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Reed Lover 
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 Topic: ’We will be able to live to 1,000’
Posted: December 14 2004 at 19:45 |
This shall evermore be known as the pariah thread.............. 
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Reed Lover
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Posted: December 13 2004 at 18:15 |
 James Lee wrote:
There's one sad and scary person in this picture. Who do you think it is?
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The dwarf??
Theyre really scary in films.
The sound of barrels being scraped echoes throughout the forum.
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James Lee
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Posted: December 13 2004 at 18:14 |
There's one sad and scary person in this picture. Who do you think it is?
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Reed Lover
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Posted: December 13 2004 at 18:12 |
Garion81 wrote:
James Lee wrote:
I know that living for fifty more years while completely dependent on medication and technology to keep me alive would be a kind of hell. |
You know James, that perfectly describes Cher!!!
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Garion81
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Posted: December 13 2004 at 17:53 |
James Lee wrote:
I know that living for fifty more years while completely dependent on medication and technology to keep me alive would be a kind of hell. |
You know James, that perfectly describes Cher!!!
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Reed Lover
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Posted: December 13 2004 at 17:44 |
James Lee wrote:
Actually, the average lifespan has begun to show signs of decreasing recently, breaking the general trend of the last milennium.
I personally consider time to be a lot like money...you tend to assume more is better, but it's what you do with it that counts.
I know that living for fifty more years while completely dependent on medication and technology to keep me alive would be a kind of hell. I've done hospice work; though rewarding, I couldn't imagine half the earth's population like that.
Would you sacrifice your sight (or hearing, in keeping with the music that brought us here) for an extra 100 years of life? I'd have serious problems living out my normal span if something so essential to my enjoyment of life were gone.
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Wet blanket.
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James Lee
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Posted: December 13 2004 at 17:36 |
Actually, the average lifespan has begun to show signs of decreasing recently, breaking the general trend of the last milennium.
I personally consider time to be a lot like money...you tend to assume more is better, but it's what you do with it that counts.
I know that living for fifty more years while completely dependent on medication and technology to keep me alive would be a kind of hell. I've done hospice work; though rewarding, I couldn't imagine half the earth's population like that.
Would you sacrifice your sight (or hearing, in keeping with the music that brought us here) for an extra 100 years of life? I'd have serious problems living out my normal span if something so essential to my enjoyment of life were gone.
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Arioch
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Posted: December 13 2004 at 14:31 |
tuxon wrote:
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It will be possible, but not for me
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why not?
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Knight of the Swords
Lord of Entropy
Duke of Chaos
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tuxon
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Posted: December 13 2004 at 14:28 |
I wish I had not read this thread
All that's happened is I know now (although I've never not known) that it is possible to live beyond a normal lifespan of 120 years (maximum according to the bible), but the research won't be over untill I've died (probably even later  ). So what good does this knowledge do.
It will be possible, but not for me
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I'm always almost unlucky _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Id5ZcnjXSZaSMFMC Id5LM2q2jfqz3YxT
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goose
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Posted: December 09 2004 at 06:00 |
Wizard/TRueStar wrote:
goose wrote:
If it comes to doing lots of
music, I think it'd be hard to outdo Merzbow, he's done hundreds of
albums, and one of them was 50 CDs long. Arguably it isn't music
anyway, but still...
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if it's not music what is it? |
noise. I mean that literally as well, http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d3/Merzbow_Dharma .ogg is a short sample
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Wizard/TRueStar
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Posted: December 08 2004 at 20:25 |
gdub411 wrote:
Actually it sounds appealing now but how about 40 years from now? I may grow weary of this life and be ready for that great leap into the black unknown.
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Well when you get bored you can always kill yourself
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Wizard/TRueStar
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Posted: December 08 2004 at 20:24 |
goose wrote:
If it comes to doing lots of music, I think it'd be hard to outdo Merzbow, he's done hundreds of albums, and one of them was 50 CDs long. Arguably it isn't music anyway, but still...
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if it's not music what is it?
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goose
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Posted: December 08 2004 at 17:18 |
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If it comes to doing lots of music, I think it'd be hard to outdo
Merzbow, he's done hundreds of albums, and one of them was 50 CDs long.
Arguably it isn't music anyway, but still...
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Blacksword
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Posted: December 07 2004 at 16:07 |
sigod wrote:
Pixel Pirate wrote:
Vangelis once said that he could easily release 4 albums a year but he doesn't want to flood the market and make people sick of him. Admirable sentiments perhaps but I suspect they fall on stony ground in the studio where TD are at this very moment putting the final touches on their new triple concept album,before Edgar Froese knocks out a couple of soloalbums during the afternoon and they get down to planning what album they're going to record tomorrow. |
Have whatever they're taking collected and sent to my room immediately.
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erm, a kind of musical Viagra I think. Its worth remembering that TD are over 500 years old, and such drugs could do damage to such young men as ourselves.
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Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy!
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sigod
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Posted: December 07 2004 at 10:42 |
Pixel Pirate wrote:
Vangelis once said that he could easily release 4 albums a year but he doesn't want to flood the market and make people sick of him. Admirable sentiments perhaps but I suspect they fall on stony ground in the studio where TD are at this very moment putting the final touches on their new triple concept album,before Edgar Froese knocks out a couple of soloalbums during the afternoon and they get down to planning what album they're going to record tomorrow. |
Have whatever they're taking collected and sent to my room immediately.
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I must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision.
- Clement Atlee, on Winston Churchill
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Pixel Pirate
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Posted: December 07 2004 at 08:31 |
Vangelis once said that he could easily release 4 albums a year but he doesn't want to flood the market and make people sick of him. Admirable sentiments perhaps but I suspect they fall on stony ground in the studio where TD are at this very moment putting the final touches on their new triple concept album,before Edgar Froese knocks out a couple of soloalbums during the afternoon and they get down to planning what album they're going to record tomorrow.
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Odi profanum vulgus et arceo.
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sigod
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Posted: December 07 2004 at 06:25 |
Let's hear it for Tangerine Dream, the band that could teach Peter Gabriel a thing or two about productivity
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I must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision.
- Clement Atlee, on Winston Churchill
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Blacksword
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Posted: December 07 2004 at 05:33 |
Do you think they've ever had, like ..girlfriends or anything..??
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Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy!
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Pixel Pirate
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Posted: December 07 2004 at 04:08 |
AND: Edgar Froese also finds the time to make soloalbums. He released 4(!) last year and he also finds the time to do paintings and sculptures! I think we're dealing with some sort of superhuman here... 
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Odi profanum vulgus et arceo.
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Pixel Pirate
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Posted: December 07 2004 at 04:04 |
I think they live in the recording studio.
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Odi profanum vulgus et arceo.
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