Re: Mind's Eye Re: Instinct for survival

good reason to live that long.. the advantage is that your soul will
actually see it unfold..
Allan

On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 10:19 AM, Lee Douglas <leerevdouglas@gmail.com> wrote:
> Heh where do you find these little sayings of yours RP. Nope I don't agree
> this is true .
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> Personaly I have spent some years questioning the attitude to life and death
> that we have. It seems that for most life in and of itself is kinda sacred,
> or at least we act like it is. I'm not sure on this though. Dawin shows us
> that outside of our species death is a part of life and comes all too
> easily. So I must say that life in and of itself is nothing special. Then
> you must mean life as we humans percive it. However, I am now fully
> resigend to my own death and it will come when it does, and this no longer
> holds any fear for me.
>
> My own desires to live to be at least 400 years old though is by now widely
> reported here, and in other places. This is not for the reasons you
> highlight above but sheer couriosity. We are I feel at the cusp of
> enourmous change, over the next few hundred years we as a species are about
> to change in so many ways, and I want to see it.
>
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> On Tuesday, 27 November 2012 07:28:21 UTC, RP Singh wrote:
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>> Attachment to life is the cause of the desire for immortality and the
>> readiness to believe in an after-life or re-birth. It is an off-shoot of the
>> instinct for survival.
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