I would not have wanted to compete in open class strongman under any circumstance. Screw that - especially assuming we do only live once and are not computer simulations, which - after looking at the latest UFC video game - is looking more and more likely to me that we are just in that sort of experience. That said, such an existential model allows for infinite regression - but I digress.
I am not a fan of the concept of living once - in any permutation of what might be. I see no evidence for such limited thinking. It gives rise to a troubling concept - that the word "nothing" actually has some element of truth, which I highly doubt.
I mean, you are composed of entirely energy. Energy that in this reality cannot be destroyed. As long as that energy experiences iterative changes in environment (however slow), how could it possibly not find itself as part of another consciousness?
My feeling is that if this is real - the moment we die we almost certainly lose the ability to perceive time. If this is so, the next "waking" moment would have to occur when we can next perceive time. A virtually infinite amount of time (to us) may have occurred during this - but that isn't anything major if this is all a veil on infinity.
Living once does give the experience we are having added gravity, though - a necessary one, might I add and that has a certain taint that hints design and possibly design by ourselves - particularly if this a simulation. I mean, if we are actually just infinite beings with possibly no emotions (after all, exactly what emotion can endure such lack of boundaries?) who experience no beginning or end - it would certainly make a lot of sense to whittle away our time in abstracted versions of existence - where life is fleeting and we experience a good many emotions due to abstracted paradigms that are not accurate - but give us purpose and a desire to survive and interact.
