LafayetteLady
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If hate didn't exist, how would you know love? If somethings didn't feel bad, how would you know the difference when things felt good? I don't want to be rude, but that is just nonsensical.
It isn't nonsensical at all. Because we have to know one to know the other. If you never knew what sadness felt like, you also wouldn't know what happiness felt like. That has nothing at all to do with God, but with basic common sense. Going back to the physical pain reference, if you didn't feel pain from touching the hot stove, how would you know not to touch it?
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As for death, well if no one ever died, can you imagine how crowded the planet would be? No, I imagine we'd just wouldn't be doing a lot of reproducing. If we are going to assume a world where there is no death, then why must we assume we would have the same biological drives as we do in a world where death is prevalent.
So then basically, you wouldn't exist, nor would I. Because people from a thousand years ago would have had no need to reproduce. The planet would be filled with a bunch of people who had been here, essentially since the dawn of time.
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For me, I think if I lived that long, I would get bored. I guess you don't have as much imagination as I do. And again, if we are assuming the absence of death, why must we assume a similar psychological nature?
There is only so much to see in the world. If people never died, instead of the population having infinite possibilities, it would be finite. There would have been a lack of technological and medical advancement. Living forever, of course, there would be no need for medical advancement, but the technological advancement? You seem to be assuming that people a thousand years ago would have eventually invented electricity, automobiles, computers, telephones, etc. Each generation has brought something new to the world, and often, the generation before was quite resistent to the change, thinking it unnecessary.
Or are you going on the idea that this immortality would have been something that occurred later, after we already had all these nifty technologies? I can imagine all kinds of things that Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Edison or Henry Ford would have developed if they had more time in the world, but in theory, they wouldn't have existed because this immortality would have started much sooner.
Also, there would have had to have been some reproduction or we would have stopped with Adam and Eve. So at what point does the reproduction become unnecessary? A hundred people? A million? The problem with your idea is that those born would still have to grow up, unless people were born on this earth as fully grown adults (and that would be horrifically painful births). I don't know if you plan on having children someday, but for most of us who are pushing 50 and above, we are done with the whole child bearing thing, looking forward to watching our children have children, and if we are lucky, our grandchildren have children. Because that is the thing, as children grow into adults, one thing many want is to have a family of their own, to watch their own children grow and develop. How do you reconcile everyone being immortal with those facts?
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