{"id":49,"date":"2008-09-06T02:39:40","date_gmt":"2008-09-06T09:39:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aberrantpress.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/06\/a-quick-thought-on-eternal-life\/"},"modified":"2012-02-25T18:27:21","modified_gmt":"2012-02-26T01:27:21","slug":"a-quick-thought-on-eternal-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aberrantpress.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/06\/a-quick-thought-on-eternal-life\/","title":{"rendered":"A Quick Thought on Eternal Life&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Someone started a discussion about this over at <a href=\"http:\/\/freakangels.com\/whitechapel\/\">Whitechapel<\/a>, and here&#8217;s a quick thought from me on the subject of living forever:<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;m sitting on my ass earlier today, channel surfing instead of working on artwork, and I came across a show on Discovery Channel that shows what sharks might look like in 200 million years. And the thought &#8220;you won&#8217;t be here to see that&#8221; came to the forefront of my mind, and instead of the horrid feeling I usually get when that thought surfaces, I felt rather calm.<\/p>\n<p>Awhile back I asked my father about his feelings about never-ending life and he told me that he wants to die someday because he&#8217;s tired of seeing his friends and loved ones die all around him while he carries on. I could see the logic in that. After all, most people get settled in with their &#8220;group&#8221; pretty much by the time their in their thirties it seems, so if you don&#8217;t have a periodic influx of new best friends, new loves, etc. I could understand wanting to (hopefully) join up with your family in the hereafter. I think I could handle not dying better because I&#8217;m always looking for new people to befriend, to expand my circle if you will.<\/p>\n<p>It will be interesting seeing how the first generation of people who achieve life eternal will handle being the last people to know what death is like&#8230; If I&#8217;m here to see it&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone started a discussion about this over at Whitechapel, and here&#8217;s a quick thought from me on the subject of living forever: So I&#8217;m sitting on my ass earlier today, channel surfing instead of working on artwork, and I came across a show on Discovery Channel that shows what sharks might look like in 200 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aberrantpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aberrantpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aberrantpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aberrantpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aberrantpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aberrantpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":535,"href":"https:\/\/aberrantpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions\/535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aberrantpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aberrantpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aberrantpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}