Abandoned Forum

[Mysti]

Why can't we live forever? Mabye there is a greater force that stops us from learning the secrets of the world as we grow older, or mabye it is the case simply beacuse of overcrowding? Also, do you think biological immortality can aver be a possibility, bearing in mind life spans are constantly increasing?

[Pimienta]

well I would not like people to live forever because a lot of people quit caring the older they get so it would be rather pointless plus style changes so often that if you lived forever and didn't want to keep up with it, it would be sort of odd

[nil]

The problem for living forever is it's no different from death.

You can't see anything in complete darkness. Neither can you see anything in complete light (i.e. with absolutely no shadow).

When you live forever, you will eventually be desensitized of everything and nothing will interest you anymore. Think of billions and billions of years later, when all form of entertainment is exhausted, what will you do? Life becomes completely pointless. You will be sitting around for trillions of years doing nothing. That won't be too much different from laying dead underneath, will it?

[lycan]

no living for ever because then pain stays with you forever

[Chazoa]

Nil does have a point but I disagree with it.. If everyone lived forever, aka was immortal there would be so many more oppertunities! We'd have explored every region of space, walked streets nude, and experienced everything we cannot now.

But truly everyone IS immortal in some way. No human life is unaccounted for no matter what the importance of their life was. Wether they live on in the memories of their families and friends, or in books, or just in things they have accomplished the very essence of a living person is never forgotten.

Then again that is a bit philisophical... Maybe we all DO truly live forever or maybe lying under the ground is our ultimate fate, maybe there is afterlife and maybe there is not, there is no true way to know, no matter what ANY book or preacher says.

[hamster]

Nil does have a point but I disagree with it.. If everyone lived forever, aka was immortal there would be so many more oppertunities! We'd have explored every region of space, walked streets nude, and experienced everything we cannot now.

But truly everyone IS immortal in some way. No human life is unaccounted for no matter what the importance of their life was. Wether they live on in the memories of their families and friends, or in books, or just in things they have accomplished the very essence of a living person is never forgotten.

Then again that is a bit philisophical... Maybe we all DO truly live forever or maybe lying under the ground is our ultimate fate, maybe there is afterlife and maybe there is not, there is no true way to know, no matter what ANY book or preacher says.

I liked most of what you said, Chazoa, and welcome back by the way. But who are you to declare that "there is no true way to know?" Just because you don't know how to figure skate, doesn't mean that no one else does, either. Just because I haven't been to China, doesn't mean that my neighbor who claims to have been there, is a liar and there is no China.

[Chazoa]

Well maybe someone knows but I wouldn't go trying to find them! The reason why?
I'm too lazy to dig. Blahhhh!

[hamster]

Well maybe someone knows but I wouldn't go trying to find them! The reason why?
I'm too lazy to dig. Blahhhh!

When you reach a point in life where it matters to you, you will dig.

[Chazoa]

Even then, it's not like they'll tell you much, considering they're just corpses.

[Pixyboo]

cos we die

[hamster]

Ah, that kind of digging. lol. I assumed you spoke of a spiritual search.

It's a misconception that only by putting together a conversation with someone who is dead, can one learn the truth about what happens after we die.

I don't have to go to Oregon to learn the truth about Oregon, or even to verify that it exists. I don't even necessarily have to talk to someone who lives there. I can be assured of its existence as a state, and even gather pieces of knowledge about it, in various other ways.

[Chazoa]

Then tell me who to talk to about this subject, what guru knows what everyone else does not?

[Pixyboo]

guru? gurus dont exist

[Chazoa]

guru? gurus dont exist

That post was utter spam...

I was using guru as a verb meaning wise one, or intelligent one, not the "non-existant" gurus you speak of.

[Math_nerd]

guru? gurus dont exist

That post was utter spam...

I was using guru as a verb meaning wise one, or intelligent one, not the "non-existant" gurus you speak of.

ummmmmm, noun.

But anyway, you will all hate me for it, but I look at this question from a scientest's veiwpoint. That is, I come to my conclution (some all it a "hypothosis") and then try to back it up.

I think that people can't live forever because we don't do enough cartwheels. If we did enough cartwheels, we could live forever. This is obviously true, because no one lived forever, therefore no one has done enough cartwheels.