What will become inevitable if man finds immortality?
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Re: What will become inevitable if man finds immortality?
You mean immortality is just lying around someplace, waiting to be found?
Has God mislaid it, like car-keys, or a cure for cancer? Is God turning into Sean Connery, instead of Morgan Freeman, in his old age?
Or maybe immortality is still hanging on that other tree in Iraq?
In that case, the answer to your question is: stepping on an overlooked land-mine.
Has God mislaid it, like car-keys, or a cure for cancer? Is God turning into Sean Connery, instead of Morgan Freeman, in his old age?
Or maybe immortality is still hanging on that other tree in Iraq?
In that case, the answer to your question is: stepping on an overlooked land-mine.
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Re: What will become inevitable if man finds immortality?
Man (by which one assumes you mean humans) can never find immortality. because you can only find out if you are NOT immoral by dying. Living on and on, might just be a long life. Immortality can never be realised because never dying means never knowing WHEN you might die.
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Re: What will become inevitable if man finds immortality?
The discovery of [ non metaphysical ] immortality would render God superfluous to requirement from a philosophical perspective
Because it is the very lack of it that makes him logically possible in the minds of those that believe in him. Although this position
is arrived at by way of emotional reasoning as much as anything else. But even so. And the fear of death which is also a reason as
to why some believe in him is entirely irrational as well for one cannot be afraid of something they are never going to experience
Because it is the very lack of it that makes him logically possible in the minds of those that believe in him. Although this position
is arrived at by way of emotional reasoning as much as anything else. But even so. And the fear of death which is also a reason as
to why some believe in him is entirely irrational as well for one cannot be afraid of something they are never going to experience
Re: What will become inevitable if man finds immortality?
Well, of course, there might be potential or provisional immortality, rather than guaranteed, foolproof immortality.
You can never die of natural causes, because all the natural causes have been eliminated. Of course, you only have god's or Phizer's word for that - as Hobbses' Choice pointed out, it's untestable.
But you can still die of a fall from the 17th storey or a bullet in the head. That would be easy to test.
You can never die of natural causes, because all the natural causes have been eliminated. Of course, you only have god's or Phizer's word for that - as Hobbses' Choice pointed out, it's untestable.
But you can still die of a fall from the 17th storey or a bullet in the head. That would be easy to test.
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Re: What will become inevitable if man finds immortality?
If you were able to eliminate all of the possibilities then that would be the proof requiredSkip wrote:
You can never die of natural causes because all the natural causes have been eliminated
that you were immortal so you could know. Even if there were an infinite number of them
Because you would then have infinite time which would be required to eliminate each one
Re: What will become inevitable if man finds immortality?
An odd response for someone with a Brian Griffin avatar. I think you need to define "God" to make sense.attofishpi wrote:'God'
I liked the "annuities" answer. Long term investments would seem a good idea. The Earth would become a tad crowded, though. Hopefully the immortal humans wouldn't need to eat, drink or require shelter.
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Re: What will become inevitable if man finds immortality?
Metaphysical immortal humans would not require anything as they actually would
be non physical by definition. Non metaphysical immortal humans however would
Though the notion of non metaphysical immortality is not very logical but even so
be non physical by definition. Non metaphysical immortal humans however would
Though the notion of non metaphysical immortality is not very logical but even so
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Re: What will become inevitable if man finds immortality?
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Re: What will become inevitable if man finds immortality?
Even then you could never say;" hey - I'm dead!"Skip wrote:Well, of course, there might be potential or provisional immortality, rather than guaranteed, foolproof immortality.
You can never die of natural causes, because all the natural causes have been eliminated. Of course, you only have god's or Phizer's word for that - as Hobbses' Choice pointed out, it's untestable.
But you can still die of a fall from the 17th storey or a bullet in the head. That would be easy to test.
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henry quirk wrote:"What will become inevitable if man finds immortality?"
That living space and breathing room and resources dwindle.
Fundamentally: physical immortality means getting off this rock.
~Or population controls.
Re: What will become inevitable if man finds immortality?
Of course not. You have to keep testing all the means and methods on other people - just as we have been doing.Hobbes' Choice wrote:[But you can still die of a fall from the 17th storey or a bullet in the head. That would be easy to test.]
Even then you could never say;" hey - I'm dead!"
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