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Topic: What would you do for immortality?
msharmony Joined Mon 08/31/09 Posts: 61041	Sat 05/19/12 12:34 AM
None of the above..... I have no desire to live forever!!!! But..... Thanks anyway!!! I don't think I promised that you could "live forever." I do believe that is what "Imortality" means......Ummmmmmmm Its "immortality." and yes, pretty much it means to live forever. But I am only asking what you would do for it. OR for even an extended life... 500 - 1000 years. (I guess most people don't want to live forever. So if not forever, if not for 500 years, then how long do you want to live? I think Id only want to live as long as it took to enjoy watching my children grow up and raise their own kids I wouldnt want to live past my children, unless they had died young and certainly dont want to outlive any grandchildren,,,,

bittentwiceshy Joined Wed 03/07/12 Posts: 53	Sat 05/19/12 07:57 AM
It depends, would I still have to pay taxes?

boonedoggy61 Joined Fri 09/09/11 Posts: 10425	Sat 05/19/12 08:06 AM
It depends, would I still have to pay taxes? spend the rest of eternity chasing you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

irisheyes79 Joined Sat 11/10/07 Posts: 16745	Sat 05/19/12 08:28 AM
um id only jerk off once a day n drink only on sundays n not swear as much honestly i wouldnt want to live forever

Jeanniebean Joined Wed 01/30/08 Posts: 40028	Sat 05/19/12 09:52 AM
What I am talking about is physical death. If you knew a way to live for say 500 - 1000 years and be healthy by doing certain things that might take some mental and spiritual or physical discipline, would you want to know how and would you be able to commit to doing it? this is a different question than the thread title being immortal is a bit different than living a long time but not an infinite time I Still wouldnt want to do it though, as a human, I do feel boredom and pain and I wouldnt want to recycle those things in different ways (As life does) for five to ten centuries... Yes, I changed the question when I found out how many people don't want immortality. People want to die. I find that hard to believe, but that is what I am hearing.

Jeanniebean Joined Wed 01/30/08 Posts: 40028	Sat 05/19/12 10:00 AM Edited by Jeanniebean on Sat 05/19/12 10:01 AM
What I am talking about is physical death. If you knew a way to live for say 500 - 1000 years and be healthy by doing certain things that might take some mental and spiritual or physical discipline, would you want to know how and would you be able to commit to doing it? I would have to have "good reason" to You would have to have a good reason to live longer? By longer i assume you're meaning immortality, and yes i would need good reason to be immortal other than a selfish desire to do so, or just because i can. If immortality is offered to you just for the sake of having it...would you? I don't expect it would be offered to me "just for the sake of it." But I do wonder why you would think that wanting immortality or wanting to live longer, (like 500 - 1000 years) is a "selfish desire." And if it is a selfish desire, what is wrong with being selfish enough to want to live as healthy and as long as possible? Yes I would take it. If there was a certain food or water or exercise I could do in order not to grow old and die I would certainly take it. But why? If for no other reason than to say that you can? Why should we be immortal when every other living thing else around us has served its purpose and expires? Someone has to start living. If you love life, and you can live as long as you want, why would you choose death? Can you guarantee that you will continue to love the gift of life you have been given forever? Whether or not a person continues to love the gift of life is up to them, not to anyone else. I would not guarantee anything. But if I had the secret to long life or immortality, and I wanted to share it, I would first look for someone who wanted it, and could handle the responsibility. Loosing people close to you is one of the down sides to out living them, but the alternative is to die first. So it would depend on how strong a person is emotionally whether they could handle long life or physical immortality. Some people would rather die than to have to suffer the loss of their loved ones. Is it that they think death is easier and more desirable than a life of pain? If so, then to want to die first is the selfish choice.

lilangel2 Joined Wed 03/05/08 Posts: 9096	Sat 05/19/12 10:02 AM
What I am talking about is physical death. If you knew a way to live for say 500 - 1000 years and be healthy by doing certain things that might take some mental and spiritual or physical discipline, would you want to know how and would you be able to commit to doing it? this is a different question than the thread title being immortal is a bit different than living a long time but not an infinite time I Still wouldnt want to do it though, as a human, I do feel boredom and pain and I wouldnt want to recycle those things in different ways (As life does) for five to ten centuries... Yes, I changed the question when I found out how many people don't want immortality. People want to die. I find that hard to believe, but that is what I am hearing. We (our bodies) were not designed to live forever , so we probably don't have that desire. Like a good pair of shoes...they are really nice and comfortable at first, but there comes the time to replace them. We still keep our feet, but we get a new pair of shoes. I think there is much greater things after this life. Greater experiences. Plus it is the natural process to die, and I believe to be reborn.

Jeanniebean Joined Wed 01/30/08 Posts: 40028	Sat 05/19/12 10:06 AM Edited by Jeanniebean on Sat 05/19/12 10:06 AM
Depends whether I could keep the people I loved living as well. Otherwise it would be a very long and lonely life. If I could , almost anything. You can meet new friends. I love easily, but find it very difficult to let go. I don;t know if I would want to watch everyone i loved die and keep starting again. So for you, dying is easier than living longer than everyone you love. Dying is easier than watching others die. So if you could choose, would you choose to die first, before any of your loved ones to spare yourself the pain of loss?

justme659 Joined Wed 10/03/07 Posts: 6144	Sat 05/19/12 10:08 AM
I would give up being so poor to just make it to 80 years. I would just like to be able to mow my lawn, keep my house clean and take the laundry up and down the stairs withougt worrying about tripping and falling on my tush. And maybe just maybe, be able to snuggle with some wonderful guy and laugh till the time comes I pass away.

Jeanniebean Joined Wed 01/30/08 Posts: 40028	Sat 05/19/12 10:14 AM
What I am talking about is physical death. If you knew a way to live for say 500 - 1000 years and be healthy by doing certain things that might take some mental and spiritual or physical discipline, would you want to know how and would you be able to commit to doing it? this is a different question than the thread title being immortal is a bit different than living a long time but not an infinite time I Still wouldnt want to do it though, as a human, I do feel boredom and pain and I wouldnt want to recycle those things in different ways (As life does) for five to ten centuries... Yes, I changed the question when I found out how many people don't want immortality. People want to die. I find that hard to believe, but that is what I am hearing. We (our bodies) were not designed to live forever , so we probably don't have that desire. Like a good pair of shoes...they are really nice and comfortable at first, but there comes the time to replace them. We still keep our feet, but we get a new pair of shoes. I think there is much greater things after this life. Greater experiences. Plus it is the natural process to die, and I believe to be reborn. Okay, that is your heart felt belief. But what if you are wrong? And if you are right, that we will live on forever spiritually, then what is 1000 years compared to Infinity? If I could live to be 1000 and still be youthful, I would say yes.

lilangel2 Joined Wed 03/05/08 Posts: 9096	Sat 05/19/12 10:36 AM Edited by lilangel2 on Sat 05/19/12 10:40 AM
What I am talking about is physical death. If you knew a way to live for say 500 - 1000 years and be healthy by doing certain things that might take some mental and spiritual or physical discipline, would you want to know how and would you be able to commit to doing it? this is a different question than the thread title being immortal is a bit different than living a long time but not an infinite time I Still wouldnt want to do it though, as a human, I do feel boredom and pain and I wouldnt want to recycle those things in different ways (As life does) for five to ten centuries... Yes, I changed the question when I found out how many people don't want immortality. People want to die. I find that hard to believe, but that is what I am hearing. We (our bodies) were not designed to live forever , so we probably don't have that desire. Like a good pair of shoes...they are really nice and comfortable at first, but there comes the time to replace them. We still keep our feet, but we get a new pair of shoes. I think there is much greater things after this life. Greater experiences. Plus it is the natural process to die, and I believe to be reborn. Okay, that is your heart felt belief. But what if you are wrong? And if you are right, that we will live on forever spiritually, then what is 1000 years compared to Infinity? If I could live to be 1000 and still be youthful, I would say yes. True, we can only speculate about this. Here is my comment on another thread (about reincarnation) "I believe reincarnation makes more sense than 1 life here on 1 measly planet to sort things all out! To me that would not make sense. Kazillion of universes and planets, yet only one physical lie to live in it all! This banana needs more than 1 life to sort it all out. I need more planets to explore, more universes and galaxies. I feel I have lived many lives before because I am so in tuned to things bigsmile But, I only actually recall one." And , in this moment in history there also is nothing to show that anyone can live to 1000 and still be youthful. If it was so, why not 2000...50,0000 or an infinity all in the same body? We will live longer in the future though, just by virtue of medical advancements, organ donations, etc. But, I would not want to live forever in the same body. I think I would get bored. I like the idea of having different peelings on my banana

Jeanniebean Joined Wed 01/30/08 Posts: 40028	Sat 05/19/12 11:36 AM
I believe in reincarnation too. But I'm not bored yet.

LoisBl Joined Fri 05/18/12 Posts: 213	Sat 05/19/12 12:27 PM
I think that as people get older they get tired, they generally develop physical problems. Most 80 year olds that I know, welcome death. We were not meant to last forever.

msharmony Joined Mon 08/31/09 Posts: 61041	Sat 05/19/12 12:34 PM Edited by msharmony on Sat 05/19/12 12:34 PM
I think that as people get older they get tired, they generally develop physical problems. Most 80 year olds that I know, welcome death. We were not meant to last forever. this is my belief too its not a matter of one being better or worse than the other, its a matter of me being just as embracing of both, and not wanting to miss out on either,,, death makes life more precious,, in my opinion

Kahurangi Joined Thu 04/26/12 Posts: 1970	Sat 05/19/12 06:17 PM
"death makes life more precious" Absolutely agree with this The thing i would find most frightening about immortality is the loss of emotive feeling. Sure...your physical self would persevere, but the ability to feel such emotions as sorrow, happiness, remorse, empathy, just to name a few, would wither after having endured and feeling these things time and time again...until you would become numb. And then what would the point of immortality be?? Honestly...watching the same movie over and over again doesn't appeal to me.

wux Joined Wed 07/29/09 Posts: 7426	Sat 05/19/12 06:35 PM
"death makes life more precious" Absolutely agree with this The thing i would find most frightening about immortality is the loss of emotive feeling. Sure...your physical self would persevere, but the ability to feel such emotions as sorrow, happiness, remorse, empathy, just to name a few, would wither after having endured and feeling these things time and time again...until you would become numb. And then what would the point of immortality be?? Honestly...watching the same movie over and over again doesn't appeal to me. I apologize, and I beg your forgiveness, but I must say I completely agree with you on this. Life is enjoyed because of the novelty of experiences we encounter. Old age tends to becon an era in one's life in which new exeriences will yield the same reactions... in fact, the new experiences of the past were so great exactly because of our own reactions to them. We did not feel the first rose we smelled; we felt the endorphine rush. We did not feel the sugar we ate the first time; the sweetness did not make us happy... it was the endorphine rush that made us happy. Practically the only thing that stays forever young in a person, as I have noticed in myself and in others, who got to my age a long time ago and even beyond it; the only feeling that never decreases the endorphine rush is the feeling of falling in love. Don't ask me why. This I think is a "don't care" state in the evolutionary path in an individual's life. The feeling of love in old age neither promotes, nor hinders the passing of the individual's genes to a younger generation. Therefore it does not matter. If it was pro, yes, it would be understood. If we could still produce viable offspring at age 80, 90, and 100, yes, it would be a positive indication to feel amorous love. But it does not do that. However, it does not prevent one's DNA already disseminated from survival; feeling love and falling in love does not contra-act the survival of one's offspring, so why not.

winterblue56 Joined Sun 12/12/10 Posts: 2465	Sat 05/19/12 09:31 PM
Have you not heard of people living over 500 or 1000 years? I have. Is it possible? I don't see why not. That was a different time....when the air was clean and the food was pure. And, isn't there a man that is trying to see how long he can live by setting an example of eating and living a very healthy lifestyle?

winterblue56 Joined Sun 12/12/10 Posts: 2465	Sat 05/19/12 09:37 PM
Yes, I changed the question when I found out how many people don't want immortality. People want to die. I find that hard to believe, but that is what I am hearing. I think we do "yearn" to die. Dying gets us closer to the Creator. If we have lived an honest and fulfilling life this time around, it makes us one step closer to ultimate peace & love

winterblue56 Joined Sun 12/12/10 Posts: 2465	Sat 05/19/12 09:45 PM
I think that as people get older they get tired, they generally develop physical problems. Most 80 year olds that I know, welcome death. We were not meant to last forever. I agree with this. I'm tired and I'm only 55 . I love my life here but am becoming "homesick" for heaven. I am an optomistic person and it hurts me to see all the terrible things going on in the world today

Totage Joined Sat 10/13/07 Posts: 24210	Sat 05/19/12 09:45 PM
Winter! Where ya been?