Would you actually want life to continue?

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A bit of a variant of other questions of this kind. This time the question asked is if you would want to have life continue after death, irregardless of whether or not you believe it does continue or not.

You could provide reasons why you want or don't want such a potential development.

Personally i have some 'reason' to think (mixed with belief) that life does continue. Obviously it is nowhere near scientifically proven, but then again neither are many mathematical hypotheseis which nonetheless empirically seem to be accurate.

But more important in this thread is the reason why you want or do not want life to continue. There can be positive and negative reasons,i suspect. Negative ones are easy to note: fear of an unknown development (a next "life" could be worse; after all fear of such nature already exists in this life, as to old age for example), guilt, or even some neutral reason like dismissal of all unproven beliefs (which connects to this issue in many ways).
A positive reason to not want life to continue? Can you think of any? Taedium Vitae (Disgust of life) has to be negative. Perhaps a higher moral stance on the ugliness of much of life?

I would think that, ultimately, it is not for us to decide (maybe it is, who knows). But here you can say what you think of this issue, and hopefully the question posed is significantly different than the usual appearance of this topic :)
 
I wouldn't like it. Living to see everyone you every knew and loved shrivel away and die before you would be too painful.
 
Yes, without a doubt. Reasoning is that my prayers were answered when I was at a really low point and I was visited within my spirit by the holy spirit. I don't know a better way to relate what cannot be related, but I want to know that spirit better. I believe that the human spirit is designed to fit with the holy spirit, it was that familiar and incredibly loving, nothing like it. Its been almost 30 years since this event in my life and it may be that is it until I'm gone from this world. So yes, I want to live some more.
 
I'd prefer to not endure everlasting life. No matter how amazing things are, humans adapt, and there is nothing that won't lead to apathy in an eternity or two.
 
Personally i have some 'reason' to think (mixed with belief) that life does continue. Obviously it is nowhere near scientifically proven, but then again neither are many mathematical hypotheseis which nonetheless empirically seem to be accurate.

It's not only not scientifically proven, there also isn't a shred of evidence to suggest that it does or even that it might. To do science you need data and a hypothesis and in this case we have nothing.

To answer the question though (and don't mind me harassing your beliefs with what I just said above :p) I'm not sure. It depends on what sort of thing I can expect in the afterlife, I guess. If it's the Christian heaven then I'm not sure. It depends on how accurate Christians have been in describing it to me.

I would *probably* want it to continue, as long as I still have access to my computer, reddit, steam, and porn.. and football.. and bacon and beer. and boobs.
 
Believing in an afterlife is a product of evolution. It is neither good or bad to believe in it. Once we became aware of the reality of life and death, we evolved a great coping mechanism for it. The idea that some part of us still exists after we die. It's been around longer than organized religion has.
 
It all depends on how this "afterlife" would look like. Being "judged" by some arbitrary, cruel deity is worse than a final, absolute death. If on the other hand afterlife meant some sort of disembodied transcendental existence, similar to the one David Bowman experienced by the end of 2001: Space Odyssey, I'd take it.

:)
 
I don't know, can I still obtain meaningful knowledge through research in this afterlife? Can I still observe events in the universe?
 
An eternity of life would be torture, eventually. Unless you had a killswitch.

That again depends - if afterlife means being stuck in a dark room with no sensory input forever, than yes, that's worse than absolute death. Much worse.

On the other had, if it meant I'd be free to roam across the Universe(s) and see all its wonders, I'd off myself right now :lol:
 
That again depends - if afterlife means being stuck in a dark room with no sensory input forever, than yes, that's worse than absolute death. Much worse.

On the other had, if it meant I'd be free to roam across the Universe(s) and see all its wonders, I'd off myself right now :lol:

Yeah, but for all eternity? Do you know how long eternity is? It's longer than the extended lord of the rings trilogy times infinity.
 
I'm rather partial to the Buddhist idea... that the point is to get off the endless cycle of rebirth and new life for eternity
 
I'd go for some sort of reincarnation system where, at most, I would have a vague feeling of having lived another life before. Other than that, nope. Don't need or want immortality.

I wasn't too bothered by not existing for a couple billion years and I don't expect much change when I return to that status.
 
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