X-Message-Number: 24879 Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 09:48:55 -0700 (PDT) From: Scott Badger <> Subject: Re: Discussion on immortality ----- Original Message ----- From: Francois <> > > The recent discussion on the value and desirability of physical immortality > has brought to my mind some questions. Why is it that so many people > denigrate the idea of physical immortality in this reality, citing all sorts > of problems like boredom, lack of meaning, selfishness, etc, etc, while they > are quite happy with the notion of immortality in an afterlife? I'm not a christian but I imagine they would respond with something like, "God has taken care of that problem by arranging things in heaven so that we won't have to worry about any of those issues." Or how about... "How could anyone be bored or selfish or need more meaning in their life if they're with god in heaven?" Or how about ... "We will be higher beings in that realm and won't be beset by the same problems that afflict our mortal selves here on Earth." People can be quite creative in explaining away the holes in (incoherence of) their belief system in order to reduce the discomfort of any cognitive dissonance they might experience from the rational observations of skeptics. Cheers, Scott ===== Wm Scott Badger, PhD Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=24879