by Centurii-chan
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Immortality with the ability to end it at will is great. Immortality with absolute invincibility will eventuality become a living hell.
Idk, have you looked around lately? Not sure I could put up with much more of this tbh.
Also how immortal are we talking here? Like several thousand years of vamping, then kaput by unnatural causes/moidled? Or like, orbiting the last dying star for warmth as the universe goes out, immortal?
People in media always make immortality sound awful. It really wouldnt be that bad, they always make little twists like you can’t ever die or nobody else can be immortal with you, all because its hard to make giving people more time to live seem awful without those twists. I find it fairly annoying.
I would accept immortality if I could choose to die at any moment
(Quasi-heatdeath and all that)
Every time something uses the ‘life only has meaning because it ends’ trope I want to scream
It’s a philosophical point of view and like anything, it’s debatable.
Death create an urgency, and we cannot substract ourselves from that.
When we imagine immortality, it is framed within this urgency. You might think : well there is so much I haven’t seen. But by being immortal in the litteral sense of the word, at one point, you will have seen everything to not care about it anymore. Then what? You go interstellar in the hope of finding something new in a few millions years?
If I could live a thousand years, I would definitely be interested. But living billions of years with no end in sight? Absolutely not.
Nah, no way. Even for an immortal being, time is limited. You can never watch every movie, listen to every song, or play every game. They’re made at a faster rate than you can consume them.
If your dream is to meet Oprah and you’re immortal, that doesn’t mean you get to meet Oprah. Oprah is busy. You’re still going to have to bust ass to become important enough to merit an appointment before she dies of old age. There are still obstacles and limits and timers.
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.
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.
Ancient Chinese recipe. Guarantees you won’t age.
I was more excited about life at 8 than
atafter 20, so for me it’s def reversed.Tho I do need to know if an elixir causes immortality, I do not want to drink it by accident.
Barbra age 23 works nighshift
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Ah Mercury. So Shiney and so deadly.
Imagine still being alive to witness the slow, agonizing death of the universe, when all matter and energy are evenly spread across an incomprehensible vastness, and nothing will or can ever happen again. The next billion years would be fairly interesting until the sun expands and swallows the Earth…or, at least, dries up its oceans. Hopefully, you’ve found a way out and onto another planet for another billion or so years. But after about 170 quattuorvigintillion years of cold, dark, nothingness, you’ll probably get pretty bored of it all.
I don’t think very many people, if any, want to be unable to die forever. Most people just want more time.
I would
I don’t think very many people, if any, want to be unable to die forever. Most people just want more time. Except this guy.
I don’t think very many people, if any, want to be unable to die forever.
sign me the fuck up broham.
more time = more opportunities to roll the aristocracy over and spank their ass raw.
Making a lot of assumptions here that our models are accurate enough to correctly predict the end of the universe - whether it’s a big crunch, big rip, heat death, some clumsy git dropping the marble so it shatters, or something else entirely. I would take eternal life+youth so I could find out.
Once I know everything, then I might get bored.
So far, I think the general consensus is heat death. Being an optimist, my hope is for the big crunch. If that one’s true, what’d be infinitely hilarious is if it always repeats in exactly the same way.
If that’s the case, then I guess all of us do truly live forever. We just microdose the same exact snippet of eternity.
So much of what exists is spheres and circles. Who’s to say time doesn’t also run in a circle?
Like the song goes,
Consensus is not a fact-based exercise
;D
Imagine becoming immortal at the dawn of the age of science. then spending the next 8000 years secretly building a ship in your free time to take you off this godforsaken planet.
only to find that:
a) you’re not the only one
b) you’re not even human
I was promised eternal life, not consciousness. That’s cryosleep conditions right there.
If you ever have kids and probably just as you age it only gets worse. I’m like, this little kid is 5 already? And it hits hard.
My best friend just had a kid. I imagine I’m gonna wake up tomorrow and he’s gonna be graduating high school. When did time start passing so fucking fast?
oof imagine being immortal, but you keep on aging and getting diseases and stuff but they just can’t kill you
Don’t forget to show the part where Hob Gadling meets them for a drink.
