Where/what will you be in 100 billion years from now?

[Climax]

I was just wondering... If there is life after we die as "humens", then what happens after that? And if we live "forever" then what will we DO forever? 100 billion years from now sounds like an insanely long time away, but time never stops and 100 billion years from now WILL at some point come... So are we going to be alive forever and ever? If there is no end to "life", then what is the "final goal" to get to? And if we DO reach our "final goal", then what? Do we just keep on living forever and ever and ever?

Anyways, see you in 100 billion years? ... Scary thought, just wanted to share and see what you thought about this


Laterz...

 

[Dilberto]

I'll be the fattest, diamond nugget you'll ever see. Make sure you wait a good 100bil first, because I'll start out as;

-Bones
-Fossil
-Mineral Deposit
-Crude Oil
-Coal

 

[Mr. Wolf]

Hold on. Age of the universe is what, 14.5 billion years? He is talking a lot of time here. Theoretically you won't be a diamond nugget or coal - your dreams are ruined, I know. There won't be earth or sun or milkyway. His number is so darn far we just can't say what's gonna happen. Either it keeps expanding or it begins contracting, either way that number is way out of proportion. 100 billion years, man.. Earth existed for about 4 billion years, bacteria evolved into dynasaurs and then got extinct in like half a billion years..

Hopefully, in 10,000 years there will be something resembling us flying a space ship.. Hopefully they'd still be picking up and banging.. In worst case scenario they'd be having virtual sex with big things on their heads, because it's safer..

Oh, and if they will be having sex with big things on their heads, then there will be a book on how to hack into HB10s head thingy..

 

[Climax]

ahaha :crackup: Man you think Earth is gonna be around for THAT long? daiiiimnnnn.... My man, this Earth going bye bye 200 years MAX (prob only 100 +- years imo) But hey... even if that is what happens to your "remains", dont you believe in an afterlife Dilllberrrto?

 

[Climax]

Hold on. Age of the universe is what, 14.5 billion years? He is talking a lot of time here. Theoretically you won't be a diamond nugget or coal - your dreams are ruined, I know. There won't be earth or sun or milkyway. His number is so darn far we just can't say what's gonna happen. Either it keeps expanding or it begins contracting, either way that number is way out of proportion. 100 billion years, man.. Earth existed for about 4 billion years, bacteria evolved into dynasaurs and then got extinct in like half a billion years..

Hopefully, in 10,000 years there will be something resembling us flying a space ship.. Hopefully they'd still be picking up and banging.. In worst case scenario they'd be having virtual sex with big things on their heads, because it's safer..

Oh, and if they will be having sex with big things on their heads, then there will be a book on how to hack into HB10s head thingy..

lol very creative thinking, i like....

Now onto the point though.... Lets say the future goes how u predicted (for arguments sake), now where do YOU come into the scenario?? Does our "soul" or whatever "we" are (lol) cycle and come back? Or do we go into a different type of world after we die on Earth? What do we urn into? what are our abilities? .. lol...

 

[Dilberto]

In my honest opinion- Humans will be gone, by 50,000 years. How? By war, disease and environmental destruction. We will be our own ultimate downfall. Not like the Dinosaurs- who lived completely without interruption, for almost 100 million years(damn!).....until a stray comet/asteroid crashed into the Gulf of Mexico.

Until our own sun finally burns out- Earth will be uninhabited(unless aliens decide to make Earth a pit stop), for the most part. Yes- me thinking I would be a refined, compressed carbon product.....is purely wishful thinking. Even if I were one.......nobody would be around to bother wearing me on their hand.

 

[speakeasy]

Maybe we just keep reincarnating forever. But since we have no recollection of past lives, we can keep being reborn for infinity and it's not like we'd know we've been around forever.

 

[Mr. Wolf]

That depends. Do you think we have a soul? Like some creature or something inside of us that makes us alife?

If yes..

Then maybe you'll get to reincornate as something else.

If no..

Then you will be burried or burned. You might turn into diamond nugget if things go right. But most probably dirt or something like that.


Now, if you are asking what will really happen out of you. Then that depends on how many children you have and how lucky they are. Survival of the fittest. Maybe in 2,000 years you will have distant ancestor - that's a dude who's there because 2,000 years earlier you were successful and passed on your gens.

 

[Climax]

Maybe we just keep reincarnating forever. But since we have no recollection of past lives, we can keep being reborn for infinity and it's not like we'd know we've been around forever.

Yes... I agree 100% with this!

But is that really our destiny? Is there no "purpose" of any sort? The bible of any religion speaks about after life and a higher purpose... So do we disregard something like this as co-incidence?

 

[speakeasy]

Now, if you are asking what will really happen out of you. Then that depends on how many children you have and how lucky they are. Survival of the fittest. Maybe in 2,000 years you will have distant ancestor - that's a dude who's there because 2,000 years earlier you were successful and passed on your gens.

But if there's no soul and the only "purpose" is to pass along our genes, who really cares? I mean what do I care if my genes are passed along. It's not like I'm going to be here 200 years in the future to admire the results.

 

[Climax]

But if there's no soul and the only "purpose" is to pass along our genes, who really cares? I mean what do I care if my genes are passed along. It's not like I'm going to be here 200 years in the future to admire the results.

That's what I am getting at... If everyone would ask themselves "Where will I be in 10 million years?" I mean.... Will everyone just die? Or does our "soul" (Or whatever it is - some people believe its an energy?) carry on to another life? And if so, then what will "I" be? What will my abilities be? Will I see the same way that I see now? Will I be able to smell? Will I be able to talk? How will i interact? Where will i be? What will I do? what will be my purpose THEN? (We all try to find our purpose here on Earth, surely it will be similar in the next world?)

hmmm...

 

[Mr. Wolf]

We evolved from memals, right? And those evolved from reptiles, right? And those eveolved from bacteria, right?

Bacteria don't have brain, they are programmed to exists, multiply, ensure survival of the species.. Thus all life is programmed to exists, multiply, and ensure survival of the species, including humans..

Perhaps we went into evolutionary dead end by evolving our thinking brains? I mean, here we are, questioning if we need to ensure the survival of the species? Maybe those that say in 100 years or so we don't exists are somewhat right? Maybe we are evolutionary dead end and need to get extinct?

 

[Climax]

We evolved from memals, right? And those evolved from reptiles, right? And those eveolved from bacteria, right?

Bacteria don't have brain, they are programmed to exists, multiply, ensure survival of the species.. Thus all life is programmed to exists, multiply, and ensure survival of the species, including humans..

Perhaps we went into evolutionary dead end by evolving our thinking brains? I mean, here we are, questioning if we need to ensure the survival of the species? Maybe those that say in 100 years or so we don't exists are somewhat right? Maybe we are evolutionary dead end and need to get extinct?

Dude, no1 is questioning the "survival" of anything/anyone... its just an interesting topic to talk about... and hear different opinions etc...

No living thing can actually know for sure that there is life after death for you as an individual being. People have said that they were near death and they saw lights and that they saw themselves floating and so on... And this imo is probably true... so that makes me think that there is life for me as an individual being after I die as a human. And that is what lead me to this thread, because I was interested to see what other peoples perceptions and perspectives are

 

[speakeasy]

That's what I am getting at... If everyone would ask themselves "Where will I be in 10 million years?" I mean.... Will everyone just die? Or does our "soul" (Or whatever it is - some people believe its an energy?) carry on to another life? And if so, then what will "I" be? What will my abilities be? Will I see the same way that I see now? Will I be able to smell? Will I be able to talk? How will i interact? Where will i be? What will I do? what will be my purpose THEN? (We all try to find our purpose here on Earth, surely it will be similar in the next world?)

hmmm...

These are questions people have thought about for eons and still nobody knows. I've been in kind of a weird funk lately where I've been feeling this sort of existential emptiness and have had a lot of other things ground through my mind making me wonder what is life all about. Have you ever looked at existentialism? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existentialism

I simply don't know. I feel like I don't know anything. I don't know if purpose will be revealed to us by life, of if we create our own purpose. Some people are hedonist, their life's purpose and only purpose is the pursuit of pleasure in some form, not necessarily decadent pleasure, it could simply be reading imaginative books or taking their family on a vacation. And the only purpose is looking forward to the next pleasure.

Life can be either completely meaningless or special I guess depending on who you ask. In a sense, yes, we're basically insignificant specks in an incomprehensively vast universe and our short lives of 75 years or so nothing but a cosmic nanosecond. We are totally insignificant. Yet at the same time, each person is like a universe unto themselves with almost infinite complexity, our bodies with their complex biomechanics evolved from pond scum and now we have great works of art and music, civilization, technology. So that seems like a miracle as well that against all odds we have evolved this far from one celled organism, whether you believe it was God's guiding hand that led evolution or not, it's still amazing and makes each person a miracle, yet like I said, when compared with the vastness of space and the age of the universe, we are fighteningly insignificant. As much meaning as we may think we have, we are only one mile-wide meteorite away from complete annihilation.

I guess that said, the closest thing I can think of for my own meaning or purpose is to gain wisdom and figure out some of these secrets of the universe. Of course I then have to ask, if I'm going to die and can't take this knowledge with me, or if I'm reborn and have no recollection of what I learned in the past life, then what good was it? What use is anything?

 

[bigjohnson]

.... Earth going bye bye 200 years MAX ....

Are you joking? Where do you suppose it's gonna disappear to?

I'm gonna have enough money to afford to live forever.

 

[Mr. Wolf]

There must be god! Because there is a parallel universe.. Ever smoked weed?

 

[bigjohnson]

I'd say the odds that medical science can reverse engineer the human brain in the next 40 years are a lot bigger than the odds the earth will disappear in 200 years. But maybe that's just me.

Outside that - you die, you cease to exist in any way shape or form. Finito.

 

[Maxtro]

What a huge impossible question...

Well I will still be around as long as nobody decapitates me. I don't think I'd still be on Earth though. Humanity is going to end up abandoning this planet after we strip it off all of our recourses and render it uninhabitable for all life. It will then be referred to as "Lost Jerusalem" thousands of years later.

As for me I'll be busy making hot sweaty space sex with all the 3 breasted alien chicks.

3 points to anybody that got all three references.

 

[penkitten]

Maybe we just keep reincarnating forever. But since we have no recollection of past lives, we can keep being reborn for infinity and it's not like we'd know we've been around forever.

this is what i believe. so it is a little buddist
i believe that we get to help choose our life path when we are created with our maker and that once we are sent here, we can not see past a curtain into the next plane and we forget what we knew before we were placed here. whatever we do in this path, should bring us closer to god as our goal. once we pass away, we may choose to have another life, learn more things, to become even closer to god in the end. we recycle over and over.
sounds silly but makes sense to me.

 

[Interceptor]

I'll be a student of Sri Yukteswar in the higher conscioiusness planes. Hopefully he'll still be there! Bastard!
And hopefully met Bruce Lee, Baba Yagi, the Buddha, and.....Crom!But I have no tongue for it.

:crackup: