SkylarHunter
Active Member
Ive heard a lot of people saying they wouldn't like to live forever because they would get bored.
Well, at the moment our life expectancy is around 75-80 years give or take and thats what our perspective is based on. Even someone who gets to live 100 years can only do so much in a lifetime. You are born, grow up, spend a crazy amount of time getting an education and then you work very hard to pay your student loans/mortgage, raise your kids, etc. By the time you retire if youre lucky you still have some energy left to enjoy whats left of your life.
Now lets imagine that instead of 75-80 years, you life expectancy would be 500 years. You could start exactly the same way as now, but by the time you finished paying your debt and raising a family you would still have 450 years or so ahead of you, meaning you could still do loads of new things. You could spend 50 years doing a job and then go back to school, learn something completely different and get another job for a few more years and then take 2 or 3 years off to go travelling and learn a couple of new languages and then go back home and go do something else, because you still have plenty of time ahead of you. Or you dont even need to go back home. Move to a different country every 15 years. 500 years gives you a lot of possibilities.
Now lets raise the bar to 5000 years. How much more could you do if you got to live that much time? The more years we can add the more different things you can do and learn. And as you learn more you realize your potential and you realize there is so much more you can achieve if you have time...
Finally, lets remove the expiry date all together and never die. How much could you do if you never had to worry about dying? The possibilities are endless. So when someone asks me if I would like to live forever, my answer is YES, and I would never get bored!
Thats why my favorite scripture in the Bible is Revelation 21:4 - And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.
Well, at the moment our life expectancy is around 75-80 years give or take and thats what our perspective is based on. Even someone who gets to live 100 years can only do so much in a lifetime. You are born, grow up, spend a crazy amount of time getting an education and then you work very hard to pay your student loans/mortgage, raise your kids, etc. By the time you retire if youre lucky you still have some energy left to enjoy whats left of your life.
Now lets imagine that instead of 75-80 years, you life expectancy would be 500 years. You could start exactly the same way as now, but by the time you finished paying your debt and raising a family you would still have 450 years or so ahead of you, meaning you could still do loads of new things. You could spend 50 years doing a job and then go back to school, learn something completely different and get another job for a few more years and then take 2 or 3 years off to go travelling and learn a couple of new languages and then go back home and go do something else, because you still have plenty of time ahead of you. Or you dont even need to go back home. Move to a different country every 15 years. 500 years gives you a lot of possibilities.
Now lets raise the bar to 5000 years. How much more could you do if you got to live that much time? The more years we can add the more different things you can do and learn. And as you learn more you realize your potential and you realize there is so much more you can achieve if you have time...
Finally, lets remove the expiry date all together and never die. How much could you do if you never had to worry about dying? The possibilities are endless. So when someone asks me if I would like to live forever, my answer is YES, and I would never get bored!
Thats why my favorite scripture in the Bible is Revelation 21:4 - And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.