| Die Now or Live For Ever
Posted: 12/5/2007 2:49:28 PM | Hang on... just checking my life insurance...
yep, I'm ready to go!  | |
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| Die Now or Live For Ever
Posted: 7/29/2008 3:54:32 PM | | I would choose death if I were given this choice. I think that life forever as the biological being that I am now would be a living hell! I believe that this life is a stage of existence leading to the next stage. Living forever would be like never passing the 4th grade. | |
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| Die Now or Live For Ever
Posted: 7/30/2008 6:13:48 AM | As a Christian, I know that if the Lord tarries, I will die; but on the Last Day the Lord will raise all of the dead, and I will be among those, for the sake of Christ's atonement and resurrection, who will receive a new, glorified body to live forever with Christ in a new heavens and a new earth.
I wouldn't want to make the choice. I cherish life, and would never take my own life or encourage anyone to take my life. However, if I were murdered or died of natural causes, I am assured that I will live forever in reality, not just hypothetically.
Blessings,
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| Die Now or Live For Ever
Posted: 9/24/2009 1:53:37 AM |
But is there *really* a capacity limit? I'm learning new things every DAY, and not forgetting everything I've learned before. That indicates that my capacity hasn't been reached yet.
As yet, we don't know exactly HOW memory is stored in the brain... it might not be dependent on the number of cells, but rather their ability to interconnect. If they don't die, there's the potential for a staggering amount of interconnections.
Is there *really* a capacity limit? Well if you accept that your brain is of finite size and that its capacity for memory and thought rest solely with its physical properties i.e. synapse, neurons and so on then I believe it follows that there is a limit for the capacity for thought and memory. Even if fumction (memory, thought) were proportional to the full interconnection of the 100 billion neurons, it still is a finite.
For me this is a pivotal aspect of this die now of live for ever question. The limit on our capacity for though precludes us having any "intimate" understanding of the infinite. | |
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| Die Now or Live For Ever
Posted: 9/24/2009 1:54:52 AM | | Just would like to say thanks to all those who have contributed. A most enlightening thread that so clearly divides people and sometimes quite passionately. | |
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| Die Now or Live For Ever
Posted: 9/24/2009 10:52:35 AM | | If I die now, then I cease to gain all that I will in the future. If I live forever, then I will have the opportunity to correct my mistakes. Eventually I'll get bored, but given the alternative, I think it's the better choice, at least for me. | |
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Posted: 9/24/2009 4:15:21 PM | Well technically if you live forever in your current state of health and you are in decent to good health, that means you won't have to worry about getting any worse. Which means no worries about healthcare or the effects of aging or even chronic drug or alcohol use. You could get piss drunk every night for 2000 years and never worry about your liver giving out.
It would suck to watch everyone you met and grew close to die, but eventually you'd get desensitized to it, and you'd view them as most people do pets; you love them, you mourn them, you move on.
I'm not seeing too much of a downside to immortality when put in the terms you've given. But perhaps I'm just looking at it through the eyes of an insensitive alcoholic. | |
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Posted: 9/24/2009 7:00:19 PM | | Given almost a couple years to think about this, I now realize you are in fact describing the classic setting of hell. Think about it, you cannot die even when the sun blazes into its red giant phase and encompasses the earth. But you will still feel the pain and agony of your perfectly functioning body as it continually burns in the hellish environment. Death seems heavenly in comparison. | |
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Posted: 10/28/2009 5:04:09 PM | Live forever!!!
I am totally facinated with change and progress and regression for that matter. I would love to know what civilization would be like hundreds or even thousands of years from now.
Would living forever mean I would be immune to radioactive fallout from nuclear war?
Would I discover a technology to circumvent space-time? The universe began with a big bang. Will it fizzle out slowly or end just as quickly? Would that mean I would exist in nothingness when the universe ends?
Will there be others who live forever? Will we have the urge to kill each other off until "there is only one"?LOL | |
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| Die Now or Live For Ever
Posted: 10/30/2009 12:20:39 AM | So I have the choice of being God or Being Man and wither away back into dust. Well if you live forever then once the Universe Expands forever or Contracts then you either will be very lonely or who knows what if it contracts. If anyone know the Marvel universe that is how Galactus came into being. What happen if you get caught in a black hole. Might it take forever to reach its center. I mean man will expand into space and possibly the universe in a billion years,(Not if we destroy ourselves). lol
I am not sure which way to go. I mean it comes down to wether we believe existing is better then non existing... | |
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