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| Kuldeep Location: Bhopa, M.P, India Posts: 1,634 | In case Birth & Death stops, then what???? There have been many threads on various forums about afterlife, soul, death, reincarnation, God, heaven, evolution, creation...and what not !! As I could see, nothing decisive conclusion could be drawn in any of those topic, except leg pulling of each other in some way or the other. ![]() Now for a moment, imagine due to some reason reproduction seizes in all the living beings, meaning no births from now on and also no Deaths would take place as well. How our world community society would start getting affected as result of this unique happening. ![]() I am aware that would never happen practically, but just a thought came to my mind !!! If we all are to live eternally here on this earth, then how we should plan our infinite future to derive maximum happiness from day to day life. One thing is certain, there would be no fear of death in our minds. ![]() Let me hear how others react to such an astonishing happening, if at all it turns to be a reality. ![]() |
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![]() Vampire Location: Newcastle, Australia Posts: 728 | If there was no natural death, we would all eventualy kill each other.. Or mabe with age will come wisdom.. and society would stop being so stupid.. I can't decide which would happen. "A geek is a person, male or female, with an abiding, obsessive, self-effacing, even self-destroying love for something besides status." --D.B. Weiss, Lucky Wander Boy |
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| dimpled chad Location: Michigan Posts: 6,881 | Quote:
Grandpa h. "For men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt." - H. L. Mencken | |
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![]() The Cake is a lie... Location: St. Louis Posts: 2,158 | The answer to the Op is quite simple. Look at the effects of overpopulation, look at predictions for the future, and then jump those ahead by many many decades. The no births element does present an interesting question though. What makes a man turn neutral? Lust for gold? Power? Or were you just born with a heart full of neutrality? |
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![]() Amused Location: Mid Atlantic Posts: 1,017 | I'd save a lot of money on insurance! That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong. W. J. H. Boetcker |
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| Volcanic Erupter Posts: 8,057 | Quote:
For one thing murder would not be possible - right? So war would be pointless. Capital punishment would be impossible. As well as marrage. If disease cannot kill us then that would pretty much solve the so-called expense of health care. Money might become obsolete because the main motivation for working hard at a job we don't like is because we must eat food. In your world eating would not be done anymore because to eat you must kill something, which is impossible, and starving to death likewise impossible. And how could you clear land to build new houses and or highways if you cannot kill and distroy trees and so forth. So we would just live in nature with only what leftover man-made stuff that remained form our past exsistance in this life & death situation. Our cells would not die and regenerate and so children would remain as children and adults would continue as-is also. Perhaps sex would still be possible but it would serve no practical purpose. No fears of having unwanted children. (no more abortion topic to debate). The main concern would to dealing with possible boredom after the first few hundred years of the same-o same-o. No way out and not exit policy. We would ether have to find ways to enjoy life or suffer eternal depression that cannot be solved by suicide. Cat napping might become very popular, but not clock watching. We might distroy all clocks because who would care about time anymore? No more candy, beer, cigarettes, drugs, and so forth, all of which are products of things being killed. No more need for tolets, no need to inhale air and so parts of our body would become obsolete. Things living underwater could venture onto land and things on land could walk around under water... no problem if you cannot die from suffication. And so much of what we call living and growth would be no more, not a part of life as it is now. We would stop living life as we now live it. | |
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![]() Igneous Magma Location: New Hampshire Posts: 670 | Life would be boring. Can't screw up, can't get it right because it already is right... We'd sit around and argue about politics all day because there would be nothing better to do. Destroying America one Volconvo post at a time. If you've ever come close to having a coronary about whether or not people walked on the moon you probably have a small penis. |
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![]() Vampire Location: Newcastle, Australia Posts: 728 | Quote:
But increasing the length of life increases the chance of wisdom.. Mabe not.. we will probably all just kill each other "A geek is a person, male or female, with an abiding, obsessive, self-effacing, even self-destroying love for something besides status." --D.B. Weiss, Lucky Wander Boy | |
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| Kuldeep Location: Bhopa, M.P, India Posts: 1,634 | Before, I pick up responses from members I may point out that death and birth would stop only for animals but not for plants. Also rest of functions would continue like aging, sex, hunger, diseases, emotions, selfishness, greed accidents, would continue as before. Moreover, it is not possible dictate everything just at the begining of changed atmosphere of birth and death less world. Modifications can be jointly suggested and decided. My idea of making a deathless world is that Death is most unwanted item which a living being does not like. But, immediately it came to my mind if death stops and birth continues there would population explosion so I need to stop the birth as well. Let us see how many modifications I may have to incorporate further in due course. ![]() |
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| Kuldeep Location: Bhopa, M.P, India Posts: 1,634 | Quote:
Second....Sex urge and enjoyment would continue but no ferilization and so no baby production. | |
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| Kuldeep Location: Bhopa, M.P, India Posts: 1,634 | Quote:
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| Kuldeep Location: Bhopa, M.P, India Posts: 1,634 | Thank! Quote:
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| Logic User Location: Ether Posts: 470 | grandpa: Quote:
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As you grow older, you gain more experience which, in turn, increases knowledge which usually adds to one's wisdom. A real grandpa would know this...from experience. Quote:
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FYI, "aging, sex, hunger, diseases, emotions, selfishness, greed accidents, would" NOT "continue as before" and, in fact, COULD not! Quote:
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In order for humans to attain eternal life, they will have to lose their mortal bodies because entropy is the law of the flesh. IOW, you can't stop the decay of matter. However, you can convert it to energy. Energy rulez! My faith is stirred but never shaken. I'm the proof that evolution works... You're the proof that it doesn't. If I had a button, I'd push it! | |||||||
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![]() Vampire Location: Newcastle, Australia Posts: 728 | I don't even think wisdom necessarily comes from experience. You can gain boundless wisdom just from sitting at hope reading complicated philosophy books. It more comes from thinking about your experiences.. "A geek is a person, male or female, with an abiding, obsessive, self-effacing, even self-destroying love for something besides status." --D.B. Weiss, Lucky Wander Boy |
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![]() Igneous Magma Location: Massachusetts, USA Posts: 312 | Animals would age too, I assume? Would our bodies still be susceptible to infection and parasites? If so, after about 70 or 80 yrs, humans would be a global population of suffering, incontinent, impotent, disease ridden, living corpses. Not an envious prospect. What a kick in the nuts it would be to people suffering teminal illness who have come to accept and in some cases welcome their death (definitely happens sometimes). Assuming animals continue to age and suffer, the landscape would soon probably resemble a war zone .. with 'carcasses' (albeit 'living' ones) of all beasts eventually lying everywhere rotting away, but alive. What a way to spend the next 5.5 billion yrs (until the sun expires). |
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