I think we would never get tired of life, there would always be more things to do. For example my favorite author, Douglas Adams, created a character that became immortal through an accident. He eventually got bored and decided to go out on a quest to insult ever living being than ever existed or would exist (he had acess to a time machine). Is it something to do? Yes. Can it be accomplished? No. So that guy wouldnt ever get tired of life. =)

We could find equally ridiculous and time-consuming things to do. We could, for instance, create enormous armies of robots and play war against each other (one of my favorite ideas). Because we would all be immortal and able to learn from the competition against the others, we could do that for the eternity.

well, i would like to create enormous armies of robots to play war aganist each other,but does anyone have to die? hahah... If it was like with food coloring,i might feel better about the idea.
Maybe just my own lonely boring life leds me to believe that if i was on this earth forever,besides the over population,and lack of things we'll need to meet the amount of people growing on this earth,i'd be bored. i'm always bored! So maybe it's me.
and if living forever meant,FOREVER.. at what age does forever start or do we just keep getting older,beacuse i don't know if you see old people,but i'd rather not look like that FOREVER.

I sadly disagree with you on your opinion. Say, if you really did turn insane. Would you really want to suffer forever inside the vast abyss of your own mind? Not being able to end the pain quickly? Not being able to sleep at night because of your raging brain... and not being able to stop it. Those who fear death do not realize what exactly death is. A numbing of the mind, an anesthetic. I am not suggesting you become suicidal, heavens no. But living forever disrupts the natural order of things and unbalances the way of Earth.

Ignorance is bliss. But stupidity is not. Sadly, they are the same thing.

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Ignorance is bliss.

Wake up to reality.

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Maybe we do live forever? Maybe our consciousness trandsends our physical shell and experiences life on another level for ever. Not in a religious way AT ALL, but spiritual maybe.

Using words like "Stupidity is not good manners and Will get you into trouble with the authorities who run this great forum, tone down your rhetoric

All bodies die. What we call life is an extension in one direction into the visible universe. Everything eventually fades from visibility into its opposite and then returns.

I have a similar but unexplainable memory. It is about someone putting a large bird, maybe a turkey fully feathered into a large black three legged pot, full of boiling water over an open fire in a camp of some kind. It was not a movie it was a real event a real concrete memory

My parents dont have any recollection of an event like this but a great aunt told this was the practice when she was a girl, where her granny would put the bird into a pot of boiling water to loosen the feathers to make them easier to pluck

The strange thing is I remember actually seeing this happen long after this practice died out and my mother never used a three legged black pot on an open fire

Could this have been a memory of a past life happening?

Alan McDougall wrote:

I have a similar but unexplainable memory. It is about someone putting a large bird, maybe a turkey fully feathered into a large black three legged pot, full of boiling water over an open fire in a camp of some kind. It was not a movie it was a real event a real concrete memory

My parents dont have any recollection of an event like this but a great aunt told this was the practice when she was a girl, where her granny would put the bird into a pot of boiling water to loosen the feathers to make them easier to pluck

The strange thing is I remember actually seeing this happen long after this practice died out and my mother never used a three legged black pot on an open fire

Could this have been a memory of a past life happening?

Sounds more like your usual skitzophrenic ramblings.

I think I have already mentioned this on this thread, but it might have been a dream. Then I was a kid I had some dreams that I, much later, mistook for real events. Our memory gets distorted over time.

Fine, it seems like total hell in the universe, and rather exhausting for my soul.

Living forever would not solve the problem of the human condition. Human beings are the only animals we know of who are burdened by our awareness of temporal time. Therefore, epic boredom would be the result of human immortality.

I dont think living forever as humans would be boring. If our minds didnt grow unlimitely but rather keept within human constraints, then we would just engage in a circle of eternal fun, as we wouldnt ever remember everything we already did. If our minds did grew, then we would discover new ways of having fun.

Would we as humans want to live forever? Even if we made the world perfect? Even if we got to the state of life being one giant orgasm of joy and love.

Personally I dont think so.

This would get boreing. And we would create games like this. Like life. With not quite perfectness. But a playing feild for beauty. And we would need death to kill our ego and start again. This way we will never get bored. This way there would be a reason for something to exist rather than nothing existing atall.

Are there any philosophers that have a similar view to this? basicly Buddhism but the goal not being to transition the ego but it having a purpose. Limiting us so we don't get bored. And always see beauty.

manored wrote:

I dont think living forever as humans would be boring. If our minds didnt grow unlimitely but rather keept within human constraints, then we would just engage in a circle of eternal fun, as we wouldnt ever remember everything we already did. If our minds did grew, then we would discover new ways of having fun.

I don't want to beat you up over what you say here but it is a little silly.

For one thing, if you didn't remember what you did previously, you could then do the same thing over and over again. You know the ground hog day without memory of repeating the same day over and over. Now I suppose if you were not aware that you were reliving the same day over and over, you might not think it was hell, but to have knowledge of it, it definitely would be hell. The problem becomes having no memory you become a sort of mindless fool. If you talk about removing memory, then you wouldn't remember your past, people, even memories themselves. All these things that happened to you would be lost. They make who you are, your personality so removing memory would more than likely delete who you are.

You can't just be selective and say, well you'll keep certain memories and others would not be intact. That is just absurd. You mean you'll remember everyone within your past, but you won't remember the past? Or you will have memories of the past, but you won't remember any new past.

The only way I could see heaven actually working is if you didn't do or experience anything at all period. You didn't see anyone, you didn't do anything or say anything or be anything. The only thing that happens is your mind is shoved into a constant state of bliss turned on full and you are left in that state for ever. You don't move, nothing changes, you don't change. That is the only way it could work, but if that is how it would work, I wouldn't want it.

dwixi wrote:

Would we as humans want to live forever? Even if we made the world perfect? Even if we got to the state of life being one giant orgasm of joy and love.

Personally I dont think so.

This would get boreing. And we would create games like this. Like life. With not quite perfectness. But a playing feild for beauty. And we would need death to kill our ego and start again. This way we will never get bored. This way there would be a reason for something to exist rather than nothing existing atall.

Are there any philosophers that have a similar view to this? basicly Buddhism but the goal not being to transition the ego but it having a purpose. Limiting us so we don't get bored. And always see beauty.

I would very much welcome the choice of being able to live forever, with the option of ending my existence when I'd had enough of it.

stevecook172001 wrote:

dwixi wrote:

Would we as humans want to live forever? Even if we made the world perfect? Even if we got to the state of life being one giant orgasm of joy and love.

Personally I dont think so.

This would get boreing. And we would create games like this. Like life. With not quite perfectness. But a playing feild for beauty. And we would need death to kill our ego and start again. This way we will never get bored. This way there would be a reason for something to exist rather than nothing existing atall.

Are there any philosophers that have a similar view to this? basicly Buddhism but the goal not being to transition the ego but it having a purpose. Limiting us so we don't get bored. And always see beauty.

I would very much welcome the choice of being able to live forever, with the option of ending my existence when I'd had enough of it.

How could you possibly know when you are done? If you did opt that choice, that would be a bit selfish, would it not!? Without others there would be no life. When you know life is a giving thing, then you would never consider taking yours out of it. It you did not know that then it could be that you want to just take what you have and leave. Hmmm?

You see Steve when one is possessive they become possessed and when they do leave they are relieved of that excess baggage they have been toting around that they think is of value and return again naked in the world until they eventually understand what is truly valuable. I wouldn't be in a hurry to learn that Steve, it will come when you are ready to understand it.

Imagine the eyes of a child as they seemingly peer into yours as if to say "Please be careful of me. Please watch over me and protect me, THIS TIME and I promise I will do the same for you, NEXT TIME".

Steve when one considers another, they never have to consider self.

William