If there is eternal life after death, how would it not drive us into insanity/emptiness?

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Coherent thought is a gift granted only by the material realm. There is no stimuli in the after life. Heaven and hell is just a state imposed by being left eternally to one's own self.
 
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I explained this once to my priest and he seemed to get it I was sitting in church one day just zoning out blocking out all worldly temptations and for a few moments I felt what I think heaven is like eternal peace and oneness with the Lord.
Not a cardinal pleasure but something that's very hard to describe if you've not felt it yourself so you should go to church preferably an Orthodox Church and just clear your mind of all thoughts focus on the hymns and you will feel what heaven is like as close as you can get before death but you should not seek to go to heaven so abruptly God wants you to live a long prosperous life on this earth.

Do not be afraid of death death comes for us all in the end death is the great equalizer
 
I'm just hoping I get unlimited mana.

I want to have a 1000 year fireball fight with all the other wizards.
 
the longer u live, the less time each year is in comparison to ur lifespan

it's why when ur old, u feel as if ur always running out of time, but when ur young, every day seems to last very long

when ur 20, ur first 10 years are half of ur life and memories

when ur 100, theyre just 10%

when you have been in the afterlife for 10000, theyre just 1/1000th of ur life, every year that passes makes u percieve time slightly faster, because ur perception of time and memories isnt linear
 
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The answer to the OP's question is simple: he's imagining he'll still be human in the afterlife. But if he evolves or changes into some other type of being or mode of existence, the kind of things that would be a problem for an immortal human might not even apply anymore.

For a floating soul, it might not even be possible to get bored and "insanity" might be an unfamiliar concept.
 
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If I believed in Jehovah, I'd say something like "God would will you not to go insane."
 
A perfect realm made by an omnipotent being for the eternal happiness of its citizens wouldn’t have boredom, dissatisfaction or insanity. It would be trivial for a being that made souls and reality from nothing to make it so that a person never got bored or went insane in a realm made solely for them. People bring this point up as though the answer isn’t trivial. We can’t fully understand it as mortals living in a material universe but that doesn’t mean it can’t be true. An ant wouldn’t understand computers and skyscrapers either.
 
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It's kinda a silly question.
How often do you go about life contemplating the fact that it will eventually end? If that's a common occurrence for you, that's a personal problem. Most of the time you're just going about your normal routine and maybe finding the odd bit of diversion. You certainly shouldn't be thinking about the fact you'll be dead some 50 years from now. Why would it be any different in some eternal paradise?
 
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There's nothing after death.
The whole thing is made up so you are distracted while you are being overworked to death.
 
when you finally reach the eternal you are filled with bliss and the material contamination is removed from you so you wont feel “insanity”. It is said the only somewhat negative thing that those souls feel who have at last arrived to Gods realm is a small sadness for those they had known in their lives that haven't yet made it and they pray for them in hopes that the eternal will grace them.

Even with all of that however if for some reason you wish to quit eternity you are freely able to choose annihilation.
 
The question presupposes a person would be in the same state of mind in death as he was in life, which I don't believe any traditional theology holds to, and anyway, the loss of a body suggests he would not be totally of the same character (he wouldn't feel hunger for instances).
 
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Hazel Motes said:
The question presupposes a person would be in the same state of mind in death as he was in life, which I don't believe any traditional theology holds to, and anyway, the loss of a body suggests he would not be totally of the same character (he wouldn't feel hunger for instances).
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Christian theology teaches that just like Christ we will be embodied once again, but perfected and made in the true image of God as was intended at the beginning.

Now how that can be interpreted can lead to endless autistic arguments. But once thing is pretty clear that "going insane" is not in the cards for a perfected being.

Lots of talk in this thread about transcending the physical. The physical was made by God. Denial of this leads to some pretty dark places.
 
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