Are we "wasting our time" discussing such things, Dave?

So what? And in whose opinion?

We might just as well be wasting our time worrying about who is going to win the next baseball game or what the neighbour said about whatever...

Everyone has a perfect right to waste their own time in whatever way suits them, seems to me. If it doesn't seem like a "waste" to them, who cares what someone else thinks about it?

I don't necessarily think of it as "living forever with God", Bill. I don't know much about that, and wouldn't claim to. What I think of it as is simply continuing to have a conscious existence, but not in my present body, that's all. Maybe not in a body at all. If so, it would be a great way to lose some unwanted pounds, wouldn't it? ;-)