Poll: Invincible Or Immortal

[Dragonforce525]

I'd be invincible and die of old age, fuck being immortal, sure it'd be great to begin with, but I don't think I could handle seeing all of my loved ones die before me.

 

[Simalacrum]

...hold on a second, does invincibility mean that you'll eventually die of old age, rather than become a shrivelled up corpse thats still alive?

 

[RadiusXd]

additional thoughts.
if i were invincible, could I be suffocated?

 

[Zealous]

Invincible. That way I can be a total badass, but i don't have to outlive everyone I know.

 

[Agent_Nahmen_Jayden]

I would be immortal, then when they find a way to time travel I would decide whether or not to go back in time, and if I ultimately hate my exsistence I would tell my past self to just choose invincibility. Everything would be erased from my memory at that point so it's like nothing happened.

ahhhh see, see what you did just now, you've made yourself a paradox!
if you go back in time to tell yourself to pick invinciblity, then you won't have lived forever and made a time machine, therefore you can't have gone back to tell yourself to pick invincibilty. therefore you will be immortal afterall.
to quote the big bang theory, "this is a classic rookie time travel mistake".

I...I'm so ashamed...

And I call myself an Agent.

 

[Bad LT.]

Godmode or Buddha?

To run around without pain or death, fearing nothing but the march or time, or to be able to feel pain, to be pushed to the edge, to be able to live forever, through intolerable pain, never being able to escape. Deep, deep stuff...

Personally I would pick immortality, but only if I could choose when to die, no one really wants to live forever.

 

[Valkyrie101]

Invincibility, because immortality still carries the risk of death. It's not like you are actually going to live for ever, because statistically you will be killed eventually. Better to guarantee a natural lifespan by being invincible, so you don't have to live in fear of death (the longer the life, the bigger a threat death comes - if it's scary to us now, think what it would be like if you had eternity to lose). Besides, I could do a lot of good with my invincibility.

 

[Taddy]

Immortal, i could deal with the idea of out-living everyone else. It happens either way.

 

[Not-here-anymore]

Immortal - avoiding death by less natural causes is fairly easy, and I'd like to see how the world will change in the years to come.

 

[Iron_will]

Immortality. If I wouldn't age, could kill myself and especially if I was unaffected by all that jazz about your perception of time.

 

[Biosophilogical]

Immortal.

I'd like to live through several thousand years of social and cultural changes. It'd be interesting.

Amen brother (which is weird because I am not religious and you are not my direct blood kin).

Also, I assume that if you are immortal you can die by non-age means, but you would still heal like a normal person from non-mortal wounds. So with immortality I can live as long as I want without getting old and wrinkled and hunched, but still be able to die at my time of choosing.

 

[Kris015]

I prefer being immortal.

 

[Biosophilogical]

I would be immortal, then when they find a way to time travel I would decide whether or not to go back in time, and if I ultimately hate my exsistence I would tell my past self to just choose invincibility. Everything would be erased from my memory at that point so it's like nothing happened.

ahhhh see, see what you did just now, you've made yourself a paradox!
if you go back in time to tell yourself to pick invinciblity, then you won't have lived forever and made a time machine, therefore you can't have gone back to tell yourself to pick invincibilty. therefore you will be immortal afterall.
to quote the big bang theory, "this is a classic rookie time travel mistake".

I...I'm so ashamed...

And I call myself an Agent.

Easy solution, tell your past self to pick immortality but then tell him everything you screwed up and how to fix it, hand it to him written down, then tell him how to build a time-machine and to come back in time in 'X' many years (basically after he has gone through your list) and tell his former self to pick immortality and fix up anything he screwed up, handing him a list etc. I mean, you'd cease to exist, but you would have given the new timeline the means to sustain itself by adding something to the timeline by removing it from your own.

 

[Zeema]

I would go immortality IF i didn't age past 25 think about like you could be playing Call of Duty 9000 and then you would think back remember 'Cod MW2 that game was great and now COD 9000 Is WAY better then that'. Maybe thats just me.

 

[Glademaster_v1legacy]

These two concepts are similar in that they both obviously avoid death in some way. Immortality takes death by old age out of the picture, while invincibility protects you from harm (for the purpose of this survey, invincibility does not protect from deterioration of cells. a.k.a old age).

So if you had to choose, would you live forever or live a life without injury (and why)?

P.S Trust me, I know the speed of your cells' independent degeneration is indicative of your invincible longevity so theoretically it doesn't make sense, but frankly neither of things are possible. So, which would it be?

Being invincible does not protect you from harm. Being invulnerable makes you immune to harm and being indestructible means you can't be destroyed. Being Invincible means that you can't be beaten. This has been skewed by video games as Invincibility means you can die and are immune to harm but this is what makes you unbeatable. Even still invincibility is an impossibility. Even in Super Mario if you collect a Star you can still fall down a hole and die. Thus being defeated.

Invincibility, because immortality still carries the risk of death. It's not like you are actually going to live for ever, because statistically you will be killed eventually. Better to guarantee a natural lifespan by being invincible, so you don't have to live in fear of death (the longer the life, the bigger a threat death comes - if it's scary to us now, think what it would be like if you had eternity to lose). Besides, I could do a lot of good with my invincibility.

You do know immortal carries no risk of death by any means what so ever? The point of being mortal is that you die. So by being without mortallity or immortal means death cannot affect you in anyway.

 

[StarStruckStrumpets]

Invincibility, because all my life I've wanted to help people in greater ways than just talking through their problems like a counsellor. If I could save someone's life, I could die happily. Immortality would just suck, everyone I'd care about me would just die.

 

[shadow741]

Invincible. Immortal would probably fuck up your mind and emotions with too many personal (or not (hint: end of world)) tragedies.

 

[The Arc of Eden]

Invincible. Just so I can point and laugh at People's pathetic attempts to kill me.

 

[Exocet]

On one hand,invincibilty would allow me to do stupid shit like jump out of an airplane?But on the other hand,I really,really want to own my own spaceship.
Such a hard choice....Oh what the hell,invincibility,just so I can be as careless as I want with death defying stunts.

 

[Musclepunch]

Immortality, I'd love to go through the generations dedicating my life to different areas, help science,medicine,sport and other things to affect society, it would be interesting. Oh and I'd go and kill the taliban.