(May 7, 2015 at 11:10 pm)Pyrrho Wrote: Once you are dead, you will no longer care about this, or about anything else. You will never experience anything bad, ever again. Suffering only happens during your life.
No arguing with that. I'm not the least bit worried about suffering after life. I guess you could call me jealous of those who will exist after I am gone.
There have been amazing advances in the last few centuries - even within the nearly 56 years of my lifetime. The internet is just fucking wonderful. There wasn't even a glimmer of practical thought about it when I was born but I don't even want to imagine life now without it. And I can imagine SO much more. I'm a big Star Trek fan but I think that particular vision is unrealistic. I see us as an interplanetary species with orbital space colonies all over the solar system. Easy and cheap access to space via space elevators. Mining of virtually limitless resources of the asteroid belt. Gaining understanding of consciousness so that we may scan our brain and preserve it in artificial bodies. Massive expansion of our intelligence.
I want to be a part of all that but I can't - and it pisses me off. It's beyond my power to do anything about it but I'm not going to pretend I'm cool with the situation. I think it fucking sucks but like anything else beyond my control, I'll just deal with it as best I can. What else can I do?
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
