Global wrote:
Planets explode, the sun will go supernova, asteroids and other large debris could easily wipe out life on Earth, along with any number of catastrophic events and natural disasters. Nothing will last forever. Not even these non-aging organisms. All life on Earth will cease at some nexus in time.
 Be humble for you are made of EARTH
Be noble for you are made of STARS
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Funny how debates can so quickly end due to semantics. language is such a new and flawed reality. "Energy flows where attention goes" [Please review the forum Wiki and FAQ before posting questions]
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anrchy wrote:Funny how debates can so quickly end due to semantics. language is such a new and flawed reality. I don't think we're disagreeing on semantics. I think we're disagreeing at the core of this argument. It was a quaint half-baked idea, but sometimes you gotta let them go. It seems you think that because I disagree with you, I must not understand what you mean. I believe I understand, yet disagree anyway. "Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind" - Albert Einstein
"The Mighty One appears, the horizon shines. Atum appears on the smell of his censing, the Sunshine- god has risen in the sky, the Mansion of the pyramidion is in joy and all its inmates are assembled, a voice calls out within the shrine, shouting reverberates around the Netherworld." - Egyptian Book of the Dead
"Man fears time, but time fears the Pyramids" - 9th century Arab proverb
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other than the language problem that people face, there is yet a bigger problem... not accepting that people don't/don't have to agree with you, everyone thinks his/her theory(opinion/idea) is right/the right one.
Global is right, by the way, in the last comment...go ahead all of you, read all the comments, we all agree and understand the core of the idea of the general subject and each individual's take on it, the possibility and implication of what this word describes, but there are different outcomes and that is where our paths split, hence the disagreement.
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Actually I don't think we do disagree. My comment was more on biological immortality but due to the fact that the definition is so general what I was saying had to reflect that. And your comment about outside influence touched base on that. There are things that don't age yet can still die. The word immortal is the semantics that I was talking about. It doesn't necessarily mean invincible. But It can also mean that. So basically we were saying the same thing but I wasn't taking into consideration outside influence and you weren't considering immortal as being just about aging. Either way now in completely lost from the initial conversation. So I better stop before I butcher this thread haha "Energy flows where attention goes" [Please review the forum Wiki and FAQ before posting questions]
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true, true wasn't important anyway, it was just meant to play around with ideas
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Let's all hug, make up, and rejoice in our delightfully mortal lives  "Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind" - Albert Einstein
"The Mighty One appears, the horizon shines. Atum appears on the smell of his censing, the Sunshine- god has risen in the sky, the Mansion of the pyramidion is in joy and all its inmates are assembled, a voice calls out within the shrine, shouting reverberates around the Netherworld." - Egyptian Book of the Dead
"Man fears time, but time fears the Pyramids" - 9th century Arab proverb
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Amen to that. I'm lighting a spliff as a toast to all the simple organisms that will outlive us  "The Menu is Not The Meal." - Alan Watts
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Vodsel wrote:Amen to that. I'm lighting a spliff as a toast to all the simple organisms that will outlive us hahaha nice. So wait, what was this thread about? "Energy flows where attention goes" [Please review the forum Wiki and FAQ before posting questions]
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Infineon wrote:Salvia propagates through stem cuttings, that basically means that these plants clone themselves. How would a plant propagate itself through cuttings? [EDIT] OMG WTF! I just read how the branches are brittle and break falling onto the ground, which root easily. is this the only plant that does this? "Energy flows where attention goes" [Please review the forum Wiki and FAQ before posting questions]
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see, you picked on the terminology again  ..."cuttings"...that's the interesting part about it...it can reroot very easily, and adapt crazy fast Interesting plant
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technically, immortal cell lines are carcinoma. look up telomerase. "Nothing is true, everything is permitted." ~ hassan i sabbah
"Experiments are the only means of attaining knowledge at our disposal. The rest is poetry, imagination." -Max Planck
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