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Poll Question: Where do we go?
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Originally posted by Psychedelia Psychedelia wrote:

i disagree with all this immortality would be bad malarcky. I dont believe you'd become eternally bored and have nothing to do. The world is forever changing and there is so much you could do, i dont think you would ever come to a point where there is literally nothing left.
 
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Originally posted by Psychedelia Psychedelia wrote:

i disagree with all this immortality would be bad malarcky. I dont believe you'd become eternally bored and have nothing to do. The world is forever changing and there is so much you could do, i dont think you would ever come to a point where there is literally nothing left.
I agree with your disagreeing, immortality does not mean eternal boredom.
 
There aren't enough hours in the day as it is to do all the things I want to do and to listen to all the music I want to listen to (or even sleep all I want to sleep). I cannot imagine that my imagination would run out of ideas, even it became totally bereft of external input I'd stil have an eternety of memories to draw inspiration from.
 
However, I can understand that some people would not be able to handle it, some people can't cope without TV for a hour without slumping into a whining mope, complaining "I'm bored, there's nothing to do..."
 
/edit - in my Outlook post box there were two consecutive notification emails: After Death... The Grey Room. LOL


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we woke to complete darkness, and find afterlife very boarded! whahaha
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Originally posted by tardis tardis wrote:

Who says we will have a concept of boredom, or even have the same bodies? We know nothing about immortality after death, and in what fashion we would experience it. There's no way we would know that we would end up living on the earth, or even exist in the same universe.
 
Here's a thought.  Much of the after life promises made pertain to things that effect us with the earthly frame of mind. We would determine our "fate" based on earthly desires.  Our religions all have a human mentality and cater to earthly needs.
 
 
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I think it's the end and you go nowhere...Cry

But I also think we (the human race) would be better off if we ALL thought this, then perhaps we would make more of being alive and treat life as sacrosanct!

We can always dream I suppose....
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Originally posted by Psychedelia Psychedelia wrote:

i disagree with all this immortality would be bad malarcky. I dont believe you'd become eternally bored and have nothing to do. The world is forever changing and there is so much you could do, i dont think you would ever come to a point where there is literally nothing left.


The Star Trek episode "Requiem for Methuselah" says that immortality is a curse. If Star Trek says it, it must be so.
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Originally posted by rileydog22 rileydog22 wrote:

Originally posted by An old fart An old fart wrote:

The boredom of life or the joy of it depends on how much chances you have to choose how you live your life (how do you spend your time and with whom). I don't see any reason why a possible life after death would be automatically and by definition boring, because it lasts forever, if we have a chance to DO something interesting to us and avoid doing unpleasant things. I am perfectly aware that I can never listen (not to mention find) all the music that I would love, see enough films, read enough books, meet enough pleasant people, have enough sex (why other religions than Islam don't promise enough sex after death?), etc. in my lifetime, so I suppose I will still remain "hungry" for life at the moment of dying. To have a chance to continue doing that kind of things after death, that would be my heaven.


Faced with an infinite amount of time, you will eventually run out of entertaining things to do. 


We may not even have a concept of time in an afterlife (if one indeed exists). We could possibly exist outside of space-time. Who knows? So the question of boredom seems truly irrelevant to this discussion.

Besides, I brook no competition in the time debate. I am, after all, the TARDIS...

(and for those of you who don't know, it stands for Time And Relative Dimensions In Space)

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Originally posted by tardis tardis wrote:


Besides, I brook no competition in the time debate. I am, after all, the TARDIS...

(and for those of you who don't know, it stands for Time And Relative Dimensions In Space)

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Originally posted by tardis tardis wrote:

Besides, I brook no competition in the time debate. I am, after all, the TARDIS...
(and for those of you who don't know, it stands for Time And Relative Dimensions In Space)
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OK, no disrespect, so don't go looking to much into this, but when I read your name I think something completely different.  First four letters in particular.  Shocked LOL
 
 
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Originally posted by The Doctor The Doctor wrote:

 
Unfortunately for all of you, once I am dead, all of you will also disappear as you are all just a figment of my fevered, drunken imagination.


A subjective idealist perhaps?

A very interesting philosphy. Personally, I lean more towards phenomenalism though.
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Originally posted by StyLaZyn StyLaZyn wrote:

Originally posted by tardis tardis wrote:

Besides, I brook no competition in the time debate. I am, after all, the TARDIS...
(and for those of you who don't know, it stands for Time And Relative Dimensions In Space)
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OK, no disrespect, so don't go looking to much into this, but when I read your name I think something completely different.  First four letters in particular.  Shocked LOL
 
 


Nice try, but I've heard that way too many times to find it even remotely amusing Wink
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Originally posted by The Doctor The Doctor wrote:

Originally posted by tardis tardis wrote:


Besides, I brook no competition in the time debate. I am, after all, the TARDIS...

(and for those of you who don't know, it stands for Time And Relative Dimensions In Space)

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Yes, but I am the Doctor, so that makes you my b****.  Tongue


And where would you be without me, hmm?Wink
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i'm a what do you call it, agnostic I think. I think you're not very smart if you think you can claim to know whether there is or isn't an afterlife. I mean, chances are, if you're reading this, you've never been dead. I must say though, I lean toward atheism most of the time.
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I like the Bhuddist idea of contibual reincarnation on a cycle of personal improvement until attaining perfection & becoming one with the Supreme.

Never know, though, will we?

Originally posted by The Doctor The Doctor wrote:

I'm going to be cremated.  Especially after talking about bacteria, flies, beetles, mites and moths eating away at my dead corpse.  I have no interest in being part of the ecosystem of insects and bacteria after I'm dead


That's what you think - when you go, we're going to smother your body in honey & stake you out over an anthill, then release the flies... Mwahahahahaha!

That's in a little poor taste, isn't it?

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I envy atheists. Such blatant certainty must be comforting.
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After Death I'm sure there was Atheist... or some other floridean metal band...
 
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Originally posted by tardis tardis wrote:

I envy atheists. Such blatant certainty must be comforting.


It's hardly comforting to know that there is nothing at all after death.  I have maybe 80 more years, and the fact that time passes so quickly is rather frightening. 

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Originally posted by The T The T wrote:

After Death I'm sure there was Atheist... or some other floridean metal band...
 
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I  became Cynic of life after Death, making me Atheist. 
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