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Okay I just had one of those moments where I get this really weird question and cannot rest without an answer.
You know how in a lot of books, the characters are always searching for immortality?
Would you want to be immortal? I wouldn't. Even after everyone you cared about passed on you would still be there, and even when the world ends you would still exist, but not I don't think live. You'd never be able to go to heaven (that is if you were good) and you'd never be able to stay in one place for long cuz ppl would wonder why you aren't aging.
submitted by Katie
(February 17, 2010 - 6:43 pm)
(February 17, 2010 - 6:43 pm)
Erm.
The question that you are asking depends, I suspect, on one crucial point: eternal life or eternal youth? Jonathan Swift makes that point excellently in Gulliver's Travels.
As for me, would I want to physically live forever? No. Humans were not made to live - exclusively - in the physical realm. Longer life might be nice, but as there will not always be a physical realm, I don't want to always live in it. :) I think I could handle living for a couple millenia, because I would have purpose in life that one doesn't just get tired of. God is not a being you can just figure out given enough time. Youth until the end of this world - I might go with that. It would be an emotionally wracking life, but think of all you could accomplish, all the phenomenal things you could do. I'm probably going to spend a full third of my life learning how to live the rest of it. What if you could do for the majority of your life instead of learn how to do? Yeah.
I said I could handle that, but I'm not sure I'd want it. For me? No. For the good I could do other people? Yes. So if I had the choice, I would probably tear all my hair out over it. Dunno what I'd do. Anyway, now that I've thoroughly confused myself, I will go to sleep. :D
Cheers,
lavendershy
(February 17, 2010 - 11:10 pm)
No, I would not want to be immortal. Perhaps like for a few hundred years it would be cool, but forever would not be enjoyable. I look forward to going to heaven :D.
Although, like lavendershy said, there is a difference between eternal life and eternal youth. I'd probably be okay with a few hundred years of slow aging, but not a few hundred years of living a normal life span and then being old for a really long time.
Others?
(March 18, 2010 - 7:48 pm)