I think it would be a strange thing considering it goes so firmly against every other facet of human life. It would change everything, and not for the better. But that doesn't make it inherently bad.Wasif Ahmed wrote:The posts on this forum show that many people would like to become immortal while some don't. Is immortality, according to you, a good or a bad thing?
Please share your thoughts on this topic.
Is immortality a good or a bad thing?
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It is the fear of dying that makes us wish to live forever. Otherwise, the next chapter of life is actually better than the world we currently live in.
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Ot maybe once that happened you'd become the most massive thing in your region for a while and dust would start settling on you. Eventually, you become trapped in the center of a star.
No thanks.
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I actually wrote a short story about this. It starts with the character free-falling through the atmosphere of a planet, landing, and commenting that there are a few furry creatures around, but nothing that looks like him.allee88 wrote:On the one hand, can you imagine everything you'd see being immortal? All the places you could go and experience? The people you would meet? At the same time, everyone you'd meet would age and die, you'd eventually see all the sights, experience everything their was to experience...Personally, immortality wouldn't be for me. I have a bucket list to complete "before I die". I feel like relationships would be more strongly built knowing you only have limited time.
He models behaviors that guides the creatures evolve into intelligent humanoids, tweaks their cultures to plant behaviors he wants, guides them to develop space-travel and meet other people, and then waits until the entire species dies off, the planet is swallowed by its star when it goes nova. He gets flung out into space and starts the whole thing over again for the kagillionth time.
People REALLY underestimate how long eternity is.
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I think that each one of us is far freer than what we are willing to acknowledge, and many people tend to blame others for what happens to them. That type of person would have an awful eternal life... or maybe this person would have the chance to learn from others and change. Some lessons just need a long time to be learned.
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Also to live in a world of perpetual evil, there's no fun in that. Thousands of years on earth are nothing compared to a perfect afterlife(if your soul is saved).
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The idea of immortality after death never sat fully well with me even when I was Christian. I'm an atheist now, so it's not an issue anymore.Lolly_Reader wrote:For those of you who think that immortality is bad, where does that leave you if you believe in a god? Is the existence of your god then "bad"?
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