a great movie line from star ship troopers that keeps going through my head. "come on you apes, you dont want to live forever do ya?
lol... WOULD YOU want to live forever?
2007-04-11 06:03:16 · 32 answers · asked by sean_mchugh6 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
mato, you dont think in the zillion years that it will take for the universe to destory itself that we couldnt figure out a way to stopit from happening? or maybe me will have invented time travel and we can just run away from it in time. or maybe a different dimension. ...lol these are all such useless thoughts arent they? i like your answer though, its the only one that was thinking along my lines.
2007-04-11 06:14:21 · update #1
not here on earth,but in heaven i do
2007-04-11 06:06:40 · answer #1 · answered by san_ann68 6 · 1⤊ 3⤋
As I am getting older and I am seeing fine lines and I have to work harder to keep up my youthful appearance, I am also noticing that my eyes don't work quite as well as they used to, and I tire more easily. I am still young, but I am in my 40's. When my parents were in their 70's, they were still very active, but much, much slower and certainly not as able to do the things they could do when they were young. Both are dead now (died at age 79 and 80), and they died from illnesses that could be found in young people, but was more common among old people. As we age, our bodies slow down and don't work as well. If I could live as an old person the way I am able to live right now, in my 40's, I wouldn't mind living to be 100 or more. Fact is though, that just doesn't happen. Besides, when I consider the choices of living forever on this earth, where there are trials, sickness, good and bad things which happen, or living forever in Heaven with God, where there is extreme and utter joy, where there is no sickness or sadness, and where I can have a new and glorified and perfect body, I'll take Heaven any day to living forever on this earth.
2007-04-11 06:18:53 · answer #2 · answered by Chimichanga to go please!! 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes! Humans, especially me, are intensly curious. I am interested in all sorts of things. With unlimited time, I believe I could become good at all sorts of things. In high school I built a terrible book case. I would like to be able to be half-way like Norm Abrams on "This Old House". 20 years might do it. Astronomy, communcation, travel, chemistry a few hundred years. I always hated my mom making me work in the garden, but with perfect health, I would like to try it right next time. I would like a pet cheeta, though I think all cats only allow us to think of them as pets. Learning to talk to animals could take up a couple 100 years. I've never had any talent for art or music. A few centuries might help. After that, I am sure I could find something else.
2007-04-11 06:27:14 · answer #3 · answered by grnlow 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I plan to, but not in this body and not in the here and now.
How about the "Tuck Everlasting" scenerio--would I want to live forever if I could be forever young, but pretty much everyone around me would go through the normal course of aging and dying? No. Growing older and dying is a part of the natural order of things.
2007-04-11 06:09:10 · answer #4 · answered by happygirl 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think so. It would be kind of interesting to start living in the medieval period, and then live from then up to now, and see all the changes that have taken place, but I think I'd be a little afraid to see what the world was like 100 or 200 years from NOW.
2007-04-11 06:09:16 · answer #5 · answered by Jess H 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Starship Troopers can teach us many lessons...
I would, just to see what else is gonna happen...I figure at some point, I'd go crazy (seeing the last animal/plant die) but then find enlightenment (somewhere in the dark vacuum of space), and that'd be sweet.
2007-04-11 06:07:11 · answer #6 · answered by Eleventy 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm far too addicted to the natural cycle of life; you live, you die, you are reborn. I am also too addicted to the people in my life that make my life worth living; my children, my husband, my family that are friends and my friends that are family. Why on earth would I want to watch them grow old, suffer and die while I continued on in a state of perpetual youth? That is just not my thing.
2007-04-11 06:08:15 · answer #7 · answered by lupinesidhe 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I can and I do. Not the frustrating, kind of life that we have now, in this system of things but the kind of life described in the Bible at Psalm 37:11 "But the meek ones themselves will possess the earth, And they will indeed find their exquisite delight in the abundance of peace."
2007-04-11 06:16:55 · answer #8 · answered by babydoll 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I really enjoy my life on earth, but when Christians or Muslims start talking about eternal life, I just don't get it. Eternity is a really loooong time. Why would anyone want to live for all eternity?
2007-04-11 06:12:03 · answer #9 · answered by Dendronbat Crocoduck 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you did you could never really live forever, eventually you will come up against the heat death of the Universe and you wouldn't have any place to live.
2007-04-11 06:07:30 · answer #10 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If i could choose someone to live forever with me, yes. I wouldn't want to spend eternity watching loved ones die before me while i lived on.
2007-04-11 06:07:22 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋