Does anyone ever think how bad it would be to live forever?

[Esmada]

When you die ther really is nothing. There is no god or heaven or hell. The meaning with life is to grow up and have childeren so that ouer genes go on. Thats how we live foreever,through our childeren. religion is just made up to put people at ease and prevent mass hysteria. (please be patient with my spelling) We are,after all,memals. We are blessed with a brain that is to big and an imagination. Rest in peace.

[Oneironaut]

Exactly. No amount of wishful thinking will create an afterlife for you. You are your brain. When your brain dies, so do your personality, your memory, your emotions, your beliefs, your experiences, etc. There is no soul in you which will magically transfer the contents of your brain to some magical fantasy camp in the sky.

This is not just some entry test to see if you can get past the bouncer at the pearly gates. This is real life. All you can do is live it and leave it. So live it to the fullest while you have it. People who believe in the afterlife have an expectation that their experience will last forever, which makes them forget just how precious our time is on this planet. After all, a few decades is but a drop of water compared to the incomprehensibly vast oceans of time you will spend in the "afterlife". It makes them indifferent to suffering and oppression at times. I will suffer injustice now, they reason, because God will bring me justice in the end and I will live in blissful happiness forever. Religion is a tyrant's best friend.

[Rizzle]

Well you don't have to believe in anything buddy, but don,t denounce others for there religious beliefs, i am religious and i enjoy my life to its fullest , so in my opinion your theory is full of shit

[Oneironaut]

I can denounce whatever crazy beliefs I want to denounce. As Scott Adams (the guy who draws Dilbert) put it:

People keep telling me that I should respect the beliefs of others. That sounds entirely reasonable, at least until you think about it. The problem is in knowing where to draw the line....

But it seems to me dishonest to display respect for all beliefs equally. Surely there are beliefs that deserve slightly less respect than others....

This has to be an even bigger problem for those of you who have a religion of your own. You’re thinking something along the lines of “My prophet talked to a real angel whereas your prophet was evidently taking a drunken forest wiz and thought a tree stump was talking back to him.”....

I also wonder if showing respect for all beliefs is causing more problems than it’s avoiding. The only thing that keeps most people from acting on their absurd beliefs is the fear that other people will treat them like frickin’ retards. Mockery is an important social tool for squelching stupidity.

Some ideas are better than others, and I point out where the bad ideas go wrong, and why they inconvenience people. Afterlife belief is wrong because we have no evidence of an afterlife. And it does cause suffering. Not only when people start depreciating their earthly lives in expectation of an infinite and perfect eternal life, but also when people crash airplanes into buildings because they think they're going somewhere afterwards.

[benagain]

We've all been through this convo with oneironaut before. We're not gonna change his mind no more than he'll change ours. Besides...We all (religious or not) hate it when someone tries to get us to beleive the same way they do when we feel so strongly about it. I'm sure he means well so there ya go.....
Oh btw....I like french fries :thumbsup:

[Oneironaut]

Of course I mean well. I just want people to realize that, like everything else in this universe, we are all temporary. I think this is a very important thing to be aware of. Once you cure yourself of delusions of immortality, once you acknowledge that everything you'll ever do you must do before you die, once you realize that the only possible kind of justice is justice we enact in the here and now, you begin to take a new perspective on life. You find out how important it is to do what pleases you and those who are close to you, not some hypothetical deity.

[benagain]

Of course I mean well. I just want people to realize that, like everything else in this universe, we are all temporary. I think this is a very important thing to be aware of. Once you cure yourself of delusions of immortality, once you acknowledge that everything you'll ever do you must do before you die, once you realize that the only possible kind of justice is justice we enact in the here and now, you begin to take a new perspective on life. You find out how important it is to do what pleases you and those who are close to you, not some hypothetical deity.

While I disagree on some issues with you I do agree with ya here a little bit. I think that some people are so worried about what's gonna happen when they die that they make life miserable now. Religion or not, God or evolution....either way we should focus on what we can do now to make life better for everyone. i think the best part of (most) religion is it's supposed to give people a reason to treat each other nice and fair. Some people get hungup on the meaning of one sentance in the bible and get into holy wars. totally not the point. Regardless of what happens when we die. We should all get along now while we can :thumbsup:

[orangeman]

If I could live in the form of being 18 for ever I would love it. Yeah, 18..I sure wouldnt wanna get older and older and keep living while I look like a prune..well that is to live on this earth. It'd be cool to see the world develop technology even better. But I just hope there is an afterlife..if we really have a "spirit" then I think the spirit will possess another form of life, like maybe a bird, a plant (lol), or a human again? Like if you really think about it if we have a spirit, when we die the spirit cant die...it has to go some where and maybe we do live for ever but it's obvious that living as your current self would eventually get boring and be a forever nothingness so thats maybe why you die and get born again with a fresh mind and no prior knowledge of the previous life so things start all over and things never get boring for ever..I know this is a bit confusing but seriously.

[friendowl]

shit if i could i would live forever.
yeah there would be some bad things but overall
im curious to see how this earth winds up.
100 years isnt enought time.

[bichickindallas]

i would not want to live forever.based on your religious beliefs,is what happens after your death.my personal belief is your either six feet under or baked.but if we lived forever,it would disrupt the natural order of life,there is no life without death,could you imagine if people didnt die?we already have a population problem.it also bothers me how some people celebrate death,spending thousands on funerals.i know i dont want a bunch of bad dressed people with lame flowers staring at my dead body when i die.as far as the world ending,that will begin when natural resources begin to run dry,which they will,not for a long time im sure,but then comes chaos,and wars over the last of the resources,and there is evolution,we are a species and could become extinct,or we could keep evolving.and thats my opinion.im new here by the way,high to everyone!and thank you for smoking:stoned: