I've thought about eternal life before but didn't really think about using nanobots. The question about the technology is that if it existed and was possible would the scientists release the information? or would they choose who would get it and who wouldn't? Also, I tend to believe in Nature more than technology and I often thought there had to be a draw back. After watching Highlander this weekend I think that that drawback would be that somehow Nature would get even with us and we would stop having kids. I don't Nature would allow our bodies to live forever and continue to have kids since of the overcrowding it would eventually cause.

About God. I believe in a Divine being and as the only evidence I have is inspiration. Insiration as when your having a really great conversation and everything you say isn't a thought that you ever had before. It just comes out of you and possibly helps or inspires the person your having a conversation with. I read the bible and I'm not really into organized religion. I find it strange when everyone says there is only one God though. It's the crux of the Hebrew belief but rather new, in as far as Christianity is new. But I remember something from the bible in one, if not all the gospels, about God being "...The Most High God..." (I think). And that has always made me wonder. If the Judeo-Christian God is the most High are there or were there other Gods or Divine beings around that weren't above God? The Romans and Greeks, as well as other religions believed in a Polytheistic View of the Universe and in the last 2000 years we've seen that thought disappear.

Also, I think that is why there is science. My belief is that God created everything but considering the Universe he didn't just whip it up and go "Here's the universe...". I think he used science and is waiting for us to figure out it out using science and faith. He doesn't appear to us because we're simply not advanced enough and haven't even figured out how to live with each other. I'm not big on apopulyptic (still can't spell) endings of the world only because I think He's leaving it up to us. We'll either learn to love and live with our fellow man without any goverments to help us or run our lives because we'll all just be happy and living our lives.

Conflict is a very human thing not a divine thing. Until we learn to deal with conflict in rational ways rather than fight why would he bother? He gave us free will to figure it out for ourselves. It's all on our shoulders not His.

jakee

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Get my luvin on the run...." - Steve Miller Band