I’m not sure I understood what you stated completely, but my response
What about pure knowledge? I mean, you gotta wonder why using immortality to observe mankind’s growth isn’t a fully popularized concept. I mean that’s sure as heck what I’d do.
Well, the growth of knowledge is kind of a given for immortals. How much more does an immortal vampire want to study? Is pursuing knowledge their “art?” All art, of all disciplines is only meant to point toward truth (ie. Catholicism
), and without using it to help others, the pursuit is merely creative masturbation. (was that from oreimo?)
And when you think about it, it’s really on the price of immortality that we start talking ethics. It tells you something about our religion that we never condemned the very possession of infinite earthly life.
For Catholics, it’s the quality of our earthly life, not necessarily the longevity of it
St. Therese of Lisieux, St. Joan of Arc,
I think someone that endeavors achieving immortality before heaven is subjecting themselves into experiencing a prolonged purgatory or hell. If they can’t make anything good of it, and maintaining an immortal life means eating people, may as well walk into the sunlight. A
natural immortality (ex. Elves from LotR, is something else, though).
A theory, but what I think hell might be is, is like how Earth is now, except everyone’s immortal, and there’s no Catholics around to stop them, their only company being demons.
