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You'd break eventually17% Voted for by Color Me Red, ostrasized, omarmohamed, qwestman, Xineph. (6 total)
I don't think living forever is all it's cracked up to be. You'd be alone for the rest odf your life, which, by theory would be forever. You say "You can find new loved ones" but how many times can you watch love die before you yourself break? Life would be pointless and lonely. Honestly, I think life's too long as it is.
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Tempting but...11% Voted for by Dienush, Applehead, chaostheory89, Paradoxx.
I find that idea very tempting, because we'd get all those chances we don't otherwise. The argument that "life's too short" would no longer exist and we could do both mandatory and pleasant things and we'd never need hurry. However, it would be very painful to be immortal and have everyone you care about die around you. So the best thing would be for us all to be immortal. Perhaps it would be nice if we could go to live on other planets too, but otherwise we wouldn't have enough resources & space.
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Well...8% Voted for by LostWithoutYou14, live and let live, Keegan A Combes.
Ok, well I mean personally I think that yes at times life can be too short. That it can be taken away before its suppose to. But who wants to live forever. And not the song lyrics I mean seriously if you live forever but everyone else cant whats the point. To live on and on and have to suffer watching the ones that you love most die around you. Theres no point. LIfe without family or love or people that love you is nothing. And if you live forever all that you have is suffering..
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Imortality8% Voted for by WolfStar or Ash, Applehead, Dwn.
I should think that maybe you should live for ever but rather choose when to die, be able to rewind your life maybe to start over if you have tio but keep your memories, it has a lot of flaws yes but it would be better than growing oldeer and older and older, maybe eternal youth would be better.
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Define 'life'5% Voted for by keyman7, Applehead.
You must first define life. Many years ago, people thought you could not possibly breathe without lungs and everything that breathed had lungs. Now we know that some creatures don't require lungs at all. The same could be true for life. Must we require a body to maintain a conscious being? I think not.
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What about your body5% Voted for by Scarlet Shadows, ostrasized.
i get you point but what about the fact that the rest of you ages? at one point your going to become so weak, cause your bones become weaker and you'll die. thats something to think about right?
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Death, but Life in Return.5% Voted for by Just Paper, AgelessFallenOne.
I see nothing wrong with living forever. Yes, you have to suffer through watching your loved ones die, but in return you would see them all live. if you can live forever, you will find new loved ones. Of course you would still have the others in your heart, but you will always be able to watch your loved ones live.
I think it would be worth it.
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In Gods Hands5% Voted for by ImUrFadingMemory, Kizzy Kat.
I think if we were to live forever.... God's plan would not be in action. The way we are living now is the way we choose to live it, making or life long or short. Although diseases seem to pull us down, like I said God has a plan. Either that disease was to teach someone else something or to teach you something....but it's all in God's hands child.
~Madi~
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Tired Of It.Voted for by A Dream in Crisis.
Living forever is a dream I think everyone can share if you really think about it. But you're born with three simple lessons in mind: You'll live, you'll exist, you'll die. It goes along with parental patterns in a weird way. People who are deprived of what they need externally and internally from their parents eventually develop irregularities in mental status. Whether it be violence, anger or a feeling of retribution, Bi-polar or Depression etc. The list goes on. -- Nothing good can come out of a deprivation of nature or nurture, both things that we unconcsciously expect from the first breath to the last. Death is one of these things, and if it never comes, the mind breaks down. I went way too far into this but you get my point lol. Essentially: After about 1,000 years of constant life, stress, gains and losses, love and hatred, pain and suffering from hunger or lack of sleep etc. etc. You'd go loony. It's not something you could handle forever, and think about it.. Would it all really be something you'd -want- to live with forever? If this doesn't work, ask the Vampire Lestat. Eternal life hasn't treated him kindly. ^_^
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Never.Voted for by Neeg.
Empires fail, and people die. The world keeps on changing, and yet it stays the same. To live forever would not only be a miserable existence, it would be a futile one. You would love, only to have your heart broken, when the object of your affection passed away. You would trust, only to have your faith repeatedly broken and shattered. You would endure, only to continue to endure. There would never be peace; only continuous living. No rest at the end of a well-lived life. You would grow old, but instead of ripening pleasantly like the sagacious elderly, that age with grace, you would simply stretch out your days longer and longer. I feel that one would become incurable cynical and pessimistic. After all, it is a sad world we live in, and after seeing how sad humanity is century after century, wouldn't you learn to cease all hope? Life forever would be death eternal for me.
-Neeg
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Your self identity can't live forever!Voted for by nanrek.
The human brain can only store about ten terabytes of information. In less than a thousand years, your memories would be recycled and you wouldn't remember your past.
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Immortality Or Not?Voted for by TheDarkGodess.
I think that if we were all immortal, we would become a much better group of people. life would make more sense. and maybe we wouldn't be destroying the earth we would protect it.
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A Theory On ImmortalityVoted for by AgelessFallenOne.
Man, it just hit me. A way to live forever, eternal life man, immortality. When you start to get old and your vital organs start to fail on you, get a transplant, yeah, that way you have young organs in you and your body will keep living.
Sure you'll have to take anti-rejection pills for the rest of your life, but you'll be immortal! Anyone care to contrdict my theory? Have at it, because the only flaw I see is that you'd need money. Also you'd have to find someone with the same blood type as you, bu that shouldn't be too hard, unless you have some super rare blood type.
I mean, there are gonna be enough dead people around.
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Then why believe in heaven?Voted for by Joshua Washburn.
If god made us he could of easly of made us in a place I call heaven. With out sin, but with eternal life. I would think that was his plan in the beganing. To give us eternal life on earth, which in away would be heaven if we had eternal life here. Yet we can decied on what is good and bad. Which is not possible in heaven. Therefore only good would exist in heaven. There would be no wrong every thing would be perfect. Everything is perfect on earth yet we look at something and compare it to something else. Good is just the comparsion of perfect. Bad is just the comparsion of better then bad(good). For instance the comparsion of a bad picture, is just compared to what is good. So why are'nt we in heaven living for eternity is still the question. I think there is no heaven or we would all be living in it now. Hence we are. Heaven is eternal spaceious since it can fit every single person into. Heaven is the universe, we just live on earth for now. You can look at the theory of eternal life and see at the beganing of life on earth there was the tree of GOOD AND EVIL< and the TREE OF LIFE. The tree is not really a tree, for no tree can bare forth fruit that can give you eternal life. Nor can any tree teach you good and evil. The tree of goog and evil was placed there because God put it there. This must mean God knows the difference between good and evil. The tree of life exists amongest the good and evil. God does'nt want us to have the knowledge of good and evil and live forever. That's why he took the knowledge of eternal life away from us when he kicked mans ass out of the garden. All we are left with is good and evil. We will one day achieve the knowledge of eteranl life. I won't be alive that day when we do, so it won't matter. If some how i figured out how to live forever, I would. Becuase at any time I could die from self in flected injury or other sorts of death. No life is eternal it all dies. You can have a light bulb on forever till you flick the switch and the light bulb goes out. That's what eternal life will be like.
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If I could live forever, I wouldn'tIf I were given the chance to live forever on this earth , I would choose not to... We live in a broken world - and it has always been broken, cynical though it would seem to think that way. There was and is no single instance in the history of man wherein the world was at peace... mankind has always been at war, man has always been driven by greed, man has ruined - and continues to ruin - the earth, ETC, ETC, ETC... If you think the world was better off 300 years ago, you're wrong. Because of the media (which our ancestors were bereft of) we continuously hear about the situation of the world we live in today. Who would wish to live in such a world as this? To see the earth diminish and pass away? To see foolish nations utterly destroy eachother?Voted for by Christopher Chanco.
Then again, perhaps there's hope, according to J.R.R. Tolkien, "The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places, but still there is much that is still fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it (love) grows perhaps the greater." If you read Tolkien's the Lord of the Rings series, you'll also learn of the passing of the immortal elves to the lands in the west (they grew weary of living in a similar pitiful world to ours, middle-earth) -
not here...I've been a paraplegic for most of my life...It hasn't been all that bad..or all that great. I've seen some good times, experienced amazement and awe, the genius and stupidity of the human race..it's beauty and brutality. Had my share of pain..both physical and mental..blah, blah, blah, etc., etc...end of sad story.Voted for by Just-Jack.
I'm sure I wouldn't want to live forever...at least not here..not like this. But, still whether I'm paralyzed or not, whether living forever applies to everyone(in a pain free environment) or not...it doesn't matter...it probably wouldn't change matters much. It would get very boring very quickly. But if you throw in a dash of eternal bliss that might change everything...but maybe at some point that would get boring too..or drive you completely insane. that would be a lot of fun..eternal insanity.
Someone said there would be no reason for despair, but seems like just knowing that there would be no way out would be some really heavy despair...I mean if there was a way out(suicide, accidents) then you wouldn't be truly immortal would you?
I don't know...reincarnation sounds interesting. or maybe if you could exist outside of time, if that's possible? An afterlife(or afterdeath) where anything is possible? I watched an episode of Star Trek Voyager today, where one of the Q continuum wanted out..he wanted to die. The Q are immortal and seem to exist outside of time, space or matter...pretty much anything is possible for them...like omnipotent godlike beings. Yet this Q felt the continuum had basically done as much as it could...there was nothing left to explore in the universe and it was cruel to be forced to go on existing in any form. Anyway, he got his wish and joyfully committed suicide. Of course, that's only fiction, but who knows? That's just it...nobody knows. I know enough to say I wouldn't want to live forever on this plane of existence..with or without my disability, but beyond this place I know nothing. Still there's something comforting about the thought of not existing...maybe that has something to do with the life I've had to live, but it would be really cool to be part of the Q continuum for awhile. -
But....I am going to live 4ever.That's the reason for Christianity.Voted for by frndofyaweh.
I have a deal to offer you:
It costs you nothing, it is garaunteed full-proof and you have eternal life.
It's all in that Bible guys. You simply believe and accept it. Then you begin to build a relationship with Christ that continues to grow stronger the more you commit to the relationship. It's always about family values with God. Even a King is supposed to treat his subjects with love, as he would his own children.
I actually walk through life, feeling the most awesome weight is gone forever. I never worry about getting old or dying or sickness or anything ever, because I have faith in what my God has promised me.
Imagine that everyone; I do not have personal worries.
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Death gives life meaningDeath gives life meaning. Without Death their would be nothing to live for. There would be no sense of danger, or darkness. Just eternal nothingness. Infact, life without death would kill the very meaning of life. In life, there is utter despair and hope. We feel this misery because we are only alive for a short period of time, and we feel hope because there is a sense of eternity in our lives. Eternal life would kill despair. There would be no reason for despair since life would never end, and their would be no hope or joy since all sense of danger in this world and all appreciation for our short little lives would be gone. There would be very little mystery in this world. The overall quality in this world, whatever you think is of quality exists because life made it possible, and death made it important. People would give up quality since it was not important. And since there was no importance their would be no quality. Regardless if their is an afterlife or not, an eternal life as we are living today would be meaningless.Voted for by antsandmoths.
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hate itVoted for by mellowdy.
i would hate to live forever. yes, i'd get to see the world change right before me, i'd never have to worry about disease. where would i go? who would be my family? i wouldn't have one. my current family will all die off in about 60 years. then what, i have millions upon millions of years to live. i'd get bored with everthing. i'd see everything at some point in my life, and then i would just want to die. my first kiss is memorable now, but in a million years, i won't remember it. i don't want to forget my firsts. whoa, living forever is maybe the worst idea ever.
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Please no.I don't want to live forever. Who would? First off, we'd become stupid over time. How would we keep enough food, and water on this planet for everyone, there isn't enough now? I don't even want to be reincarnated and come back. I want to move onward to the next stage. To me death is just a new life, so therefore I want to move on. Living here forever would make me stagnant. Even life itself would become dull.
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