I think religion has got only 100 years left...

[Swagnificent]

I don't know if anybody has read Ray Kurzweil's book the Singularity is Near, but dude basically predicts that in the next 50 years the world will change so rapidly that we won't be able to keep up. One of the biggest changes will be RADICAL LIFE EXTENSION. Basically, advances in science and medicine will allow us to treat every known disease including aging. As a result, humans could theoretically live indefinitely.


If humans can achieve immortality, then what purpose will religion serve?

 

[Mowgli]

Ray Kurzweil: How Far to Immortality? - YouTube

I don't know if anybody has read Ray Kurzweil's book the Singularity is Near, but dude basically predicts that in the next 50 years the world will change so rapidly that we won't be able to keep up. One of the biggest changes will be RADICAL LIFE EXTENSION. Basically, advances in science and medicine will allow us to treat every known disease including aging. As a result, humans could theoretically live indefinitely.


If humans can achieve immortality, then what purpose will religion serve?

To keep your morals in check for one, and to prepare you for your ineveitable death because everything that is created, decomposes, eventually.. These scientists thinking they're going to live forever are terribly mistaken and whos to say they wont kill themselves if the world is reduced to shambles and they are the king of a pile or rubble. Ray Kurzweil is a clown. This dude is probably going to implant his brain into

talkin bout *i did it * Kurz is just terrified of death and is wishing on a star hoping he can attain the impossible. Poor thing.

 

[zerozero]

Human psychology is a strong thing breh.

We will continue to do the same things our ancestors did 40,000 years ago, just in a differently organized way

 

[The Real]

Kurzweil is known for Mr. Fantastic-level reaching, and this argument of his is one of them. We're not quite so close to immortality or even seriously extended life just yet. This singularity idea has received a lot of criticism, and for good reason.

As for religion, it will last a long time. As Nietzsche once said, "God is dead; but given the ways of men, there may still be caves for thousands of years in which his shadow will be shown." Even if the concept of God disappears, elements of what made up our historical understanding of God will linger- people will still look for transcendence, forms of immortality/eternal life (one of religion's worst contributions to human ideas,) overarching meaning in life, etc. Even the scientific search for immortality is connected to God's shadow, since it can be traced to religion and it's obsession with immortality in an afterlife that will remove the fear and finality associated with death.

 

[zerozero]

Kurzweil is known for Mr. Fantastic-level reaching, and this argument of his is one of them. We're not quite so close to immortality or even seriously extended life just yet. This singularity idea has received a lot of criticism, and for good reason.

As for religion, it will last a long time. As Nietzsche once said, "God is dead; but given the ways of men, there may still be caves for thousands of years in which his shadow will be shown." Even if the concept of God disappears, elements of what made up our historical understanding of God will linger- people will still look for transcendence.

man I read this crazy thing yesterday, I don't quite agree with it, but it links the founding myth of rome, witchburning, human sacrifice, the french revolution, celebrity boom/bust cycles all as one human pattern of making someone an extreme insider within a culture, scapegoating them and suddenly turning them into an outsider

Founder as Victim, Founder as God

 

[Double Burger With Cheese]

You better think again

 

[Swagnificent]

Even the scientific search for immortality is connected to God's shadow, since it can be traced to religion and it's obsession with immortality in an afterlife that will remove the fear and finality associated with death.

no

The search of eternal life can be traced to genetics. Every creature struggles to survive indefinitely.

The main reason people cling to religion is fear of death. People can't handle the fact that we are just bags of chemicals with no purpose in life and with our annihilation all but guaranteed. Religion is a nice fairly tale for people that can't face reality.

Once that fear is removed, religion will lose all meaning. Its fundamentally based on our mortality and the eventual day of judgement after we die. If we never die, then there is no day of judgement and God/religion loses all meaning.

 

[thekingsmen]

we don't even have 100 years.

 

[feelosofer]

I think it's human nature to find some sort of reverence in another entity even if it's not God in the traditional sense. Strangely enough, I think that South Park episode with Cartman and the WII was surpringly apt in the way I think we will view religion in the future. If it's not God, we'll worship something else.

 

[MikelArteta]

I think atheism has only a hundred years left

 

[SquirtleSwag]

Hopefully, but I think you're too optimistic, its far too comforting for people to ever give up, even if they know its bullshyt.

 

[SquirtleSwag]

Kurzweil is known for Mr. Fantastic-level reaching, and this argument of his is one of them. We're not quite so close to immortality or even seriously extended life just yet. This singularity idea has received a lot of criticism, and for good reason.

As for religion, it will last a long time. As Nietzsche once said, "God is dead; but given the ways of men, there may still be caves for thousands of years in which his shadow will be shown." Even if the concept of God disappears, elements of what made up our historical understanding of God will linger- people will still look for transcendence, forms of immortality/eternal life (one of religion's worst contributions to human ideas,) overarching meaning in life, etc. Even the scientific search for immortality is connected to God's shadow, since it can be traced to religion and it's obsession with immortality in an afterlife that will remove the fear and finality associated with death.

avg lifespan back in the day used to be like 30 years...Are we not in "seriously extended life" right now?

I think atheism has only a hundred years left

atheism is only increasing.

you and your god aint gonna do shyt about it either logic and reason >>> Your stupid god and religion

 

[Sensitive Blake Griffin]

I wonder what happens when we become Gods and create artificial intelligence.

 

[rapbeats]

hey why argue with the the guy. he says we will figure a way out to cure all disease.

how about the disease of mankind to kill one another?

cause no matter how WELL you may be (non sick). i can still gun you down and thats the END of your life.

thats not IMMORTALITY.

 

[Mowgli]

no

The search of eternal life can be traced to genetics. Every creature struggles to survive indefinitely.

The main reason people cling to religion is fear of death. People can't handle the fact that we are just bags of chemicals with no purpose in life and with our annihilation all but guaranteed. Religion is a nice fairly tale for people that can't face reality.

Once that fear is removed, religion will lose all meaning. Its fundamentally based on our mortality and the eventual day of judgement after we die. If we never die, then there is no day of judgement and God/religion loses all meaning.

You think just because you can live forever, you cant die? Would you like to live forever buried under 200 tons of rubble.