Truth
Mouseketeer
- Joined
- Sep 26, 2001
- Messages
- 266
This is an unedited repost of " Whoo Are Yoou ",
for the weekday crew.
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Something to Think about.
" Respectfully offered for your consideration "
Who are you ?
What are you ?
Where are you ?
How sure are you ?
Bring your imagination and think about what you would do
if your future gave you this choice.
Imagine if you will a time in your distant future
when you are at the very end of this mortal coil.
Your time is nearly at an end after a satisfying long life.
The doctor tells you what you already know,
your aged body has done it's job well but in a few hours maybe a day at most
you will doze off peacefully and never wake again.
Your family and friends have gathered around and all have said their goodbyes.
In this future moment you now have a decision to make.
Technology has made many advances between now and this future time.
A process has been developed that will allow all of your brain's information,
memories and capabilities to be transferred into a computer type device
that will leave you self aware and in a state of conscienceness
very much like the one you are in at this very moment
"seeing" this screen and "communicating" to it from an input device
similar to the way the keyboard or mouse in front of you does now.
You are not the first person to accept or decline this process.
The process is safe and has never failed.
The process does not affect your body's orginal time of expiration.
People who undergo the process may opt out at any future time.
The process does not promise immortality but no one has yet
been lost from the process once they have entered into it.
The process does not protect those who have undergone it from
any of the more drastic accidents that regular people are subject to.
Major Blackouts, fire, earthquakes and other natural disasters
are still capable of resulting in the big sleep for people
in the process if their particular hardware happens to get damaged.
The only two senses you are aware of are sight and hearing although
people have reported the "sensation" of all 5 senses during infrequent
and brief periods of what are best decribed as dreams.
So here is your choice. Do you .....
Undergo the process and spend some additional time interacting on planet Earth.
Decline the process and pass peacefully into whatever the unknown reality happens to be ?
There is no riddle or trick here, no right or wrong answer,
no larger issues to consider, no answer is required at all.
It is merely the musing about one possibility that could one day be available
in a future that may not be as implausible or as far off as some might think.
for the weekday crew.
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Something to Think about.
" Respectfully offered for your consideration "
Who are you ?
What are you ?
Where are you ?
How sure are you ?
Bring your imagination and think about what you would do
if your future gave you this choice.
Imagine if you will a time in your distant future
when you are at the very end of this mortal coil.
Your time is nearly at an end after a satisfying long life.
The doctor tells you what you already know,
your aged body has done it's job well but in a few hours maybe a day at most
you will doze off peacefully and never wake again.
Your family and friends have gathered around and all have said their goodbyes.
In this future moment you now have a decision to make.
Technology has made many advances between now and this future time.
A process has been developed that will allow all of your brain's information,
memories and capabilities to be transferred into a computer type device
that will leave you self aware and in a state of conscienceness
very much like the one you are in at this very moment
"seeing" this screen and "communicating" to it from an input device
similar to the way the keyboard or mouse in front of you does now.
You are not the first person to accept or decline this process.
The process is safe and has never failed.
The process does not affect your body's orginal time of expiration.
People who undergo the process may opt out at any future time.
The process does not promise immortality but no one has yet
been lost from the process once they have entered into it.
The process does not protect those who have undergone it from
any of the more drastic accidents that regular people are subject to.
Major Blackouts, fire, earthquakes and other natural disasters
are still capable of resulting in the big sleep for people
in the process if their particular hardware happens to get damaged.
The only two senses you are aware of are sight and hearing although
people have reported the "sensation" of all 5 senses during infrequent
and brief periods of what are best decribed as dreams.
So here is your choice. Do you .....
Undergo the process and spend some additional time interacting on planet Earth.
Decline the process and pass peacefully into whatever the unknown reality happens to be ?
There is no riddle or trick here, no right or wrong answer,
no larger issues to consider, no answer is required at all.
It is merely the musing about one possibility that could one day be available
in a future that may not be as implausible or as far off as some might think.
) - A rolling stone gathers no moss. 
