[extropy-chat] Re: themes in anti-transhumanist arguments

[Mike Lorrey]

--- spike <spike66 at comcast.net> wrote:

> 
> > Furthermore, humans, according to God's alleged
> > design, were capable of living as long as 999 years (Methuselah)...
> 
> > Mike Lorrey
> 
> Philistine!  Methuselah lived only nine hundred SIXTY nine 
> years, thou heathern!

I don't know who this Phil guy is, and I certainly don't support him,
but thanks for the correction.

> 
> (Genesis 5:27)
> 
> Still, I would cheerfully settle for 969 years.  For now.  {8^D

Yeah, for now. That should be enough time to journey to Fomalhaut and a
few other interesting, close-by solar systems.

Mike Lorrey
Vice-Chair, 2nd District, Libertarian Party of NH
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.
It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."
                                      -William Pitt (1759-1806) 
Blog: http://intlib.blogspot.com

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