Posted on 11/13/2018 10:57:38 AM PST by Kaslin
You have a point there.
Yeah, right there; middle of your forehead. That's it.
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What's going to happen to our society when nanotechnology and genetic editing will be able to make us any age we choose to be?
So far, I'm predicting that a lot of rules will have to loosen up. I'm looking forward to it, except that my time-traveling device is stuck in a very low gear.
Lovecraftian shoggoths in the road skateboarding.
Oh, those are just teenagers.
You are what you believe you are, in your deepest inner convictions. That’s different from what you simply ‘say’, from a mental determination, thinking that you can obtain something by just ‘saying’.
I believe that we all create our own realities by the way that we think - the things we deeply believe. For instance, a child born into poverty, who grew up with the constant reiteration of ‘poverty’ in his environment and circumstances, has a mindset of poverty. It will be very difficult for him to overcome the expectation that poverty is his lot.
That’s very different from just ‘deciding’ that it may be expedient, ego-gratifying, or a solution to some psychological issue, to, for instance, identify as a woman, when one was actually born a man.
My head hurts.
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