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I laughed out loud at this and from now on whenever anyone is straying into nonsense territory I will loudly and excitedly exclaim "A land value tax could've so

I laughed out loud at this and from now on whenever anyone is straying into nonsense territory I will loudly and excitedly exclaim "A land value tax could've solved the resurrection of the Christ." Although honestly the "immortality as an STD" is a close second.

TeMPOraL 4y ago
> Although honestly the "immortality as an STD" is a close second. It's a natural extension of the ideas I saw the other day, when someone on HN posted an article about death and immortality. The article, by IIRC some renowned scholar, talked a bit about biology, self-preservation and starvation responses, and then segued into germ line cells, proclaimed that those are effectively immortal if you look at them in a certain way - the same way as in "immortality as an STD" case here - and then the author concluded it's good enough as immortality for them, and they're happy with it. I'll see if I can find the article again. EDIT: here's the subthread with it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33352697 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33352697.