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Chose death
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Would you rather live forever or die?
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H0ary H0bbit Religious Views: “Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.” - Edgar Allan Poe 
H0ary H0bbit Religious Views: “Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.” - Edgar Allan Poe
Not as a human though
 (April 9, 2014 at 5:30 am)NoraBrimstone Wrote: I don't want either. I'd like to live forever if the world stayed largely the same... That is exactly the reason why I WOULDN'T want to live forever. Christ, I've lived through 50+ Christmases, 4th of July's, New years... If I say I'm going to tell you a joke 50 times in a row you'd get very bored after only the third telling. Everything we humans do is merely a repeat from one generation to the next, though maybe with slightly uninteresting and predictable twists. The news over the last 50 years has been exactly the same, only with different names attached to the events. No, no, I don't want live forever.
There is an ALLLL-knowing, ALLLL-powerful, inVISible being who is everywhere, who created the WHOLE universe, who lives in another dimension called heaven, who is perfect in every way, who was never born and will never die, and who watches you every minute of every day (even when you're squeezing one out on the toilet). There are also unicorns, leprechauns, Santa Claus, an Easter Bunny, and a giant purple people eater.
JUST BELIEVE IT!  RE: Would you rather live forever or die?
April 9, 2014 at 11:01 am
(This post was last modified: April 9, 2014 at 11:01 am by No_God.)
(April 8, 2014 at 4:05 pm)Phatt Matt s Wrote: Just wondering how many people here look forward to death. I don't mean you look forward to having a short life but would you rather die some day than live forever? Of course, if life were roses and euphoric all the time, no one in their right mind would ever want to die. But is life really all that great? Unless all the people I love were also immortal, I would want to die. I don't want to watch everyone I've ever known and loved die... Fuck all that. 
The only way I see immortality as being at all in interesting prospect would be if I occasionally underwent amnesia and got to experience certain things for the first time again, otherwise immortality seems daunting and depressing to me. Once you do everything you want to to do, see everything you want to see, experience everything you want to experience than there's still an eternity ahead of you. Do you do everything over again? Experience everything 50 times? Well, at the end of the 50th go-round you'd still have an eternity ahead of you.
No, I'd rather have a life long enough to experience the things I want to experience, see the things I want to see, just enough of a life to keep me busy and interested, and then a blissful oblivion sounds good.
Teenaged X-Files obsession + Bermuda Triangle episode + Self-led school research project = Atheist.
If there was a genuine way for me to attain immortality, I would go for it.
"Never trust a fox. Looks like a dog, behaves like a cat."
~ Erin Hunter 
Living forever would be depressing, everyone around you would always die. You could literally never get close to people anymore because you eventually have to detach yourself from them emotionally. I would probably want to die eventually if aging still exists but I definitely want to live a long time though, maybe a million years or something crazy so I could learn as much as I can and have as many awesome experiences as I can.
If the hypothetical idea of an afterlife means more to you than the objectively true reality we all share, then you deserve no respect.
I think there is a good chance that I am creative enough, and also forgetful enough, to never be bored with an independent ever lasting life.
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