Immortality sucks ( Afterlife too) - General

immortality sucks because you see all of your friends and family die and you will never be with them. hey, does immortality mean that even if your shreaded into pulpy meant, you're still alive?

[QUOTE=garychencool;27544984]immortality sucks because you see all of your friends and family die and you will never be with them. hey, does immortality mean that even if your shreaded into pulpy meant, you're still alive?[/QUOTE] I'm thinking of more like "nothing can hurt you, you never age and never die" kind of immortality. Like if someone shot you it'd just bounce off etc.

Personally I'd be happy to stop existing, only reason I don't off myself is because of family/friends etc. If you didn't exist you wouldn't be able to care anyway so I don't really see what people are so afraid of.

Why are you so meeeeaaan :( afterlife is a good movie!

This is why us Jews don't believe in life after death.

I'd love to come back as a ghost and troll people. Just standing there, staring at them having sex, it would make them feel so awkward.

How can you be happy if there is nothing to contrast with it. It would become just have the same meaning as saying you're "fine."

Immortality would be awesome, in an ever-changing world it hardly gets boring. Not to mention as soon as space travel takes off I could explore the universe.

i for one would like to be immortal [editline]20th January 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=Yumyumbublegum;27546353]Immortality would be awesome, in an ever-changing world it hardly gets boring. Not to mention as soon as space travel takes off I could explore the universe.[/QUOTE] this too

Ok, I think I think am not the only one, but to me quantum immortality sounds fucking horrible

The span of a life is what makes it special, my friend. If a man were to live forever, it gives his life no value, because he's not constrained by time. However, when a person is constrained to a limit of time, he or she has to think about his or her choice, and make them genuinely special. What would eternal life be worth to you if you have no goal? Nothing. Your lovers would die in what would seem to be a blink of an eye. Technology would evolve, but it'd still be the same bolts and wires. You could play music, but what would happen when the sound of a guitar grew sour for your ears? You only get one life, brah. Choose wisely, because respawn's off.

Boredom is laziness. Laziness is death.

[QUOTE=Nikita;27547068]Boredom is laziness. Laziness is death.[/QUOTE] no no these are all quite separate concepts

The thing which makes life worth living is that it's short. I love weekends because it's a break from school or work. A lot of people love weekends because it gives them an opportunity to put their routine behind them and do what they want to do, even if only for a couple of days out of the week. Now consider this. Weekends wouldn't be weekends if you had them all the time. The thing which makes Friday a great day is knowing that once you get out of school or work, you're free from the repetitive garbage that's put on you on a day to day basis. If I knew that from this day forward I wouldn't have to go to school, I wouldn't appreciate Fridays as much as I do now. If I knew I could live forever, I would find life to be a lot less appealing.

Personally, if an afterlife ever existed, i'd think it'd be more like a vast grey desert (or an infinite sea, or a yawning dark void), rather than a place of eternal bliss or eternal suffering. Only the spirits of those who died before would be in that place, and if the human instinct of forming communities persisted even in death, then the afterlife would be comprised of many factions and "tribes", mirroring what the living were before they came to the "underworld". Also, this might sound weird, but if souls existed, what are they made of? Well, considering that the nervous system is partially electrical in nature, and that electrons are negatively-charged, then my best guess would be that the "stuff of souls" would be positively-charged, and thus attracted to electrical activity in the brain, forming a sort of "astral body" as some esotericists call it. In simpler terms, brain electricity would attract soul-stuff to build up a soul. However, soul-stuff particles would have to be either extremely small (probably too small for modern equipment to detect) to pass through the structures of atoms, where they'd probably end up interacting with the particles within, OR they'd have to be on some different "plane of existence", though that'd raise the very weird possibilities of electrical charge operating on multiple dimensional levels, which would probably be a headache even for those who study quantum physics. The latter seems the most likely, and it'd connect with the possibilities of the afterlife actually being on a different plane of existence. That is, even IF there is such a thing as an afterlife or a soul, which I hope there is despite the current lack of evidence... But if the notion of soul-stuff being positively-charged were true, and i'm not saying it is (it's theory and speculation), that would mean that stronger electrical activity would make denser instances of soul-stuff in less complex forms. For example, every time you turn an electrical system off, the "spectra" formed by the electrical activity would be let loose into the "ether", resulting in a form of spectral clutter, such as the ghostly after-images of computers littering the grey plain/deep sea/yawning void. It'd also mean that lightning strikes, massive discharges of electricity measuring in tens of thousands of amps, would result in massive accumulations of spectra collecting in an area at the instant of the strike. Just think about the effect that would have on the ether, and then consider the massive turbulence of energy occurring in stars as they fuse atoms together in nuclear fusion. Yep, things would be huge. But even when drawn together by negative electrical charges, wouldn't the attracted spectra dissipate with time? That'd very likely be the case, and not even the spirits of living things would be able to escape that fact, so they'd have to either find some way to collect spectra in order to maintain their astral bodies, or they'd dissipate. If spirits were able to harvest spectra, they'd be able to keep themselves from "truly dying", perhaps indefinitely if they did it every so often that it would cancel out the "spectral dissolution". In other words, they'd be able to "stay alive" by "eating" the spectra to stop themselves dissolving into the ether that their souls spawned from. Don't take all of this too seriously, this is all based upon a theory that has little basis save for the concepts of an extraplanar form of postiviely-charged matter being attracted to electrical activity. I'm not a necrologist or a quantum physicist, i'm just a guy who thinks too much about strange things and weird stuff. It'd be an interesting basis for science-fiction, but this is very much just that; science fiction woven into a form to theoretically explain how the afterlife might work if it existed, which it probably doesn't. Should I consider taking medication or a course in how to write stories?

[QUOTE=ironman17;27548176] Should I consider taking medication or a course in how to write stories?[/QUOTE]Do both, become the best writer in the world.

I believe in an after life and I'm not a religious person. I really hope its like Garry's mod where everything is on demand and always updating/changing.

I only believe in the afterlife because I've seen a ghost before.

Now you see, the way I see it, Every time someone dies they are born again but they will not remember shit from their last life. Because your brain decomposes after death there could not be an 'afterlife' in any of the 5 senses. Life is infinite, it's not like 'The Universe' gives every living being a number and once they die that is it. The numbers are recycled. Hell, I might be a bird in a couple hundred years. I just would not know me saying this or even what a human is, or any words, nothing. It's like starting again. It sounds dumb but I'm not sure how to explain it exactly. :saddowns:

I could live forever. I wouldn't care if it gets, boring, the idea of being able to watch life unfold, watch technologies develop, and personally be able to witness events that would later be written down in the books for being so influential sounds amazing to me. And while we're at it, it'd kick ass if I could travel time, experiencing things that have already happened.

This just in: Eternal bliss not good enough for some nerdpimple on the internet. I knew facepunch had high standards, but seriously?

You seem to have completely misinterpreted the message of the OP. He's saying eternal bliss sucks because it'd get boring, and that the imperfection that we know on this planet is better than eternal bliss because it won't last forever.

All evidence points to nothing happening after being dead. I'm fine with that.

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POHscfRZty8[/media] The only good form of Afterlife.

[QUOTE=Diet Kane;27532781]Thread music [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TsOPjZEF6E[/media][/QUOTE] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0E9OW4CzaFc&feature=related[/media] Thats my view on this thread.

This is hard to explain, but this is my take (and experience of dying) on it. Here goes There are lots and lots of universes, all very similar to each other but with very minor changes in each (by very minor i'm talking about changes in the laws of physics, conciousness, perception etc), go far enough and they become unrecognisable and you will be unable to comprehend it in this universe as the laws of physics here would simply not permit it. When you die here, your conciousness 'goes' to a similar universe as the one you left, sometimes in the 'new' universe you failed to commit suicide, or you are born as you, as a baby again either more or less the same time/body/appearence/parents or as someone completely different. Most of the time you cannot remember the lives you lived in these alternative universes, but sometimes memories slip through with you (hence why some people can remember past lives), some lessons learned in the previous lives do carry over into your current life, although you will have no recollection of where or when you learned them.

[QUOTE=chaoss1986;27554063]This is hard to explain, but this is my take (and experience of dying) on it. Here goes There are lots and lots of universes, all very similar to each other but with very minor changes in each (by very minor i'm talking about changes in the laws of physics, conciousness, perception etc), go far enough and they become unrecognisable and you will be unable to comprehend it in this universe as the laws of physics here would simply not permit it. When you die here, your conciousness 'goes' to a similar universe as the one you left, sometimes in the 'new' universe you failed to commit suicide, or you are born as you, as a baby again either more or less the same time/body/appearence/parents or as someone completely different. Most of the time you cannot remember the lives you lived in these alternative universes, but sometimes memories slip through with you (hence why some people can remember past lives), some lessons learned in the previous lives do carry over into your current life, although you will have no recollection of where or when you learned them.[/QUOTE] First were did you come up with this and 2nd were is your proof. also changing a universe very slightly will cause a huge change.

[QUOTE=imasillypiggy;27554332]First were did you come up with this and 2nd were is your proof. also changing a universe very slightly will cause a huge change.[/QUOTE] Ok to get proof, take your right thumb, put it in your ear, then take the palm of your left hand and slap the back of your head while laughing like a pig. Now jump up and down while spinning, do this for exactly 7 minuites and 31 seconds. Now eat 5 and a half slices of cheese, once you have done this resume your normal routine for 3 days, now travel to a small town that isn't on a map but it's just outside of a town called Hailsham in England, once there go to the only pub in that town, and say this to the bar man "7, 13, 24, 32, 37, 42" then SHOUT "WOOOOOOOONGA!!! WILLLA WONGA!!" and slap him with a black latex glove 2 times, he will then lead you behind the bar into a small back room with a trap door in the floor, he will open this trap door and tell you to walk down the stairs into a basement, he will then lock the door behind you after exactly 12 minuites and 2 seconds clap your hands 3 times and a light will come on, this is where you will find your evidence

[QUOTE=chaoss1986;27554513]Ok to get proof, take your right thumb, put it in your ear, then take the palm of your left hand and slap the back of your head while laughing like a pig. Now jump up and down while spinning, do this for exactly 7 minuites and 31 seconds. Now eat 5 and a half slices of cheese, once you have done this resume your normal routine for 3 days, now travel to a small town that isn't on a map but it's just outside of a town called Hailsham in England, once there go to the only pub in that town, and say this to the bar man "7, 13, 24, 32, 37, 42" then SHOUT "WOOOOOOOONGA!!! WILLLA WONGA!!" and slap him with a black latex glove 2 times, he will then lead you behind the bar into a small back room with a trap door in the floor, he will open this trap door and tell you to walk down the stairs into a basement, he will then lock the door behind you after exactly 12 minuites and 2 seconds clap your hands 3 times and a light will come on, this is where you will find your evidence[/QUOTE] Reciting a Bible verse?

To me a "perfect" afterlife would have flaws, simply because it is what makes it interesting. I believe in some form of existence after death, though not necessarily anything awesome. Something comparable to life, as in it isn't screaming awesome and doesn't suck ass, kind of a medium between the idea of heaven and hell. Or maybe you are with your mind, and you do whatever it dreams up. For me, that is the perfect afterlife. Hell, maybe that's all life is, something our mind creates to have an adventure. But enough philosophy. What we think doesn't matter, we'll all know in the end. Or not, depending on what the end is.