The desire to live forever is actually based in religion. Which the same faith teaches to be selfless.
You want to be immortal.
Why or why not?
You want to be immortal.
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@Mall
You want to be immortal.
Maybe, how would I even know if I want it?
Right now, I would probably say no. Too many bad things.
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@Mall
The desire to live forever is actually based in religion. Which the same faith teaches to be selfless.
Well, I guess thats another contradiction in religion.
It teaches people to be good so they get rewards.
The actual good only displays when there is no any reward.
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@Mall
The desire to live forever is actually based in religion. Which the same faith teaches to be selfless.
Wrong, religion came from the desire to deal with the terror of your mortality
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@Mall
Immortality with the option for suicide.
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@Mall
The desire to live for as long as possible is actually based in our genes.
Immortality and foreverness are derivatives of language development
And religion is also a later derivative of human social development.
From about 60 to 75 years and onwards we are in a state of rapid physiological decline.
So in practical terms immortality can only be usefully achieved if we can genetically engineer and stop the aging process much earlier. Which certainly isn't beyond the realms of possibility
Intellectual immortality is perhaps also a possibility, whereby ones consciousness will be downloaded to an alternative data storage device. Thereby opening up a whole Universe of humanoid opportunity.
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@WyIted
Tomato tomotto.
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@zedvictor4
Some believe God which is of certain faiths created the genes.
So tomato tomotto again.
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@ADreamOfLiberty
Not possible. A complete oxymoron.
I have no desire what so ever to live forever if I have to be physically old and decrepit the vast majority of that time.
There is a mark Twain quote that goes something like this:
I was dead billions of years before I was born, and it never so much as bothered me."
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@Mall
Hmmmmm.
How the genes developed is of little relevance.
What we know, is that humans were/are the instruments of ongoing material development, AKA evolution.
Though as I always state:
The idea that Planet Earth was initially seeded by a superior Universal intelligence, is a reasonable proposition.
So:
Tomato tomotto.
Are simply, two symbolic arrangements.
One is representative and the other isn't.
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@Mall
I want to live forever because I am evolutionarily programmed to enjoy living. A suicidal animal doesn’t pass on its genes and so doesn’t exist.
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@Moozer325
Do you believe in Jesus Christ?
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@Mall
I find it unlikely that he exists
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@Moozer325
But do you believe in him, only begotten son of God?
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@Mall
I’m an agnostic atheist. It’s more probable that no god exists, but it’s possible.
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@Moozer325
Ok so basically you don't know if you can believe or not is what I'm getting. That's too bad . Particularly wanting immortality and all .
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@Moozer325
Agnostic atheist.
Or perhaps just a rational thinker.
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@zedvictor4
Well, you’re not wrong.
OMG, Mall sounds like Rev. Jim Bakker and Moozer325 sounds like Stephen Hawking.