If we can't be sure about any possible future, why assert these reasons so emphatically? Aren't reasons against physical immortality fundamentally dangerous to human life if they are indeed false?
2006-10-01 02:24:39 · 6 answers · asked by logan2012 1 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Other - Diseases
Yes, it probably is "Flat Earth" thinking. Your question may very well be beyond the average human range of comprehension at our current level of being (i.e. -- we can't even figure out how to stop killing each other!).
Should we ever be able to raise this level, life as we know it would be quite different and THEN, perhaps, we could entertain the possibility of physical immortality . . .
2006-10-01 04:17:18 · answer #1 · answered by Dilettante 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Immortality IS the ultimate reality, but not in the way most people think of it. Energy does not die, it simply changes form. As we now know, we are all of us entirely made of energy. Our fundamental elements are ageless. Atomically we have been parts of clouds and plants, dinousaurs- all manner of life and universal matter.
Everything is in a constant state of change. To think that one person can live forever in that one particular blueprint of life, is to deny the ultimate reality- the one and ONLY constant...CHANGE! Identify with the fact that you are part of the eternal ocean of energy and it will bring you both enlightenment and immortality.
2006-10-01 11:03:31 · answer #2 · answered by jefferey d 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Acceptance of reality is not self-defeatism. While it's true we do not know what the future holds, it is highly unlikely science will ever find a cure for death. From a religious perspective, death is a "wage" of sin and is, in fact, by design. Only The Designer can change that. Will He? Nobody can answer that question.
2006-10-01 09:39:28 · answer #3 · answered by Bubba 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I once had a friend who said that "The only reality is what we perceive as reality, there is no ultimate reality, etc..."
I then pushed him into a mud puddle. I asked, "Are you wet? Does it depend on how you feel about it, or how you percieve it?"
He said, "No".
I said, "That is reality."
All I can say is that, in all of the years of human history, no one has figured out a way to "out-think" death. That, in my opinion, means that death is reality, probably the ultimate reality, the only reality that we can really depend on.
2006-10-01 09:36:50 · answer #4 · answered by geek49203 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Immortality is fundamentally impossible! Live with it!
2006-10-01 09:32:50 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It would play havoc with an already over- burdened Social Security system!
2006-10-01 09:34:45 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋