The only thing worse than death is living forever

[river]

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.

Unless there is more to learn .

 

[river]

I woud sign up for livin foerver... but not if i woudnt always have the ability to end it.!!!

Indeed .

But is death any different from living ?

 

[davewhite04]

Indeed .

But is death any different from living ?

Have you seen the movie "flatliners"? the try to find out. good movie, the original 90s one is. The book is better if you're a bookworm

 

[river]

Have you seen the movie "flatliners"? the try to find out. good movie, the original 90s one is. The book is better if you're a bookworm

A book about 2D beings .

 

[davewhite04]

A book about 2D beings .

You have a weak imagination.

 

[DaveC426913]

You have a weak imagination.

No. He's thinking of "Flatland", which is an excellent book.

 

[davewhite04]

No. He's thinking of "Flatland", which is an excellent book. A better book than Flatliners is a movie.

Which Flatliner movie did you watch?

 

[river]

river said: ↑
A book about 2D beings .

You have a weak imagination.

How so ?

To me imagination should be based on 3D physical objects , which exist . We are part of it and live within in it ; Our Universe .

It is the mathematical concept , 2D that has wrongly taken over our thinking . Our imagination . 2D will never , ever be physical .

 

[davewhite04]

How so ?

To me imagination should be based on 3D physical objects , which exist . We are part of it and live within in it ; Our Universe .

It is the mathematical concept , 2D that has wrongly taken over our thinking . 2D will never , ever be physical .

So no pink elephants in your imagination?

 

[river]

river said: ↑
How so ?

To me imagination should be based on 3D physical objects , which exist . We are part of it and live within in it ; Our Universe .

It is the mathematical concept , 2D that has wrongly taken over our thinking . 2D will never , ever be physical .

So no pink elephants in your imagination?

Not in reality .

 

[DaveC426913]

To me imagination should be based on....

Rules are kind of the antithesis of imagination.

 

[river]

river said: ↑
To me imagination should be based on.... 3D

Rules are kind of the antithesis of imagination.

Not really .

 

[Write4U]

Not really .

Depends on how realistic you make your fantasy world.

1984 (Orwell) was all about rules.

 

[river]

Depends on how realistic you make your fantasy world.

Yes

Is it based on 3D physical world and life ?

Or a 2D mathematical world ?

 

[davewhite04]

Yes

Is it based on 3D physical world and life ?

Or a 2D mathematical world ?

Your choice.

 

[river]

Your choice.

3D

Our survival depends on a 3D approach to understanding the Universe .

 

[davewhite04]

3D

Our survival depends on a 3D approach to understanding the Universe .

What are we surviving from?

 

[DaveC426913]

Not really .

Really.

Rules about what one can and can't do are diametrically opposed to imagination, whose greatest strength lies in not having to follow rules.

 

[Write4U]

Yes

Is it based on 3D physical world and life ?
Or a 2D mathematical world ?

It's a 3D world allright and more prophetic than fantasy, IMO.

The novel is set in an imagined future, the year 1984, when much of the world has fallen victim to perpetual war, omnipresent government surveillance, historical negationism and propaganda.

Nineteen Eighty-Four is a classic literary novel in the genres of political fiction and dystopian science fiction. Many of its terms and concepts, such as Big Brother, doublethink, thoughtcrime, Newspeak, Room 101, telescreen, 2 + 2 = 5, and memory hole, have entered into common usage since its publication in 1949.

Nineteen Eighty-Four also popularised the adjective Orwellian, which connotes things such as official deception, secret surveillance, brazenly misleading terminology, and manipulation of recorded history by a totalitarian or authoritarianstate, as described by the author

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four

 

[wegs]

In thinking about this question further...I wonder if living a life without any sense of purpose...if that might feel worse than death? Hmm.

ETA, but we really won't ''feel'' death, so maybe this is all a moot point.