How do you feel about Immortality..?

Question

Do you feel that it is attainable and do you feel that maybe there is a reason why we can't become immortal due to lack of knowledge on how we can get there. This may seem like a wierd question to many but I am ust very curious. I also would like to to know if you'd like to live forever and if not why.

Answer 1

So far as we live and strive at all, our lives are various, are needed for the whole, and are unique. No one of these lives can be substituted for another. No one of us finite beings can take another's place. And all this is true just because the Universe is one significant whole.

That follows from our general doctrine concerning our unique relation, as various finite expressions taking place within the single whole of the divine life. But now, with this result in mind, let us return again to the finite realms, and descend from our glimpse of the divine life to the dim shadows and to the wilderness of this world, and ask afresh: But what is the unique
How disheartening in one sense is still the inevitable answer. I state that answer again in all its negative harshness. I reply simply: For myself, I do not now know in any concrete human terms wherein my individuality consists. In my present human form of consciousness I simply cannot tell. If I look to see what I ever did that, for all I now know, some other man might not have done, I am utterly unable to discover the certainly unique deed. When I was a child I learned by imitation as the rest did. I have gone on copying models in my poor way ever since. I never felt a feeling that I knew or could know to be unlike the feelings of other people. I never consciously thought, except after patterns that the world or my fellows set for me. Of myself, I seem in this life to be nothing hut a mere meeting-place in this stream of time where a mass of the driftwood from the ages has collected I only know that I have always tried to be myself and nobody else. This mere aim I indeed have observed, but that is all.

Answer 2

Read Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins. He puts forth a good case for immortality. It would be great, as long as I still had the option to die when I want to.

I think many of us may be unconsciously driven by a time limit on our lives, and thus death. Remove death, and suddenly you have forever in which to succeed! Sounds alright to me.

Of course, the shadow side is that I wouldn't really want, say, a psychopath living forever. Suddenly a 10 lifetime sentence seems a bit shorter, you know ;)

Answer 3

Yes, it does occur. The trillions of living cells making up a single person were made as a pupa, if you will, for our budding consciousness. The body we shed, but our growing consciousness survives eternally to join the greater body of conciousness we simply call God. God is all that we perceive, and then some. We are but infants on Earth, in a testing, nurturing zone, to step off into Understanding, no fear. The parable of the chaff and the wheat is accurate, for only good fruit survives. Be good.

Answer 4

Doesn't exist.

I would like to be immortal though. So long as it didn't involve me having to chop of peoples heads like Highlander, or drink blood like a Vampire.

It's madness to say people can't cope with eternal life, I'm pretty sure there havn't been any case studies. :D It's interesting to wonder though. It's also very interesting to see the many examples of how immortality is somehow megative in mythology and popular fiction.

Answer 5

The human emotional state cannot withstand living forever. It requires no emotion. You literally would have to watch, time and time again, that which you love and those who you love perish before your eyes. Nobody really wants to live forever. I honestly feel that people, when they think of it, fear death and nothing more. There will come a time when all that you love or who you love are gone, that you are alone, and your days are spent thinking of back when. Death is a way of saving us all that pain in the end.
Note: We are just as much where we have been as we are who we are. It is a vital part of what we comprehend.

Answer 6

As far as I'm concerned, my consciousness is infinite, so in a way I am immortal... And that idea doesn't sit right with me, but neither does dissolving into nothing... So either way, I feel a tinge of terror at my very existence!!

Answer 7

Naw I like reincarnating into new bodies, places.
Getting stuck in one old body would be a drag.

Answer 8

Only if I was healthy and wealthy.... otherwise too much suffering in one short life already.