What troubles you more

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What troubles you more
Eternal Death	4 (80%)
Eternal Life	0 (0%)
Eternal Reincarnation	1 (20%)
Total Votes: 5

What troubles you more
Tweet Topic Started: Thu Nov 15, 2012 7:48 am (150 Views)
Alisium	Thu Nov 15, 2012 7:48 am Post #1
Womb-Raider Posts: 5,003 Group: maco 5000 post angel Member #1,345 Joined: October 19, 2007	What idea troubles you more, if at all? The idea of living eternally disturbs me. It's rather like getting to a point in a game, where you've done it all, and not you're just playing just to play. No more challenge. No more surprises. Separation by millions, billions or trillions of years from your loved ones. You could raise up and destroy empires a million times, but after a certain point it just becomes bland, boring eternal life. On the other hand, never to see, love, think or feel again. Forever shrouded in death. That's terrifying. I haven't really thought of reincarnation until this morning on the way to work. For me, I guess that's the worst of both worlds. Your thoughts.



wissaboo	Thu Nov 15, 2012 8:09 am Post #2
Posts: 25,676 Group: Admin Member #1 Joined: November 16, 2005	I don't think any of them really bother me



spocklet	Thu Nov 15, 2012 8:41 am Post #3
Live long and prosper.....!! Posts: 24,406 Group: VOY Nirvana Member #5,885 Joined: May 31, 2009	Am a Buddhist, so reincarnation kinda goes with the territory !! Eternal life wouldn't bother me, I just think of all the possibilities it would allow. You really could go and explore the universe, however long it would take, and all the discoveries you could make along the way !! Death is something that bothers me, which as a Buddhist it shouldn't really - we believe in the 'cycle of life' birth-death-rebirth - death is just the end of one chapter, and the beginning of another. But I dunno, take it back to just a single life - live a few years, then dead forever - seems kinda wasteful to me, especially if that life never had a chance to really achieve any kind of potential !!
	R.I.P. Gummy, we'll miss you bro


stigmata	Thu Nov 15, 2012 8:45 am Post #4
Posts: 1,750 Group: 1000 post Angel Ent Member #6,007 Joined: March 26, 2011	The ancient Greeks had a solution to the fairly horrific concept of immortality. In the afterlife, when you got tired of eternal paradise, rivers of honey, nubile nymphs etc all you had to do was drink from the waters of Lethe and you'd forget it all, and it would be like you'd just arrived. That's probably the best way to deal with it.



Lus	Thu Nov 15, 2012 10:22 am Post #5
Sherlock... I mean... KHANNNNNNN Posts: 25,544 Group: Vulcan Nirvana Member #14 Joined: November 18, 2005	None of them.
	It's a Star Trek Miracle!


DATAWORF	Thu Nov 15, 2012 10:23 am Post #6
I am not a pony Posts: 2,405 Group: 1000 post Angel Ent Member #6,072 Joined: June 4, 2012	I dont wanna die forever!!!!!
	Note to self, MUST BE MORE CLEAR WITH MY POSTS!


ReedEnterprise	Thu Nov 15, 2012 10:34 am Post #7
Posts: 12,406 Group: 10,000 post Spammer Ent Member #6,067 Joined: May 2, 2012	Eternal Death. Eternal Life doesn't bother me, I love vampires! Reincarnation is something I don't know if I entirely believe in but I don't not believe in it. Eternal Death scares me.
	"Reed Alert, that's not bad".....Malcolm Reed tIqjaj yInlIj 'ej bIchepjaj LL&P in Klingon "I am Mork from Ork. NaNu NaNu"


Mojochi	Thu Nov 15, 2012 12:18 pm Post #8
........................... Posts: 13,333 Group: Movie Era 10000 post spammer Member #1,478 Joined: November 14, 2007	Well, as an Atheist, eternal death is par for the course. Although I wouldn't describe it in the way you did. It's just the cessation of existence. Had no life-->had life-->have no life. Enjoy it while it lasts Eternal life... Meh... I suppose after long enough, I'd stop thinking of myself as a human at all, & once human morals, ethics, & values were off the table, I doubt I'd have too much problem living with it. I'd adjust to the paradigm. Although, I wouldn't really be me anymore Eternal reincarnation? I hope I'm not offending anyone, but it sounds like a horrific joke. The notion of continually having to start all over again, & not have any more of a clue than you did the last time? What kind of sick shit is that? I'll vote for that Edit: You forgot the one everybody tends to believe in. Eternal afterlife. I'm not a fan of that either



AWOLangel	Thu Nov 15, 2012 2:23 pm Post #9
Posts: 36,542 Group: DS9 Nirvana Member #25 Joined: January 17, 2006	there was an episode of VOY about that Q who was bored with how stagnate things had become for his species & wanted to off himself. runs to memory alpha it was called death wish. i think all of them are a major drag in one way or another.
	All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.--Abraham Lincoln


stigmata	Thu Nov 15, 2012 3:16 pm Post #10
Posts: 1,750 Group: 1000 post Angel Ent Member #6,007 Joined: March 26, 2011	Eternal dinner, now that's one I can deal with



Alisium	Thu Nov 15, 2012 4:18 pm Post #11
Womb-Raider Posts: 5,003 Group: maco 5000 post angel Member #1,345 Joined: October 19, 2007	stigmata Thu Nov 15, 2012 8:45 am The ancient Greeks had a solution to the fairly horrific concept of immortality. In the afterlife, when you got tired of eternal paradise, rivers of honey, nubile nymphs etc all you had to do was drink from the waters of Lethe and you'd forget it all, and it would be like you'd just arrived. That's probably the best way to deal with it. That would be ideal.



spocklet	Thu Nov 15, 2012 6:30 pm Post #12
Live long and prosper.....!! Posts: 24,406 Group: VOY Nirvana Member #5,885 Joined: May 31, 2009	An eternally full bottle of rum, no matter how much you took out, mmmmmmmmmmmm !!
	R.I.P. Gummy, we'll miss you bro


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