Ok, so I was just roaming around the internet...and of course you get bombarded with all of these idiotic anti-aging ads. A thought occurred to me...

What if...

Somewhere along the line, the scientists figure out a way for us to stop getting older.
With all of the bizarro experiments and stem cell stuff, etc. what if somehow, in some way...they "cure" death.

hmmm.

Then that made me think... so Jesus WILL come back...
He comes back because humans are no longer passing over to the other side.
He has to come back and get all of those folks who CAN'T die and pass over.


ACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
How freaky is that?

Do you see the kind of brain I have?
Aren't you glad you're not me??

You think a lot!

I remember reading that the actual cause of aging is still a mystery - that there is really no known 'reason' for why it happens. Also I've noticed that even though the average life-span of humans has gone way up - the upper limit for those in 'good health' has remained fairly constant regardless.

Thoughts?

I think a lot of bizarre stuff..lol.



That's interesting. Well, I would have to say that those in "good health" are probably those who are kind of careful with doctors and western medicine and maybe go a more natural route/preventative route. Not saying that all doctors are bad... not saying that at all. But western medicine is a business just like any other. (Natural medicine is a business too, of course.) Sadly, I believe there is a lot of corruption and it's in the medical establishment's best interest to keep people hooked on various drugs, etc. Also, YES I'm sorry but I am one who believes there are possibly cures for things that have been swept under the rug. Too many people would lose money. I cringe to say that, knowing most will scream "crazy conspiracy theorist!" but... I'm just being honest with my perspective. This is truly a fallen world, in every sense of the word. We are a nation of "symptoms". And there is a drug for each one that we can come up with. Some stuff DOES help people, but there is a lot that harms. It really is a difficult place to live, this crazy marble we call earth.

Aging isn't so bad... it just means I'm a day closer to getting out of here... Funny, but it also makes you realize that you really AREN'T your physical at all... that you're spirit trapped inside a physical shell. I think as you age, your spirit kind of comes more ALIVE.

I read a study where people go through a sort of U shaped decline and ascent into happiness... Your younger years you're happy, and you decline into unhappiness when you are middle aged (me) then when you hit 50/60 and older you are happy again and even as happy or moreso than when you were 20.

I find that interesting. I'm aiming to not hit that depression. I fell into it last year, and it was awful. Not worth it. You have to go through life without regrets and without thinking "what could have been" or "what is happening to me now? why didn't I cherish my youth..boo hoo!" NO NO NO! What a waste. Tomorrow could be your (or our) last day here. Why spend your last day being depressed? Wonderful things await us... FAR exceeding ANYTHING we had on earth, FAR EXCEEDING our wildest imaginations. My God! Isn't that enough to make you happy? Are we so greedy that we must have everything NOW? Can't we go through some uncomfortable times, some hardships and bear it knowing what awaits us all? Of course we can. Have a cheerful heart. All is well.
(ok, sorry I think I needed a pep talk this morning... )

You are a deep and unique thinker.



Interesting info. I confess that at 52 that the trauma of mid-life is passing away. Never have felt better or more free. It's what I always imagined life could be

What a wonderfully, hopeful, happy thing to read... woo hoo!!

It is not a mystery why we age, our cells keep losing bits of information as it passes down the instructions to the next cells. The reason why, is the same thing that happens when you record a copy of a copy, regardless of how much quality is in the copy of a copy, there is always little bits of information that are lost.

Before sin, death was always in the garden. God created all physical life to have a moment of death in which the physical would die. God was not giving a curse to Adam and Woman after they ate of the tree of knowledge, God was telling them something they didn't know about themselves and that from dust they came and to dust they would return.

No person will ever live indefinitely as long as they remain in this physical state. Jesus is returning because we are all going to die, and our hope is in the resurrection of the dead.

*ahem* I DID say it was a "wacky" thought...

j/k. Thanks for your reply, Craig.

Oh no, and I just realized this thread has caused the site to have a bunch of "anti-wrinkle" ads now...

Learned something today

I wonder what happens to the 'lost' bits?

Yeah - the chick in the ad is buying back the lost bits!!!

Though it is not a laughing matter I have to just plain laugh sometimes at all the huxters and snake oil that some people sell making their fortunes
on all the concoctions, formulas, secret herbs, medicines, pills and even hedonist religious practices that worship the flesh, picture and promote physical youth like it is a comodity that can be bought at the market .

There is nothing wrong with using the things God put in this world for our use in temporal needs, but for man to put a corner on the market then exploit and profit from the suffering of others ought not be done.

Promoting false hope of life and everlasting youth in the natural flesh is a big money making scam that has probably been around as long as fortune
tellers, soothsayers and circuses that promote fantacy and pipe dreaming scemes about how to cheat natural death an live forever in the natural body, what a big lie, how folks are niave enough to ever put trust in these myths and fables spun by the fortune teller doctors and false prophets is beyond my ability to imagine.

Anything of this sort is used by the spirit (prince) of this world to try to keep our mind occupied I suppose with materialism, the physical and on the affairs of this world and away from the spiritual truth that these things are parishing.

The wacky thought that comes to my mind is looking at what is sold to anyone who might place confidence in things that are only going to perish which leads to building on the things that perish, building on the sand while distracting folks from the things of life that can't be measured and don't perish, built on the "rock" such as love, hope and trust in the Lord.

Peace,
Fire Walker