>>826902
>Could someone please try to explain why eternal life is good? Why would one actually look forward to living forever? What the hell do we even do?
You have stared too deeply into the time vortex. Either that or you've been reading TVTropes. The fact is, you'll experience existential dread if you spend too much time thinking about how limited your life is too. And if you spend too much time thinking about ceasing to exist. Any such concept that is too large for our minds to grasp, if we try to reach beyond our mental means, will induce existential dread. The problem isn't eternal boredom. The problem is that you think you'll be eternally bored. That's kind of a leap to make, considering how very limited your squishy, meaty experience is.
Do you dread existing day by day now simply because you don't know what you'll do tomorrow or next week? I don't. Why would we then in an expanded universe? There's no reason to think that except that you're extrapolating based on extremely limited data and projecting your ignorance-based conclusion and experience as a fallen human onto the infinite question mark that is a glorified eternity.
>So far all I know is that heaven is described as being forced to sing and worship God forever, nothing else.
Let me get this straight… You think that the God who created ALL OF THIS PLACE, WITH ITS INCREDIBLE VARIETY OF LIFE AND ACTIVITIES, is going to have us sitting around 24/7 playing his favorite tunes forever? What in the world would lead you to such a ridiculous conclusion?
>On top of that, your friends and family could be suffering, but you'd be brainwashed to not even care.
It's not a matter of brainwashing… It's a matter of perspective. If that bothers you, then you don't understand what humans really are: evil. The entire basis of your affection for them is that God has restrained their evil (and yours) for the entire duration of their existence. Once they're in Hell, the restraints come off and they begin to unravel into complete madness, showing their true form in the absence of God's sustaining power. They become the monsters inside them that God suppressed while they were mortal. In a sense, they will no longer be the people that you once knew. I certainly doubt that they'll even remember you. They'll be too far gone.
>I have searched far for answers, all having different sayings, but its so vague.
It's supposed to be vague. Even when Paul was stoned to death and came back, he refused to tell people what he saw out there aside from it being something worth looking forward to. That knowledge is not for this realm. If you look too hard, you'll find liars and fallen angels who are also liars.
>But it seems that no one actually has ever thought through the concept of eternal life
Philosophers have since people began philosophizing.