Humanity's Stuggle With Death.

in another discussion somewhere far from here, i suggested that mortality and end is the something that makes life so precious. i suggested that eternal (temporal) life would cheapen the experience. i was informed that the only reason i would say that is because i had never had the oppotunity of living forever. my specific suggestion was that we make all the lists of things we want to accomplish before death. we want to see the great wall or cure cancer or resolve ethnic conflict or whatever. my argument was that had we 'all the time in the world,' we'd get lazy and keep putting things off since it really wouldn't matter because we would ALWAYS have tomorrow.

i don't suppose he's ever had an orgasm. clear evidence that things that end have meaning. or maybe he's hung up on the afterglow.i mean. there will always be another football season. other sports will have strikes or disputes that break them up and inhibit their meaning. wars come and go and make no difference. eventually even the genocide in darfur will end, even if only because they run out of people to kill. but there will always be another football season. and football is the most meaningful thing on the planet.

isn't it selfish to think that you'll get to spend eternity with your mother? does our desire for eternal life come from our own selfish need to keep everything we like?

what?that made no sense.

i see.i see the desire to be with people differently from you i guess. probably a function of the curious way that i interpret the existence of other people in my head. it's very complicated. but i think it is very selfish to want to not be separated from someone. but then much of my experiences are related to people not being with me in order to pursue something they want from life. who am i to keep them from something because i want their comfort?

i don't think the two are related.