The Age of Miracles --- BEGINS!

by metatron 8 Replies latest jw friends

  • metatron
    metatron

    Yes, an age of miracles and wonders now begins!

    Popular Science reports scientists are working on the first
    artificial lung.

    People magazine (Aug. 6, 2001) pg.80 "Medical Miracles"
    -- a little girl is dying of a horrible skin disease - they
    replace huge areas of her skin with artificial skin grown
    in a laboratory - she's healthy and happy now

    -- a woman's life is saved by the first working artificial liver

    --- a completely self-contained artificial heart is now a reality

    --- a dying man gets a second chance with an intestine transplant

    --- a woman dying from lupus is saved by stem cells.

    Read the October issue of "My Generation" magazine! Its cover
    highlights the article "Get Ready To Live to 120 - It'll Happen
    Sooner Than You Think" - new synthetic antioxidants are being
    developed that could add another 20 years of healthy life --
    or maybe create an indefinite lifespan. The article warns that
    this is happening faster than most people think - a drug could
    be approved by 2006.

    AND the article also warns:

    "an extremely long-or indefinite life span could crumble
    the Judeo-Christian religions." (pg18)

    Whether thru lawsuit or otherwise,
    in ten years the Watchtower will be relegated to
    the scrap heap of history, along with buggy whips,
    slide rules, and cars with tail fins. Obsolete,
    out-moded, and irrelevant!

    Too bad for the Borg! If they concentrated on being a real
    loving brotherhood, they might endure and have a place in the
    future - instead of ending up as a obscure footnote in 20th
    century history.

    Such is justice

    metatron

  • Maximus
    Maximus

    Hi, Metatron!

    Right on target, as ever. Have you read Ray Kurzweil's "The Age of Spiritual Machines"? A great read that gives much evidence that science fiction is now reality. I note that computers inexorably will exceed the memory capacity and computational ability of the human brain by 2020; information can be fed straight into our brains along direct neural pathways. (But soft: Don't tell the Society about this latter possibility.)

    Chilling to have my belief dashed that I would never die. Now I take antioxidants!

    A very insightful friend of mine wrote me that what we see is a cult struggling to become a religion. External dynamics will continue to shape it.

    A word of disappointment about the thread title: thought you were going to report that the hardliners were thrown out of the Brooklyn Bethel top-floor window this morning. Patience ....

    Max

  • chappy
    chappy

    Deja'Vu? No sickness or disease? No old age? No death? This is all now well within the realm of possibility. Maybe the witnesses have got the basics right after all but just screwed up the details.

    later,
    chappy

  • ianao
    ianao

    So, after all of these miracles, who's going to start chucking people off the planet so the people left here can live comfortably?

  • chappy
    chappy

    It's a big universe!

  • terraly
    terraly
    It's a big universe!

    Darn straight, but it underscores the need for us to GET OUT THERE!

  • outnfree
    outnfree

    Wait, wait, ianao!

    Didn't you see my post about an Awake! Watching the World item? It seems all of the earth's present population could fit within the state of Texas with plenty of elbow room while the rest of the planet could be devoted to agriculture and industry?!!!!!!

    outnfree

  • metatron
    metatron

    I've read Kurzweil's book - It was interesting but I'm not
    sure where artificial intelligence is going. The editor
    of Red Herring magazine published an editorial -"The failure
    of A.I." (april 15,2001)wherein he seemed to say that
    rule based A.I. is impossible.

    Defenestration of old fart, molestation hidin' hard liners?
    Wow, that would be neat to watch!

    metatron (splat!)

  • MikeNightHaShev
    MikeNightHaShev

    Judaism won't fold due to the advanced society because the whole ideology is based on those transhumanistic ideas of betterment to mankind and the Hebrew teachings of Resurrection was based on the fact this was believed to be the one and only gift of life and the only way to remain eternal was to remain alive thus only by returning to this one life could you remain in conciousness.

    http://hashev.tripod.com/transhumanist.html

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