Is Eternal Life Even Desireable?

[Hatshepsut]

I think you mean Dragnet.

See, I can't even remember my '50s TV now. Adam-12 is way too late.

I wonder if you would characterize yourself as an agnostic theist?  The way I use the word, if you concede that only private reasons can justify theistic beliefs, I'd say you are agnostic.  (Me too.)  Doesn't mean you can't be plenty certain that belief is right for you.  Likewise, I'm as certain as I can be that theism isn't for me....

I'm a bit vague on how all these theists, atheists, agnostics, and dog catchers are classified. I do agree the belief business means you must choose; Nature is reluctant to say.

The thing about whether eternal life is desirable is somewhat interesting since I'll get to test this thing for myself in a few years. I won't be around in 2070 'less I be older than Jacob. If eternity is going to be like the temporal, with time flowing from minute to minute without stopping, the thread consensus that it may not be a good "buy" seems on the mark.

Here is a deity:



Isis didn't create the world, but she protects the god Imseti who in turn protects the canopic jar containing your liver after you are mummified. In Egypt, your body must be preserved if you want to live forever. Afterlife isn't heaven or hell elsewhere, but more like being a ghost haunting this world, continuing the same life you had while alive, but in a different state. Except Egyptian personal identity or soul had five components including a kA that partakes of food offerings and a bA that flies around like a bird. Body, shadow, and name are the others.

I wonder whether if asking whether deities make sense as agents in the physical world as we understand it today is the wrong approach. Isis is mute on the big bang, but she can tell us about how Egyptians used to think, and what the world meant to them. They made an effort to understand it. For instance, bA and kA suggest Egyptians may not have had our concept of one unified personality that experiences the world in only one way, which we take for granted. Maybe their kA is a sort of reptile brain for them, the part that is hungry for sex and food.