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- From: joshua@rtfm.mlb.fl.us (Joshua Geller)
- Subject: Re: ankh (you very much?)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.203859.2506@rtfm.mlb.fl.us>
- Organization: Institute for the Study of Ancient Science
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 20:38:59 GMT
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- SL500000@brownvm.brown.edu (Robert Mathiesen) writes:
-
- >Imagine, if you will, outliving not only all the friends of your youth
- >and your middle age, but also all of their great great grandchildren.
- >Then imagine the enormous weight of memories, both good and ill, and the
- >vast network of associations with pain and pleasure that any possible
- >event would acquire, and the steady decrease in the novelty of daily
- >experience. One would have to be wholly other than human to endure such
- >a burden.
-
- I don't know if someone who lived that long would be considered 'human'
- in the full sense, but if you have the potential to you can always decide
- not to at some point.
-
- josh
-