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      I'm thinking of this live forever thing in a different light. The OP simply stated that we would always be conscious, not that our actions were restricted to the activities of our current lives. I would choose immortality with the view to find out who i truly am in a spiritual sense. I would spend years devoted to meditation and things like that to see whether that could actually take me anywhere. Eternity is a long time, and my beliefs lead me to think that i could evolve my mind and live within an altered state of consciousness where life seems quite different. That's just a vague concept and i don't mean anything concrete by it, but that's the general idea i'm approaching this with.

      In the extreme/fantastical i could even imagine myself eventually evolving my being to something that has little connection to this physical reality we commit ourselves to. Remember, all that was stipulated was consciousness, not the nature of this consciousness.

      Basically what i'm saying is: think of all that we don't know about life and ourselves. Then think of what an eternity might uncover. Who knows, maybe choosing death would mean bypassing some kind of literal Nirvana. Of course, if you don't exist there's nothing to regret and it won't make any difference. But i for one would choose to experience life.

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      Quote Originally Posted by Cyclic13 View Post
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      Im guessing this means that being imortal is not live..But thats wrong in a sense.
      Yeah you might not be living like breathing and have the chose of death but you are still living like learning and loving.
      I was asking the ridiculous question because there is no question about it. If you want to live forever, seek truth. If you want to live with the world (not live), then do not seek truth.

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      I still would love immortality..

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      The problem is: after the Earth is destroyed (which will most certainly happen within the next few thousand years or earlier) then what do you do? You wander around in space, and since we can't travel at the speed of light or faster, we wander around to lifeless planets. If we could live forever and be able to travel extremely fast, then we could visit new galaxies and find other Earths that are almost identical to ours, except not destroyed yet... and then we could have fun there. But if it was a question of simply living forever, after billions of years, and nothing left to experience, you will want to die and leave it all behind. But you can't, you're trapped forever, in a vast and possibly infinite universe. I would rather live to see the end of the world, and then die peacefully. But as for the question, I'll pick death.
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      In the context of spirituality, eternal life is beyond the mortal ego. Therefore, as eternal life and bliss, boredom and suffering are out of the question.

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      Given the current question, I don't know why anyone would pick mortality. One could always choose to live forever, and then decide at a later date to kill themselves if life got boring, or if they simply wanted to see "what death is like."

      I can't see how mortality would not be an option even after immortality was chosen unless you really just want to make the question even more unrealistic than it already is.
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      Actually, you are choosing to live forever or not, all the time! Right Now! Every instant, you choose how you will live, and the reason you can realize eternal life at anytime is because you are always forgiven from your ignorance.

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      The way I interpreted it is that, if you choose eternal life, killing yourself is not an option. It also implies you cannot become paralyzed/contract illness and can breath in space/underwater, etc. Otherwise the question becomes moot because you don't, in fact, have to have consciousness forever.

      I would choose life either in a paradise or in this life. If this life, I would gain knowledge and use that to benefit mankind. A wise immortal might even be able to help curtail all wars-- who knows. If in paradise, I could only say I hope the possibilities to do there are infinite.

      If this life, and the time comes that the earth is destroyed, it becomes tricky. One would assume you'd simply float through space for most of an eternity, if not an eternity. Your only hope could be advancing human beings to such a stage that they can colonize space and move out from earth.
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      Quote Originally Posted by really View Post
      Do you wish to live in this moment?

      We all live in this moment, we just like to make plans, or think back.

      Anyway, live forever...does that include ego? if so then i'll take die into nothingness...i could not stand living 100 years, even if everything was all paradise let alone forever. Lose the ego, and nobody would get bored...we get bored BECAUSE of the ego. The only thing is..lose the ego, lose the human.

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      I am afraid of death.

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      I think this question is the one I can answer the quickest without being mistaken : die someday, make everything stop.
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      I would choose to die, as long as I would be able to live for a long time ( lets say 95). I'm not afraid of death, I'm just afraid of dying when I'm still young. I'm 16 right now & it would suck really bad if I died tomorrow.
      Plus it makes life more interesting when you don't know when your going to die. I do stupid things all the time, & I never know if something go wrong.
      I'd get bored if I could lie forever, I'd rather be in Heaven with all my family & friends.

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      I never wanna die.

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      I would choose immortality. Not because I fear death, but because I love learning so much that I would gladly live forever if it meant I could see what happens beyond my mortal lifespan. And, once the earth was destroyed, even if I had to stay conscious the entire time I was in sace, even if I couldn't breathe, couldn;t move without oxygen to power my muscles, I could still find escape in madness. If I found a 15-30% oxygenated planet with liquid water, moderate sunlight, and seasons, the bacteria housed within my immortal body could eventually rise into a species that, if not physically similar to humans, could eventually communicate with me, or I with them. And once the universe died, either I would pass once again into madness, this time forever, and there seek solace and company, or I would find what it was like to live in a void of nothingness if it collapsed, possibly becoming the god of a new universe.

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      I as well, but I still fear death.

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      I think this question is the one I can answer the quickest without being mistaken : die someday, make everything stop.
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      Forever is the only moment.

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      So, wait, we live forever, not in another form of concioussness but the concioussness we have right now? Wow... Non-existance is a scary thought. But on the other hand, when I look at it logically, one way I'll regret it and one way I won't.

      So....

      If I was in a different level of conciousness or a different reality, I'd choose life. As the question, stands however, I think of this...

      "The gods envy us. Because we are mortal. Everything is more beautiful, because we are doomed." ~Achilles, Troy
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      I fear what happens after death.

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      Quote Originally Posted by LucidFlanders View Post
      We all live in this moment, we just like to make plans, or think back.
      Yes, to extremes.

      Quote Originally Posted by LucidFlanders View Post
      Anyway, live forever...does that include ego? if so then i'll take die into nothingness...i could not stand living 100 years, even if everything was all paradise let alone forever. Lose the ego, and nobody would get bored...we get bored BECAUSE of the ego. The only thing is..lose the ego, lose the human.
      The ego/human is mortal. You can live forever, simply because you are truly not human. The concept is, the ego naturally thinks it is the cause of everything it does and takes prideful credit for its life, when in actual fact, it functions of its own accord in the sea of infinite potentiality, in complete unison with everything else.

      It is safe to say, 95% of the worlds population thinks they do things, thinks they think, when in Reality, they are just being what they are. They go about their life for what it contains, and some might ask "Why am I doing this? What is life really about?", when truthfully, they already know everything, and they already know that they do nothing. But because of the ego, "they know not what they do", they just think they're doing it.

      Quote Originally Posted by EchoSun13
      I am afraid of death.

      ...I never wanna die.

      ... but I still fear death.

      ...I fear what happens after death.
      This is perfectly normal and understandable. You fear the unknown; you fear you'd become nothing. The truth is, you're afraid of what is illusion. For one thing, the only thing which dies, is not the real "you", and second thing, there is no loss from realizing this, possible. What is there to fear in infinite love? - The simple notion that you do not know what that is.

      You're also afraid of dying because you believe you can, when actually, the illusions are all that dies. "Physical death", is not even death either, since life will change form, eternally conserved - as energy.
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      Quote Originally Posted by EchoSun13 View Post
      I fear what happens after death.
      Why? I'm sure our bodies make great feasts for earthworms and maggots.
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      Quote Originally Posted by Jeff777 View Post
      Why? I'm sure our bodies make great feasts for earthworms and maggots.
      So you're looking forward to it?

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      Quote Originally Posted by really View Post
      So you're looking forward to it?
      My body will no longer be useful and I won't be "there". So...sure why not. But that won't be for another 100 years.
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      Quote Originally Posted by Jeff777 View Post
      My body will no longer be useful and I won't be "there". So...sure why not. But that won't be for another 100 years.
      I think Echosun means, what will happen to "I" after death.

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      Die and not have consciousness. In the end it depends what kind of existence it would be. The one like right now, without death, or some nirvana like, oneness experience. If it's the latter then I might choose life, but otherwise, no.
      It's safer to die anyway. Who knows what happens in an infinite amount of time and how you'll feel. It might get pretty boring, and by pretty I mean by an infinite amount.
      Quote Originally Posted by Xaqaria View Post
      Given the current question, I don't know why anyone would pick mortality. One could always choose to live forever, and then decide at a later date to kill themselves if life got boring, or if they simply wanted to see "what death is like."

      I can't see how mortality would not be an option even after immortality was chosen unless you really just want to make the question even more unrealistic than it already is.
      Because you can't kill yourself. At least that's how I understand the maker of this thread.
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      Quote Originally Posted by Jeff777 View Post
      Why? I'm sure our bodies make great feasts for earthworms and maggots.
      Oh thanks...very helpful.

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