For those of you who believe in an afterlife I wonder what there is that you would want to do til the end of time. Personally I used to get totally bored long before a two week vacation ended. Heaven is supposed to be a place where there are on problems, no conflict ie. nothing to challenge your brain.

Now I'm not talking about extending your life on earth for a couple of hundred years and continuing to deal with life here which I think I might like.

The only thing I can think of that might work for me is exploring the vastness of the universe, or at least our galaxy. Visiting every star system that has planets and discovering it's secrets. But even that would end at some point. In the end I think, if it exists, eternal life would end up being very boring.

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Bob DeWoody

My motto: Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow as it may not be required. This no longer applies in light of current events.

Heaven is supposed to be a place where there are on problems, no conflict ie. nothing to challenge your brain.

Since I don't know it all, I think there would plenty of things to challenge my brain.

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First, and foremost, in Heaven we will get to finally know our creator, God. I would spend great amounts of time learning from Heavenly Father, and Jesus the Christ.

I believe that God will bestow upon us the limited ability to create. I would then create things that would give me pleasure. Like you, Bob, I would explore the universe. I don't think that would ever get boring. While I believe that there would be no need to eat, (to survive), in Heaven, I would still like to indulge in eating my favorite food - Indian. I LOVE curry. :-)

If I don't meet my soul mate here on Earth; then, I'm positive I will have that chance in Heaven. I would live each day with my love at my side, and God's eternal love in my heart.

I know that my family will all be there. Family time would be VERY important to me. Hanging out, talking, enjoying one another's company. I don't think I'd ever be bored in Heaven.

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My view is of continuation of existence. Matter and energy are never destroyed. They only change states. So to for the individual, the soul, our consciousness. We exist on the earthly realm now. Our experience is limited by our senses. To quote Charlie Tart, our eye are not the windows to our world, they are the floodgates. Shed the body and you experience a new quantum state with massively more capable senses. I believe in numerous quantum states or vibratory levels. Each is a journey which requires that we learn and grow to the next. Ultimately we achieve unity with the Godhead, the Devine, Narayan, the totality of all existence, Yahweh, the Great Spirit, Allah, the Father, what ever name you want to use. The name is unimportant.
Will you be bored; well we each create our own experience. If boredom is what you want, you can have it. If you want breath in life and expel light, then you may, you can do that now. As for food, they call it ambrosia. Family, soul mates: Time and space divide us now. The have no meaning beyond this reality. Richard Bach wrote a nice piece on that issue. If we eliminate time all we have left is now. Transcend space and all we have is here. And in the middle of here and now we will probably run into each occasionally.

My view is of continuation of existence. Matter and energy are never destroyed. They only change states. So to for the individual, the soul, our consciousness. We exist on the earthly realm now. Our experience is limited by our senses. To quote Charlie Tart, our eye are not the windows to our world, they are the floodgates. Shed the body and you experience a new quantum state with massively more capable senses. I believe in numerous quantum states or vibratory levels. Each is a journey which requires that we learn and grow to the next. Ultimately we achieve unity with the Godhead, the Devine, Narayan, the totality of all existence, Yahweh, the Great Spirit, Allah, the Father, what ever name you want to use. The name is unimportant.
Will you be bored; well we each create our own experience. If boredom is what you want, you can have it. If you want breath in life and expel light, then you may, you can do that now. As for food, they call it ambrosia. Family, soul mates: Time and space divide us now. The have no meaning beyond this reality. Richard Bach wrote a nice piece on that issue. If we eliminate time all we have left is now. Transcend space and all we have is here. And in the middle of here and now we will probably run into each occasionally.

+1 (you've been reading my mind)

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"Sour Grapes make a bitter Whine." <(0)>

This is a very good question! The idea of an afterlife is such a vague surreal notion to me, I've never given it much thought. I really am at my best when I'm just in quiet solitude, so I'd be pretty low maintenance. :~) I'd want my mother and daddy "up there" with me, but other than that, we wouldn't need anything special. I guess it also comes down to what form does a soul take in heaven? Very deep stuff really.

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I've decided that I'm already going to live for ever.

This is based on the idea that there are an infinite amount of universes created as the universe divides at each branch of a probability tree. Therefore in at least one of them I will live forever. Considering that I won't notice that I'm dead in the ones where I actually die (and I've probably died lots of times by now), then this reality is the one where I live forever.

That's my plan. I've totally got this.

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I've decided that I'm already going to live for ever.

This is based on the idea that there are an infinite amount of universes created as the universe divides at each branch of a probability tree. Therefore in at least one of them I will live forever. Considering that I won't notice that I'm dead in the ones where I actually die (and I've probably died lots of times by now), then this reality is the one where I live forever.

That's my plan. I've totally got this.

Back when I was a semi-regular attendee at Science Fiction Conventions, I had the pleasure of sitting in with the Filkers - folks who wrote songs based on their favorite stories and characters. One such was (and still is) Leslie Fish. I haven't found it on Youtube, but I have a song of hers on tape called "I Plan to Live Forever If I Can".

The chorus goes like this:

I plan to live forever if I can
By any trick of Nature or of Man
There's so much under the Sun
Things I haven't seen or done
That I plan to live forever if I can, if I can,
Yes I plan to live forever if I can.

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Donald
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I'd make sure I can contribute to peace throughout the universe.

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a lot more fishing.....

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Not a lot.

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Will go and have some fun in Heaven. Learn everything, than keep coming back till I get it right.

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Everybody wrote what they would do immediately, say in the first couple of hundred years. Sooner or later it seems to me that you would learn all there is to learn, do everything there is to do, the earth would eventually be destroyed by the sun, you would say everything there is to say to your family and still you would have only made a very small dent in eternity. If you are reincarnated but without memory of your previous lives then that is the same as dying, just the material is getting recycled.

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Bob DeWoody

My motto: Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow as it may not be required. This no longer applies in light of current events.

Everybody wrote what they would do immediately, say in the first couple of hundred years. Sooner or later it seems to me that you would learn all there is to learn, do everything there is to do, the earth would eventually be destroyed by the sun, you would say everything there is to say to your family and still you would have only made a very small dent in eternity. If you are reincarnated but without memory of your previous lives then that is the same as dying, just the material is getting recycled.

That's not what I said at all. I cite the lack of time and continuity of existance. Yes matter is recycled, but the soul is eternal. Take a look at my post.

I wasn't referring to any one individual post, just the trend.

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Bob DeWoody

My motto: Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow as it may not be required. This no longer applies in light of current events.

I would be able to walk

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Everybody wrote what they would do immediately, say in the first couple of hundred years. Sooner or later it seems to me that you would learn all there is to learn, do everything there is to do, the earth would eventually be destroyed by the sun, you would say everything there is to say to your family and still you would have only made a very small dent in eternity. If you are reincarnated but without memory of your previous lives then that is the same as dying, just the material is getting recycled.

I think of reincarnation as a whole different story from eternity in heaven. I've never really understood what defines the top level of reincarnation - meaning, do they ever reach a stage when they "graduate"(go to heaven)?

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The mind is a weird and mysterious place

Along with Blurf at first I thought about having a whole body for the first time but upon further thought I doubt that there is a need for a body at all. Hopefully heaven would not be a repeat of our existence on earth but rather a whole new higher level of existence.

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Bob DeWoody

My motto: Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow as it may not be required. This no longer applies in light of current events.

None of you are getting it...
think lots of fishing!

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Floating around through spacetime as particles, I think..

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