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Wouldn't living forever be a worse punishment than death? (Original Post) Dash87 Sep 2013 OP
Well it would certainly worsen 'life in prison without parole' sentences... n/t PoliticAverse Sep 2013 #1
Worse yet, there would be no humans left but you eventually. Dash87 Sep 2013 #2
Good movie... rrneck Sep 2013 #3
Only if in the same or worse place in life 4commonsense Aug 2014 #4
I have no idea Jovi-Balani Sep 2014 #5
Hmmm without time might be worse? Agschmid Sep 2014 #6
But what is time, anyway? NRaleighLiberal Sep 2014 #7
there Carlos Rodrigez Sep 2014 #8
It could be worse. Sweeney Dec 2014 #10
To be bored to death Sweeney Dec 2014 #9

Dash87

(3,220 posts)
2. Worse yet, there would be no humans left but you eventually.
Tue Sep 10, 2013, 01:52 PM
Sep 2013

So you would be stuck in a jail cell until the cell was destroyed by the elements.

4commonsense

(6 posts)
4. Only if in the same or worse place in life
Sat Aug 23, 2014, 04:43 PM
Aug 2014

If our place eternal is in heaven, then infinity would be a beautiful and joyful continuum of our existence.

Remember, there are no tears in heaven- a place where we're not floating around on fluffy clouds strumming upon harp strings. Talk about boring! I'm glad that true paradise is not like this...

Jovi-Balani

(14 posts)
5. I have no idea
Sun Sep 7, 2014, 11:26 PM
Sep 2014

I just cant conceive of living forever. ALthough ive heard that eternity isnt the same as forever...eternity being a place 'without time.' rather than an infinate amount of time. What if you lived in a place without time? That would be the same right?

Sweeney

(505 posts)
10. It could be worse.
Thu Dec 4, 2014, 01:26 PM
Dec 2014

And I don't know how; but when anyone wants to know my small P, philosophy; that there is about it.
Sweeney

Sweeney

(505 posts)
9. To be bored to death
Thu Dec 4, 2014, 01:24 PM
Dec 2014

Is to entertain the idea of nothing with music and tea. The last hour of work is eternity. The clock runs backward, falls on its face, and your phone is silent, there's no one to call, a bee is buzzing out in the street, your stomach is full and there's nothing to eat, there's a radio playing way down the hall, and Santa is coming and taking it all, and finding it large and leaving it small, and life has no meaning, and time cannot crawl, but the shadows are creeping all over the wall. Time is a little king in a boat rowing himself around in a moat with one oar long, and one oar short, he rows my whole life gone.
Sweeney

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