Theos-Talk Archives (December 2002 Message tt00507)

--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, Larry F Kolts <llkingston2@j...> 
wrote:
> For the secular side Steve, how about those folks who have 
themselves
> frozen in hopes that future technology may what? revive them? That's
> about the same as resurrection except they have faith in the gods of
> science instead of religion.

That seems at least halfway rational, whereas the idea that you are 
going to come driving up out of he ground after rotting for thousands 
of yeats seems a bit wacky to me. In either care an extreme egotism 
seems to be at work. I am reminded of a man I met years ago qwho 
believed in God and was baffled why God created the rest of the 
universe. I mean, he was here, and when you consider yourself to be 
as important as he considered himself to be, why is everyone else 
here? (No, I know what you are thinking and I am NOT referring to 
anyone on this list.) He must have been baffled when he found out he 
was going to die at a very young age. Now everyone else is here and 
he is not.

> How does cloning fit into all this? Have yourself cloned if you can
> afford it for body replacement parts? Or await the day when your 
memory
> can be downloaded into a younger model of yourself?

There is a true story about two business partners who decided each 
needed the other to keep the business going and there would be hell 
to pay if anything happened to either of them. So each insured the 
other's life for a half million dollars. Then each was killed by a 
hit man hired by the other. All human motivation is self-interest 
masquerading as "universal brotherhood" and other claptrap of that 
general order.