Wednesday, December 12, 2007
This'll be my last post till after 3 months. Tomorrow i will be conscripted into the army for my extra physical training. Tceh. Apparently i'm too weak to defend the country so they're gonna toughen me up or something. Hopefully i don't come out all bitter and angry but yeah, God will be by my side. yup yup. Sigh... I've had a few very tough goodbyes with my best friends and i've even cried over them. These people have been by my side the past year or so and it's just so hard to part with them. Lester was right. Hello's are really easy to say but goodbye's are torturous. yup. I spent today with Taylor and we went to vivo for a really nice dinner and he treated me to ice cream. yeah. stupid boy spilled my drink once so i spilled his too. wahahahaha. yes i know i'm mean and vengeful but hey, he deserves it man. anyway we had fun today even though we emo-ed quite a bit. yeah... gonna miss him a lot man. sigh... 2 years... i spent the previous day with lester. that's another hard guy to part with man. fellow bro-in-Christ and musician. heh. had a lotta interesting times with him. we had quite a tough parting too. both of us trying not to cry. haha. it was quite amusing to see us both i think but i broke down in the end. oh well. never cried so much before. taylor too. i've never seen him in such a state. oh well. i've got emo besties. haha. but that's cool i guess.. yup. i'm gonna miss everyone, especially my JC class 06S202. thanks guys for all the love and care you've showered upon me. i may not have spent a lotta time with you guys studying and going out but you've really made me feel like i belong. love you guys man. gonna miss my cell too. nyuh. can't believe i'm really getting shaven already. oh well. it's late. can't wait to get out before i even go in. take care peeps. farewell
22:54
Monday, July 16, 2007
It's Been Awhile
The title says it all. I've been away from the blogosphere for quite a long time. Lots have happened since i last blogged- JTRC, block tests and mid-years were the more significant ones. Truthfully, i have no idea what to blog about since i've more or less decided not to blog lengthy, preachy entries. Maybe i'll just rattle on with what's on my mind...
Lately, i've been asked to form a Christian band with my brothers in church. Actually it's more of a merger of musicians from the two bands that played in JTRC. Lester, the drummer, Rachel, the keyboardist and I will be leaving Jacob's Dream to join Jerald and Joel of Revival. Joel plays bass and I think he has rather amazing potential. Yeah... Jerald's gonna drop guitar and take up full-time singing. I like his voice but i think i would want him to continue playing some guitar too. A new name has yet to be decided upon but I see a lot of potential in this band. Especially since every member has had a lot of experience in music. I wonder what would happen to the 5ifth. Cos' i'm considering leaving that band since we're so inactive. However, woe be it that we get a recording gig just after i'm informed of the new band. Also, I feel that i have greater chemistry with my current band. It's the kind of chemistry that cannot be had with another band. Somewhat like being in a relationship i guess, every girl is different. I was torn between the two bands for a while. On one hand i strongly feel that i shouldn't leave my secular band cos' i'd be ditching them. On the other hand, i feel that i should worship and praise God with my guitar in this band. It's a tough decision but i've decided that i'll manage being in both bands for now cos both aren't really into full swing. God will decide for me and i've faith that He'll show me His will.
Studies. That's all that a student's life is about eh? But then again, study is the root word of student after all. In Singapore, studies certainly seem to be everything. After all, our government does leave a huge part of the budget to education. It is so competitive here in singapore, what with everyone comparing grades. Surprisingly though, in mj, we compete to see who can get lower as a joke. My friend recently sarcastically joked that being the lowest takes skill. He said that he wanted to be the lowest so that he'll get special help but he ends up being in the middle still. Mind you, both of us failed chem but are still counted average. Hence the conclusion that being the lowest takes skill. I've always questioned the purpose of our education system. Obviously, it’s so that we'd have a job in the future. However, with the way things are nowadays, singapore being an elitist society, companies only take in the best people. What then happens to those who struck out in terms of studies? Is it fair to them that since they're talents lie not with scholastic abilities that they do not get a stable income? The so-called best are not safe either. Ph.D holders even have difficulty finding jobs. Some of them eventually become teachers for lack of a better vocation. Isn't it saddening to know that they've slogged for over 20 years (including primary education) to not be able to do what they enjoyed studying? Lately, even straight-A students are unable to find a place in the medicine faculty of NUS. Inflation. That's what i'd call it. More and more people are getting A's and so straight-A's are no longer a big deal. In school, teachers incessantly remind us of the bad grades we get in tests, that we'd 'jolly well' buck up if we wanna get into the instituition of our choice.
We are also compared with those who get their A's for tests. "If he can do it, i don't see why you can't". Sounds familiar? I'm sure this line has been replayed so many times in classes. People spend 16 hours a day studying, stopping only to eat or bathe. Life has been degraded to a point of merely taking in information and facts. Is a piece of paper really worth all that? We are losing our sanity as humans, replacing our nerve cells with silicon chips. In exams, we are expected to identify 'types' of questions and print out answers from C:\My Documents\Chemistry\Organic Chem\Alkenes. I'm surprised no one's started clicking while doing work yet. Yes, we honour our parents by working hard in school. Yet, the system digitizes us, desensitising us in the process. Maybe it's good that humans are naturally resistant to change after all. None of us have become robots. Not yet anyway. Sad but true, many singaporeans have switched faiths to 'Certificatism'. We have begun to subconsciously worship grades. Maybe one day the computers/robots will go against the system but i doubt it'll happen. After all, we have been programmed to 'just follow law'. Sure, there are a few 'bugs' around that mess things up but Norton gets things fixed after a while. The latest Windows Vista promises to learn more with less teaching required, working fewer days than before. I wonder if this operating system will work out with all the computers in singapore. But then again, it only works well for Pentium 4 computers. Pentium 3,2 and 1 computers have no choice but to struggle with it. Oh well, that's the way it is, only the best gets the best sometimes. So, have you upgraded your system yet?
23:22
Tuesday, February 06, 2007
Perhaps I've unlocked the secret...I think I've done it... Maybe... just maybe...
Being the rational freak that I am, I always tried to find purpose and meaning in the things I do. No point doing something if there's just no point right? Then I realised that a lotta things didn't have meaning. Just like the biz club things I'm compelled to do. There's no point producing a comic because I do not achieve what I want. Comics are not my greatest interest. No point being in the exco if I don't have the 'passion' to serve. Such things have no purpose for me. In man's quest for purpose, he will be brought to the root question: what's the meaning of life? It's been man's ultimate goal thus far. Why are we living? Are we fulfilling some greater destiny? For the non-religious, perhaps life had no meaning at all. But we still see free-thinkers living their lives to the fullest each day. Why are they doing so? Is there some purpose that I don't know about?
Lately, I've been thinking about this meaning to life. I'm not afraid of death and am seldom saddened by it. Does this mean that i want to live? Why do i want to live? Once again, i'm brought back to the question on life's purpose. I soon realised that perhaps life can have no meaning... only if you wanted it so. What i'm driving at is that YOU have the power to give life meaning. You determine your own purpose in life. I'm not promoting LaVeyan Satanism here, which is individualism- everyone enforces his/her own meaning in life and rises above the confomity of the masses. What i'm saying is that you give life purpose and this purpose changes over various stages in your life. For example, your purpose in life is to study. Then, for you, your meaning of life is to gain textbook knowledge. I'm saying that maybe there's no generic meaning of life cos' everyone's lives are completely different. I think, with this, i can have motivation to do what i have to do. By giving it meaning, i've given it purpose and i've given myself a bigger reason to do it. Individualistic as it may seem, it's crucial that we give our own lives purpose for your friend cannot do that for you. Likewise, my main purpose in life is to let the big guy take control. If i did not let that be my life's purpose, it means that i'm not letting Him take control of my life. Many Christians have subconciously done what i've done. I'm just iterating it. I've chosen my life's meaning to be God's meaning for me. This is the opposite of LaVeyan Satanism. I've given myself into being one of the big guy up there. That's my purpose in life. My path ie. God's path, my choice. As of now, my life has meaning, defined by God.
20:06
Sunday, January 14, 2007
Life's Like ThatEveryone needs a person to follow in certain areas of their lives. This said person is known as a leader. A leader is one who has influence or power over a group of people or organisation. Being the undecisive people that we are, sometimes we need leaders to guide us and to help us make important decisions. More importantly, they are also a representative of a body of people, one speaking for many... I just read about a leader-friend of mine who got a dressing down for his inadequacies as a leader. That made me think : what then, defines a good leader?
Life is not a walk in the park. It's more akin to trekking through the Amazon where anything can happen. It may be uneventful at times but in a split-second, you may be attacked by army ants or poisoned by the sap of a vine. Humans are naturally resistant to change, partially due to the 'Neanderthal' gene in us. As such, we often try to stay in control of our lives by working to make sure that in whatever we do, nothing should go wrong. However, life is so unpredictable because of the random people around us. They, too, are trying to stay in control. If purposes differ, something will go wrong either for either the protagonist or the antagonist. This is the one basic fact of life that we have to accept. That no matter what you do or how much you try to prevent something from happening, things will go hay-wire. Which explains the reason for Murphy's law. It states that whatever can go wrong will go wrong and at the worst possible time. Despite it's pessimistic nature, it's a popular western adage. The reason for it's popularity is simple: Most of the time, the Law holds true. Humans are imperfect in nature and so whatever they make or control are imperfect too. Computers will crash, power and phone lines will be jammed and people will also say the wrong things. So since everything is bound to go wrong, why isn't everything in a total mess? Why is it that we're still alive? More specifically so, why is it that even though someone can forget to do this or that, the event can still run smoothly? Why does everything work out? I have no idea but i do have a theory on this. It's chaos. Since everything is just that darn chaotic, the mess will result in a harmony that was 'unintentionally' created. Chaos is a result of change. Living things need change in order to survive as change forces them to adapt. If there was no change, the slightest deviation in the environment will result in death. On the other hand, too much change and organisms will not be able to adapt in time, also resulting in their demise. Constant change keeps everything in check. Therefore harmony can be found in chaos.
In the midst of chaos, leaders are needed. They are the ones who are sure of what they are doing for they need to be the ones who guide others. Some people believe that a leader must have a certain set of qualities and values. Most of them already have an idea what kind of leader they want to follow and this is usually in line with their own principles. I, however, choose to think that leaders are needed in circumstances and since circumstances differ, so are the leaders who are required. There is no 'model' leader. As long as that person can influence others and settle issues and problems, he/she's considered a leader already. The psychology of leadership is as follows: Different environments bring out different emotionally-charged facets of people's characters. Leaders have to be aware of what situations bring out which emotions in people and with this awareness, affect people to reach a common goal.
In school, we are often 'encouraged' to choose our leaders through voting. Whether it's CCA leaders, student councillors or even the class committee, everyone votes for the leader he wants. One reason for this is so that people will know that they have elected the "people's leader". One who is not simply appointed but selected by the majority. However, i feel that even as 17-18 year-olds, we are not ready for democracy. Often, we tend to choose those who can ra-ra the crowd, the more popular ones or those who can give a better speech. Democracy has been degraded to the state where it's no longer a mass swift evaluation of character but a popularity contest. He who is more popular and has more 'contacts' is the leader. At first, everyone will be alright with the newly elected leader, supporting him in his role. After some time, people start to get unhappy about him and that's when they start criticising him. That's what happened to my friend. Granted, when people are unsatisfied with you, they have the right to criticise you so that you can improve. I don't completely understand my friend's situation but i do understand this: Criticise constructively. Know yours and the 'victim's' limits. If he's criticised to the point where he's feeling miserable about himself, you're nothing more than a bully. If it's a group of people who are victimising him, few would dare stand up against the majority and defend him. Ask yourself if you're giving him a chance to defend himself or even to apologise. You've had your chance to choose your leader. If you really think that you can do so much better than he, why didn't you stand for election? If you did but lost to him, accept that he won you fair and square. As a fellow peer, you should try to help him and not to gang up on him and make him feel lousy about himself. To my friend-- all this is part of life man. No matter what you do, people will be dissatisfied with you. Remember this: you do not live to please people for you are no slave. Do the best you can and never regret what you do. Take all forms of insult and criticism with a pinch of salt. After all, it's only a person's point of view. So what if many people share the same point of view? It doesn't prove that they're right. Of course, if you know that all they want is to bring out the best leadership qualities in you, do some soul-searching and see if you really do need a change in mindset. One of the things i like about you is that you're able to see things from a different angle and that you know how to deal with different people. If those qualities don't make you a true leader, i don't know what else will. I know you'll do your best in your CCA. Gambate ne!!
Just something random... People tend not to like pessimistic leaders for they do not give their followers hope. I'm a huge follower of Murphy's law and i admit that i am a pessimist. Since i'm such a pessimist, why is it that i get chosen as a leader more often than should be? Maybe i'm more of the
sai kang kind... Something i'm used to doing for the past 7 years... More to come, definitely... Yeah... just a random thought... Anyway, i was once asked if i saw the glass as half-empty or half-full... In response to that, i said that i saw it as half-full but poisoned... Things are not always as beautiful or good as they seem... Be prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.
00:16
Tuesday, December 26, 2006
He Speaks!Originally wanted to write a post about genetic engineering and stem cell research... Then God told me that I should be using my blog to talk about Him... So now here i am... talking about the one God who speaks to us..
I'm sure everyone knows about Jesus of Nazareth who was sent by God to do His bidding on Earth... Jesus was a great man, preaching the Word of God all over Isreal, gathering many followers and healing many... As the son of the king of kings Himself, Jesus performed miracles almost everywhere he went and every miracle performed had a lesson 'attached'... He turned water to wine, fed thousands with bread, healed a leper, raised the dead and walked on water, just to name a few... Of course, He impressed many people but the priests were unhappy with His gaining support from the people and so planned to kill Him... Hence, they offered Judas Iscariot 30 pieces of silver to betray Jesus and hand Him over to the priests... In the end, Jesus died on the cross, crucified... 3 days later, He was raised from the grave and first appeared to His desciples... His death was planned... a divine plan of God to wash away the sins of humans, so that those who believe in Jesus may not perish but have eternal life.... God, the almighty God, sent His one and only son to DIE so that we may LIVE... the Creator loves us that much... The blood of Jesus washes away our sins for Jesus took it all and died for us...
2 years ago, on September 25 2004, a friend of mine brought me to church... There, i was touched by the sermon and so i gave my life to Jesus... I don't have a hard-luck testimonial to share... but what i wanna share is a Father's love...
God is one who speaks... He speaks in many many many ways... through others, through mass media or even through dreams... we as Christians have to learn to listen to Him when we pray or whenever He just wants to speak to us... This comes naturally when you're doing quiet time or when you are so close to God that He just speaks to you even when you're walking down mandai zoo... I was brought up with a scientific background... i was one who believed that EVERYTHING can be explained through science... lately, this view has been changed... i came to realise that i have yet to define what science is... what if religion was another form of science? does this mean that the supernatural is also an explanation? what's the difference between the natural and the supernatural? the normal and the paranormal? is it simply the just the explicable and the inexplicable? let's assume that it's that... so does this mean that once God becomes an explanation or reason for something, does this mean that it's scientific too? that's what got me thinking... it makes sense that God exists too... everything that comes from nature is far too perfect to have existed on its own... or just through pure evolution... Evolution comes from Charles Darwin's theory of natural selection... ie. the best genes are selected to be passed on to the next generation... but how could the genes have existed on their own in the first place? surely some higher power must have created them first... That's where God comes in i guess... i may be wrong cos' i don't know much about genes... apparently, genes are encoded by DNA or RNA and are replicated through cell division... maybe God writes our DNAs? who knows? the point is, i believe that there is a higher being who's in control of the entire universe... omnipotent and omnipresent... then again, there's that famous paradox about the omnipotent God being unable to create a stone that He can't lift... But then again, it is God's very nature to be omnipotent... so if He ever creates a stone that He cannot lift, it will mean that He's not omnipotent... obviously He cannot create something that contradicts His essential nature... therefore He naturally cannot create something that makes Him not omnipotent... As such, God IS omnipotent...
In the past year, i've learnt to listen to the omnipotent God through my emotions... For me, He speaks through my friends and emotions... As a guitarist, i constantly yearn to worship Him with my guitar in church... Because of that, i spend a lotta time honing my skills and tweaking my guitar processor to get the best sound possible... Because of that, i started to drift away from the Heavenly Father... then one day, He suddenly told me that worship is not about the sound you have or how well you play... it's about the Heart... If you have the heart to worship God, then He will be pleased and He'll bless you with the skills to worship Him better... At first, i couldn't fathom how i could improve like that... then it dawned on me that if i had the will, i had the way... if i worship God with all my heart, i'll be playing with all my heart... this means that i'll be playing with all my heart everyday and this will definitely help me improve... By faith, i'll be able to play on the spot... with the Holy Spirit with me...
Faith is scary... It's hard to entrust something so important to something intangible... Fact: God is very very very real... Things in life may fail you... maybe you'd lose your job, maybe you'd fail your exams... But God will NEVER forsake you... He'll never harm you... That's what faith is all about... It's not about believing that God will make everything go smoothly for you... It's about believing that everything happens the way God planned it and that in the end it's for your own good... One cannot become stronger if he doesn't suffer at all... It takes faith to be strong... Do you have the faith to dedicate your life to God? He has so much planned for you... plans to prosper you and not to harm you... Do you have the faith to believe in that? Christianity is not just about praying and reading the Bible... It's about listening and having a relationship with your Heavenly Father... Ladies and gentlemen, our God is a God who speaks to us... Let those who have ears hear what He has to say... The time has come for us to realise that He reigns above all else!!!
22:38
Wednesday, December 13, 2006
Could a Fallacy Mean So Much To So Many?Like the amount of rain Singapore's been getting lately, education is on the rise... No longer can you avoid going to school to 'get educated' (don't mind the inverted commas)... i'm not against education but i doubt it's effectiveness in our society... we singaporeans have long passed the agricultural age (not like we were really able to be in one in the first place) and have advanced into a fast-moving and stressful society... No doubt, some of us may use whatever is taught to us in JC or secondary school but the bulk of us won't... In the end, it's the process of education that really 'moulds future' as MOE puts it... Putting us through stress, classroom/CCA politics and near useless information, MOE prepares us for the life ahead... However, being the cynic i am, i still feel that education is not enough... There are many more important things in life that aren't taught in schools ie. Logic, social science, character, love etc. It's understandable why though... such things are intangible... How can you teach a child how to love? or to have integrity? Of course you can attempt to teach a child to think... Yes, we have been taught to do so by being given math and science problems... We have been taught to rationally arrive at an answer at such subjects, even in english and chinese comprehensions...
Whenever we argue, whether friendly or not, we always come across 'loopholes' that the other party has surfaced... these are called fallacies and we usually exploit of them in order to gain the upper hand... Some of these fallacies include Ad populum (majority wins), Dicto Simpliciter (over-generalisation), Post-hoc (jumping to conclusions) and No true Scotsman... What most of us fail to realise is that many things in life are fallacies too... Take love for example... Such an impalpable thing... nearly undefineable... This is one of life's fallacies that i'm referring to... Collins Cobuild's defines it as 'a very strong feeling of affection towards someone who you are romantically or sexually attracted to'... Oxford defines it as 'a strong feeling of deep affection for somebody/something'... from these two sentences, we may like to focus on 'a strong feeling of affection'... CC's defines affection as 'your feeling of fondness for someone'... so this means that love is just a strong feeling of fondness or a strong liking for someone, which makes sense cos' love doesn't just have to be between the opposite sex and only to one person... you can love many... so what is the love that everyone's so crazy about? the one that gets you attached for life, helps you have kids and makes you wanna spend every single minute with someone? is it, then, romance that spices love up? perhaps... It is defined as 'a love affair'... now, we've come back to the word 'love'... we've gone one whole circle and still have yet to define romance and love (the romantic kind of course) Many people say that you'll only know what 'true love' is when you experience it yourself... In other words, they have no idea what it is or they just can't find the words to express it... But how do you know that you truly 'love' someone? How do you know that you've found the right guy/girl? What if there's someone better for you out there? The answer is 'yes'... there'll always be someone better... but why make love a matter of someone's qualities? Does this mean that the more moral, good-looking person is more loveable? If this is so, then who can explain the large number of married criminals out there? how about those married business man who'd bribe, embezzle and even threaten under the table? Furthermore, does a married couple equate to a loving couple? Marriage can be about money, tradition or just for fun... In other words, you do not have to be married to be a loving couple... Marriage is only supposed to be a public declaration of love and a license to have kids conventionally... It is probable that you love someone because you want to have kids with him/her... This theory is based on the term 'natural selection' coined by Charles Darwin... Nature's basic law :survival of the fittest... it is likely that we choose the person we love based on his/her qualities because of natural selection... we like our partner's qualities and so we'd want those qualities in our offspring... that makes us animal-like i guess... just that mating season is all year round and males don't have to literally fight over females... In this civil society, it is crucial that everyone only has ONE partner... is it due to selfishness? or more of health reasons? if it was the latter, then why aren't the populations of animals dropping due to STDs? instead, WE are the ones killing them off... i guess it's just the ethical thing to have only one partner... Basic rule of 'true love' no. 1: it's not to be shared...
Another reason why i feel that love is a fallacy is because it doesn't exist... just now we came to the conclusion that love is a feeling of strong fondness or likeness for someone.. this means that love is merely an emotion... 'Je pense, donc je suis' which, translated, means 'i think, therefore i am'... It's an argument that states that of all the things in the universe, one can only be sure of his existence... Satan will always be there to deceive us... he can make the sky non-existent and he can make monsters come alive simply by playing with our minds... however, he cannot deceive us if we are not there for him to deceive... as such, we exist... that's the one thing we can be sure of... BUT, the brain creates all else... for your 5 senses pass through your brain before it processes them for you to understand... therefore it has control over all that you see, hear, touch, smell or taste... so you cannot be sure of their existence... similarly, an emotion is created by the brain... therefore, it did not exist till we existed... going by this statement, humans created love (or should i say, God created humans with the ability to love) In the book of Genesis, God told adam and eve to 'be fruitful and multiply'... Humans are meant to populate this planet... and so God gave us 'love' as a tool to help us choose our partners so that we can civilly play a part in natural selection: choosing the best genes to go into our offspring... Ultimately... love is but a way to choose your partner to procreate and to live the rest of your life with... we feel the way we do because God created us that way... We are meant to reproduce but it is not our sole purpose here on Earth... i cannot divulge what that purpose is... if i could, i would have answered the greatest question that human beings have asked but have not answered : what is the meaning of life? I have a few possible answers for that but i shall leave that for another day... All in all... we love for God... not for ourselves... So could a fallacy mean so much to so many? Yes, a fallacy could mean that much cos' we also realise that EVERYTHING is a fallacy if you think about it... the list of fallacies is very very long and everything is linked to something else... if something is a fallacy, then everything else remotely connected to it is one too... we're living a life of fallacies... Live with it
23:05
Monday, December 11, 2006
Immortality? No thanks! I'd rather die...Up North in the Arctic Circle, near Alaska and Canada, lives the Arctic wood frog... What is so interesting about this tiny 2-6 cm creature is the way it hibernates during winter... Since temperatures can reach sub-zero conditions up there, it is entirely crucial that metabolism rates are brought down low... The way this frog performs this is by letting the entire body freeze. When spring comes, the frog thaws out and then hops around as if nothing happened! What allows this is a simple monosaccharide (sugar) that is found in ALL vertebrae... However, the cryoprotectant (anti-freeze) is activated by a certain gene... Right now, scientists are researching on how to activated the cryoprotectant in all of us... The answer for this is simple--immortality... Humans can simply freeze and 'live' forever... Nowadays, many people are concerned about global warming and the greenhouse effect.. They are afraid that Earth's temperature is rising to the extent of inhabitability... I'm sad to say that these folks cannot be any more wrong... It is true that recently, global temperature has been rising but if we extrapolate global temperatures for the past 3-5 centuries, we'd realise that Earth's temperature is actually dropping... It is only ocean temperatures that are on the rise due to increase in volcanic activity... as such, more water is evaporating and this will lead to greater rainfall and snowing therefore lowering global temperature... Ladies and gentlemen, the next ice age is nearing... it is not a matter of 'if', only a matter of time... I highly doubt that at our current state, we are able to survive the next ice age... Which is why the Arctic wood frog's natural cryoprotectant is gonna be a boon for all of us... We can cryogenically freeze ourselves in preparation for the ice age and when the ice naturally melts, we will all 'revive' too... ready to rebuild (and re-destroy) planet Earth...
Speaking of immortality... I've realised lately that it is not something i want... In Harry Potter, there is talk of the Philosopher's Stone, elixirs and so on... Whether or not there is a way to gain eternal life... I feel that God made us perfectly... We are only meant to live our 80 years or so... only a select few ever cross the 100-year barrier... Maybe that's why immortality is so difficult to attain in the first place.. maybe it's not meant to be... Even if immortality were to be achievable, i'd rather not... This is because eternal life does not necessarily mean eternal youth... French scholar and writer once said "If youth knew, if age could"... this means that youths have the ability to do what they want to do but they don't do what is important... On the other hand, the older people have more experience and so know what to do with their bodies but are unable to due to their physical limitations... What good is it being old and immortal if you can't do what you want to do? Moreover, it is virtually impossible to keep all our muscles, nerves and bones in working condition forever... Friction and other normal wear and tear will definitely wear them out... Stem cell research allows us to grow our own nerves and organs but we certainly cannot grow EVERYTHING in our body and them replace them slowly... Furthermore, we cannot grow a brain and have a brain transplant... we'll turn out to be different people... Scientists, stop looking for a way to immortality and start looking for ways to feed the hungry and heal the sick... I'm ready to embrace my own death as it lurks closer day by day... Are you?
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