From: slider@anashram.com   
      
   ### - well, it seems to have gone suddenly very quiet around here since   
   applying the killfile to our 2 last resident loonies heh (peace at last in   
   shantytown? lol thaaat'll beee the daaay!) :)   
      
   so will tell ya's a story in the meantime about a perhaps wiser humanity,   
   wiser because they live long enough to actually reach wisdom instead of   
   having to die just as their 'real' life is only just beginning...   
      
   i.e., in the vast majority of cases, unless they're particularly   
   intelligent, it takes a human being around 50 or 60 years to even 'start'   
   calming down enough to really start getting their shit together, all those   
   years of following fashions and getting rowdy with their mates, a near   
   lifetime of following some kinda career/belief-system and of making ends   
   meet, of having families and getting homes together to pass on to them;   
   ALL our time is literally taken up with all this frenetic crap and it's   
   only when we've been saturated with it that we start to feel sated, at   
   which point we then usually die from old age should we have been lucky   
   enough to even last that long??   
      
   that if only human beings lived longer, say 300 years instead of only an   
   average of 70, things on this planet would likely be very different   
   indeed...   
      
   for instance: we'd probably spend the first 100 years just growing up, ya   
   know? working our way through it all and getting all that societal-crap   
   outta the way; finances, families, houses et-al, the whole works in the   
   majority of cases, even amongst them that didn't do too well the first   
   time around and say spent time long times in prison; the ageing process   
   nevertheless puts everything into a different perspective and, apart from   
   a few exceptions (the mentally incurable perhaps) we slowly begin to   
   wise-up anyway, coming around more and more to just the wonder of living   
   and being alive itself...   
      
   having gotten all that earthly + young crap outta the way (having   
   worked-off all that karma heh) the second 100 years would perforce be very   
   likely lived entirely differently altogether... the desires and urges of   
   youth having now burned away/been-exhausted we'd likely set out on a   
   different quest altogether, one probably filled with the study of   
   literature and history and whatever else takes people's fancy, the less   
   academically inclined (and/or perhaps those who feel they've already   
   absorbed/exhausted that entire body of information) living almost like zen   
   monks and exploring life that way...   
      
   having been through ALL that, and survived, our last 100 years would thus   
   be the glory of humankind, the passion & confusion of youth, the searching   
   to understand during our middle-aged years, followed by then 100 MORE   
   years of living completely in-harmony with life, the universe &   
   everything, for real, our world and culture would be a very different   
   place, run and organised by genuinely educated + very wise and experienced   
   people... if there was such a thing possible as 'heaven on earth' we'd be   
   living it and it would probably be very beautiful...   
      
   alas though we only live to around 70 or so, cut-off in our prime JUST as   
   we're actually beginning to finally see through ALL that crap and passion   
   of youth that had created such prolonged confusion and suffering in the   
   first place, and that my friends is kinda sad is it not? it's as though we   
   always lose by default!   
      
   it's like in that movie 'Logans Run' where everyone is set-up to only live   
   to 30, no one ever ageing enough to even question anything, a tiny clique   
   amongst them suspecting that something's not quite right with everything   
   they've been led to believe but don't know exactly what, only that there's   
   more to it all, them choosing to take their chances and 'run' rather than   
   just die when their time is up, no one knowing what really happens to them   
   once they escape, IF they escape that is, and aren't killed by the   
   'Sandmen' hired to stop them!   
      
   our 2 heroes do manage to escape for real, however, only to discover that   
   they are the first to do so, that the city they escaped from is thus a lie   
   and a farce set-up only to preserve life after a nuclear war, the movie   
   ending on a hopeful note when everyone there ("all the young people") are   
   then later forced to abandon the city and live outside where they   
   ultimately belong but which humanity had sadly forgotten all about...   
      
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKdPjwmNSlY   
      
   good movie! maybe even a true story albeit in hollywood code...   
      
   )   
      
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