Immortality. Is it for you?

[Knoxcrest]

Well, unless they'd found a way to stop the bones and muscles from aging, you would become quite weak. After all, it's eternal life, not eternal youth.

But eternal life is really only logically possible if you have some sort of time-proof body.

Which is why I find the idea highly implausible. Until they find out how to possess eternal youth, they need to back off the idea of eternal life.

I don't believe it's logicaly possible.

[Siorafrica]

Flaming

Shut your communist hole GEIJD. Why would I take any rubbish you spout seriously after your earlier post? Smug,bullyboy bastards make me even less determined to be an atheist.

[Demen 2]

Rubiks Cubes?

No, that'll eventually end one you memorize every conceivable possible combination of colors and the quickest way to solve them. You'd want some old arcade game that literally never ends, like Asteroids or Space Invaders.

Pong.


I understand all now. I'm oficially enlightened. Thank you Oltha- I mean Satan.

[Cameroi]

i have no problem with living and i'm in no hurry to stop doing so.

main thing is to not have to be around anyone all the time.

there's a big universe out there, big enough to not have to worry about running out of it to explore.

i wouldn't want to spend it in anything that looks like a human body, even that has the limitations of bodies of any kind.

eternity in one place is not the kind of immortality i'd have in mind though.

[Unhealthy2]

I don't believe it's logicaly possible.

How is it logically impossible? What about eternal life implies a contradiction?

[Demen 2]

Flaming

Shut your communist hole GEIJD. Why would I take any rubbish you spout seriously after your earlier post? Smug,bullyboy bastards make me even less determined to be an atheist.

If your attitude towards atheism is so conflicted, I'd rather you didn't become one.

[The Rowan Woods]

I don't think I would choose immortality, not in this physical form at least. I personally believe in reincarnation, which in a sense is a form of immortality that given a chance I would certainly choose.

Also, countless other people have reached a sort of immortality through apotheosis. They've written things of note, or been written down, made impacts on history people have thought important enough to be remembered. In a sense, the only thing immortal about us is what we leave in the story and history books, and memories. These things live far beyond us, perhaps not forever, but so far beyond our bodies or our minds.

Perhaps given some sort of supernatural influence one's mind may be able to last for incredible amounts of time, but no one and nothing will last forever. Eventually our bodies and minds and memories will fail, energies transform, chemicals react, matter changes forms. Eventually our sun will die, the world will freeze or get burnt up if Jupiter becomes an other star. Some day our solar system and our universe will crumble, and some day beyond that the same materials that held everything we know together will have become some new reality. Nothing lasts forever.

That was a lot deeper and cynical then I meant to get...

[Nanatsu no Tsuki]

I must retract something on the grounds of not agreeing with it. The ones theorizing that the brain has billions of years of memory storage capacity are Creationists. To be fair, here's the article. Take it with the utmost care.

http://www.remnantofgod.org/creation.htm

[The Great Watchers]

I don't believe it's logicaly possible.

How is it logically impossible? What about eternal life implies a contradiction?

Do you think boredom can lead to insanity?

[Yohannes]

If you had the ability to become immortal, would you do it?

I will certainly not want to become immortal.. i want to enjoy life as much as i can, in a positive way, and then die, pass away as i should, and everything should be.

What kind of parameters would you set for your immortality? (Meaning, would you want the ability to die if you wanted to quit living, or would you want to stay alive indefinetly?)

If let us say, the immortality ability was forced upon me since my birth, and i have had no choice at all; but i still am being given the choice to, in a literal sense, switch the light off once i think i have had enough of life, then i will gladly accept that ability.

How do you think people around you would take it? Would there be controversy about it in religious groups?

People around me (in New Zealand) are atheist, while the other majority are non-believers anyway, so i doubt they will care much. Although, i myself would want to use that lenghtened life span to study my way, and learn as much about this world, what is important to me, and learn about myself, as much as possible.

And finally, do you think the human mind can hold up to eternity?

No, this is my personal opinion, but i do certainly think that one will eventually have had enough of an eternal life itself before madness engulfed one's self, that to surrender to the inevitable and accept reality would be much better than resisting what has been destined for since our birth.

[Knoxcrest]

I don't believe it's logicaly possible.

How is it logically impossible? What about eternal life implies a contradiction?

The fact that we haven't come anywhere near stopping the deteriorating of organs/muscles/bones.

To the best of my knowledge.

[Olthar]

How is it logically impossible? What about eternal life implies a contradiction?

Do you think boredom can lead to insanity?

I'm already insane, so what difference will it make?

[Make up your own mind]

Rubiks Cubes?

tetris has better replayability

[Valdanis]

I'd take it if I had some secret, efective way of killing myself on cue should the need arise.

[The Great Watchers]

Do you think boredom can lead to insanity?

I'm already insane, so what difference will it make?

You have a point. Olthar > Insanity

[Demen 2]

Rubiks Cubes?

tetris has better replayability

Obviously, he didn't like my first answer.


I wonder if he likes Pong?

[Unidox]

Ok, ladies and gentlemen, I have a question to pose for all of you:

If you had the ability to become immortal, would you do it?
What kind of parameters would you set for your immortality? (Meaning, would you want the ability to die if you wanted to quit living, or would you want to stay alive indefinetly?)
How do you think people around you would take it? Would there be controversy about it in religious groups?
And finally, do you think the human mind can hold up to eternity?

I don't know... I mean it is a once in a lifetime offer... Yes, I think I would. Mainly because I think someone should, and think about all that you would see or could do. As a friend once put it "I just don't want to miss the party!" Or, to put is a better way "Ars longa, vita brevis, occasio praeceps, experimentum periculosum, iudicium difficile." As for parameters; I think I would go Highlander style just to make things interesting. In my lifetime, already, I've had many close to me pass, fall, or fade away. So, I am kind of getting use to this mortal coil thing. Ever since humans came to recognize their time was short they (we) have hoped for/ dreamed of an afterlife. So, they might carry on in some way. What has not been asked is if that is true and we survive to another realm of immortality; what (if any) have current religions done to prepare our psyches for such a revelation? Immortality in the flesh may be welcomed as proof to a religious belief of higher power, or as an abomination against the "set" natural order of things. Fear and jealousy born out of visible proof that a person does not have to die could manifest into out right hatred and extremism. Though, tangibility of life-unending would more likely win the masses. Undoubtably, there would be poking, prodding, and data collecting to make forever obtainable for "everyone." But, the chance to see far more than just another tomorrow on the horizon is undeniable by me.

[United States of Cascadia]

Immortality with an escape clause, most definitely. Other wise, No.

Plus it would get boring, and maddening. Watching everyone you know and love die would take a huge mental toll on a person. Plus there's the problem of eternity.

To put it simply: The gods are jealous of our Mortality.

And come on, who doesn't want to know what lies beyond?

[The Great Watchers]

I'd take it if I had some secret, efective way of killing myself on cue should the need arise.

Like, a way to kill yourself only you know about?

[Olthar]

Plus it would get boring, and maddening. Watching everyone you know and love die would take a huge mental toll on a person.

Until you've just seen so much death that you become incapable of caring.

[Valdanis]

I'd take it if I had some secret, efective way of killing myself on cue should the need arise.

Like, a way to kill yourself only you know about?

Yeah like some kind of secret incantation or well-hidden weak spot.

[Make up your own mind]

How is it logically impossible? What about eternal life implies a contradiction?

Do you think boredom can lead to insanity?

Yes absolutely. If your bored enough you might even try to drive yourself crazy, cause it's something to do.

[Nanatsu no Tsuki]

Like, a way to kill yourself only you know about?

Yeah like some kind of secret incantation or well-hidden weak spot.

A la Highlander.

[United States of Cascadia]

Plus it would get boring, and maddening. Watching everyone you know and love die would take a huge mental toll on a person.

Until you've just seen so much death that you become incapable of caring.

Then you have already died.

[Valdanis]

Yeah like some kind of secret incantation or well-hidden weak spot.

A la Highlander.

Precisely.

Edit: Crap, now I have Princes of the Universe in my head.