Choose number 1. Theres nearly 8 billion people on this planet now. Far too many. Thats more than enough if we all have eternal life.

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I did not know this and I was raised Catholic, maybe it is not a Catholic thing, or maybe I missed that day.

Well, I can't stand kids, so 1 sounds pretty appealing on that point alone. But, and bear with me here, I would want to take number 1 as long as I was able to walk around with a sword all the time. Hundreds of years from now, I would still probably tell people that there can be only one. The possibilities of one person to commit themselves to scientific discovery for eternity, what would they come up with and at what rate would it be, likely exponential. Granted, they may even be able to eventually watch every video on YouTube. I know, I'm taking the mick now.

What? No children? Life would be deprived of silly nonsensical moments. Option 2 for me.

Having tasted of life, oblivion holds no interest for me.

Just a couple thoughts about everlasting life on Earth.

In approximately 5 billion years, the sun will begin the helium-burning process, turning into a red giant star. When it expands, its outer layers will consume Mercury and Venus, and reach Earth. Scientists are still debating whether or not our planet will be engulfed, or whether it will orbit dangerously close to the dimmer star. Either way, life as we know it on Earth will cease to exist. [space.com]

2 Peter 3:10 ... The heavens will disappear with a roar; the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and everything done in it will be laid bare.

The first is science that sounds like everything would be eliminated by the Sun.

The biblical future sounds more like an asteroid wiping out life on Earth in a greater impact that what killed the dinosaurs off.

Either way a natural sort of life would not seem possible for ever on Earth. Hence the "spirit " afterlife ideology.

Spirit has connection to cognition and force. Like our thoughts are Predicated on the force of our brain waves and chemical reactions.

So, in the event that our "soul" (personality) were to some how not dissipate into nothingness at the death of our brain then this energy of our thought cognitive capabilities would be considered to some how still be carried on perhaps as a transfer of this cognitive capabilities from the housing of our brain into the environment at large.

So in a way to speculate a natural explanation for our cognitive capabilities to continue after death might be some how explained if by scientific explination that our cognition could ride on a light wave or other forms of kinetic energy or electromagnetic radiation in the environment.

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There is another option. If we survive climate change, we will move into space, and live in habitats called O'Neil Cylinders. It is possible to build enough of them to have our population be trillions of times larger. Moreover, if we develop fusion power plants, we can live further from the sun, and further increase the population. No need to stop having babies.