Monotonous Plan? That was before we had Transcendental Meditation and the Spiritual Regeneration Movement. Seize the day, we Know a lot more today. Make use of your time while you're here, the doors open at 7am for group meditation in the Domes everyday. -Buck He said: “Ours is an age in which everything is based on the premise that it is best to live as long as possible. The average life span has become the longest in history, and a monotonous plan for humanity unrolls before us.”
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <s3raphita@...> wrote: Re "The average lifespan in the Middle Ages was 30, meaning that fewer than half the humans born reached that age." : Average lifespans are a dodgy statistic as in older societies with their very high infant-mortality rates that can badly skew the figures. Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima always looked back with nostalgia to the Roman period when most people died young - that way, he claimed, life was always lived at an ecstatic pitch. Mishima was turned on by the thought of gladiator fights so he may not be a good guide! He said: “Ours is an age in which everything is based on the premise that it is best to live as long as possible. The average life span has become the longest in history, and a monotonous plan for humanity unrolls before us.”
