Posted on 06/30/2011 11:19:50 PM PDT by bronxville
There is absolutely no evil that man won’t do once freed from the concept of a separate, divine morale code. We are all gods now, and gods do whatever pleases them.
Self before God...the original sin.
moral code, that is...
The trillionaires want to live longer and whatever they have to do to reach their goal that’s exactly what they’ll do...If this continues they’ll harvest EVERYTHING and practice harvesting on transplants that hasn’t been done successfully as yet. Whose to stop them?
We’re living in a nightmarish age.
jonascord: “We’re hosed.”
Maybe as a country, but as individuals we can avoid being hosed. I’m sorry to report the world will ultimately go to proverbial hell in a hand basket. I don’t know if that’s now. Maybe, hopefully, we are on the cusp of some great spiritual reawakening and a return to individual morality. If not, we can still choose to escape with our souls.
The men and women who want to live forever
[...]The Singularity, promised by futurist Ray Kurzweil, has accelerated interest in an entirely new field known as Transhumanism, giving hope to deep-pocketed Baby Boomers that they will be able to live forever. Watching Kurzweil’s fascinating documentary film – Transcendent Man (now finally available on Netflix) - you can get a glimpse of what is possible due to the accelerating pace of technological change in fields ranging from genetics to nanotechnology. At some point, the line between “man” and “machine” blurs, as intelligence increases exponentially.
The concept of the Singularity is singularly fascinating since it confirms so much of what appears to be happening around us. Next-generation technologies appear on schedule, seemingly every few months, and popular culture is full of examples of Baby Boomers who are healthier and living longer than ever before. The cultural zeitgeist is right, too: The Baby Boomers are the first generation that is receptive to, rather than threatened by, the pace of technological change.
Perhaps not surprisingly, themes from the Singularity are finding their way from the world of science and technology into the cultural mainstream. At the World Science Festival in New York City, for example, one of the major themes at the event was human longevity and the possibility that we can reverse the human aging process. Just two months ago, at the first-ever Transhumanism Meets Design conference, held at the Parsons School in New York City, speakers joined in from fields such as neuroscience and artificial intelligence to discuss the impact of technology on human potential.
How will all this play out? Will the Singularity be as elusive as the Fountain of Youth? Will we ever see the day when FDA-approved ads for bio-engineered pills promise us the ability to live forever?
http://www.noonehastodietomorrow.com/tech/transhumanism/2946-2946
“Somewhere Josef Mengele is smiling.”
That also crossed my mind.
I do agree, that is the worst instinct. I’ve done things that I never thought I would or could do but I seem to have limits. I think the presumption of God is the beginning of wisdom. The reason we’re losing this culture war is because the belief in God is becoming socially unacceptable. Woe to them I say. I’ll die for that belief, above all others, so I sleep well at night and have a bright future in a dark time.
And for what? Because some college professor didn't want to leave his Saturday cartoons and go to Catechism classes like Mommy and Daddy wanted?
Won't have to.
“The Singularity, promised by futurist Ray Kurzweil, has accelerated interest in an entirely new field known as Transhumanism, giving hope to deep-pocketed Baby Boomers that they will be able to live forever.”
Eternal life separated from God? There’s a word for that: HELL!
TwoSwords: “I sleep well at night and have a bright future in a dark time.”
Amen to your bright future.
It is a strange phenomenon that taking the lungs from a patient they deliberately killed is ethical, but paying that patients family for that organ is unethical.
Of course charging the receiver $200,000 for the operation is perfectly fine too.
Damned ghouls! Their souls are rotted by evil.
Great post...and totally agree!
The Mrs.
“SOYLENT GREEN IS PEOPLE!”
Right now they may be limiting this to stuffing body parts of their victims into other people but eventually they'll want to develop a drug that kills but leaves the meat fresh.
I think everybody realizes, more or less, that these "killer docs" are mad men!
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I remember when that skit was just a bit of absurd comedy.
Makes me wonder if Steve Jobs really has a Kentuckian liver or is it really Belgian?
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