given the option of immortality most would jump at the opportunity, whereas im much akin to see such alleged freedom as the ultimate entrapment. the gift of time is undoubtedly the greatest gift to the practical mind: imagine the offerings of learning all the languages, playing all the instruments, visiting all the mountains and walking all the streets of the world, tasting every cuisine and experiencing every culture.
the amount of wisdom and knowledge acquirable in a seemingly infinite lifespan, i would imagine, is great to the extent of being able to raise the consciousness to an unprecedented level. an immortal in a sea of mortals is a God among men...and the troubles start here..
agelessness comes with it inevitable loneliness...the surety of death for all family, friends and acquaintances. immortality for the self would definitely become a curse, as nothing else around the self is nearly as constant.
a God is like a bird in the wind, with no legs for which to land. nothing stays...everything passes. the universe passes by and the heaven and earth too pass away but the God remains. all enjoyment amounts to but a speck of time in his age of timelessness.
to become immortal is to become like God. i would venture to say that the sure price of Godlessless is personal happiness. ie, once we have obtained eternal life on earth we would have forfeited our own happinesses as nothing would last long enough to satisfy us, except:
the satisfaction of making the lives of mortals happy.
yet we do not need to be immortal to accomplish this. under this finding it follows naturally that any higher being can only experience lasting purpose by lifting up those who are lower than he as the higher one climbs, the more there are who are below him. this metric of vertical distance is applicable to intelligence, wealth, awareness, power, fame, wisdom...
the higher we rise, the lonelier we become; the power of exclusivity is a delusion that ultimately begs for death.
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