Theists and Atheists: Do you really want to live forever?

Life is only worth living when it's precious and finite.

What would the point of living forever be?

Sure, if I had god-like powers and billions of people and animals to play with.

My creations would continuously be creating new things of their own that might entertain and inspire me.

Look bro, you asked, I answered. We can agree to disagree, can't we?

I disagree with that point because my vast creations upon all the different planets on which I've placed life would be constantly inventing and discovering new things and I could try them all. Not to mention I could try anything that I ever have or will imagine with the laws of physics and reality be damned.

As I currently am, I'd still like to not age and see all the stuff people do in the next few hundred to a thousand years. I want to see interstellar travel, life on other planets, etc., I'd be willing to stick around for a while, and if it ever got too bad I'd just jump in a volcano.

I would *love* to live forever.

Boredom? Please. I've spent my entire life in a single city and have yet to experience any kind of crippling boredom.

Insanity? You act like that's a bad thing. I would *kill* for schizophrenia.

...but not the violent kind.

Okay, maybe a modified form of schizophrenia; because I would *love* to be able to hold conversations with myself - but dislike the entire 'abusive persona telling me to drown myself' bits.

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Never ever ever would I tire of humanity; of life. If I ever find myself in a situation where I want to recluse from the rest of society, I would just play guitar, piano and violin. For ever and ever and ever.

How anyone could think to definitively end this amazing experience is beyond my comprehension. I would never consciously decide to stop living. Nature does not seem to agree with my decision - but we'll cross that bridge when I get to it. =P

I don't think you know how to live life. I've never said I wanted to live forever. Where do you get these ideas...no don't tell me, I really dont' want to know. I don't think there will be any people alive in a much shorter time because the earth will no longer tolerate our abuse of it and we will die off as we finish the planet off. . .maybe we will last another 100 years at our current pace. I just read where a lot of money is being spent to mine asteroids. That's an interesting concept.

1. There's a whole universe out there, possibly more

2. Insanity is a condition of the flesh

That which is generated by Spirit is spirit. Joh 3:6, 8. Ecc 11:5

That which is generated by flesh is flesh. Joh 3:6, 8. Ecc 11:5

1Co 15:44 It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.

If you could constantly stimulate your mind, 10,000 years wouldn't be so bad even though it is an extreme length of time to exist. You are correct though, you would go insane eventually.

ABSOLUTELY!!! I have so much I want to see and do and learn, it would take me at least 10 000 years to master the music instruments I want to play, then there is seeing the world on horseback, exploring the oceans, stargazing.

In Luke 23:43, Jesus declared, "Truly I say to you, today you shall be with me in paradise." The word Jesus used for "paradise" is paradeisos which means "a park, that is, (specifically) an Eden (place of future happiness, paradise)". Paradeisos is the Greek word taken from the Hebrew word pardes which means "a park: - forest, orchard" (Strong's). Jesus said, "Today you shall be with me "en paradeisos," not "en nephele" which is Greek for “in clouds.” The point is that Jesus picked and used the word for "a park." Not just any park but "the paradise of God" or park of God (Revelation 2:7) which for us will be a place of future happiness. Does this sound like a boring place? When you think of a park, do you think of boredom?

(Revelation chapter 21) described how heaven will look. Read that, and then ask yourself, if this a place I would not want to live in?

Jesus said, "You shall worship the Lord your God, and Him only you shall serve" (Matthew 4:10). It's interesting to note that Jesus did not say "praise and serve." Even the briefest examination of the word praise in the Bible quickly shows it's a verbal thing and is for the most part singing. Worship, however, is from the heart. Worship manifests itself in praise. Serving God is worship, and Scripture is clear we will serve God in heaven. "His servants will serve Him" (Revelation 22:3).

We are unable to fully serve God in this life due to sin, but in heaven "every curse will no longer be" (Revelation 22:3). We will not be under the curse of sin any longer, so everything we do will be worship in heaven. We will never be motivated by anything other than our love for God. Everything we do will be out of our love for God, untainted by our sin nature.

So what will we do? My favorite thing is to learn. "For who has known the mind of the Lord, or who became His counselor?" (Romans 11:34), "in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge" (Colossians 2:3). God is the "the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity" (Isaiah 57:15). God is bigger than forever, and it will take eternity "to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth and length and depth and height, and to know the love of Christ" (Ephesians 3:18-19). In other words, we will never stop learning.

God's Word says we won't have to be in His paradise alone. "I shall fully know even as I also am fully known" (1 Corinthians 13:12). This would seem to indicate that we will not only know our friends and family, we will "fully know" them. In other words, there is no need for secrets in heaven. There is nothing to be ashamed of. There is nothing to hide. We will have eternity to interact with "a great multitude, which no man could number, out of all nations and kindreds and people and tongues" (Revelation 7:9). No wonder heaven will be a place of infinite learning. Just getting to know everyone will take eternity!

Whatever we will be doing, we can be sure it will be wonderful beyond our imaginations!

We also know that feelings of tiredness will not exist, and we will no longer have a sin nature,which would cause us not to value God and heaven as we should.

Heaven is a place of “no mores.” There will be no more tears, no more pain, and no more sorrow (Revelation 21:4). There will be no more separation, because death will be conquered (Revelation 20:6).

Yes, I do. I would not want to live forever in this world with the devil as it's leader, but in heaven with God I would. It's going to be beautiful.

Atheists for clones? What? i do no longer desire to be cloned! whether i became cloned, it does not be me extremely. no longer my character or reviews or something. i do no longer desire to stay continuously. the closest any human beings gets is thru our infants or regardless of legacy we leave in the back of probable. (@Moyra: Christianity = theism...in order that ya comprehend)