by Centurii-chan

  • Croquette@sh.itjust.works
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    4 hours ago

    You might not meet Oprah, but you’ll probably meet a thousand like her and you will get bored.

    I stand by my point that the urgency is created by death and it is extremely hard to separate ourselves from that when we imagine immortality.

    The death of your close friends and family will hurt. But after the 1 000 000 death of a close friend, you’ll either be crazy by that point from all the grief, or it will be another Tuesday.

    • Dragon Rider (drag)@lemmy.nz
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      3 hours ago

      The point of grieving is to overcome the feeling of loss. Drag thinks an immortal would get really good at grieving. Really efficient. They’d have moved past their loss, and be ready to love again.

      Besides, you don’t need friends to be happy. Look at aplatonic people. They say they still enjoy life. That’s empirical evidence, we don’t need to speculate. If you didn’t want friends, you’d get by without them.