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    Master of useless knowledge Senior Member Kitten Shooting Champion, Eskiv Champion Ironside's Avatar
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    Default Re: Life, Death, and Eternity

    Quote Originally Posted by Navaros
    Who in their right mind wouldn't want to be eternal?
    There's a huge difference between a huge longevity and the eternity.

    200 years, sure no problem. 1000 years, starting to feel a bit old. 1.000.000 years, uh well the evolution question has gotten a definite answer, 1.000.000.000 years starting to feel too old yet?

    6x10^23 years, (tried a comprehention of that number a while ago when I heard about some Indian definition of a very large number. It's roughly the same amount of seconds it take to build a 10 square-kilometer cube made of hair, one hair at a time, when you lay one every 10.000 year) and this is still nothing, a split second, compared to the eternity.

    I do hope that if the soul is eternal, your mind is not built the same way as your mind is as a human being, because living for an eternity and being unable to die, makes the difference between heaven and hell the time it takes to develop a serious death-wish.
    We are all aware that the senses can be deceived, the eyes fooled. But how can we be sure our senses are not being deceived at any particular time, or even all the time? Might I just be a brain in a tank somewhere, tricked all my life into believing in the events of this world by some insane computer? And does my life gain or lose meaning based on my reaction to such solipsism?

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    1 mole is a rather large number, yet it is still only 18 mL of water...
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