(December 22, 2014 at 9:37 am)abaris Wrote: I don't know, reincarnation has some appeal. Not the Budhist version but the neopagan one. Life ends and starts over again. Kind of erase and rewind.

That kind of has to suck id rather be a whole new person or you know a better one. Who knows it could exist but eh we will find out once we die i guess.

Eternal life is not worthless or meaningless. At least not right away. When you have it all, though; when there's nothing you don't know, nothing you haven't done, nothing you don't own, nothing you haven't experienced, then there's really only one thing to look forward to. One final event that, if transpired, will literally be the last thing you'll ever do: death. However, eternal life means that will never come. You'll be doomed to go on living, knowing there's something forever out of your reach.

(December 22, 2014 at 10:23 am)One Above All Wrote: Eternal life is not worthless or meaningless. At least not right away. When you have it all, though; when there's nothing you don't know, nothing you haven't done, nothing you don't own, nothing you haven't experienced, then there's really only one thing to look forward to. One final event that, if transpired, will literally be the last thing you'll ever do: death. However, eternal life means that will never come. You'll be doomed to go on living, knowing there's something forever out of your reach.

That's one reason Christians choose Christ to eternally put death at bay, so there would be no regret. Like I said earlier in this thread an eternal life brings infinite opportunities. You also need to understand what heaven really is about.

GC

(December 22, 2014 at 2:46 pm)Godschild Wrote:

(December 22, 2014 at 10:23 am)One Above All Wrote: Eternal life is not worthless or meaningless. At least not right away. When you have it all, though; when there's nothing you don't know, nothing you haven't done, nothing you don't own, nothing you haven't experienced, then there's really only one thing to look forward to. One final event that, if transpired, will literally be the last thing you'll ever do: death. However, eternal life means that will never come. You'll be doomed to go on living, knowing there's something forever out of your reach.

That's one reason Christians choose Christ to eternally put death at bay, so there would be no regret. Like I said earlier in this thread an eternal life brings infinite opportunities. You also need to understand what heaven really is about.

GC

You must point out where I said anything that would make your reply meaningful, because I just don't see it.

(December 22, 2014 at 2:46 pm)Godschild Wrote:

(December 22, 2014 at 10:23 am)One Above All Wrote: Eternal life is not worthless or meaningless. At least not right away. When you have it all, though; when there's nothing you don't know, nothing you haven't done, nothing you don't own, nothing you haven't experienced, then there's really only one thing to look forward to. One final event that, if transpired, will literally be the last thing you'll ever do: death. However, eternal life means that will never come. You'll be doomed to go on living, knowing there's something forever out of your reach.

That's one reason Christians choose Christ to eternally put death at bay, so there would be no regret. Like I said earlier in this thread an eternal life brings infinite opportunities. You also need to understand what heaven really is about.

GC

What if my definition of heaven is to bang all the hot chicks I could ever conceive of?

I know what heaven is about. It's the ultimate carrot on a stick to keep people in line. It's a promise that never has to be kept. The church gets away with it just because people can't prove its untrue, and are scared to take the risk.

(December 22, 2014 at 3:31 pm)robvalue Wrote: I know what heaven is about. It's the ultimate carrot on a stick to keep people in line. It's a promise that never has to be kept. The church gets away with it just because people can't prove its untrue, and are scared to take the risk.

It's the spiritual version of Wimpy from Popeye - follow my orders today, and I'll gladly repay you on Wednesday.

(December 21, 2014 at 7:51 pm)Lucanus Wrote: On the contrary, take an eternal life. Any experience you could have in that is potentially infinitely replicable. Wouldn't that mean that any experience you could have in an eternal life is ultimately worthless and meaningless? Why, then, would anyone even want an eternal life? Isn't then the very concept of eternal life an illogical exploitation of our natural fear of the unknown?

I think that what makes life enjoyable is having something to strive for. As long as there are challenges to meet, we could live a very long time without any problem. Whether you could find enough challenges to last an eternity is perhaps dependent on your memory: maybe memories would degrade with time, so that an eternal life that was an infinite loop of the same challenges would always seem fresh.

It's a moot point, and I do think that we treat life as a very precious thing because it seems so short compared to all of the things we want to experience and enjoy. Even people who believe in an endless afterlife grieve the loss of life of those around them. Perhaps there is a part of every mind that recognizes that the world we presently experience is the only one we can be absolutely sure of.

(December 22, 2014 at 3:28 pm)KevinM1 Wrote:

(December 22, 2014 at 2:46 pm)Godschild Wrote: That's one reason Christians choose Christ to eternally put death at bay, so there would be no regret. Like I said earlier in this thread an eternal life brings infinite opportunities. You also need to understand what heaven really is about.

GC

What if my definition of heaven is to bang all the hot chicks I could ever conceive of?

It's not your kingdom, your definition doesn't count, God rules His kingdom.

GC

(December 22, 2014 at 12:28 am)Esquilax Wrote: By definition, if you have an eternal life, you have sufficient time to do everything there is to do, and then continue to do all of those things until you get so bored of them you can't stand to do them anymore. And you still wouldn't be even half done living.

That only follows if "everything there is to do" is finite. If new things to do are being continually invented, then this argument doesn't hold up.