And how would you start civilization if there was nobody but you? Just wait billions of years until the planet you're on or some other planet became suitable for life, then wait another billion years for it to develop, hoping that it would develop in exactly the right way so that it is slightly intelligent and capable of concious thought?

Man... Thinking of immortality as a good thing is just your conditioning. This culture wants all good all the time. The concept of immortality itself is a product of this. Its not even possible at all, no way, ever. Immortality is a weak spirit wanting to cling to life, not realizing that clinging to life is like an illusory hand grasping at smoke. The hand being the Self, the smoke being anything the Self wants to cling to.

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