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Topic: What would you do for immortality?
Totage Joined Sat 10/13/07 Posts: 24210	Fri 05/18/12 05:11 PM
If you could live and stay young by doing certain things, (not drinking the blood of innocents or selling your soul) what would you be willing to do? Give up all your bad habits? Eat organic food and distilled water? Do yoga? meditate every day? Think pure thoughts? ( ) <---- inside joke immortal would not be very fulfilling, in my opinion an eternity is longer than we can imagine Then I guess God is not very fulfilled or maybe God is extremely bored. That is why he invented death. Depending on what kind of death we're talking about, it can be a cleansing thing or a separation thing, maybe a curse, depends on what kind of death though. There are different kinds of death? Please explain. Spiritual death, physical death, mental death. Please explain these deaths. Mental death---- coma, or brain death? Physical death---- body dies Spiritual death------ ?? No soul? Pretty much. I snuck emotional death in their too.

Jeanniebean Joined Wed 01/30/08 Posts: 40028	Fri 05/18/12 05:16 PM Edited by Jeanniebean on Fri 05/18/12 05:17 PM
What I am talking about is physical death. If you knew a way to live for say 500 - 1000 years and be healthy by doing certain things that might take some mental and spiritual or physical discipline, would you want to know how and would you be able to commit to doing it?

shivashley Joined Wed 11/24/10 Posts: 12	Fri 05/18/12 05:21 PM
I have no desire to live forever. It would be the worst torture ever to have to watch all your close friends and family die.

Jeanniebean Joined Wed 01/30/08 Posts: 40028	Fri 05/18/12 05:24 PM
Okay, once again, I'm not asking about "forever." Just 500 or 1000 years. You can make more friends, and more family. Or show them your secret of how to live for 500 years.

Jeanniebean Joined Wed 01/30/08 Posts: 40028	Fri 05/18/12 05:25 PM
It seems clear them most people want to die. I don't understand this at all.

Totage Joined Sat 10/13/07 Posts: 24210	Fri 05/18/12 05:25 PM
No, I don't want to be here any longer than I have to be.

Dodo_David Joined Fri 08/13/10 Posts: 48928	Fri 05/18/12 05:26 PM
Give up all your bad habits? Eat organic food and distilled water? Do yoga? meditate every day? Wouldn't doing all of that discourage a person from living forever?

Jeanniebean Joined Wed 01/30/08 Posts: 40028	Fri 05/18/12 05:27 PM
No, I don't want to be here any longer than I have to be. Be here? So are you saying that there is somewhere else to go after death? If so, then you will actually still be "here" or "alive." So what you are saying is that you don't want to exist at all any longer than you have to. If that is true, please tell me why. Is life so horrible?

Jeanniebean Joined Wed 01/30/08 Posts: 40028	Fri 05/18/12 05:30 PM
Give up all your bad habits? Eat organic food and distilled water? Do yoga? meditate every day? Wouldn't doing all of that discourage a person from living forever? I don't know. We do an awful lot in this world just to survive. We have to work jobs we hate, we raise families, go to school, go to the doctor, etc. If life is so awful, then why not just kill yourself and get it over with fast?

izzie Joined Wed 02/21/07 Posts: 31834	Fri 05/18/12 05:34 PM
Immortaltity is HIGHLY OVERRATED!! Give me Immorality any day!

Totage Joined Sat 10/13/07 Posts: 24210	Fri 05/18/12 05:35 PM
No, I don't want to be here any longer than I have to be. Be here? So are you saying that there is somewhere else to go after death? If so, then you will actually still be "here" or "alive." So what you are saying is that you don't want to exist at all any longer than you have to. If that is true, please tell me why. Is life so horrible? I think we live beyond death, at least in some way. Our bodies decompose and are returned to dust, grass and such grows in the dirt that we become, thus there's a possibility that we live on in some way. I would be much more content if I were a blade of grass in a cemetery. I just now thought about that one. Perhaps a grain of sand on an uninhabited beach somewhere far far away. A droplet of water maybe.

Totage Joined Sat 10/13/07 Posts: 24210	Fri 05/18/12 05:37 PM
Give up all your bad habits? Eat organic food and distilled water? Do yoga? meditate every day? Wouldn't doing all of that discourage a person from living forever? I don't know. We do an awful lot in this world just to survive. We have to work jobs we hate, we raise families, go to school, go to the doctor, etc. If life is so awful, then why not just kill yourself and get it over with fast? I've actually tried several times, obviously hasn't worked. Now, I won't even attempt because I don't want the disappointment of it failing again. I'm kinda over all that anyway.

oldhippie1952 Joined Mon 03/14/11 Posts: 22693	Fri 05/18/12 05:48 PM
Instead of immortality, what about just lengthening your lifespan by 1000 years (but "youthful and energetic" too)? I wouldn't mind that, I'd be willing to yoga or meditate.

Seakolony Joined Fri 11/07/08 Posts: 11968	Fri 05/18/12 05:52 PM
Your soul is immortal....

oldhippie1952 Joined Mon 03/14/11 Posts: 22693	Fri 05/18/12 05:53 PM
Your soul is immortal.... True, but I believe they are talking about the body.

Ghostrider2u Joined Thu 05/17/07 Posts: 6953	Fri 05/18/12 06:17 PM
None of the above..... I have no desire to live forever!!!! But..... Thanks anyway!!! I don't think I promised that you could "live forever." I do believe that is what "Imortality" means......Ummmmmmmm

Kahurangi Joined Thu 04/26/12 Posts: 1970	Fri 05/18/12 06:22 PM
What I am talking about is physical death. If you knew a way to live for say 500 - 1000 years and be healthy by doing certain things that might take some mental and spiritual or physical discipline, would you want to know how and would you be able to commit to doing it? I would have to have "good reason" to

Jeanniebean Joined Wed 01/30/08 Posts: 40028	Fri 05/18/12 06:49 PM
None of the above..... I have no desire to live forever!!!! But..... Thanks anyway!!! I don't think I promised that you could "live forever." I do believe that is what "Imortality" means......Ummmmmmmm Its "immortality." and yes, pretty much it means to live forever. But I am only asking what you would do for it. OR for even an extended life... 500 - 1000 years. (I guess most people don't want to live forever. So if not forever, if not for 500 years, then how long do you want to live?

Ghostrider2u Joined Thu 05/17/07 Posts: 6953	Fri 05/18/12 07:00 PM Edited by Ghostrider2u on Fri 05/18/12 07:00 PM
None of the above..... I have no desire to live forever!!!! But..... Thanks anyway!!! I don't think I promised that you could "live forever." I do believe that is what "Imortality" means......Ummmmmmmm Its "immortality." and yes, pretty much it means to live forever. But I am only asking what you would do for it. OR for even an extended life... 500 - 1000 years. (I guess most people don't want to live forever. So if not forever, if not for 500 years, then how long do you want to live? Well then.... again....I wouldn't do anything for it! If I can stay in my present good health, another 20 or 30 would be ok. See the grandkids grow up and such. Since I do believe in something beyond this life....I have no desire to remain. If I am wrong.....I still have no desire to remain too long in a world goin crazy and crowded!!!

Jeanniebean Joined Wed 01/30/08 Posts: 40028	Fri 05/18/12 07:08 PM
What I am talking about is physical death. If you knew a way to live for say 500 - 1000 years and be healthy by doing certain things that might take some mental and spiritual or physical discipline, would you want to know how and would you be able to commit to doing it? I would have to have "good reason" to You would have to have a good reason to live longer?