Disease, Old Age & Death (D.O.D.) are no longer necessary or acceptable. We are either the last to grow old and die, or the first to stay young and live forever. We choose to be the first to stay young…
Why Christianity Won Over Paganism (or Why Easter’s Resurrection was The Big Sell)
Early Christianity triumphed because if offered physical “eternal life” to believers. For those who are old, dying or dead, it promised the physical resurrection of the dead. Although this resurrection of the dead was considered crass and scandalous to the…
Aubrey de Grey “One of the Oldest-Looking People Alive”? Compare to Elixxir!
“Does anyone else find it strange that Aubrey (de Grey) is one of the oldest-looking people alive? I mean, the face of staying young forever is a grizzled long-beard.” Though Adam Leith Gollner’s The Book of Immortality is decidedly biased…
Trump a Mass Murderer? Impeachable Offense?
A Harvard Medical School study published in September 2010 found that nearly 45,000 Americans die every year in the United States because of lack of health insurance. This means 450,000 deaths in the U.S. every ten years. Due to lack…
Hurricane Harvey, Houston & Climate-Change Denialism
Listening to the pollyanna prophecies of “Transhumanist” soothsayers like Ray Kurzweil, you’d think that we’re protected from Hurricane Harvey and extreme weather. You’d think we’re 100% assured of defeating Global Warming. No worries, be happy! The omnipotent god of technology…
Article 25: Health Care is Human Right & U.S. is Brazen Longtime Violator
“Obamacare”, though not universal and not single-payer, extended health care to millions of Americans. Trump and the Republican Party are trying to take back health care from those millions, and millions more. So they can give the “savings” to the…
Fact: Universal One-Payer Health Care System is Cheaper!
The United States, alone without a universal health care system among the rich countries, spends over 17% of its GDP on health care. Despite this much spending, it leaves out in the cold over 33 million Americans (and over 11%…
Why (Mortalist) Love Fails
“Love can do all but raise the dead,” the American poet Emily Dickinson tells us. Alas, raising the dead is exactly what we demand of it. Falling in love is a common mode of immortality-seeking. Falling in love is resurrection…