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To: Mike Darancette
The sociology of greatly increased life spans is fascinating to contemplate.

It is in the Bible :)

Gen:5:20: And all the days of Jared were nine hundred sixty and two years: and he died.

Gen:5:21: And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah:

Gen:5:22: And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:

Gen:5:23: And all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years:

Gen:5:25: And Methuselah lived an hundred eighty and seven years, and begat Lamech:

Gen:5:26: And Methuselah lived after he begat Lamech seven hundred eighty and two years, and begat sons and daughters:

Gen:5:27: And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years: and he died.

Gen:5:28: And Lamech lived an hundred eighty and two years, and begat a son:

Gen:5:30: And Lamech lived after he begat Noah five hundred ninety and five years, and begat sons and daughters:

Gen:5:31: And all the days of Lamech were seven hundred seventy and seven years: and he died.

Gen:5:32: And Noah was five hundred years old: and Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

Gen:6:3: And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.

Gen:7:6: And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.

Gen:9:28: And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years.

Gen:9:29: And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years: and he died.

14 posted on 12/04/2005 1:16:13 PM PST by A. Pole (Professor Kirke: ““It’s all in Plato! Dear me, what do they teach them in the schools nowadays?")
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To: A. Pole
With those life spans Social Security would be in real trouble.
16 posted on 12/04/2005 1:18:39 PM PST by Mike Darancette (Mesocons for Rice '08)
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