RE: If you could, would you live forever?
03-25-2013, 03:30 AM
(03-25-2013, 12:54 AM)MrGuy Wrote: »Just because I cited things she mentioned doesn't mean I have to come to the same conclusionNo, I know, that's the point! You cite the same issues, but vote differently.
I think that's interesting!
ICantGiveCredit Wrote:SeaWyrm has to exposit more on what kind of choice we're actually making.I very deliberately didn't. I want also to capture the assumptions people make about what "live forever" means.
btp Wrote:It's funny that this question is posed at this particular time, as this is the start of one of the larger events of the christian calendar: Holy Week (or Easter Week). The whole "celebration" of sorts about this week is based around a particular death, and then what came after.Woah, huh. I didn't even think of that! Good timing, then.
Personally, I'm pretty convinced there isn't an afterlife. Even if I wasn't, I wouldn't be all that interested in passing up certain immortality in favor of the possibility that I'm wrong and will get to experience some fantastic existence beyond death. I mean, there's already a pretty fantastic existence right here, y'know?