Calvary

If you're gonna make weird accounts using my IRL name and the description from my fucking Facebook profile, at least hide your IP address so we can't find out you did it, you weird, creepy fuck.

I was gonna leave this and just accept that Danny has dealt with it but I don't think it's fair actually. What's to stop you doing that to someone else? This is me publicly calling you out to let you know: you're what we in London call a 'cunt'.

Do this, post results, don't shit on people.

 

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This is where I sit, which pretty much sums up my personal beliefs; individualist freedoms and a state that preserves freedom, the environment and the health and safety of its people.

Having watched Ghost in a Shell recently, I've been pondering human mortality more than normal recently. I figured it might be an interesting topic to breach, I have no idea what other people's opinions on this are. I was thinking about maybe putting this in the science subforum, but since I suppose this will mostly be a theoretical/philosophical topic, rather than a scientific one, it may as well sit in EE.

 

I for one, am a transhumanist; I firmly believe that the continuation of the human species rests in our ability to augment our feeble human bodies and escape the limited resources of planet earth. More importantly than that though, I believe our best chances to experience happiness and excitement are locked within the realm of transhumanism, mind-uploading and bodily augmentation.

 

If you were to ask me whether I wanted to live forever, I wouldn't hesitate to affirm. I honestly believe that the chance to become biologically immortal will be granted to us within our lifetime, and that immortality will be achieve through the uploading of our minds to a neural network, or artificial brain that is house alternatively in a ; computer network or sensory android-like machine; think cybermen but less silver and more feelings.

 

A recent episode of Black Mirror touched on mind-uploading: San Junipero was based almost entirely in a purely non-physical world, and I really do believe this is where our future lies, or at least where we can experience a level of stimuli that vastly improves our state of living.

 

Anyway, would you guys wanna live forever? Are you a transhumanist? Do you believe there are moral quandries with the notion of immortality?

I can't remember if we have a thread like this on NF, but on another forum I'm on it's always pretty active.

 

 

I've just finished the first Ghost in a Shell anime. Having been vaguely aware of it since I was about ten, it's nice to get closure on it. The soundtrack was fantastic, and I know it's an absolute classic, but I must admit there were times where I felt both the story line and the actual animation, was a bit sub-par, not to mention the English dubbing, cor lummy.

 

Overall I'd say it was a 7/10 experience, and I still wanna watch the second one now. 

 

 

Also just, god damn, this song.

 

May your truck get 10mpg, may the Budweiser flow and may your clip never run empty of bullets.