4merper4mer Posted March 29, 2017 Author Share Posted March 29, 2017 Just watch the movie with Justin Timberlake. Whether it has anything to do with this topic or not that definitely sounds like a bad idea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azalin Posted March 29, 2017 Share Posted March 29, 2017 Some of the stuff I've read on the matter, which is highly dubious, anticipates the aging process will stop (or reverse to) 29 for males, 21 for females. Holy crap! Would I get my hair back? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boyst Posted March 29, 2017 Share Posted March 29, 2017 I'll take em at any age, but ideally I'd put a few extra years on the ladies. Can I order a 27?20-23 is where its at, brah Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deranged Rhino Posted March 29, 2017 Share Posted March 29, 2017 I'll take em at any age, but ideally I'd put a few extra years on the ladies. Can I order a 27? I'm sure they'll work something out. Holy crap! Would I get my hair back? According to the fringe stuff I've read, yes. But calling it fringe is... kind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azalin Posted March 29, 2017 Share Posted March 29, 2017 According to the fringe stuff I've read, yes. But calling it fringe is... kind. Low blow, low blow.... A pox upon thee, sir. I am naught but a victim to my own testosterone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbb Posted March 29, 2017 Share Posted March 29, 2017 Some of the stuff I've read on the matter, which is highly dubious, anticipates the aging process will stop (or reverse to) 29 for males, 21 for females. Count me in for this then. I will be good to go when the Bills win the Super Bowl and the Sabres win the Stanley Cup. So, you're for this living forever thing then? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snafu Posted March 29, 2017 Share Posted March 29, 2017 Count me in for this then. So, you're for this living forever thing then? No, but I'd like some satisfaction before I go. The only way I'd like to live forever (or choose my demise) is if I get to choose who else gets to live forever -- and even then I don't think I'd opt for it. I don't want to spend eternety with a bunch of jerks having any impact on how I live. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4merper4mer Posted March 29, 2017 Author Share Posted March 29, 2017 I stayed out until now. I thought the comments would be interesting and they are. A couple of things: I don't think the halt of the aging process = living forever. You can still get hit by a bus or get cancer unless I'm missing something. If this un-balds people for real someone is going to want to PM Gene. I can speak from experience as I have not aged a day since November 18 1974. My circumstances were different. I detailed them in a thread on OTW but for some reason it was erased. I am thinking They may have been involved but i have no proof. Basically I walked into a wall of death in Times Square. It had been killing people as they ran away but I walked straight toward it. When I walked in it collapsed and I haven't aged since. I killed it because I walked into it. It killed everyone it caught. It was like it was the Field Marshall in Strategy and I was the Spy. Because I am not aging there are a lot of individual changes. Everyone else is still the same and I am only one person so the societal impacts have been minimal if there are any. I have kept this to myself until now. My experience is why I have as much or more respect for old people than anyone. By all rights I should be one. I'd be all wrinkled, unable to drive, focused on the crossword, wearing a compostory bag and so on. I'm not sure I could take it but they all seem to be fine with it. Chronologically I am old but that is not what I mean by "old people". Societally I think if everyone stopped aging it would probably be a bad thing initially but also gradually become a good thing. It makes a long time to adjust once you know you aren't aging. At first, there is hubris and a feeling of being all powerful. This is false. You still have to work to thrive. The good news is that it give you the opportunity to not be focused on the short term stuff. If you lose everything you are back at square one but you can be. There is time. Time is the ultimate commodity and when it is not a limiting factor you can achieve a lot and/or choose the way to live. At first though you don't realize this and you try to get everything fast. I got burned by this on October 2, 1981. I was focused on some goal I can't even remember and the ambulance went screaming right by me on Main Street. I didn't even give it a thought. But it my Uncle Gen-o who I loved. He died that day. I had had so much time to spend with him but didn't. Then he was gone. He is still gone. A good idea for the non-aging is rotating retirement. Four groups A, B, C, D. A's are the kids. They re-learn everything. Force a clean slate. B's are the post college kids that are the new thinkers and energizing the economies. C's are the bosses. The experienced folks with perspective. D's are retired. 22 year periods. There are some issues because all ages desire sex and lots of it. Population growth is an issue. An alternative approach is to still have kids but never give them the anti aging stuff. Just tell them some BS about why we don't age but they do and make them do all the work once they're old enough. Let them live their life age out and croak. I don't really know and I've been 32 years old for for almost 43 years now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nanker Posted March 29, 2017 Share Posted March 29, 2017 Behold! 4mer! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deranged Rhino Posted March 29, 2017 Share Posted March 29, 2017 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rockpile233 Posted March 29, 2017 Share Posted March 29, 2017 Umm what? Is this some 70s reference I'm too young for? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nanker Posted March 29, 2017 Share Posted March 29, 2017 Umm what? Is this some 70s reference I'm too young for? Aye laddie! You must educate yourself if you want to keep up! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4merper4mer Posted March 29, 2017 Author Share Posted March 29, 2017 Aye laddie! You must educate yourself if you want to keep up! I don't look like that and I don't watch that show...or read that comic book or whatever. I wish the thread didn't get taken down. I'm not sure why it did. I think Greggy will remember it. Edit: I found it....in archive. Here is a link to a post with pretty much the whole story. There is a thread with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rockpile233 Posted March 29, 2017 Share Posted March 29, 2017 (edited) Aye laddie! You must educate yourself if you want to keep up! Not Highlander (which is amazing btw) but this wall of death story. I'm going to let this one go, seems like a bad acid trip. Edited March 29, 2017 by Rockpile233 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
row_33 Posted March 29, 2017 Share Posted March 29, 2017 That guy on Twilight Zone bought immortality, then murdered his wife and wanted to test out the electric chair, but his lawyer got him life instead... and Sebastian Cabot as some agent of the devil laughed and granted the man's wish to die in jail immediately. I wish this on those thinking they can slink around another 90 or so years... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rockpile233 Posted March 29, 2017 Share Posted March 29, 2017 I hope this is some allegorical device. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Tom Posted March 29, 2017 Share Posted March 29, 2017 Behold! 4mer! Counterpoint: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4merper4mer Posted March 29, 2017 Author Share Posted March 29, 2017 I hope this is some allegorical device. It sounded more like genetic manipulation than a device. But maybe they are tiny devices like nanobots. I don't really know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azalin Posted March 29, 2017 Share Posted March 29, 2017 But maybe they are tiny devices like nanobots. I don't really know. That's entirely possible - I've seen it before: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richstadiumowner Posted March 31, 2017 Share Posted March 31, 2017 I never thought I'd make 30. Monkey Head Transplant is not on a Chinese Food takeout menu anywhere.... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/12112051/First-head-transplant-successfully-carried-out-on-monkey-claims-surgeon.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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