SpaceweaverWed, Mar 3, 2010 @amzamz: Thank you for reviving this thread of discussion :-) Pictures indeed communicate a lot. Yours communicate the psychological impact of aging. But let me trade a picture for a picture:
Well, this is my pre-school gathering. With a bit of imagination, the youngest person in this company is 150 years old the oldest (leftmost) approaches 300 years... With radically prolonging life span, aging and old age are radically slowed down perhaps eliminated. Staying young vigorous and creative for hundreds of years seems quite achievable in just a few decades.
We are a young specie and a young civilization. It has become quite clear that it takes an awfully long time for a single human individual to reach emotional maturity and wisdom. For many of us 40 or even 80 years are too short to reach such maturity and explore to the fullest one's potential. A prolonged life span may offer an unimaginable richness to human civilization. Just imagine the fear of death, sickness and old age disappearing from our psychological makeup.
Just imagine that there is time enough for love :-)
@amzamz: Thank you for reviving this thread of discussion :-) Pictures indeed communicate a lot. Yours communicate the psychological impact of aging. But let me trade a picture for a picture:
Well, this is my pre-school gathering. With a bit of imagination, the youngest person in this company is 150 years old the oldest (leftmost) approaches 300 years... With radically prolonging life span, aging and old age are radically slowed down perhaps eliminated. Staying young vigorous and creative for hundreds of years seems quite achievable in just a few decades.
We are a young specie and a young civilization. It has become quite clear that it takes an awfully long time for a single human individual to reach emotional maturity and wisdom. For many of us 40 or even 80 years are too short to reach such maturity and explore to the fullest one's potential. A prolonged life span may offer an unimaginable richness to human civilization. Just imagine the fear of death, sickness and old age disappearing from our psychological makeup.
Just imagine that there is time enough for love :-)