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Eternity - Would you want to live/exist forever?

When I go, I want off of this ride.
 
d0gbreath said:
When I go, I want off of this ride.
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This ride lasts only a short time.

We have a thousand years to become vegetarian, and then when you come back it will be a different ride.
 
Exquisitor said:
This ride lasts only a short time.

We have a thousand years to become vegetarian, and then when you come back it will be a different ride.
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I'm not coming back.
 
Exquisitor said:
This ride lasts only a short time.

We have a thousand years to become vegetarian, and then when you come back it will be a different ride.
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your going to need a lot longer than 1000 years for me to go vegetarian unless you can alter me so that plants taste like what meat tastes like to me now
 
d0gbreath said:
When I go, I want off of this ride.
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Come on, don't you want to be part of Jesus Christ?

I can feel with you brother, I'm a little reluctant to start bringing the planets in.

I'm a sifi materialist scientist. My goal is to maintain remnant population after the last convergence and be here in six-billion years when a planet is some far away Creation serves as the 6:00pm Proxy.
 
blarg said:
your going to need a lot longer than 1000 years for me to go vegetarian unless you can alter me so that plants taste like what meat tastes like to me now
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Dude, the next Teacher is in five hundred years, do you want to be eating meat before him?

I'm all for people eating what they want, I just want my Federal dollars Vegan.

Azapizzazz the Green Vegan
 
Exquisitor said:
The world is so dangerous that the Godhead will do just about anything if it would make you come home.

We've been in this world since time immemorial, now we have human bodies, now is the way back to Godhead.
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You wanna maybe explain this a bit more? Please.

The world is far less dangerous today than it was 500 years ago. Or 5000 years ago.

And who/what is the godhead in your comments?
 
Dragonfly said:
You wanna maybe explain this a bit more? Please.

The world is far less dangerous today than it was 500 years ago. Or 5000 years ago.

And who/what is the godhead in your comments?
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Godhead is the Universe, although beyond it and separate from it.

By deduction we find a dangerous world, naturally a normal parent would want their children at home.

All these worlds, it's been Nature and dog eat dog all the way.

In the beginning we went to God to exploit him for our benefit, then we went to Satan when we saw he had God's attention and did the same thing and he cursed and pursued us.
 
Exquisitor said:
In the beginning we went to God to exploit him for our benefit, then we went to Satan when we saw he had God's attention and did the same thing and he cursed and pursued us.
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Any evidence of this? Can you prove "god" and "satan" exist? Or is this all metaphorically speaking?
 
Immortal like the highlander

In a 35 year old body or an 80 year old body?

Over time like that someone with a little intelligence could have built up a pretty comfortable life.

Or sitting around heaven singing in the choir

If.they don't have dogs and good fishing i am not interested
 
rickc said:
Immortal like the highlander

In a 35 year old body or an 80 year old body?
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Pretty sure the vast majority of "eternal believers" don't hold any belief that your physical body is part of the equation.
 
There would be no way to ever know you were living eternally. What does it feel like?
 
tosca1 said:
What happens after the sun burns out - solar system freezes or black hole swallows it all? ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN!
Why would we assume there will be nothing?

Surely, whatever comes after that would be interesting!


I've heard people lament that they wouldn't see what else science will discover in the future!
How earth will be like 50 years from now....a hundred years from now....... a thousand years from now.
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Yep, humans could have contacted aliens and discovered ways to travel between the stars, and then I could have an entire universe to explore so how could I possibly get bored?
 
Peter said:
Yep, humans could have contacted aliens and discovered ways to travel between the stars, and then I could have an entire universe to explore so how could I possibly get bored?
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Relative to eternity, exploring a universe could be a short afternoon excursion.
 
Dragonfly said:
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?
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What I would really like is to be able to retain at least SOMETHING from my life when I die and have the ability to carry some of it over into a new life.
So, if I do die in, say perhaps 2029 for instance, maybe in 2032 I get the chance to come back, but with a modicum of whatever wisdom I may have acquired in my former life.
One would like to think that a God who believes in redemption, goodwill and enlightenment would have made it possible, thus enabling each succeeding generation to become better, smarter people, a kind of spiritual and intellectual evolution to go along with our physical evolution as a species.
 
Checkerboard Strangler said:
What I would really like is to be able to retain at least SOMETHING from my life when I die and have the ability to carry some of it over into a new life.
So, if I do die in, say perhaps 2029 for instance, maybe in 2032 I get the chance to come back, but with a modicum of whatever wisdom I may have acquired in my former life.
One would like to think that a God who believes in redemption, goodwill and enlightenment would have made it possible, thus enabling each succeeding generation to become better, smarter people, a kind of spiritual and intellectual evolution to go along with our physical evolution as a species.
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That's all with the premise that there is reincarnation. According to what God has informed us of, there is not. Your hope is naive to say the least. A bit like the pharaohs buried with fruits and gold.
 
Dragonfly said:
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?
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You mean like Democrats?

Living forever in and of itself doesn't sound so bad as long as there would be some variety and challenge. Not too much challenge, mind you.

By the standards of today's students, I probably have AREADY lived forever. ;)

In Heaven, I wonder what kind of a 401K is in use...
 
Valery said:
That's all with the premise that there is reincarnation. According to what God has informed us of, there is not. Your hope is naive to say the least. A bit like the pharaohs buried with fruits and gold.
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I wonder if there was a highly punitive "Death Tax" in the Pharaonic Egypt.

Given the nature of the various Kingdoms back then with rigid top down rule, no middle class and punitive taxation, Socialism or Communism seem like they must have been the governing models.

Might have been their effort at estate management.
 
Dragonfly said:
Deflection noted.

Man/men/humans wrote the Quran.

What has "god" told you?
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How is that deflection? Are you sure you know the meaning of deflection? The Qur'an is God's word. Now, if you're either too scared or too lazy to read it in order to have a further discussion about it, I cannot help you. As for your possible claim that the Quran isn't God's word — you're more than welcome to try to prove it.
 
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