Would you like to be immortal?

[ignoramus]

I'm taking a different career path Mark... I'd like to do a bit of gardening and push up the pansies...

[Cato]

That statement is kind of an oxymoron, the purpose of stem cells would be to allow people to live longer, no?

Also death is what hinders mankind's progress the most, and if you didn't die you wouldn't need stem cells in the first place...

What a pea-brained ignorant response. Do you really think that stem cell research is nothing more than a modern day quixotic search for the fountain of youth?

And even if it was, what's your bitch? You don't want people to live longer? It's as if you were arguing that the germ theory of disease somehow thwarted our development as a species. Let's keep facts straight here. The germ theory of disease is less than 160 years old and has saved and extended more lives than your Christ could ever account for.

[robvalue]

You'd think heaven-believers would want to die ASAP to get off this rotten shit hole and into paradise, while they're good with their Jew piñata or whatever. Living longer is just risking Satan Claus coming and tempting them into waking the fuck up evil.

Watch them cling to life as hard as any sceptic. Their instincts aren't so eager.

Of course, some people actually have fast-tracked themselves "to heaven". One of the most truly dangerous aspects of such a belief.

[Paraselene]

Watch them cling to life as hard as any sceptic. Their instincts aren't so eager.

They believe their lives are in the hands of god, yet they still look both ways before crossing the street. So much for trusting god.

[Huggy Bear]

That statement is kind of an oxymoron, the purpose of stem cells would be to allow people to live longer, no?

Also death is what hinders mankind's progress the most, and if you didn't die you wouldn't need stem cells in the first place...

What a pea-brained ignorant response. Do you really think that stem cell research is nothing more than a modern day quixotic search for the fountain of youth?

And even if it was, what's your bitch? You don't want people to live longer? It's as if you were arguing that the germ theory of disease somehow thwarted our development as a species. Let's keep facts straight here. The germ theory of disease is less than 160 years old and has saved and extended more lives than your Christ could ever account for.

Who said anything about fountain of youth? I clearly stated the "purpose of stem cells would be to allow people to live longer, no?" . Would not the treatment of disease, replacement of organs ect. result in longer life?

The issue I took, muppet, was the statement of only wanting to live long enough to essentially see mankind progress by enabling people to live longer...

[Huggy Bear]

You'd think heaven-believers would want to die ASAP to get off this rotten shit hole and into paradise, while they're good with their Jew piñata or whatever. Living longer is just risking Satan Claus coming and tempting them into waking the fuck up evil.

Watch them cling to life as hard as any sceptic. Their instincts aren't so eager.

Of course, some people actually have fast-tracked themselves "to heaven". One of the most truly dangerous aspects of such a belief.

Wait...

So heaven believers cling to life as hard as any skeptic except when they don't...

Makes sense.

[ignoramus]

You're right Huggy. It doesn't make sense.
How or why an 11 year old girl puts on a belt full of explosives, walks to the market and kills herself and 80 others innocent bystanders?

You're right huggy, It doesn't make sense. Religion never did make sense (apart from the controlling business aspect of it).

They sell the emporer's invisible clothes and the suckers buy it without ever questioning whether they really are invisible or maybe just not there in the first place!

[Whateverist]

I'm taking a different career path Mark...  I'd like to do a bit of gardening and push up the pansies...

Heheheh

[Asmodee]

I used to think I wanted to be immortal. When I was a kid. Then I grew up. I realized what it meant. Living is strife, it's work, it's tough. But we're not talking about "life" here. We're talking some magical woo woo where I float around for eternity doing whatever I want. And what would that be? I wouldn't need anything, what would I do for an eternity besides watch the universe die and exist for an eternity in a dead, cold universe? At least now I'm working toward a goal.

[Mr Greene]

You'd think heaven-believers would want to die ASAP to get off this rotten shit hole and into paradise, while they're good with their Jew piñata or whatever. Living longer is just risking Satan Claus coming and tempting them into waking the fuck up evil.

Watch them cling to life as hard as any sceptic. Their instincts aren't so eager.

Of course, some people actually have fast-tracked themselves "to heaven". One of the most truly dangerous aspects of such a belief.

Harder actually, statistically believers seem to have a pathological fear of death, bordering on a phobia. They spend more per head on life extending treatments and actually exhibit a slightly longer than average life expectancy.
my working hypothesis is that the belief is in effect an attempt to deny the reality of their mortality, though I can't rule out the possibility that the fear is generated by the beliefs.