[LMB] Immortality for some?

[Azalais Aranxta]

On Tue, 10 Oct 2006, Meg Justus wrote:

> Or are you all discussing generic hypothetical immortality and
> not the Vorkosiverse version?

We are in fact discussing indefinite life extension, not brain
transplant/body theft.

> Megaera decidedly against the idea of "real" immortality -- but
> then nobody's proved to me yet that reincarnation isn't a
> slight possibility -- and I like the idea of that much better

Really?  You like the idea that your personality is stored on
rewriteable media and will be erased, that you'll remember
nothing of this life in your next life except for flashes of
ghost data, that you might come back as the child of abusive
parents or a person with a room-temperature IQ who thinks there's
nothing in life more important than team sports and his next
beer?

It was one of the things that pushed me out of paganism.  I can't
think about it without shuddering.  Unless you believe that you
get to choose your next life, but all of the people who believe
that have explanations for the horrors of the world (and why
people would choose them) that are nothing but a lot of fatuous
hooey.

~malfoy
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