Hi community. 

First and foremost, I  respect all of your beliefs and/or spiritual views. 

Now, my first question: What do you think would happen to the belief in God, religion, and the overall lifestyles of humans if immortality by some means was confirmed



Second: What if we do finally encounter a similar species, and they happen to be willing to communicate? How do you believe that event would turn out

Immortality would likely be problematic not so much for religious reasons but because we would run out of room on earth with being capable of living so long. I suppose it depends on how the immortality was reached though; perhaps if it were just immortality in the sense that your body does not give out on you ever but you still could find things your body cannot fight against (physical harm, incredibly bad diseases) then perhaps it would not be so bad. But if we are talking about full blow immortality where one cannot die ever, lifestyles would likely become watched in a militaristic fashion so everyone gets their even share to not blow out our resources. I could see even sacrifices of people being made to make room, or watching over who may give birth and how many they may have.

Religious-wise, I do not think they would be affected too much, it all depends on what sort of faith they have. Some may not want to take the formula for ever lasting life so they may meet their god "naturally." Some may forsake their god or change their beliefs. There would likely be protests about it in a similar way abortion is handled. Some may believe their god has decided to reward humanity for their suffering for those who were loyal have helped redeem humanity. It all depends on what they believe and how strong their faith is. Finding immortality would not dismiss the possibility of a god though.


As for aliens wishing to communicate, many have already expressed my same fears, but I would like to believe that somehow, we could let the aliens know that we are a people that have many disagreements with themselves, and it would likely be unwise to get too involved with us. Small communications without face to face encounters would likely be the healthiest solution for humans and the aliens. Otherwise, I'd fear they would be enveloped into our (stupid) wars.

   For the first part, if that ever were to happen, things would change in a odd way. Even with immortality, people are still going to die of non-natural causes, like car crashes, drowning, that kind of stuff (at least that is what I assume), so I feel like people would still pray, at the start at least. I feel like it would cause some sort of dwindle in religious beliefs, until almost all of us don't have religious beliefs, because we would feel it wouldn't matter. I think people would feel empowered with this life that they could live forever in, if they were careful, and it would change our lifestyle and religion. Not to mention that it would really change up the economy, and government. The government gives over $100 billion a year to fund churches, which you could do a ton with.    Secondly, I think that an encounter with another species from some different planet is more likely with us finding them then them coming to us. I mean, look at every single other creature on Earth. Yes, they are smart, but none of them have created a civilization near as complex as we have, and we still aren't close to space travel throughout our solar system, let alone inter-stellar. But if it were to happen, I feel like it would be the same thing that we do to animals. They might leave us alone, or try to communicate with us, or they might try to raise us like cattle, or display us on their planet.    That brings up another question though. What if we found an alien species on some planet light-years away? What would we do? I feel like we would try to communicate, but all things considered, that could be a very risky idea. If they felt threatened, they could retaliate, or try to communicate with us. Either way, I don't think it would go well. Look at what happened when Europeans came over to America, or the Spanish to the Aztecs, it just ends in wars, and stuff you don't want to get into.

If immortality were possible? That would be pretty darn cool. (I am an agnostic, by the way.) I would be able to do so many of the things I want to do, because I would have the money to do so.

First question:I doubt that would ever happen its just impossible if it did happen the earth will eventually become over populated where will we live most of the earth is oceans we will eventually run out of space to the point we have millions of people living on the street next we will run out of food to the point when parents can't feed themselves and their beloved children question two:I don't aliens are real we been trying to find that out for a long time there's no evidence there living if there is its probably some weird guy dressed up as a alien and lives on the moon aliens are not real humans are the only life forms that exist aliens is just a rumor people make money off of just like Bigfoot and unicorns its all a big lie there is no proof none at all 

I think that if immortality was confirmed religion would die down a little mainly because people would worry less about death and the afterlife.


Second If we don meet any extraterrestrials it might take awhile but I think we could eventually understand each other.  I would give it a year.  Most likely is we would think they're posing a threat and go to war with them until we can understand each other and make peace.