Would you actually want life to continue?
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500 trillion years, heh. That sure is a lot of time, and would take... trillions of years to find out.
However considering that a few years of not doing something lessens your knowledge of it and after a while you can even fully forget about it, I'm sure it wouldn't be too hard to find something to do.
Alas, there is a disadvantage to eternal life, but it far outweighs the advantage of eternal blackness (ie. nothing).
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The universe probably won't be around in 500 trillion years.
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500 trillion years, heh. That sure is a lot of time, and would take... trillions of years to find out.
However considering that a few years of not doing something lessens your knowledge of it and after a while you can even fully forget about it, I'm sure it wouldn't be too hard to find something to do.
Alas, there is a disadvantage to eternal life, but it far outweighs the advantage of eternal blackness (ie. nothing).
In the end I don't mind eternal life, as long as I have the option of ending it all if I so choose.
Oh hell, oh yeah!!!
At my present knowledge human souls reincarnate every about 6 years or so from last death(but this can vary imnensly)- this is also something celts have believed and is part of all spiritual traditions(even though minoritly) including islam and christianity.
Every soul keeps an esence of its previously lived lives which is all it needs for progression in the next one. Again there are exceptions when people remember quite a lot from previous live in case the reincarnation happens in matter of days since the last death.
According to some people there is enough evidence to somewhat prove this reincarnation process becouse of the knowledge which exist among people but its not been done becouse no one yet took the trouble to make the proper research and colect the data on scientifical level.
Personaly one life is quite enough for me but I understand that all this reincarnation process leads ultimately to pure state of being- transcendental bliss (and there is no escape from it).The fulness of this bliss is probably something totaly out of present human understanding; you play with eternity- trillion of years is something like a millisecond.
At my present knowledge human souls reincarnate every about 6 years or so from last death(but this can vary imnensly)- this is also something celts have believed and is part of all spiritual traditions(even though minoritly) including islam and christianity.
Every soul keeps an esence of its previously lived lives which is all it needs for progression in the next one. Again there are exceptions when people remember quite a lot from previous live in case the reincarnation happens in matter of days since the last death.
According to some people there is enough evidence to somewhat prove this reincarnation process becouse of the knowledge which exist among people but its not been done becouse no one yet took the trouble to make the proper research and colect the data on scientifical level.
Personaly one life is quite enough for me but I understand that all this reincarnation process leads ultimately to pure state of being- transcendental bliss (and there is no escape from it
).The fulness of this bliss is probably something totaly out of present human understanding; you play with eternity- trillion of years is something like a millisecond.
Narz
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If a bunch of other smart people are also alive for 500 trillion years I'm sure we'll think of all sorts of things to keep us entertained.
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I mean, I wouldn't hesitate to take it with an off switch, but you gotta be careful about things, don't you?
Ayatollah So
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Pfft! Nothing could be longer than the extended LOTR trilogy!
For some reason I think it would be just like the movie Wristcutters.
Damn, you beat me to it. The longest possible afterlife (effectively) is limited by the length of your memory.
Or how about an ad-infinitum-renewable contract?
It would seem that not only you have discovered this secret but you already live it.Pfft! Nothing could be longer than the extended LOTR trilogy!
Damn, you beat me to it. The longest possible afterlife (effectively) is limited by the length of your memory.
Just be careful about the parts of the contract writen in small letters at the bottoms of the pages...
Narz
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That actually looks half-decent, I'm gonna check it out.
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I think the main reason I'd like it to is curiosity. Wouldn't it have been fascinating to live in 1600 AD and see what life was like in 1950? It probably would have also been interesting to live in 110 AD in the Roman Empire and see the world in 610 AD... though not necessarily in a positive way. But still interesting.
Admittedly, in real time the differences are less drastic than if you could travel in time, which I am not assuming would be possible after death either (though it would be cool if it were). But even so, there's enough stuff changing nowadays to satisfy me. If there were a nuclear war that changed the pace of progress back to the Stone Age rate, maybe there wouldn't be anymore, and I'd have to find something else to observe, but there's the tradeoff.
And if the afterlife isn't connected to this Earth in any way, I'd still like to see it. Again, curiosity being a main reason. Might as well, right?
The chance of a tortuous afterlive isn't appealing. But I choose to be an optimist that that wouldn't be the case. It helps that I consider myself basically a good person.
You don't have to live after death for this to pretty much happen to you. You just have to live healthily to an older age than almost everyone else you've been interacting with for decades.
I know that sounds really... negative. But it is one of the unfortunate parts of being blessed with good health till old age. I guess the moral of that is to make friends with people who are significantly younger than you from time to time. Not that it prevents it from being painful, but at least that way you do still have healthy friends. And hopefully later generations of family as well.
(By the way, I'm not actually super-old. Just observations from real life. Despite the sad reality of that aspect, I still think I'd rather be healthy to a ripe amcient age than to have average lifespan and health in old age)
Admittedly, in real time the differences are less drastic than if you could travel in time, which I am not assuming would be possible after death either (though it would be cool if it were). But even so, there's enough stuff changing nowadays to satisfy me. If there were a nuclear war that changed the pace of progress back to the Stone Age rate, maybe there wouldn't be anymore, and I'd have to find something else to observe, but there's the tradeoff.
And if the afterlife isn't connected to this Earth in any way, I'd still like to see it. Again, curiosity being a main reason. Might as well, right?
The chance of a tortuous afterlive isn't appealing. But I choose to be an optimist that that wouldn't be the case. It helps that I consider myself basically a good person.
You don't have to live after death for this to pretty much happen to you. You just have to live healthily to an older age than almost everyone else you've been interacting with for decades.
I know that sounds really... negative. But it is one of the unfortunate parts of being blessed with good health till old age. I guess the moral of that is to make friends with people who are significantly younger than you from time to time. Not that it prevents it from being painful, but at least that way you do still have healthy friends. And hopefully later generations of family as well.
(By the way, I'm not actually super-old. Just observations from real life. Despite the sad reality of that aspect, I still think I'd rather be healthy to a ripe amcient age than to have average lifespan and health in old age)
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