Eternal Life

[nailit]

Whats that about then?
Wont you get bored after a few gazillion years?
(for religious believers obviously, I dont have this conundrum)

[douglas9401]

We are stardust. That's all.

[Old_Geezer]

Well your body is. But does stardust think and have self awareness ?

[Marshwarble]

Yes. QED.

[Old_Geezer]

So, no proof of that at all then ?

[douglas9401]

You're confusing Joni Mitchell and Matthews Southern Comfort with Blind Faith I think, Old_Geezer

[mikey4444]

I will stop being bored about 1ms after I die, and don't expect to be bored ever again !

[birdie1971]

Many of the people making the claim for an after-death eternal life are often poor, uneducated and disenfranchised. Their lot in life is not a happy one.

Many of the poorest people in the world today have some kind of religious belief. It's quite understandable - when you have nothing and no hope of bettering yourself, what else is there to wish for apart from a quick and painless death and then an afterlife paradise free from hunger, pain and suffering? That is why religious belief thrives in poverty stricken countries. It's no accident that most of the world's religious people come from impoverished nations or nations that have, up until very recently, been impoverished.

The idea of an afterlife - a second crack of the whip so to speak - in a paradise that lasts for ever and ever is a seductive one to someone who has nothing and no hope. I don't think that any one of these impoverished people stop to think about what that actually means in principal. Why would they? Philosophy is a luxury - something to fill up your time when there's nothing else to do, such as feeding yourself and your kids.

That being said, I don't think that many educated, well-off religious people think about it either. It's an ephemeral concept that most people don't like to think about too much as it throws up too many unanswerable and uncomfortable questions.

Best not to think about it and just believe that God will sort it all out...

[vetuste_ennemi]

The first five million years were the worst. The second five million years were also the worst. After that I went into a slow decline.

[vetuste_ennemi]

Tertullian thought the boredom would be relieved by observing the torture of the damned. Similar sadism can be found in some of the hadith's.

[vetuste_ennemi]

Where did the redundant apostrophe spring from?

[Auxarcs]

You are viewing heaven as if it were earth. If i had to spendveternity on earth, yeah i would get bored. That place we call 'heaven' will have no negatives, including boredom. Such things just wont exist. Eternity with God will be completely about joy and happiness and comfort and peace. All positives, no negatives. You will not get bored or sad or angry or hurt or jealous or any other negative.

[Old_Geezer]

Will there be any virgins ?