Life or No life

Slydice

We are alive and will die

is sooner better?

Should we experience all we can?
should we live long lives?

Will there be nothing when we die?

Would you choose to live forever?

Karl Hungus

As nothing is for certian, I am currently trying to experience as much as I can...

Doc

Ill worry about it when I die.

Untill then whats the point?

Shiminay

It'll all sort itself out in the end

You should try and have fun every day and do stuff that you wanna do every day. Fluck it, it's better to regret something you have done then to not have done it at all (que Orbital).

Anyway, sooner doesn't necessarily mean better - it means you have less time to do the things you wanna, so make it last man!

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All the best!
Dav
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Hendrix_Nighn

It's an infinite world where you can do anything that you want bar murder and badness unto any living thing. (Just don't expect to be thanked for any good that you do'd)

We are in paradise, the problem is that not many people know it.
If you die, you go somewhere else. If you are alive you can do everything else.

What you are is what you want to be

Kolodny

Might sound a bit morbid but life's one long experience, so enjoy it it and do what you want to do (within reason) in case it all ends sooner than you expected.

As for live forever.... not sure. It would probably get boring after a while. But if there's nothing to do afterwards then maybe it would be worth hanging around for eternity, just to see how things change?...hmmmmmmmm.

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Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most.

JustHalf

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Slydice:
We are alive and will die

is sooner better?

Should we experience all we can?
should we live long lives?

Will there be nothing when we die?

Would you choose to live forever?</font>

Well, if you really want to die Paul, I can speed along the process for you.

Seriously though, I'd prefer to live forever. With the rate of physiological development of my body I reckon I'll live fairly long anyway (as long as I keep this way )

amp

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by AngelWhore:
As nothing is for certian, I am currently trying to experience as much as I can...</font>

Agreed, nothing is for certain, that's for certain.

The way I see it, life is a constant stream of new things happening. I quite like swimming it that stream even if hit the occasional rock of misfortune or lie on the beach of comfort or dive into the froth of alcholic stuper or get the coat...

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azezil

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by amp:
Agreed, nothing is for certain, that's for certain.
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you just contradicted yourself, you said nothing's certain, then said thats for certain

But anyway i was talkin to a satanist who's says this is hell, his reasoning is: we live in a world of fear, hate, greed, disease, pestilance etc. thus this is hell! so no i'd rather not live forever!

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"just because you're not paraniod, doesn't mean they're not after you!"

whitetrash

Immortality is a waste of time.

The whole crux of life as we now it is that it will end at some point. That is the main fact that most sane people (conciously or subconciously) live their lives around. Without death we don't really have to do anything, we can just put it off indefinitly.

As for meaning, we should - I think - be trying to live our lives fully, and discover the full ranges of our possible expieriences for ourselves. The problem with modern culture is that we are constantly being tempted into increasingly living our lives vicarously through the lives of others.

Did that make sense?

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I Live (in a dream world)

amp

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by azezil:
you just contradicted yourself, you said nothing's certain, then said thats for certain
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No sh!t sherlock

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Karl Hungus

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by amp:
Agreed, nothing is for certain, that's for certain.
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Not certain about that...

WhiteWashMan

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by AngelWhore:
Not certain about that...</font>

im quiet sure hes right.

as they say in starship troopers
'who wants to live forever'

or was it queen. whatever....
life is for living.
doesnt mean you have to be a hedonist, but just enjoy, find love, loose love, experience everything and be good to people.
cant say fairer than that.
oh, and wear beige cords at least once in your life....

Steven

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2"> 'who wants to live forever' </font>

Er, is that a trick question? I dunno about the rest of you but eternal life sounds very appealing to me. Bunch of morons in Highlander . Of course, living on when the earth is engulfed by the sun expanding towards the end of its lifespan may get a mite uncomfortable

Greenbean

Living forever is the scariest thing I could ever imagine when I was younger. I didn't want to die, not because I thought everything would stop, but instead I thought that I would goto heaven and what would I do then? I have to admit that I was a bit of a freak that way - it seriously freaked me out. Imagine you can live forever... now what are you gonna do to pass time, how about I just look at earth for the first 5 billion years, now earth is gone. Then after that the universe goes, or if it doesn't, how many billions of years can you wish to watch it? Ok, so maybe you turn you head and look around, a god yea, I'm in heaven - sure I'm happy enough - but doing what, thinking what new thoughts, with these same people all the time, forever. Its not like theres a next step, you're just stuck not being able to do anything new, because eventually you will have done everything - with an infinite time you will have to do everything that is finitely possible eventually, and you still have an infinity of time to go. Another couple of billions of billions of years - no progress, still there, nothing new.

At least in dying we make some progress, in our lives we keep changing - but if you can live forever - theres your curse. I think when most people think of being immortal they go - ack sure you'd get over the feeling of having everyone you know die all the time and start to see the good sides of things - but eventually nothing would be new anymore; you'd get dispirited with everything, even the good things. And most people associate being immortal with living for the next couple of thousand years, no its forever. In death we get rest, there is the good side of things - whether you believe in God or not. You can obtain a sort of half-**** immortality through your genes, if that gives any cold comfort. You've definitely got to live your life now and learn to be happy in accepting the eventuality of death and hope it happens gently in your sleep when you are old with a supporting family.

Paladin

How about living forever until such time as you off yourself.

Shiminay

I dunno about living forever, but I'd certainly love to live for longer than this frail body offers. See more, do more, meet more people, drink more cider, become good at something, become good at something completely different after that.

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All the best!
Dav
@B^)
We were all set for a game of Ice Hockey when Frank Williams says "Sorry lads, I've forgotten my skates!"
[honey i] violated [the kids]
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The Dawn of the Beefy King approaches...