If you could be immortal...

Originally posted by vivify
I wouldn't want to be immortal because one day, all life on earth will be extinguished. Then, an immortal would be completely alone. After that, the earth will be consumed by the sun, and I'd have to suffer for about a billion years in what I imagine is like what our loving god will send most of us. When the sun explodes as a supernova, I'll be caught in t ...[text shortened]... , occasionally getting pummeled by asteroids or even comets at many thousands of miles per hour.

Well, when you put it like that, maybe not exist forever then. Though, if all the people you love and cheerish also choose immortality, you can float in space together. 🙄

Originally posted by sonhouse
We could go to the stars, where a trip might take 500 years there and back.

That's the spirit. It would provide much time to hone our chess skills, maybe even discover the perfect game.

Originally posted by C Hess
I agree that if it was mandatory it would be a horrible experience if you're tired of living and wish to die. In fact, personally I don't think of it as suicide to decline the offer of medicine to prolong life if one doesn't want to, but I'd like to know how different believers view this.

It would be hypothetical at best.

I am a believer, a Christian.

I think it really wouldn't make much difference in the world. Some thinking they would escape death, like elves, I suppose, might keep to themselves. But war even comes to the elves (Hobbit) . What stops a living forever person form being killed anyways.

Originally posted by C Hess
I agree that if it was mandatory it would be a horrible experience if you're tired of living and wish to die. In fact, personally I don't think of it as suicide to decline the offer of medicine to prolong life if one doesn't want to, but I'd like to know how different believers view this.

immortality: I suppose we would be like God? Lucifer thought that way too you know.

Originally posted by Pudgenik
immortality: I suppose we would be like God? Lucifer thought that way too you know.

Is that all god is? Immortal?

Originally posted by C Hess
Is that all god is? Immortal?

That is his mythology talking.

Originally posted by C Hess
...would you choose to be immortal.

Say scientists manage to extend your life indefinitely, as a religious person, would you choose not to accept this gift, and why? As an atheist I'd be thrilled, of course. Also, if you choose not to accept this gift from science, is that the same as suicide? And what would your god think of that?

No...What if Hitler had eternal life? What about serial killers, rapists, etc.?
What if you were a cripple? Blind, deaf, or mute?
Oh, you just mean you?
To be immortal with evil in your heart would be a curse.

Originally posted by Great King Rat
Also as an atheist: yes, in heartbeat. I find death to be a horrible side effect of life.

Originally posted by Great King Rat
Also as an atheist: yes, in heartbeat. I find death to be a horrible side effect of life.

If you think of the death of your material being as "horrible", the prospect of your immaterial being [you, GKR's soul] separated from God for eternity is unfathomable. It's the permanent "effect" of rejecting the person and work of Christ.

Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
Originally posted by Great King Rat
[b]Also as an atheist: yes, in heartbeat. I find death to be a horrible side effect of life.

If you think of the death of your material being as "horrible", the prospect of your immaterial being [you, GKR's soul] separated from God for eternity is unfathomable. It's the permanent "effect" of rejecting the person and work of Christ.[/b]

Does it sometimes bother you - especially at night when you're all alone - that you are never ever going to speak to your deceased wife again and that you yourself are quite close to dying?

Originally posted by C Hess
So, I take it you would choose not to be immortal in your flesh? Is it suicide if you choose not to live as long as you can?

What do you mean "immortal in your flesh" ?

No, I don't consider not living to the possiblr extent of your days to be suicide, necessarily.

Originally posted by C Hess
Is that all god is? Immortal?

i said like God, not be God. And no, that is not all God is.

Originally posted by Pudgenik
It would be hypothetical at best.

Of course it's hypothetical. And while we recognise that, we can add that not only won't you age, but you'll be indestructable. If your balls are caught in a harvester, new balls grow out. If your head is severed from your body, a new identical head grows out, in seconds. You just can't die while on this treatment.

Originally posted by sonship
What do you mean "immortal in your flesh" ?

No, I don't consider not living to the possiblr extent of your days to be suicide, necessarily.

I mean your physical body can't die.

So if you could have your life extended on life support, yet you choose for life support to be turned off, that's not suicide? I agree.

Originally posted by Pudgenik
i said like God, not be God. And no, that is not all God is.

Point taken. 🙂