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You do? Wow, well, maybe i am just weird but in order to really appreciate food i must make it from as scratch as possible with my hands. As for the sex, horny is always good, but a deep connection with the girl works even better for me.skeliton112 said:
Primal instincts are fine, but i like some baroque stuff and for that you don't rely on them. In order to truly live you have to have a burning desire for life, not to die.
Immortality - specifically, zero aging, immunity to disease and any physical damage is quickly healed until I'm good as new - seems to me a terrible torture. Oh sure, there's humanity and all their antics and electronic stuff and Final Fantasy 250 and that's all fine and good. Until you're 1,000,000 years old and the human race has either died out or bred out of existence with alien races. Alright, that's fine, alien races are pretty cool too. Another couple million years pass and you're now one of the few remaining living organisms in the galaxy. Well, whatever, you're immortal, just set course for another galaxy and set off. You have the time, after all.
Somewhere in the middle of it all, the galaxy Andromeda ghosts through the Milky Way, scattering both galaxies in a cosmic cataclysm seldom seen in your entire impressive life-span. But it's cool, you live through it. Anyway, off to another galaxy. It takes a few more million years of absolute solitude, though. It's around here that insanity FINALLY sets in.
And you still have the rest of eternity ahead of you.
Unless you suicide in a supernova... or a vat of obscenely strong acid. Or something like that. Just saying, I don't care how powerful your healing abilities are, you jettison yourself into a supernova, the matter that makes up your existence is turned into completely different matter. You just don't get more dead than that.
Somewhere in the middle of it all, the galaxy Andromeda ghosts through the Milky Way, scattering both galaxies in a cosmic cataclysm seldom seen in your entire impressive life-span. But it's cool, you live through it. Anyway, off to another galaxy. It takes a few more million years of absolute solitude, though. It's around here that insanity FINALLY sets in.
And you still have the rest of eternity ahead of you.
Unless you suicide in a supernova... or a vat of obscenely strong acid. Or something like that. Just saying, I don't care how powerful your healing abilities are, you jettison yourself into a supernova, the matter that makes up your existence is turned into completely different matter. You just don't get more dead than that.
It may sound dumb but i would love to be immortal. id run around pulling stupid shit constantly just because i could. I was Baccano immortality. i want the blood to fly back into my wounds and freak people out
I'd go for an immortality where I can't grow old or get ill and die from natural causes, but CAN still be killed. Kind of like how the Buffy series dealt with immortality, where theres a difference between being immortal and being invulnerable. That gets rid of any worries of me living past the end of our species or something like that, or the earth getting blown up and me floating in space unable to breathe for eternity. Also, if for any reason I wanted out, i'd have the option of being able to kill myself (not to be grim).
Unlike apparently everyone else, I'm not actually scared of death, and I don't even believe in an afterlife. I am afraid of dying a long and painful death, but death itself isn't scary to me. So it's not really about me never wanting to die, more about me wanting to stay young and sexy, and getting to see some of the inventions in the future that would be past my time if I was mortal.
Unlike apparently everyone else, I'm not actually scared of death, and I don't even believe in an afterlife. I am afraid of dying a long and painful death, but death itself isn't scary to me. So it's not really about me never wanting to die, more about me wanting to stay young and sexy, and getting to see some of the inventions in the future that would be past my time if I was mortal.
Immortality as in I can't die of wounds, diseases etc, or immortality as in that time won't be able to touch me anymore? If it comes to wounds, can I have extreme regeneration pweeeeeease? Or at least pain-resistance. As in time, it would be nice for some centuries. (As long as I don't have to pay taxes or anything anymore) I HAVE FULL RIGHT AFTER 300 YEARS TO NOT PAY TAXES!!!!!
This article prettymuch explains why immortality would suck http://www.cracked.com/article_18708_5-reasons-immortality-would-be-worse-than-death.html
I would, however like to live for as long as I want, which is to say that I'd be immortal until I decide I've lived long enough. That'd be pretty friggin awesome.
Oh, and I'd also like to be able to manipulate my own cellular structure on a molecular level and have the knowledge to not screw it up. And I'd like to have a better memory... and increased intellect.
Also, The Nameless One's kind of immortality would be kind of awesome if it weren't for the scarring.
I would, however like to live for as long as I want, which is to say that I'd be immortal until I decide I've lived long enough. That'd be pretty friggin awesome.
Oh, and I'd also like to be able to manipulate my own cellular structure on a molecular level and have the knowledge to not screw it up. And I'd like to have a better memory... and increased intellect.
Also, The Nameless One's kind of immortality would be kind of awesome if it weren't for the scarring.
Its not so much that. I'd honestly be more than happy to live without humanity. Pick up the others here that want to be immortal, build a spaceship that's good enough to keep US alive (Not your average, weak, human) and head of into space to explore shit. Along the way, we'll come up with new technologies and be able to travel faster and entertain ourselves in different ways.SimpleThunda said:
If there are no humans other than yourself who are immortal, program AI. God knows you have enough time to do it.
There are many solutions to being lonely, and so much to see out there. I doubt most people would stay on earth for their existence if they were immortal. You WOULD travel. Hell, worst case scenario fling yourself into a sun or supernova or black hole. You WILL die. No doubts about it.
Actually, they are going to die as it is. Immortality just ensures it happens before you die.AlAaraaf74 said:
Actually, I'd like the Dr. Manhattan kind of immortality, along with his powers I'd essentially cease to be human anyway, which is something I have nothing against. Humans are stupid, emotional, irrational creatures and I'm ashamed to be one of 'em(though not nearly as emotional or irrational as the average person, apparently, something I'm pround of).
I want to live forever and know everything. And I do mean everything. And then experiment. A whole lot.
I want to live forever and know everything. And I do mean everything. And then experiment. A whole lot.
How Immmortal are we talking here, because living through our sun going super nova wouldn't be cool. Even then you'll have probably spent the last few million years living on a planet where the human race died of long ago and has been replaced by a succession of more and more alien lifeforms and through a variety of hostile climates.
If you are immortal then you would have to see all of your friends die generation after generation.
I really, really would not like to live forever
I really, really would not like to live forever
Cracked had an article about the many reasons eternal life would suck. One of the things they brought up is that there is a finite possibility of getting stuck without ever being able to get loose - and so in the course of an eternal life, that is a very likely event. Being stuck in one place for eternity doesn't sound too nice.
Immortality/eternal life really just seems good at a glance, put some thought into it and it just seems like a horrible fate: Eventually, making friends will just seem pointless, as they will all die soon anyway; there is nothing new to do, just repeating things you've already done; no reason to learn anything new, as it will soon (from your perspective) be outdated anyway...
If you are immortal (as in, cannot die) rather than have eternal life (as in, cannot die of old age), you'll have the added bonus of there being no dangers, no downsides to contrast with the upsides. And, of course, eventually the universe will die - but you will live on, forever alone in an empty space. Eventually, you'll no longer remember what it was like to not be alone.
Immortality/eternal life really just seems good at a glance, put some thought into it and it just seems like a horrible fate: Eventually, making friends will just seem pointless, as they will all die soon anyway; there is nothing new to do, just repeating things you've already done; no reason to learn anything new, as it will soon (from your perspective) be outdated anyway...
If you are immortal (as in, cannot die) rather than have eternal life (as in, cannot die of old age), you'll have the added bonus of there being no dangers, no downsides to contrast with the upsides. And, of course, eventually the universe will die - but you will live on, forever alone in an empty space. Eventually, you'll no longer remember what it was like to not be alone.
For some reason, I thought of the Twilight Zone episode where the guy sells his soul to the devil and for immortality, then kills his wife to try and tantalize the police into giving him the death penalty. Of course, then the guy's lawyer get's him to life in prison, to which he says "Besides, you've only got like what, 30-40 more years to live? This won't be that bad."
That's one of the main reasons immortality would be an issue. The events in which the average human would die from starvation or suffocation or just life in a box, there'd be no escape. The worst thing that could happen to an immortal is developing FOP after you become an immortal. That would be a fate worse than death.
If you don't know what FOP is, it's when your ligaments become damaged, and instead of regrowing like normal ligaments, they ossify, which means they regenerate with bones. So, basically, if you have FOP, you're pretty much a statue until you die of starvation. The only things you could move would be your tongue, eyelids, and possibly lips.
I'm sorry for giving you all nightmares.
That's one of the main reasons immortality would be an issue. The events in which the average human would die from starvation or suffocation or just life in a box, there'd be no escape. The worst thing that could happen to an immortal is developing FOP after you become an immortal. That would be a fate worse than death.
If you don't know what FOP is, it's when your ligaments become damaged, and instead of regrowing like normal ligaments, they ossify, which means they regenerate with bones. So, basically, if you have FOP, you're pretty much a statue until you die of starvation. The only things you could move would be your tongue, eyelids, and possibly lips.
I'm sorry for giving you all nightmares.
I'd take immortality ONLY if suicide could kill me, at least then I'd have a way to end it if I had enough.
And before anyone starts on me I am not promoting suicide but without a way out of it then I'd just stay mortal.
And before anyone starts on me I am not promoting suicide but without a way out of it then I'd just stay mortal.
Long as I could stay young(ish), or get stuck with random debilitating diseases with no cure, I would not mind it at all, I would want to see what happens to the world.
I'd take it any day, even if it's just with age and not physically immortal too. The knowledge you could acquire, all the things you could do! I'd take that any day! That and free pension for the rest of your life!