(April 9, 2015 at 9:34 pm)datc Wrote:(April 9, 2015 at 9:12 pm)Stimbo Wrote: Exactly. I'm actually okay with the idea of eternal life, as long as it comes with the option of being able to end it any time I want.
Or rather we should say: the fact that eternal life, if it is to be lived forever, must always be worth living (for otherwise, since in infinite time, all possibilities are realized, including that of suicide if it is at all possible), entails that the pleasures of heaven and paradise are infinite and in particular, both God and creation can never be exhausted; there will always be fun new things to experience or contemplate.
But that's not even close to what I said. Doesn't matter how fun these new experience are; eventually, just living will become hell.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
