But if you could kill yourself at any time what's the problem. If you foresee humanity shitting the bed kill yourself. If you can't bear to watch your loved ones die kill yourself with them. Why wouldn't anyone want the option of living forever.
Why would you?
Having an infinite amount of something makes that thing worthless. Having a limit gives your life value. Besides, I'd rather have a real human experience with an expiration date than something so far removed from humanity as to be alien.
I see no attraction to living forever, except for satisfying the curiosity of what happens after I'm dead, but when I'm dead I won't be curious anymore so I don't really care about that.
Some advice for the next time you feel like calling people with different wishes to you "liars" or "dumb": don't.
lol thats a pretty skewed way of looking at things man.
Also, I don't consider eternal life having the option of killing yourself. Doesn't really seem that eternal...
But of course humanity will destroy itself. Its just a matter of time. It's no reason to kill myself though.
I mean, we're always looking for new power sources, and everytime we find a new one, it will just mean more powerful weapons.
It really is just a matter of time.
Also for the loved ones kill them/yourself with them, lol I assume you're kidding.
And yes, gwahir brings another valid point. If you live forever, you won't value anything.
Killing yourself is an option though, as is dying through some freak accident/murder etc. It's all in the OP.
No, I would not want unconditional eternal life, it would probably suck, that was never the point though.
ok well. maybe then i would have it.
not rly eternal though is it.
Well, you're not a god but you get to live forever provided nothing bad happens to you. That's potentially a very very very long time up to the end of human existence, so it's relatively eternal.
Don't worry about it. You may not think that I know what I'm talking about when it comes to this subject, but I've spent a lot of time, and I mean a lot of time, thinking about the existence of a god, its one of the things I think about all the time, and my reasons are very very valid. And you seem like you have a lot of interesting view of life and whats going on, I'd like to hear more. I should start a thread about it, or you could.
Back on subject, I like what gwahir said about limits. I totally agree that without limits, and when things are eternal, they become worthless. I couldn't agree more. Like I said before, theres a reason we don't live forever, a very good one. Living forever would become so monotonous, and extremely boring and probably pretty painful (emotionally).
"Believe nothing, no matter where you have read it or who has said it, not even if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and common sense." -Buddha
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