But when people talk about immortality being bad, "you'll get bored after a while!" gets brought up... like, invariably.
That's what is being discussed.
(Besides, even if you DO get bored eventually, it won't happen for eons.)
Oooooh, I see. I thought FD was currently feeling that way, in which case I was about to shower him with ineffectual hugs until he loathed and despised me (getting him out of apathy, yay!).
Oh, that's a fair description of my life. But given the way I've structured things, I'm highly unlikely to ever kill myself. Essentially, I've set three questions:
1. Do I not consider ending my own life to be morally reprehensible?
2. Is the pain I am currently experiencing sufficient to make non-existence preferable?
3. Would the pain alleviated by suicide be greater than the pain which said suicide would cause in others?
If I ever consider those three questions and, after a substantial degree of introspective reasoning, can honestly and unemotionally answer yes to each, I will set my affairs (such that they are) in order, contact anyone who might care about my death and leave them with a final message, then overdose on sleeping pills. Again, however, it is highly unlikely that I will ever be able to honestly say yes to any single one of those questions, much less all three simultaneously.
I don't really understand the whole thing about immortality being boring, either; ordinary life is boring, but it is still preferable to nonexistence. I'd rather be wrong and the hardcore Christians be right, because an eternity of torment is still better than not existing at all. But hey, if I liked the easy, comfortable answers, I wouldn't be an atheist in the first place.
See? Actual discussion. Massive improvement. Isn't this so much better?
And I thought I only had to watch my own kids. Oi. Keep behaving guys.
I'm not sure how to reply to this.
Scoffing, hemming, and hawing in an excessively English accent, one would think.