Posted on 06/19/2014 10:34:45 AM PDT by 6ft2inhighheelshoes
However the question really before us is not to be or not to be, but HOW to be.
Even if I were to be forgiven (and actually I believe that would happen, having already been saved) I would not want my first really serious introduction to God to have been preceded by my stiffly slapping Him in the face!
Right. A lot of us baby boomers volunteered for the military, raised families, worked hard, paid taxes and left the drugs alone. Some of us worked for the Goldwater campaign and later voted for Reagan. If you were there in the Sixties, you would have seen a lot of us baby boomers with short hair. I doubt the hippies and lefties were anywhere near a majority of our generation at any time.
Exactly.
I have immortality, I am Roman Catholic, Jesus Christ died on a cross for my sins so I may live forever in heaven with The Father, I am not afraid of death, not looking forward to it, but not afraid of it.
“With everyone doing that, how quickly would we exceed the earth’s carrying capacity?”
Maybe very soon, maybe never if we are at the advanced point of defeating aging and natural death on a mass level we would have other technologies that would supposedly take care of this problem. Maybe the immortals wouldn’t even have to eat to live, or only very little or something.
“Keeping life interesting would be a challenge.”
Maybe, maybe not. If it truly defeats senescence maybe that wouldn’t come up. It could be a challenge, or it could be that after 200 years you get interested in going to the colonies on Io or something.
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Okay, but you do realize you have to be in order to chose how to be. Right? LOL
I agree with your premise regarding making the right choices, in preparation for our final judgment.
Best of luck to both of us in that.
Hey, the gospel is Good News. Anyone who told you it is Good Luck... is believing in a God with mighty weak promises.
That was my first thought, too!
Yes, Christ died to make the offer of eternal life possible for you.
As for looking forward... Paul at least trusted God to get the timing right, and simply strained to reach what was ahead.
Agreed - every scientific prediction comes with an asterix after it. Nevertheless, the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics seems pretty solid, especially over the long term, suggesting that one way or another the universe will eventually go out of business. What will happen when and if human knowledge advances to the point of being able to monkey with the processes described in the Timeline of the Far Future, well, let's just say that it will be...interesting.
Any lever into the physical world would have been provided by the good Lord. We can’t batter our way into it any further than this.
To me the biggest question about the world is no longer What. It is Whom.
I don’t think I’d want the Jack Harkness version either.
Me Three!
Answer to the Title: I already have.
One of the greatest reflections on the death theme, ever.
I would like to live for as long as there are still things to learn. For as long as I could support my own life, I want to live it.
Be it a 100 years or 100,000.
And the bible had its own terms for what we geeks call the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics. “Slavery to the law of death and decay.” People already knew this was going on. It didn’t take modern science to fill them in. Modern science simply managed to wrap some numbers around it.
I’ve looked death straight in the eye. I found out, I’m OK with it but would like to get a few things done first.
That is BS. Boomers only did what the Greatest started and the Millennials will finish.
I would love to live forever, if for no other reason than to see if Man ever gets anywhere close to deserving God’s grace.
You know it won’t... and having it do so is not the point. Being simply willing to ACCEPT God’s grace is the gateway to heaven.
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