I suspect no matter how wonderful heaven is and how great it is hanging with God, after the first 900 trillion years, it's going to start to get old.
If I were to be able to live forever would you still be the same person all the time? And if everyone was also able to do it would there be a need for sex?
Don't see why not if every day is a new day.The same would apply to any activity. "He who is not busy being born is busy dying"
Why should that be the only kind of immortality? For that matter, do you know how many kinds of wonderful heaven can be? They are. So?
This is what I was thinkin' (once upon a time when I wondered about heaven). You wouldn't stagnate; there would be a whole new adventure awaiting - like a sequel of a movie. And then I thought: well, yeah but if you're same person, with all the same memories, then you'd have all your old baggage. Start a project, you already know a thousand ways it could be a drudge. That would fatigue you pretty quickly. So I thought, maybe you get to purge your memories, so the world (whatever world it is) is fresh and new again. And that is essentially reincarnation.
Actually, whenever I think about my heaven (in a fantasy way), I imagine lounging in a giant park and running into all my heroes of history. "You're Albert Einstein?? Wow. In the dictionary, next to genius, is your picture. I know, I know, you're a humble man. But you changed how we think about the universe!" "Hey is that Darwin over there? You were right! There are little particles in our body that encode our genes. They were too small to see with microscopes in your time, but ... here, let my sketch you some DNA..." "Rosa Parks?? Of course I know of you. Yours is a household name. Yeah, well into the 21st century." "Gutenburg! I want to shake your hand. You changed the world with your press! Greatest invention in the history of humankind. You should see what the world looks like today!" "Hitler, you say? Do I remember you? No, not off-hand. Wait, wait. There was a character in the cartoons called Hitler. Short guy, little comb for a mustache. Always yelling and goosestepping. It was a real larf. But that wasn't a real person; it was just a cartoon character based off some guy in the war. How's Poland you ask? Well it's the hub of Europe. Has been ever since it annexed Germany. Why?"
After 100 years or less on Earth, it can get old. I strongly agree that eternal life is eternal suffering. Maybe heaven and hell are the same place.
No. I'm saying that this: is already the case. You have no way of telling whether you've lived before, so it doesn't matter whether souls are newly created or recycled. Eternal afterlife would have to disembodied, so you'd have to keep your individual memory in the Cloud. I wonder what its carrying-capacity is; how long before data is degraded and garbled.
But, would eternal life be the same as ''living'' in our physical bodies? Probably not. So, it could be quite cool and mystical. No two days, ever the same.
The only thing worse than death is no one noticing...........Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! Oh and this may be pertinent. The Afterlife, Paul Simon After I died, and the makeup had dried I went back to my place No moon that night But a heavenly light shone on my face Still I thought it was odd There was no sign of God just to usher me in Then a voice from above Sugar coated with love, said, "Let us begin" You got to fill out a form first And then you wait in the line You got to fill out a form first And then you wait in the line Okay, a new kid in school Got to follow the rule You got to learn the routine Woah, there's a girl over there With the sunshiny hair, like a homecomin' queen I said, "Hey, what you say? It's a glorious day, By the way how long you been dead?" Maybe you, maybe me Maybe baby makes three But she just shook her head You got to fill out a form first And then you wait in the line You got to fill out a form first And then you wait in the line Buddah and Moses and all the noses from narrow to flat Had to stand in the line Just to glimpse the divine What you think about that? Well it seems like our fate to suffer And wait for the knowledge we seek It's all his design, no one cuts in the line No one here, likes a sneak You got to fill out a form first And then you wait in the line You got to fill out a form first And then you wait in the line After you climb, up the ladder of time The Lord God is here Face to face, in the vastness of space Your words disappear And you feel like swimming in an ocean of love, And the current is strong But all that remains when you Try to explain is a fragment of song Lord is it, be bop a lu la Or ooh poppa do Lord, be bop a lu la or ooh poppa do Be bop a lu la Songwriters: Paul Simon
Absolutely... but befor acceptin eternal life... woudnt you want the ability to opt-out if it wasnt cool.???