuri Milner, and Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin Funnel money into ventures meant to make deaths before 100 a thing of the past.
Other, older funders include Gates, 67, Richard Branson, 67, and Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, 80, who have all provided prominent financial backup to companies investigating how to lengthen lives in recent years.
Progress, however, has been somewhat slow until - that is, until relatively recently, where breakthroughs in understanding what causes the aging process, such as damage to our DNA and proteins that misbehave because of outside alterations, have been gleaned by scientists in their quest for the proverbial fountain of youth.
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Perhaps God could consider this a gauntlet thrown down before Him.
So they think they are immortal, or can achieve it?
Watch this……
No one is becoming immortal in that sense. Ever.
Scripture is clear.
“Saturn’s Race” by Niven and friends. Also includes an AIDS vaccine used as a secret depopulation bomb.
Those afraid to die will suffer the worse fate, life without peace.
"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying. I don't want to live on in the hearts of my countrymen; I want to live on in my apartment." ― Woody Allen
Regards,
Regards,
1) A great many people have no belief in anything beyond the physical.
2) Technology is getting to the point where they are hopeful that consciousness can be held within tech, a “cloud” or many computers.
Watch the TV series Altered Carbon, it may help all who scoff to visualize what they are working towards. Will they succeed? They have the power, the tech and the financial means.
There is a Biblical verse that says “they will seek death and it will flee from them”.
For years I pondered over that. Is it the lamentations of those who died outside of the redemption of Christ, and are in eternal torment?
One thing is obvious, we are in a time of choosing. Life in Christ?, or worship of Man and the physical?
It seems to me that those who seek to escape death itself, will find death eternal.
Hillarys recovery, was a body double. There is NOTHING that can revive a person that quickly that I know of. Her body movements were more like Ellen Degenerets, light, thin and healthy. Hillary is none of the above three things.
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