Human beings have virtually no value if they are just machines

[Chad32]

If you want to be remembered, with your name and actions in the history books, then go out and do something fantastic. We still remember figures of history centuries after they died, because they changed the world. That's the kind of immortality that is proven to exist. Not the kind where you die, and your spirit (which we can't prove exists) lives in the clouds with a god that we can't prove exists. Stop wasting time trying to become immortal in a way that has no impact on the world, and become immortal in a way that does.

That's a really good point.

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No, we are NOT special to this universe. I can't stand that you think we have to be special to the universe...

...we should care now because now is all we have.

How does the offer of eternal life diminish the importance of the moment?

Wouldn't it put the present into perspective, or is having hope illegal?

Thanks. But then you kind of blow it with the later question. Eternity takes away value. that's what we've been explaining the whole time. If everyone had an infinite amount of money, then money would lose all value. Same with existence.