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Immortality Is Only Desirable If It's In Paradise
Immortality in hell, or even on earth, would be a curse.
 IdeasMan  26 Oct 2009 14:39
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The vikings had it right: Drinking with your pals and some Valkyries for eternity. Sign me up!

But for the actual topic, I'd hate to be a ghost, living forever, but eternally tormented by what you can't have. Living forever in Hell would also suck, unless referring to the small town, which might be okay.
 
 RoboHippo  27 Oct 2009 05:07
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Amen. That's the same basic reason why few people would want to live their mortal life forever. Mortal life even has plenty of good to it, but if you consider the immensity of living forever and all the things you don't like or find burdensome with life then even living your mortal life indefinitely loses all lustre.
 
 Grenache  26 Oct 2009 20:37
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Oh definately. Who wants to experiance suffering for years and years? Death is an important part of our lives. We all have to die at some point. We do have fear of dying, but we do want to at least rest in peace.
 
 joylove101  26 Oct 2009 20:35
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Of course.
Some goofballs see the word paradise and can't make it paradise for themselves.

They crack me up. You have to one feebleminded, miserable human to not to be able to define paradise for yourself.

Or you have to be simply so eaten up with agenda that you can't leave yourself open to such thought because it would suggest you are wrong about something.

I think I'm going with the second one for a few of the "I can't imagine paradise" because I suck regulars.

But even though I suck so bad I can't imagine paradise for myself, I'll insist everyone else sucks to the point of there being no such thing.

But none of us suck if we don't have the ability to imagine paradise for ourselves. That makes us realists.

Lol
 
 justsumguy  26 Oct 2009 17:00
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You know it. Would suck just live a painful existence.
 
 gottfried  26 Oct 2009 16:22
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The chase is better than the catch. Knowing that life is a one-shot deal makes living it to the full that much more important.

Edit:

Is moreno suggesting that the poor in third world countries do or should spend their days praying instead of farming or migrating to better land? The only reason most don't is they are political prisoners by borders and soldiers instead of nomads as they once were.

Those who do nothing but pray all day and expect others to feed them are "rice bags and hangers on" as buddhists call them.

Even when the poor can do nothing and have no resources, do they sit around and cry, or do they attempt to find ways to get out of their situation and ask for help? To claim that unfortunate people in the third world make no attempt to better their lives is to call them "welfare kings" waiting for a handout.

The only people who don't try to improve their lives are people who live in luxury and never to know for want.
 
 K9  26 Oct 2009 14:56
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 Unless you were born and living in a war torn 3rd world country. its easy to say from your perspective but most of the world lives off of $1 a day. I doubt they have the same opinion and one reason why they are more than likely more religious grabbing on false hopes of a better world after life.
by  moreno
 26 Oct 2009 15:12
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Even if it is paradise, its useless if you are alone, with no friends, no family, and stuff
 
 muahahaha  27 Oct 2009 15:00
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What is your definition of Paradise? Praying to someone for eternity? Really? Is that truly Paradise or a God with an ego problem?
 
 moreno  26 Oct 2009 14:57
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 Paradise is a place of perfect bliss where all desires are met. You cannot get bored there, because that would contradict perfection. Inhabitants of Paradise will not be required to worship, because they did that during their earthly life.
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 26 Oct 2009 15:10
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