Re: Re: Raison d'Xtre -- Raisins As An Entree ( I was terrible with languages)

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At 03:00 PM 8/8/2006, you wrote:

Dear jwwright (have I gotten

that correct?):

Longevity is simply

the extension of the duration of life, as life is customarily defined.

Health has a good deal more to do with the quality of your life's

experience; indeed health may, in some ways, be more subjectively defined

as the capacity to experience the joys possible in this life. I believe

the former is more quantitative measurement, whereas the latter is

definitively qualitative. Philosphically, you can think yourself into a

cerebral meltdown given the hobsonian choice between a long life in a

body ravaged by a chronic, debilitating disease, and a short, but healthy

and pleasurable life, free of pain and sorrow.

I rather suspect you'd get no takers in this entire group for the first

choice. Happily, CRON extends the likelihood of improving the health of

whatever life we have left as well as quite possibly extending it; hence

the puzzlement (that I think most of us share) at your posing this as

though it's an either/or question (which suggests a lack of familiarity

with the details of CRON).

Are you new, or just philosopical?

Also: please share with us how to have a life that's free of sorrow. You

might be able to become the guru of a new, enthusiastic cult.

;-)

Maco