Check out what the super rich are doing to survive doomsday and/or to live forever. If they would only accept the free gift of Jesus as their Lord & Savior they would have their wish. To Infinity and Beyond - from “young blood” transfusion to apocalyptic insurance - weird ways billionaires are trying to live forever. The Sun Reporter It’s simply not enough for billionaires to have everything they've ever wanted – they need eternity to enjoy it, too. At least a dozen of the world's richest men have ploughed millions into bizarre ways to live forever. Here are five of the weirdest. Amazon boss Jeff Bezos, the world's richest man, has put a lot of cash into finding a cure for ageing. 1) Cure for ageing They include Jeff Bezos, the world's richest man, who has pumped money into Unity, a California company that hopes to stop the ageing process. It's already raised over $116 million in funding and is trying to find a way to block cells that cause arthritis and loss of sight. Paypal founder Peter Thiel has also ploughed cash into Unity having spoken about finding a cure for ageing for years. "Most diseases are linked to aging," Thiel said at Web Summit in 2016. "You have a one in a thousand chance of getting cancer in the next year at age 30, you have a one in ten chance of getting cancer in the next year at age 80. "So we definitely want to find a cure for cancer, maybe if we find a cure for aging we cure cancer along the way." Tesla CEO Elon Musk wants you to load a computer chip into your brain. 2) Computer chip in your brain The billionaire has been developing the technology, called Neuralink, because he thinks humans must become one with machines in order to survive being replaced by artificial intelligence. Musk's plan to "save the human race" involves wiring computer chips into our minds to merge us with artificial intelligence. He says brain-computer interfaces will turn humans into a genius super race. Last year, Musk told Axios: "The long term aspiration with Neuralink would be to achieve a symbiosis with artificial intelligence and to achieve a sort of democratisation of intelligence, such that it is not monopolistically held in a purely digital form by governments and large corporations." He also said that the technology would involve an "electrode to neutron interface at a micro level." This essentially means that the tech would have to be surgically implanted into human skulls. Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg has ploughed tonnes of cash into an apocalypse survival base. 3) Apocalypse insurance Wealthy tech moguls are preparing for any such apocalypse by buying island properties, having laser eye surgery and investing in pimped out nuclear bunkers. Dinner party conversations in Silicon Valley are dominated by talk of society crumbling amid nuclear war and what steps the billionaire elites are taking to avoid the fallout. The New Yorker spoke with Larry Hall, the CEO of the Survival Condo Project, which is a 15 storey nuclear warhead silo turned into luxury doomsday properties. Larry Hall's Survival Condo, pictured being developed, is located in Kansas and caters for wealthy survivalists. In 2008, Hall paid $300,000 for the silo and spent nearly $20million refurbishing it for anxious wealthy investors. He has now sold all the private apartments – 12 including one for himself – for $3million each. New Zealand is one of the most popular places in the world for tech moguls to buy ‘apocalypse insurance’. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has bought this land on the north shore of Kauai in Hawaii. LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman told the magazine “saying you’re ‘buying a house in New Zealand’ is kind of a wink, wink, say no more." 4) 'Young blood' transfusions Transfusing blood from young, healthy people – specifically those between ages 16 and 25 – into those who feel that they’re getting on in years could reverse ageing, according to some experts. That’s not to say it’s restricted to the elderly – anyone aged 35 and up is viable for this service. PayPal mogul Peter Thiel has made headlines over the past few years for his rumoured interest in this process, specifically related to a start-up company called Ambrosia. This isn’t new ground for Thiel who has made investments in several medical research start-ups looking at ways to extend life via his Breakout Labs fund. 5) Digital consciousness Entrepreneur Sam Altman is one of 25 people who have splashed the cash to join a waiting list at Nectome – a startup that promises to upload your brain into a computer to grant eternal life to your consciousness. There's just one (huge) catch: it has to kill you first. The process, as described in MIT Technology Review, involves embalming your brain for it to potentially be simulated later in a computer. The living customer would be hooked up to a machine and then pumped full of Nectome's custom embalming chemicals. The method is "100 per cent fatal", claims the company. “The user experience will be identical to physician-assisted suicide,” Nectome's co-founder Robert McIntyre revealed to the publication. "Our mission is to preserve your brain well enough to keep all its memories intact: from that great chapter of your favorite book to the feeling of cold winter air, baking an apple pie, or having dinner with your friends and family," writes Nectome on its site. This list was in-part put together by ABC Finance. -Fair Use- Do they know they can accept Christ and live forever? Not only live for eternity but 1 Corinthians 2:9 “But, as it is written, “What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined, what God has prepared for those who love him”— have a home prepared by God himself, beyond anything man could build. All paid for via the Cross of Christ. Man, has always tried to pattern After God, but we fall far short Rm 3:23 flying up today, I pray :prayer-hands: Paul said “Do they know they can accept Christ and live forever?” Well the way I look at it the rich have access to every electronic device to search for the Truth if they really want to so they are without excuse. Most make their money their god ... so in their minds they don’t need Jesus and they spend their entire life searching in vain for happiness/fountain of youth, etc. their way and treat the average person horribly. I frequently come across a few haughty rich people in the town I live in because its a vacation spot for the out-of-staters. One time I was in the local bookstore - I was in jeans and was wearing woven leather clogs. They were unique shoes and I pretty much got compliments on them from a lot of people. They looked expensive but the funny thing is I purchased them for only $22 at K-Mart, yes, K-Mart back in early 2000 ... I think it was part of their Thom McAn collection before they went down hill. Well this super rich lady came up to me to say she loved my shoes and wanted to know where I bought them. I saw she was decked out in a diamond necklace, her diamond ring was huge, she had on expensive clothing and she was wearing a fur coat and I said oh, I really don’t think you want to know. She insisted I tell her ... so when I said K-Mart ... the look on her face was priceless as she said K-Mart!??? She then stepped back from me like I had the plague and scrunched up her nose and again said K-Mart?!! Then she quickly turned around walked away from me. A person with an attitude like that I seriously doubt will make heaven. I also have come across a few sweet people who were rich and they were humble so I could see them possibly making heaven some day if they heard the Gospel message. The Lord said “it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.“ Proverbs 16:18 “Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall” Geri, in your example, we can understand when Christ role the disciples in Matt. 19:24 “ easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle (figure of speech) than for a rich person to enter heaven” but God (with God all things are possible). Keep praying for this woman wherever she is in her life, that God will reach her. :prayer-hands: Good point Tammie. We can’t give up on people and have to keep praying for the lost. Even though that haughty lady morph into Cruella de Vil ... with God all things are possible and He still desires everyone to be saved. See this guy in this pic ... he did the Dos Equis Beer commercials ... well, his vacation home is in the same town and I’m praying the Lord gives me an opportunity to bump into him to be able to witness to him. From the local newspaper article, he spends a lot of time at this one place and if the Lord doesn’t rapture us out this summer, I’m hoping this fall the Lord opens the employment doors for me to work there and then perhaps I will get a chance encounter to talk to him. :yes: Geri - you just never know, but be ready, in season ..... another of my verses that I like (so many, so little time. - I’m only up to 593, had hoped to make it to 1000 before the rapture, but it is what it is B-) ) anyway I digress 1 Peter 3:15-16 “but in your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect, having a good conscience, so that, when you are slandered, those who revile your good behavior in Christ may be put to shame.“ keep praying for the world to see our Savior- they all will one day. Every eye.... every knee.... :prayer-hands: :flyup: Somehow saying we "need" God infers inferiority on our part. Exactly! And for those who don't know where their next meal is coming from, or are afflicted with disease, or who have been blinded by poor life choices often look forward to physical death. Larry King a non believing Jew is into cryogenics as his savior. Whether one loves themselves, their wealth, or their celebrity all are fearful of changing the status quo. But it is appointed once for everyone to die the first death. Some have cheated on taxes or found loopholes, but not so with death. Knowing that soul and spirit are eternal many think there's plenty of time. But with the saving of flesh is of paramount concern! This is why the Lord says that those that lose their life will find eternal life. In the end, the flesh loves flesh, and spirit loves spirit! Sadly the treasures of this life whatever they may be can't compare to heavenly treasures! It is the ultimate shortsightedness to choose the limited and temporary! Professing themselves to be wise, they highlight their foolishness. TR There are People who don’t want to believe that God exists, nor that it is all, ALL about Jesus. To acknowledge the truth makes them powerless and their pride just will not let them give up their perceived power. Yep, pride is a big stumbling block. I often wonder too when we talk to the unsaved about the narrow way to eternal life that they aren’t thinking about their loved ones who passed away and its their desire to be with them no matter what, even if they are not sure their loved ones made heaven? While witnessing to this one former co-worker, she said to me are you saying my parents didn’t make heaven? I replied I don’t know your parents, but I do know that God gives everyone a chance to hear the Gospel message at some point in their life and to respond. Perhaps your parents turned on the radio station or the tv and heard about Jesus that way? The Lord also uses divine appointments and brings believers across the paths to share the Good News like I’m doing right now with you. Since both your parents spent time in the hospital and rehab before they passed away ... there could have been a believing nurse or worker on duty or even another patient in the same room who spoke one on one with them. (Note - she did later inform me one of her sisters, brother-in-law and their daughter are born again in her family). I started noticing a pattern when witnessing ... there seems to be at least one believer in each family that is saved because people will often say “you sound like my sister, or aunt, or uncle” or “so and so in my family believes the same as you.”
6/3/19
A number of billionaires are putting their cash to good use by trying to find a "cure" for ageing.
Tesla and SpaceX boss Elon Musk reckons he'll need a computer chip strapped to his brain to survive beyond 2100.
The end of the world could take many forms. Perhaps the global economy will collapse and lead to a state of worldwide anarchy, or maybe a global pandemic will decimate the population.
While this may seem like something straight out of a sci-fi blockbuster, there are companies out there conducting trials into the effects of blood transfusions.
A Silicon Valley billionaire is paying the ultimate price for the chance of immortality: Death.
