X-Message-Number: 24840 Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2004 07:28:17 -0400 From: Francois <> Subject: Discussion on immortality 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? Wouldn't the same problems on boredom and meaninglesness apply in an afterlife? How are those problems, and many others, supposed to be solved in that afterlife and why couldn't those solutions be applied in the here and now? And why is it good to strive for an eternal afterlife while it is bad to strive for an eternal physical life? Francois The Devil fears those who learn more than those who pray Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=24840