Is There Golf Courses and Tennis Courts in Heaven?

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Christopher hitchens famously called the christian heaven a lestial north corea where you have this dictator that knows everything you're doing and thinking. He used to ask, are there golf courses and tennis courts in heaven? Because otherwise it sounds boring. I think n that's why, as tahnolage is evolved, possblts, that's the reason why wes people are switching off from religion. If you asked me, when do you, how long do you think you should live? I'd probably say, som like a hundred something, maybe. And i would go for that.

Shermer and Ward discuss: religious immortality • Church of Perpetual Life in Florida • what it means to live forever • why lives have doubled in length the past century • Stein’s Law: things that can’t go on forever won’t • Why do we age and die? • how to live to 100, 1000, 10,000 years • escape velocity to reach immortality • Aubrey de Grey’s program • tech billionaires programs • transhumanists/extropians • diet, exercise, supplements, stem cells, telomeres, and other aging hacks • Ray Kurzweil • cryonics • nanotechnology • brain preservation • mind uploading and digital immortality • Ernest Becker and Terror Management Theory

Peter Ward is a British business and technology reporter whose reporting has taken him across the globe. Reporting from Dubai, he covered the energy sector in the Middle East before earning a degree in business journalism from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. His writing has appeared in Wired, The Atlantic, The Economist, GQ, BBC Science Focus, and Newsweek.