05-10-2013, 01:11 PM
(05-10-2013, 02:12 AM)plenum Wrote: this may seem like a silly/flippant question, but here goes.
let us say that we had the 'normal' ageing process for 3rd density. That is, we lived for 700-900 years.
what would ageing look like?
I mean, would you still become an 'adult' at age 20, and then 'slowly' age over the next 600 years, going through the same physical changes as a 20-60 year old, but just over a longer span?
and what would reproductive cycles be like for women? I mean, could a woman become a mother of 400 kids?? it would seem not, because the populations back then stayed very low, but would it be possible, if such a woman wanted such a thing???
thank you kind forum for your indulgence in these idle questions.
From a biological standpoint, what aging involves primarily is the failure of your cells to continue to replicate themselves. Some cells are called "immortal" because they have no hayflick limit, or that is to say, no biological limit to the amount of times they may replicate themselves. Cancer cells have this property.
So in the situation where we lived around 900 years long, I would bet that adulthood would be reached in the normal amount of time, and the ability of your cells to continuously replicate themselves would simply last much much longer, and then when this began to fail, the normal aging/deterioration effect would take hold. And of course, Ra has told us that in the perfectly balanced entity, no visible aging would even take place, merely a weariness towards the end of the incarnation. However, that would be more the exception than the rule.
And I would think the reproductive potential of a woman in that situation would be viable up to several hundred years of age. The perfectly balanced entity would be viable the whole incarnation.