I am wondering what would be the effect on religions/religious people when we develop technologies for radical(1000+ years) life extension and would there be a strong clash(riots/terrorism/wars etc) between the different groups/societies.


Lets generalize radical life extension in 3 categories:

- life extension via non organic technology (replacing body parts with non organic parts)

- life extension via organic technology (replacing body parts with new organic parts created from your own DNA)

- life extension via mind downloading ( when your body is damaged, your mind is downloaded to a external tech and then uploaded into a new body created from your own DNA.

Reading Kurzweil was a major reason why I became an atheist. It was like a switch. When my eternal fate was not necessarily in the hands of a god, my mind was opened enough to see through the BS of religion. It was like it bridged a gap of fear and allowed me to think more critically. I would expect a mass exodus of believers if any of your scenarios come true. Especially with the first and third scenario.

Thousands of years is nothing compared to eternal life. The physical cosmos could exist eternally but some think that the heat death of the universe is inevitable and wouldn't be something to look forward to in this cosmos. Besides, Yeshua HaMashiach has already explained that the "real stuff" isn't physical but spiritual: e.g., consider Yeshua's encounter with Nicodemus recorded in the Johannine gospel; also, the author of the epistle to the "Hebrews" states that human beings are appointed to die once, i.e., it doesn't even matter if physical life is billions of years long since physical death is certain.

Most would take the life extension and choose to live in this realm instead of heaven for as long as they could. Even if was an eternal magic pill that avoids of the heat death of the universe. Id guess.

An alternative view might be to wonder whether the religions would even allow it?

Are you naive? Who the hell wants to live for a thousand years?

i do

Why and what would you do for 1000 years?

because i think i'd prefer to be alive, even at the age of 990, than dead.

i don't know what i'd do for 1000 years. after 300 years or so i might get bored of golf, then i might kill myself?

I think your preference seems to stem from a fear of death rather than a will to be alive.

I think most people would kill themselves well before 300years. Life is about as beautiful and depressing as possible within our short lives. There is no need to go beyond that.

ok? i don't understand your point.


ok. i don't think i would. or maybe i would? i doubt you know what i would do when i don't even know.

Just because some people will choose the "easy" way out of their problems, it does not mean everyone must die. If you can be healthy and happy/satisfied with what you do why wouldn't you want to live longer?

Personally I would like to do many things that are simply restricted by the biological inefficiency of my body. Learning/reading and remembering as much as possible, exploring the universe... travelling around our planet/galaxy/universe, encountering extraterrestrial life forms, witnessing cosmological events and so so much more...

It scares me that anyone could think this way. I am confident that my appetite for anything over nothing would last me for thousands upon thousands of years.

My point being folks is that life and death are almost an equation. There is a balance everywhere to life and death. By extending life unnaturally, you ruin the essence of it, and the reasons we behave the way we do.

Thats why we should follow religion which gives more happiness in our life..