(April 16, 2014 at 4:18 am)smax Wrote: Honestly, people, what would we do with eternal life? Constant sex? Drugs? Love forever? Sing? Do you really believe these things could hold value for more than a few hundred years?I don't know how it would go because I only have 45 years of my own to go on, and those don't seem anywhere near enough. In another 45 years I may feel the same, or have a different perspective. To be honest, I don't know that I can fathom 1,000 years, much less eternity. Could I ever get tired of living? I think it's impossible to know after just 45 years. Maybe even after 450. Or 45,000. I simply lack the wherewithal to judge.
I do think that the key to enjoying it would be to continue to have new challenges. New things to learn, new things to discover, new things to do. Perhaps having an informal dinner with friends would never get old as long as there were other pursuits to keep life fresh. Or sex, or drugs, or roller coasters. Maybe with the right balance of excitement and downtime I could keep on enjoying life for millions of years.
I know this-- I would grow bored of patting god on the back very, very quickly.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
