Why do we desire to live despite all the hardships..?

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Why do we desire to live despite all the hardships..?
Reply #30 - September 12, 2014, 09:25 AM

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I personally don't care much about the uncertainty. It would be pretty cool if we just dissolved into our spirit form upon death; visible to each other and all but living humans, and carried on existing. But I have no fear of the Abrahamic version of things, I am more disappointed in the Abrahamic god than anything. If there is anything I would hate above all else, it would be to die a Muslim.

Actually, this is one of the things that has always puzzled me about the God religions. Existing in Heaven forever? What's the point. Just keep existing and existing...

Would the joy of Heaven be so great that you'd be happy to lay back and do nothing very much for forever and ever?

God creates the Earth as a (very) short testing ground, then you're either confined to Heaven or Hell for eternity, just so you can exist forever and ever...

And what about my loved ones? They did the wrong thing and so now we're separated from each other forever? How does the bliss of Heaven overcome the sadness of being separated from the people I care about forever?

The misspelling in my name is intentional, because I'm an idiot and I can't spell properly. But I'd probably also say that even if it was a mistake. Does that clear things up?
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Reply #31 - September 12, 2014, 10:19 AM

Quote from: Villiage_Idiot on September 12, 2014, 09:25 AM
Actually, this is one of the things that has always puzzled me about the God religions. Existing in Heaven forever? What's the point. Just keep existing and existing...

Would the joy of Heaven be so great that you'd be happy to lay back and do nothing very much for forever and ever?

God creates the Earth as a (very) short testing ground, then you're either confined to Heaven or Hell for eternity, just so you can exist forever and ever...

And what about my loved ones? They did the wrong thing and so now we're separated from each other forever? How does the bliss of Heaven overcome the sadness of being separated from the people I care about forever?

Yup. Given an infinite amount of time and a finite amount of things to do, regardless of how many those things are, it would become dull(eventually), specially since no afterlife describes the ability to traverse space, or go from one planet to the other, or travel in time, it all seems to indicate a very simple and pointless existence; one that would most likely drive people to try and kill themselves an infinite amount of times, to no avail.

Here's 2 videos on the topic that I really like:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeMoOJpvUlU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZplzRg6ZP4

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Reply #32 - September 13, 2014, 06:05 AM

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Here's 2 videos on the topic that I really like:

Nice!

It begs the question, doesn't it? Once the Earth has been consumed by the sun, and the human race is over, what will Satan and God do with all the people who fill their homes? Start another Earth, so they can continue filling them up again?

Would God turn to Satan and say something like "That whole human race experiment was zillions of years ago, I've forgotten what the point of it even was. They're long extinct. Isn't it time we got rid of all these dead humans cluttering up the place?"

The misspelling in my name is intentional, because I'm an idiot and I can't spell properly. But I'd probably also say that even if it was a mistake. Does that clear things up?
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