If you could be immortal...

evildave

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If all you had to do was destroy all life on Earth to attain a blissful immortality, would you do it?

If God told you to, and made it plain he would cause you to Suffer for your Disobedience, would you do it?
 
evildave said:
If all you had to do was destroy all life on Earth to attain a blissful immortality, would you do it?

If God told you to, and made it plain he would cause you to Suffer for your Disobedience, would you do it?
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kill all life on earth, could i receive the immortality if i just signed a promisary that it would end in ten million years anyway

if god 'TOLD' me then definately not

maybe if he asked me, nicely:D
 
Nope, immortality in an absolutely dead world would not be worth it.

If God told me to... hmmm... I wouldnt because I've read about people in the news "killing for God"...
 
The question just occurred to me when having a pointless discussion with another 'immortal afterlife' fan. They are so caught up in their fantasy life, they don't want to deal with messy old 'real' life.

After all, all life is 'doomed' anyway. You could have a guaranteed 'E Ticket' in Fabulous Heaven! Just push the button, and there will be no more suffering for anybody or anything!
 
I agree with Yahweh. Immortality all by myself would be lonesome. Besides, what did all those billions of people ever do to me?

I voted Planet X though, just because I automatically vote Planet X whenever I see it in a poll. I think it's an Zeta implant thing.
 
Although doing the Omega Man thing, sans the undead, for a few days would be cool, it would get boring qucikly.

Besides, who would feed me?
 
IF the being could prove to me that he was God, and

IF I believed both halves of the proposition (bliss for me if I do it, suffering for me if I don't),

then I'd do it.


I believe that those are insurmountable ifs, though. I believe that the amount of time it would take the being to convince me that he was God is greater than the amount of time I have left to live, and then we'd have to start working on whether I believed him or not about the bliss.
 
If this is in regard to certain "fundamentalist dogma," I would suggest there is such a thing as false allegiance. Aside from that I would suggest it to be an unlikely scenario. And yes, life and death does continue without the need for us to take the matter into our own hands.
 
I would never do it. What would be the point of immortality if all other life was dead? Human beings go crazy in solitary. There are too many people that I love to sacrifice, along with the fact that I love all life in general. Besides, if you killed ALL life, that would include plants and algae. No food, no new oxygen... how long could your life be?
 
Quester_X said:
I would never do it. What would be the point of immortality if all other life was dead? Human beings go crazy in solitary. There are too many people that I love to sacrifice, along with the fact that I love all life in general. Besides, if you killed ALL life, that would include plants and algae. No food, no new oxygen... how long could your life be?
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Would you do it if it was a simulation?
 
Only if I was given a REALLY GOOD FREEZER. I think that I would miss a good steak in a few thousand years.
 
There was a really cute comic book someone showed me called 'Dirty Pair' where one of them was cloned, the clone drugged, and convinced that she was in a VR simulation where her objective was to kill someone specific. Naturally, she got tattoos and went sort of crazy (None of this is actually 'real', so go nuts!) and caused the local star to go super-nova, just to be fancy.

Problem was, she wasn't actually in a simulation. Oops.
 
Can I have the 72 virgins to "keep me company"?


Or even better---a dozen eager M.I.L.Fs...............
 
Quester_X said:
I would never do it. What would be the point of immortality if all other life was dead?
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Part of bliss, for me, would be to have all my loved ones in a state of bliss as well. That means having them be alive again. I would not be in bliss while everyone was dead, and God has promised me eternal bliss.

This apparent paradox is solely on God's shoulders to reconcile.
 
Beleth said:
I would not be in bliss while everyone was dead
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I should explain this a little.

If I felt the slightest twinge of guilt over what I had done, then I would not be in bliss. The only way I can imagine not having the slightest twinge of guilt is if everything I killed - every person, animal, blade of grass, paramecium, everything - was restored to at least as good a condition as they were an instant before I killed them.

Since my bliss is dependent on my destructive actions ultimately doing no harm, I'm not sure what God would gain by having me be so destructive. I mean, I'd gain bliss, and everything else on Earth would be as good or better than it was before I destroyed it.
 
Would you do it if it was a simulation?
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Ah, now that's a tougher question. I still don't think I would. Although it is occasionally fun to be evil in video games, if this simulation was an accurate portrayal of humanity I'd still feel guilty. There's a difference between blasting an anonymous group of pixels and rubbing out a realistic simulated being. The better the AI, the more wrong it would feel. Just my two cents.
 
evildave said:
The question just occurred to me when having a pointless discussion with another 'immortal afterlife' fan. They are so caught up in their fantasy life, they don't want to deal with messy old 'real' life.
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If this is true, then it would follow that it is the obsessive behavior which would prove detrimental, not the truth or falsity of the belief per se.

Having said that, one could make an argument of detatchment in your case since you seem to show a significant preoccupation with this fantasy life also...regardless of whether you think the belief is correct or not.
 
csense said:


If this is true, then it would follow that it is the obsessive behavior which would prove detrimental, not the truth or falsity of the belief per se.

Having said that, one could make an argument of detatchment in your case since you seem to show a significant preoccupation with this fantasy life also...regardless of whether you think the belief is correct or not.
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Oh, well you see here on the radio I have the choice between several hispanic language stations, a country western station, and a dozen 'Jesus Wuvs Yoo' music and preachy stations, some of which air directly on top of the frequencies of the more distant stations that have a main-stream music.

It's all about getting some good Rock & Roll on the radio again, you understand.
 
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