Everlasting Life

I think I would drink it. I figure there must be a reason god gave me this opportunity. I know it would be a struggle at times, but surely I would need to participate in this fantasy on the behalf of everyone who had ever dreamed of it. The responsibility would be great, especially if other people knew you had eternal life. They would probably come to constantly as a resource and you wouldn't be allowed to have a normal human existance. Hmmm... But I think that in the end I/whoever would adapt to this everchanging lifestyle and still find good in it.

On the other hand, if eternal life means being in horrible pain but simply not being allowed to die than I'm out.

I'd be scared that if I sold the cup of eternal life, I'd go to hell for being greedy. I mean, I would surely believe in heaven and hell if I saw the sky opening up and everything. But, I can't say I wouldn't try to take advantage of the situation somehow.

Would you tell anyone if you had this opportunity?

Would you stay in the same physical shape? I mean, would I have a 25/26 year old's body for the rest of eternity or would I just look older and older? Also, if the world ended, would I be forced to float in space for all eternity?

I don't know if you'd age though - I mean, if you did age, when would you stop - how far could you go. Or perhaps you'd just slowly fade, like a wraith.

The only way to find out of course, is to get down to Glasto armed with a shovel.

Ha, I imagine John Peel could turn "You have chosen... wisely" into a nice 15 minute monologue on the changing political climate in Bengeo, the oversight that is the lack of a proper towbar on the Toyota Celica and the variable contents of his fridge.

IJ4 is in production, isn't it?

Not Arizona, Jordan. The ancient city of Petra, in fact.

when, as any fule kno, it's actually buried in Chalice Well, Glastonbury.

(and there's a chap in Wales who claims to own a piece of it, too. He was on the telly once.)

Arimathea apparently accompanied the Apostle Philip, Lazarus, and Mary Magdalene on a preaching mission to Gaul after Jesus’ death and at the English Channel, St.Philip sent him with twelve others to establish Christianity in the most far-flung corner of the Roman Empire: the Island of Britain. Arimathea already had ties to Britain, and there are stories that he took the boy Jesus to these shores, anyway, he sailed around Land’s End and landed at…

Glastonbury. OK, so the site of Glastonbury is something of a geophysic phenomena if you’ll pardon the pretension, in that it seems to exert an almost magnetic pull on people – there is archaeological evidence of people gathering there and, well, celebrating and all since as early as 500BC. The site is thought to have been a pilgrimage place in Druidic times (2,000-2,500 years ago) and even further back in Megalithic times, 4,000 years ago. As the mythical Avalon, it was seen as the crossing point for the dead into the otherworld and it has always maintained a peculiar spiritual significance, lying on the powerful St. Michael and St. Mary ley-lines (if you go for these things).

Anyway, upon his arrival at Glasto, Joseph planted his staff in the ground, where it burst into a thorn bush, which you can still find on Wearyall Hill. After establishing the first Christian Monastery in Britain, he then buried the Grail, the cup said to bear the blood and sweat of the crucified Jesus at the foot of the Tor, from whence the Chalice Well then sprung.

Nb: Much of the Grail myth pertaining to Glastonbury has been somewhat, err, embellished by 12th and 13th Century scholars and by later writers and Kings (Henry’s VII and VIII). But still, interesting, if fabulous, none the less.

chinny reckon!

no really, i'd forgotten about the whole Joseph of Arimethea thing - I knew the Tor was connected to Jesus somehow but didn't know the details, and I didn't realise it included the Grail - maybe I need to watch more Monty Python films?

After the paragraph on people living to 1100:

"Finally, genetic modifications or nanomedical augmentations to the human body may extend healthy lifespans still further, to a degree that cannot yet be accurately predicted."

They also said "That treatment scenario may be less than a decade away." but we'll see...

We should set up an ILXpedition to go there and find out! FAP Of The Lost Ark!

Lots of yummy Turkish food on the way. And cheap sazes!