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"Belief is a cover up for insecurity. And the most fervent believers are religious fundamentalists and they have certainly made a mess of the world. Faith, on the other hand, is a willingness to step into the unknown. The unknown is the only reality. The known is the prison of our past conditioning. Everything we know has already happened. If you can step into the unknown in every moment of your life then you're always in the field of infinite possibilities. This is true faith and it is faith in yourself."
Deepak Chopra
(From an interview with Deepak Chopra by Rasha Mourtada, Globe Life web editor, July 23, 2007 for theglobeandmail.com, Toronto, Canada)
"So long as one is happy and healthy, death will always be premature. A late death is never late enough; there is never a right, non-tragic, time to die. From this I conclude that postponement of death is a fundamental good . . ."
Prof. Raymond Tallis From his article "On Not Choosing The Alternative" published online at philosophynow.org, April 2008
"The late, great Bernard Williams, who wrote about ‘the tedium of immortality’, argued that if we were to endure for ever, we would have two options. Either we would not change fundamentally – in which case our lives would be unbearably repetitious; or we would change fundamentally, in order to have endlessly varied, utterly different experiences. In the latter case, we would be virtually unrecognisable to ourselves after a thousand years. We would escape tedium effectively by dying, as one self gave way to another. Our immortality would simply be an unending succession of mortal selves."
Prof. Raymond Tallis
"When we get this worked out [the human genome] and we're all living to be 150, . . . we will see the unbelievable capacity of humanity to be noble."
President Clinton, at the announcement of the completion of the first draft of the Human DNA Sequence, The White House, Washington DC, June 26, 2000.
" . . . for our dearest ambitions to be realized, from personal self-fulfillment to faithful preservation of cultures to serious space exploration, biological immortality becomes indispensable."
Carlos Arturo Serrano Gomez, from his article "The Case for Immortality" published online at english.ohmynews.com, March 2008.
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