Immortality, Would you?

there already has been countless topics about this subject.
u should respond to those b4 making a new 1.

Interesting to think about any way you look at it. As someone who most likely only has two years or so left to live it would depend on to many things as to how I would answer. I would not want to live in constant pain forever..

And on a side note ( not intending to thread jack your thread) out of all the books, tv shows and movies made about immortals which do you see as being the most realistic? I think Lazares Long from "Time enough for love" is probably the most realistic I have read. However I think most would wind up more like Methos from the Highlander. He just finds things amusing because he sees the same things over and over.
Someone should make a thread on that it might be interesting to see others viewpoints.

If you want immortality -- then just study the book "Taoist Yoga: Alchemy and Immortality" translated by Charles Luk -- it works! springforestqigong.com... tells you how to practice it.

That would be my idea of hell! 70ish years of this corruption I think will be more than enough for me.

Perhaps on a different world or travelling through space visiting new planets but my curiosity to see what is beyond this life would torture me

Yes. I can just imagine the unlimited time that could be devoted to fixing this world and figuring out a way for everyone else to live forever in harmony, but as is, it's all unknown if this is possible of not.

IMHO all of the horrible things in the world detract so much from all that is glorious and beautiful that a lifetime of witnessing such things would be too much for a soul to bear...

Rev

Originally posted by WeShallBeFree
That would be my idea of hell! 70ish years of this corruption I think will be more than enough for me.

too right i am glad someone agrees.

The people who have answered the other way have not thought it through.

here is a guy that came close to immortal
www.abovetopsecret.com...

en.wikipedia.org...

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Hmm become a one man army by being invulnerable. Yea I would do it. Learn everything and when stuff becomes to much fix it yourself. The only problem is getting locked up. Could you imagine being locked in a box and immortal?

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Naw - it's called the yang body -- or bilocation in the West. Essentially you store electromagnetic fields in your body so intensely that it creates electrochemical matter as a 2nd physical body -- that is projected out of your first body. Before you create the yang body you can already do astral projection which is the shen laser love light --

So this is really advanced stuff -- read "Taoist Yoga: Alchemy and Immortality" for details or read David Godman's biography of H.W.L. Poonja or read Miracles by D. Scott Rogo.

But most importantly -- you're already immortal -- it's the eternal consciousness as complementary opposites resonating infinitely -- self-organizing into matter from light.

Originally posted by Maddogkull
Well if nothing can hurt me and I mean nothing. Why not. I can travel the universe. Go to every planet imaginable. If you are immortal you are a god among men. Why wouldn’t I

Why wouldnt you? Because there is the possibility that we will as a species go extinct long before we have intergalactic flight, and you would be left here on Earth alone. And then after billions of years dealing with whatever other species might attain intelligence, and then themselves go extinct, at some point the sun itself would go extinct. And then you would be left to float through the void for eternity, alone and with nothing to do but think.

Sounds a little hellish to me.

I personally dont mind immortality as long as it is in the most abstract form, meaning that my own energy is transformed at my death into something else. Who cares what. But this identity, and this body, I would not want to be immortal. Whatever has been good enough for every living thing that came before me is fine for me too. Who knows what journey awaits us? And why fear and avoid the unknown? It could be something better around the corner, or something worse, or nothing at all. I will take my chances on that.