Would you want to live forever?

Throughout our history, humans have always feared death. Immortality was the goal. Humans souls have constantly searched for a way to be alive-forever. Humans are social creatures, ostracization is not what they look forward to. After you're dead, you're physically-and eventually mentally, left out of the lives of the living. Back from the days of the Qin Dynasty, emperor Shi-huangdi, searched far and wide for the elixir that would permanently extend his time on earth. However, such immortality has never been a possibility-until now. Cloning and created consciousness (which may or not be adapted by the human kind) have begun to develop. Making duplicates or just having our consciousness live while our physical bodies decay is an attempt to live forever. Is this the right thing to do? Are we meant to unnaturally expand our lives? 

Is living forever really the answer to all of our problems? 

Mortality is almost a gift. Mortality is what makes human life so beautiful, so fragile. It's constantly all or nothing. You're either alive, or dead. There is not yet an in between-but at the rate technology is going, there soon may be. Currently, nothing, nobody is going to last forever. All we honestly have is right now. RIGHT NOW. This. Right here. This is the only thing guaranteed; and it is fleeting. That’s a scary, dark, beautiful thought. All we have is now. The gods cringe at the thought of mortality, as do we. However, if we were immortal, we’d spend lifetimes waiting for a better tomorrow. As we only have a limited amount of time, we make sure not to spend ALL of it hoping for better timing. Everything serves a purpose, as does death. 

You're born. You live. You die.
Some thing may happen after that, but there's currently no empirical evidence regarding this.

The only thing we're absolutely certain about is...
You're born. You live. You die.

Where would the complexities of cloning fit into this? Where would an immortal conscious but deteriorating body go in this currently logical order? What about the natural? Are humans manipulating too much, too fast? The current development in technology seems to make our lives easier than ever. Is this necessary? Is this useful? There are so many ethical, social, scientific things to think about regarding this. Have we let our technology develop to the point it is no longer controllable?

If scientists were to create a device from which you could achieve what your forefathers desperately attempted to capture-immortality- would you?

Would you really want to live forever?

Passionate & Pissed

Today, I was flipping through a magazine with a cousin of mine. He's your typical teenager, independent and stubborn. We turned to a page with a lingerie advertisement. There was a skinny, tan woman eating a large piece of chocolate. Chocolate was also all over her body. She was only wearing, non-surprisingly-lingerie.

Seeing this woman, covered in chocolate, probably to show men how 'delicious' she was in her new panties, disgusted me. How was this woman in an AD for other woman, dressed in a way to please men? More than that, why was she aberrantly skinny? Did anybody know what kind of message she was showing the readers-most teenagers like myself?

Anyway, I made a comment about how women are objectified on a daily basis. He sneered. He said, 'She looks hot.' I replied, 'that's probably not what she looks like in real life.' He said, 'if she wants to model for lingerie and she gets a lot of money for it, let it be. Let her do what she wants with her life.'

I had nothing to say. I got up, made a silly excuse, and left.

I was suddenly angry, and I couldn't pinpoint why.

Was I wrong?
Lately, I've been noticing a couple of things about our patriarchal society. Things that I've come to immensely dislike. Last night, at dinner, I was going on about how women get paid less then men just because of women. Someone was saying that how in today's world men are the one's that are being disregarded. I disagreed. I mean, is anybody aware of the fact there are more men alive in this planet because in many countries, once the parents find out that the zygote is a female they abort her? Or how about the fact that women are treated like objects, especially in the sex trade everyday? Or why is it that I can't walk down the street alone without some creep whistling or cat-calling? The other day, I was arguing about this, when somebody said I must be PMSing. I asked why they thought that. They said, 'Well, you're being such a feminist.' I laughed.

Why is being a feminist such a bad thing?

Doesn't anybody see that the photo-shopped models make everybody, especially girls feel like they're never physically good enough? Society has raised us to believe that looks are what matter anyway.

Is it so wrong that I want to fight for women, since even today they're thought less of by society? Yes, there are a growing number of feminist, but is anything really happening? Are boys reducing the cat-calling? Can a women walk out the door at night, confident that she won't get raped? And if she does, will society accuse the men and not her dress? No.

That's why feminists are needed. That's why there aren't enough.

Am I crazy for being so passionate about this?