(August 31, 2015 at 7:20 pm)IATIA Wrote: My interest was always in the afterlife in general. What could possibly entertain one for an eternity? Would not heaven eventually be hell anyway?
And much in fiction and movies has addressed that;
Agent Smith in the first Matrix movie talked about how the first version of the Matrix was a failure because it was too idyllic for the human mind to accept; we needed challenge and conflict;
and I always found it entertaining to wonder if I was ever offered the chance for Earthly immortality,
IE becoming a vampire, if I would really want it. In her Vampire Chronicles, Anne Rice repeatedly addresses this issue; with ancient vampires bemoaning the fact that vampire suicide (willing death, by sun exposure, of course)
is so frequent among young or new vampires, because the prospect of immortality is such a burden to bear
....and that would be on EARTH, where there is lots happening to entertain you, too...as opposed to Heaven,
where I imagine it would be far more boring.