What would you rather choose to do: Suffer to live eternally or live to suffer eternally?

oh here we go, another pascal’s wager question.
if it were likely that there was an afterlife and anything like hell, then i would choose the latter.
but since it isn’t, the former.
thank you for your time.

Pascal’s Wager

If by “live eternally,” you’re referring to heaven, I would say that I don’t really believe in that kind of afterlife, so I’d rather enjoy the time I have here by doing what I choose with it.

I live a moral life without regard to any possible afterlife.

I would suffer now for a greater amount of happiness later. I’m not going to suffer, however, for some promise of happiness after death. That’s too late for me. Life is about life, not some fantasy designed to make scared people more able to cope with their fear.

If you’re not dead when you die, then you’re not really dead.
What fun is that?
I agree with @augustlan, I will live a moral, fulfilling life and let death worry about itself.

I am suffering now….what the fuck does that mean I’m in store for (besides the crematory’s fire)? Not that I’m going to give any credit to any discussion of an afterlife.
And as @ragingloli said, thank you for your time.
See ya….Gary/wtf

Let me turn this around. How about since there is no actual evidence of an afterlife, I get to live as an immortal, i.e. like a vampire. Fuck yeah, sign me up. can you tell I’ve been reading the Anne Rice Vampire Chronicles?

There are any number of cogent refutations of Pascal’s wager available in the literature. I’ll be damned if I am going to rehearse the entire catalog here. You could read a book, or you could Google it. At any rate, it was settled way before I was born, and I am really, really old.

@pdworkin back before you rode your dinosaur to school, and it was uphill and against the wind both ways?~

Before I invented linear perspective.

I would definitely suffer to live eternally. Then I could be like Capt. Jack Harkness except not gay. I might give it a try though. Except I wonder what I would look like when I get really old. Any more Doctor who fans here?

As a Christian, can I say I think this question is crap?
You shouldn’t be a Christian because of the threat of damnation.
You should be a Christian because you believe in and love the Lord.

So, my fiance and I have this discussion fairly regularly. When the singularity comes, I’m really not sure I want to go through whatever suffering there is to live eternally. I’d rather live this life the way I feel most comfortable living it. He, on the other hand, is all in favor of turning into the kinder, gentler Cybermen (I threw that in there for you, @Bugabear). But either way, we’re not really suffering now. It’s not a choice we really have to make until the singularity comes.

Oh! This was about Christianity? More proof that the singularity is the nerd rapture.

I can’t relate to this question at all which probably means I shouldn’t be posting. My values and the way I live my life are pretty much aligned and this is certainly not for any hopes of Heaven.