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2006-06-16 17:15:48 · 26 answers · asked by Kimberly 6 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
I guess life would be less precious since it would be taken granted for. Think about this... don't you think you value something less when you know you have it for good?
2006-06-16 17:19:23 · answer #1 · answered by * TeXaS cHiCk * 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Hullo. It's a funny thing about the brain: we see people dying around us everyday(via the news, family memeber dying, etc.) but we still think it's never going to happen to us. Intellectually we know that we're going to die but it is never really felt deep down as a reality. It's somewhere far, faaaar down the road. (I've seen really old people fighting and wanting more time when their time is up. Totally shocked that death is happening to them). People are living and believing now that they are going to live forever! lol. I don't think life would be more precious if immortality were possible. Knowing you could live forever I think people would care less about others and a great boredom would set in creating all sorts of problems. Not to mention how even more this planet would be over crowded. Just the thought in the back of the mind that life is short can have the power---sometimes and for some people---to make life very precious.
2006-06-26 03:49:36 · answer #2 · answered by .. 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well the whole world we live in would be different if we had always been immortal. If nobody ever died there would be so many people on the planet.
I think we can't answer this question because we can never know what it would really be like we can only guess.
You may think life would mean less if we never died but that may not necessarily be truu. It would be different though.
2006-06-25 14:11:09 · answer #3 · answered by Ouros 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well that really depends on what you are able to do with a life that would never end.
What are the conditions for achieving immortality?? Is it granted to everyone? Is it something that has to be earned...or maybe even learned??
What do you do with the expanding population if no one ever dies? Do we still age? Or, do we only age to a certain point that we pick and then stop?
If we were able to live forever, would it be contingent on having to continue to be productive? Or, would we be able to just sit under and apple tree and sleep for a thousand years?
2006-06-16 17:22:30 · answer #4 · answered by werk2much2000 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe that we do live forever, but don't realize it. Unfortunately, I think that as a human race we claim to value the sanctity of life, our actions so that we do not.
Life is precious...it is immortal...it's the lesson we have to learn.
2006-06-16 17:19:06 · answer #5 · answered by Steven D 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Life (as a word) would cease to exist, as there would be no opposite (death). Therefore we would all just "be". Existence would become something we took for granted and we would fail to appreciate the beauty in life, because we would never have to lose any of it. Without loss, there cannot be love. Without sadness, no joy. We rate emotions based on experiences. Things that are precious to us now, would not be anymore, because there would be no chance of losing them.
2006-06-16 17:24:37 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, I think like anything that we want in life that we get, it would beome less precious. And I don't mean like wanting kids, but like wanting a pool or, as you are asking, time. Time is precious only because we don't have enough of it. Like money, if you are rich, money isn't precious, but if you are poor, it is. Hope this helped.
2006-06-16 17:21:47 · answer #7 · answered by Ty 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
life would have no value if it would never end. it is the very frailty of life that makes it so precious to us. the fact that tomorrow isn't guaranteed to us makes today have some value. each time somebody tells you that they love you, know that you may never hear that particular melody again. somehow it shines in a whole new light. each moment that passes is lost to us forever it lives only in memory. but moments that are yet to come are doubly cherished because those moments are a gift. time is a gift
2006-06-16 17:19:08 · answer #8 · answered by ladrhiana 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hi Kimberly!
I don't know how old are you but you are asking really nice questions. I like to answer your questions.
Just briefly I would like to say that if you believe the power of mystery of nature; every thing would be solved with you.
Do you know that there are three things really mysterious? Nature God Energy
We actually don’t know exactly which is correct?
Nature + Energy =God
God+ Energy =nature
Nature + God =Energy
But we know that we have been created by these three powers doubtlessly.
Then these three powers exactly know what is good for us or what is not.
Believe me if we were designed to live for ever, then the life was so boring and uncomfortable.
They know it very well.
2006-06-16 17:56:39 · answer #9 · answered by Great Man 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Think of it this way. The loss of death means that there is no life because there's nothing to define. We wouldn't even know we're alive. Now the question is not whether life is precious, but whether or not our existence would be better.
2006-06-16 17:21:19 · answer #10 · answered by ChingoBling 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
So now I'm asking myself, "If I could live forever, would I be more or less boring?"
Life would be less precious.
2006-06-16 17:18:50 · answer #11 · answered by my_alias_id 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋