How to Live Forever

[anagogy]

You know, I was thinking...  I don't particularly believe that immortality technology currently exists, but it would create an interesting problem if it did.  Let's say some horrible nasty rich elite person did have their own private DNA resequencer or whatever.  How long could they ACTUALLY keep it a secret while still interacting with the world?

I mean, we're in a world with cameras everywhere, facial identification, fingerprints, satellites that can read the newspaper over your shoulder, etc etc.  This isn't like some vampire story where someone in the 1500s just fakes their own death every few decades and them reemerges pretending to be the next generation of the family.  There would be a very limited timespan on how long someone could get away with that today.  Even the first switcheroo would be difficult to pull off.  Sure, maybe they're even so powerful that they could pay off every single government in the world to alter every single official record of them in the world (although it sounds far-fetched)...  but then there's still Facebook, Instagram, and soforth (not to mention print sources), along with plenty of computerized identification/recognition tech that's publicly accessible.

Such a technology would ultimately become a trap.  They couldn't leave their own homes, or at least not grounds thoroughly under their own control, for risk of their secret getting out.  Whether or not they feared for themselves personally, such people tend to be possessive and would likely want to keep the secret to themselves out of spite.  But that would really put a Faustian twist on the whole matter.  Would someone be so desperate for immortality that they'd be willing to lock themselves away to achieve it?

No offense. but this kinda seems like a failure of imagination.

If such technology existed, don't you think they would also have facial reconstruction, and fingerprint reconstruction? Any sufficiently developed technology becomes indistinguishable from magic. I'm not trying to paint a picture of someone who is all powerful, because they're fallible humans, just like us, but it doesn't seem implausible to me at all. Even in the mainstream, we have plastic surgery that can drastically change someones appearance. Fingerprints can be removed quite easily (although crudely in the mainstream -- I, myself, have most of my fingerprints burned off (or at least changed) on my right hand due to an accident as a child with a wood-stove). Is it really such a stretch to believe more advanced reconstruction has been developed? And as far as government records, they could easily just start a whole new identity. There are plenty of places in the world where identification records are not kept. They could simply claim to be some kind of immigrant after the face change. Presto, whole new identity.

And even if they didn't alter their face, if we are to take such whistle-blowers seriously, we have *space-ships*. Ra even declared we have a *base on the Moon*. Let that sink in for a minute. We probably have bases on other planets (many people have claimed this). These people don't even have to live on Earth at this point. It is fine to be a skeptic (you'd be in a good company -- critical thinking is a valuable commodity, but it is also extremely easy to be a critic. All you have to do is sit in a chair and say "show me the proof". Job accomplished. Pat self on back. But then I suppose it is also easy to be a believer too. It is difficult to find the middle ground, where the spiritual moonlight either reveals or conceals) I think you raise good questions, but I feel like there are a lot of variables here to take into account. And merely accepting variables validated by Ra, it already seems *massively* plausible considering those world rocking revelations given way back in the 80's.

On the other hand, I agree with you, that disclosure would be inevitable. And they know that. DNA would be hard to fake, but what do I know? They want the whistle-blowers, and the leakers. Even on the fringe, it gradually acclimatizes the public to what is coming. I don't think they ever planned to keep these, and other things, a secret forever. They're not stupid. It's like Pandoras box. It's human nature to spill the beans. They just want to control how it is revealed at this point since it is ultimately un-concealable. But that is what the end of the 3rd density cycle on this planet is going to look like from my point of view. A lot of fantastic technology becoming publicly available.

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