I'm not afraid of being dead, since I won't be conscious to understand it. I'd like to live a long and enjoyable life, but have no concerns about what happens after that.
I have no idea how to feel about eternity, because I haven't even lived 50 years, much less 50,000. Or 50 million. Would I run out of stuff to do? No idea. I've still got a shitload of things I'd like to see and do after only 46 years. I don't expect to run out of stuff to do before my time runs out. So I haven't the faintest idea what eternity would be like.
I have no idea how to feel about eternity, because I haven't even lived 50 years, much less 50,000. Or 50 million. Would I run out of stuff to do? No idea. I've still got a shitload of things I'd like to see and do after only 46 years. I don't expect to run out of stuff to do before my time runs out. So I haven't the faintest idea what eternity would be like.
"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
