No Dumb Questions

No Dumb Questions

111 - Virtual Heaven

Added 2021-06-20 21:58:41 +0000 UTC

Sometimes musing about things that aren't possible yet, but that society seems to be yearning for can make for some interesting conversation.

Thanks in advance for going to some weird, but hopefully very meaningful, places with us in this one.

We appreciate you.

Matt

Comments

I would surely quickly be in over my head, but I'd love to hear the minutia of what's going on in the research to map people's brains. My chemistry and physics understandings are stronger than my biology, and it seems like this is a place where these intersect at fathoms deep levels! I've had some fun discussions surrounding Genesis 5, which describes men who lived close to 1,000 years. What would it be like to live that long? In my imagination, I see them maturing into adult bodies at a vaguely normal rate, over 30 years (not 200), and then spending 300-600 years in the "prime of life". I don't imagine them as 700 year olds looking like my grandmother did before she died at age 103. In other words, if at 700 years old they still have 269 more years to live, I can't imagine that they spent the entire 269 years unimaginably decrepit. Ok, that was a bunny trail. I thought this episode was great! I really like the way you guys think through and talk through things. Clearly, Matt, you've done your homework in terms of reading and processing what you believe in the general area of philosophy, and I appreciated what you brought to the conversation. I appreciate from both of you how your faith has affected your decisions in terms of parenting, perspectives, and tooth fairies. (My kids know I'm the tooth fairy.) Weird question: why have the last two episodes ended abruptly, with no outro music?

2021-06-25 19:08:39 +0000 UTC

From Empire of Bones by N. D. Wilson, a kids' series I'm quite fond of. The series has some characters that acquired immortality at some point and have been alive for centuries. It's got a comment on the perils of immortality that really stuck with me: "You fall and you rise and you fall again, but your inner war can never leave off, it can never stay won. Mortals weren't made for it. We were made to run the race and hit the finish."

2021-06-24 01:29:52 +0000 UTC

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