Is There an After Life in God?

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A lot of people lean on the idea that if there isn't an after life then what's the point? I call this alvie's eiror alvie is alvie, singer woodie allan's character in annie hall. He has a flash back to his childhood where he refuses to do his home work. And it's sort of that, i think a lot of theists, they live in that far future world,. That without, you know, if 15 billion years from now, if the universe ends, or whatever it would be, then what i do to morrow doesn't really matter. E, i have great faithn in younger generations than

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.