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#1 frookenhauer

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Posted 07 October 2008 - 01:35 AM

Wanna live forever, or do you want to go to heaven?

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Posted 07 October 2008 - 01:42 AM

Well, this one's a no-brainer. From all the descriptions in the Bible, heaven looks pretty lame...

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Posted 07 October 2008 - 01:46 AM

One in the same.

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Posted 07 October 2008 - 01:47 AM

Immortality ftw!

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Posted 07 October 2008 - 07:47 AM

Heaven seems boring. I wonder why nobody thought of something better, even the 7 virgins sounds like it'll get boring if it goes on for eternity. Maybe if you spread them out? I dunno. Just give me immortality so I can find a way to destroy the universe or something.

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Posted 07 October 2008 - 08:01 AM

Immortality, definitely.

(Possibly a new thread could deal with what we'd do with our time while immortal.... )

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Posted 07 October 2008 - 07:02 PM

Immortality.

I need more time to work on my time machine.

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Posted 07 October 2008 - 07:32 PM

poll should have a neither option
Imortality SOUNDS cool, but if you're the only one, you'd get bored and bitter and cynical (or in my case, more so,

)

Heaven is... bleh. if you're always content, it gets boring. life's about experiencing exhileration, if everything's handed to you on a plate, that's no happiness

for me it's either nirvana, when nothing'd matter, or just a death with a finality.

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Posted 07 October 2008 - 07:55 PM

i agree there should be a neither option bcos heaven would be laaaaame and if you lived forever could you deal with the overwhelming pain of losing everybody you knew again and again? plus it would be fair boring if you hand forever to live because after awhile youd have done everything.................altho i would like to learn to play a holophone

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Posted 07 October 2008 - 08:34 PM

Heaven is immortality, silly. From the descriptions in the bible, heaven means basically ascend.

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Posted 07 October 2008 - 09:36 PM

Gem Windcaster, on Oct 7 2008, 09:34 PM, said:

Heaven is immortality, silly. From the descriptions in the bible, heaven means basically ascend.

Nope, Earth is no longer part of the equation, I mean a continuation of this life as its running indefinitely, without god or heaven or the devil or angels or cherubs or imps or chariots of fire or route 666 mobiles, oh and a huge big no no for hell. But you knew that didn't you?

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Posted 07 October 2008 - 10:03 PM

You misunderstand me. But that's my fault, I wasn't being clear.

My idea of heaven is not your idea of heaven. In fact 'heaven' is more than one place - for instance, the bible clearly states that there will be a new 'earth', where immortality will only be the beginning of a completely new story.

I don't dibble in clichés, and neither should you.

In short, your poll lacks relevant options for me to vote.

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Posted 07 October 2008 - 10:20 PM

Gem Windcaster, on Oct 7 2008, 11:03 PM, said:

No, but you did say that you were christian, and I'm fairly certain that the bible might just be your holy book, and I was going by what they had there. I may have added imps and route 666 mobiles for posterity. Lets keep it simple: The immortality I describe is your life here on Earth as its running, with one big bonus. Heaven covers all the other ideas.

I'm not dibbling (New word alert! Call Oxford dictionary) in cliches: my heaven, your heaven is still some form of heaven...right?

Can't even keep things simple these days, oh well

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Posted 07 October 2008 - 11:29 PM

frookenhauer, on Oct 7 2008, 11:20 PM, said:

I was going by what they had there.

No, you weren't, that's what I tried to explain.

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Posted 07 October 2008 - 11:31 PM

Fair enough, so in my abridged version where do you end up?

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Posted 08 October 2008 - 12:37 AM

Can I go with neither as well?

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Posted 08 October 2008 - 12:48 AM

you're a moderator, you can go where you like!

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Posted 08 October 2008 - 02:39 AM

I choose ascension..

On Earth. Not heaven.

It would be so cool. I'd get superpowers and all.

But really, Only if I'd have a girl along for the ride as well.

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Posted 08 October 2008 - 02:24 PM

Just one girl?

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Posted 08 October 2008 - 03:49 PM

The implication that I should have more than one girl implies a superiority that the male has over the women in regards to polygamous relationships.
I reject that notion.
Yes If I would live forever I wouldn’t mid taking along someone else for the ride. Assuming they would want to as well. Otherwise Immortality would be terribly lonely.