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Does anyone truly desire to exist or "live" for eternity? Regardless of what that eternity might be?
Isn't eternity, even if it's pleasurable, a torturous proposition?
Wouldn't you become so numb as to become basically insane?
Not necessarily with memories from all my existences or within a single existence. I certainly would not like to live as described by most religions do in regards to an afterlife in one place, whether peaceful or punishment.Does anyone truly desire to exist or "live" for eternity? Regardless of what that eternity might be?
Isn't eternity, even if it's pleasurable, a torturous proposition?
Wouldn't you become so numb as to become basically insane?
Does anyone truly desire to exist or "live" for eternity? Regardless of what that eternity might be?
Isn't eternity, even if it's pleasurable, a torturous proposition?
Wouldn't you become so numb as to become basically insane?
There can be no eternal life in physical form dependent on sustenance to keep gas in the tank or run dry and die. That aside, if you mean eternal life in physical form, how many people would there be on earth today? It would be a bit crowded and producing enough food would be rather difficult. Soylent green, perhaps. Your notion is rather complicated to flesh-out in any logical way. The only possibility of eternal life is that of a spiritual one.
Absolutely don't mean in physical form here on Earth.
Your notion is rather complicated to flesh-out in any logical way.
Yeah, I'd like to live forever as I'm a sci-fi fan and it'd be pretty cool to see if we get to invent warp drive or time travel in a few hundred years or so.
Maybe humanity will evolve into pure energy like the Vorlons from Babylon 5.
Maybe we'll destroy ourselves, who knows but it'd be kind of amazing to experience it all.
What about 100,000 years from now?
100,000,000 years from now?
100,000,000,000 years from now?
How long before the sheer boredom of "watching what happens" drives you completely insane? Knowing it'll never end.
Eternity is infinite. Right?
Sun burns out. Solar system freezes. Life dies. Black hole finally swallows it all. You're still around as eternity is infinite.
Do you really want that?
In a realm that has time and entropy, is there eternity?
I mean, besides meetings that should have been emails with power point attachments.
Did you leave out the word "no" by any chance? In a realm that has no time and entropy, is there eternity?
:lol:
We've all been there.
This realm has time and entropy unless mass can cause that to slow down to nothing somehow. I'm not sure about other realms.
Does anyone truly desire to exist or "live" for eternity? Regardless of what that eternity might be?
Isn't eternity, even if it's pleasurable, a torturous proposition?
Wouldn't you become so numb as to become basically insane?
I think that depends on "what eternity might be."
Well, since it's purely mythology, make it whatever you wish.
Could you see how no matter what it is, it might just become torturous due to it's infinite nature?
If I can make it whatever I wish, then I could make the scope of possible experiences infinite. So, not necessarily.
Infinite possible experiences at your finger-tips might drive you mad. Might not.
Since it's mythology we may never know.
Brings up another question.
Why would we be limited to 100-ish years here if the next step would be Infinity? Seems like too big of a leap.
Fun to ponder though.
Does anyone truly desire to exist or "live" for eternity? Regardless of what that eternity might be?
Isn't eternity, even if it's pleasurable, a torturous proposition?
Wouldn't you become so numb as to become basically insane?
Does anyone truly desire to exist or "live" for eternity? Regardless of what that eternity might be?
Isn't eternity, even if it's pleasurable, a torturous proposition?
Wouldn't you become so numb as to become basically insane?
Eternity sounds like hell to me.
Remember, a billion years, 10^9 years, is not the first second of eternity.
10^100 years is not the first second of eternity.
Neither is 10^(10^100) years.
Nor 10^(10^(10^100)) years.
Nor 10^(10^(10^(10^100))) years.
.....and so on.....
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