Poll: Would you accept immortality?
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seeing as the green kool-aid man comes from the future it is entirely possible that in the future more people can become immortal, time travel is possible and for some reason you were singled out. that could mean you're a test subject or it could mean you are somehow vital for something which would make things more interesting. seeing as time travel is possible you can go back to when your friends and family were alive and see them again, it also means you don't have to experience most of the bad things described in the cracked article. if you are a test subject you can expect the people from the future to at least keep an eye out for you so you don't get stuck for eternity. so there; if your definition of the events are what you described there are no real problems with it and the fact that time travel is possible and those gummi bears had to be created somewhere/time shows that you won't be alone and/or doomed to insanity. seeing as life seems interesting enough to stick around for i would say hell yes.
The only way I would take that offer is if invulnerability didn't come with it. I'd prefer to be able to die at some point, and if I'm immune to age and disease, then I want to have someone be able to end me somehow.
@people saying they will fuck the government up because of them being immortal.
Invincibility won't help you none when a SWAT team (or some equivalent) holds you down. Invincible doesn't mean untouchable, so have fun spending eternity in a cell somewhere while being a lab rat until humanity inevitably destroys itself.
Invincibility won't help you none when a SWAT team (or some equivalent) holds you down. Invincible doesn't mean untouchable, so have fun spending eternity in a cell somewhere while being a lab rat until humanity inevitably destroys itself.
Well seeing as how I am a Protestant I have to decline, I would enjoy going to heaven. I also have some plans for up there and I really have to die to get the ball rolling. However if I knew there was no heaven and no afterlife, I would take it in a heartbeat.
The first few caveats are pretty much null and void:
1. By being immortal and invulnerable, you are essentially evolution personified. You are the endpoint of evolution. Evolution is all about survival, and by being able to survive EVERYTHING, nothing can evolve past you.
2. So what? Again, you are not only immortal, but also invulnerable and largely pain resistant. There is effectively nothing keeping you from strolling into the white house, telling the president you'd like to know how those nukes work and then dictating your demands to the world. The only reason the government has power is because they have a monopoly on using force, and as soon as that becomes a non-factor, they have lost their authority.
3. This actually is a good point. One could try to find some way to induce amnesia every century or so in order to keep your brain working. Since you can't die, you can try out many ways of achieving this.
4. The way I see it, one has to expect all friends and loved ones to die before them anyway (though I would not hope so). This is not much of a change from that assumption.
5. Not necessarily. It depends on your view of the future. I assume that mankind will eventually manage to leave this planet and expand to other places. Also, as long as you stay involved in a community, no one will just "forget" you either.
So ultimately, with the right outlook, it seems like a pretty good deal. Also, you might just have completely crushed my original plans for NaNoWriMo and given me an idea for a new project...
1. By being immortal and invulnerable, you are essentially evolution personified. You are the endpoint of evolution. Evolution is all about survival, and by being able to survive EVERYTHING, nothing can evolve past you.
2. So what? Again, you are not only immortal, but also invulnerable and largely pain resistant. There is effectively nothing keeping you from strolling into the white house, telling the president you'd like to know how those nukes work and then dictating your demands to the world. The only reason the government has power is because they have a monopoly on using force, and as soon as that becomes a non-factor, they have lost their authority.
3. This actually is a good point. One could try to find some way to induce amnesia every century or so in order to keep your brain working. Since you can't die, you can try out many ways of achieving this.
4. The way I see it, one has to expect all friends and loved ones to die before them anyway (though I would not hope so). This is not much of a change from that assumption.
5. Not necessarily. It depends on your view of the future. I assume that mankind will eventually manage to leave this planet and expand to other places. Also, as long as you stay involved in a community, no one will just "forget" you either.
So ultimately, with the right outlook, it seems like a pretty good deal. Also, you might just have completely crushed my original plans for NaNoWriMo and given me an idea for a new project...
Okay I'm just spit balling here; can I take a sharp knife and cut the little gummi bear in half (IT CAN BE DONE!) and share it with my significant other? If she wanted to be immortal, we'd be immortal together. If she didn't we'll die and grow old together. Simple as
Invincibility too? Oh hell to the yes.
Imagine the money to be made mwahahahahaha.
Ahem. Yes. Yes I would accept.
Imagine the money to be made mwahahahahaha.
Ahem. Yes. Yes I would accept.
And once they're done, do you think they'll want you walking around?RejjeN said:
Oh no, we seem to have accidentally dropped you into a big hole, and now we've accidentally poured concrete into the hole. Well, if you're lucky you'll eventually enter a catatonic state from the under-stimulation, but otherwise enjoy the next few thousand years..
That's if they even work out you're immortal, otherwise you'll just get life in prison being violently rammed at a 0.3 volume.
It's tempting. I'd take practically any fixed number, but actually forever.. Jesus no. Anything you did or enjoyed would eventually be obliviated by the number of years you'd spent freezing to death in space or being crushed by a singularity at 0.3 volume.
Even with everything that they pointed out in that article, I would still probably take it. I find the idea of what the future holds to be fascinating. And a chance to see it all go by would be a gift in itself. Overall I would say the benefits outweigh the problems that might arise.
1. Evolution will turn you into a freak: Over thousands of years something better, stronger, faster, and smarter will likely develop from humans, leaving you left behind as a freak.
That's not how evolution work.
Evolution is survival of the fittest, not strongest.
Sometimes, being smaller is better.
Besides, with all the conveniences of modern life, and the fact we've bypassed survival of the fittest to a large degree, humankind will likely evolve into small, weak, hairless men that can't survive a day without technology to feed him.
That's not how evolution work.
Evolution is survival of the fittest, not strongest.
Sometimes, being smaller is better.
Besides, with all the conveniences of modern life, and the fact we've bypassed survival of the fittest to a large degree, humankind will likely evolve into small, weak, hairless men that can't survive a day without technology to feed him.
I dunno its depends if you still need to eat and if pain still effects you in the same way. A man who dose not need food, sleep or shelter would be a truly free one, from human society at least since you wouldn't be paying for bills or taxes. You could just pick a direction and start walking exploring the world only needing new cloths and finding ways around boarder check points.
Id be tempted if I was given an option to end my immortally and die when Iv had enough I would take it
Id be tempted if I was given an option to end my immortally and die when Iv had enough I would take it
Of course I would.. but not publicly no. That would open up a whole new bag of worms and conflicts *Weapon X projects comes into mind.* For some strange reason, whenever there's something precious and good in this world.. some moronic government always tries to use it for their own means/agendas, while convincing it's own citizens that YOUR existence threatens them and their way of life *WTF that means*, and that your imprisonment it is for the greater good.
Paranoid people eat this up and fuel these morons with any necessities and requests they want.. allowing them to pretty much prob and probe you until they are satisfied. After that, they will either kill you *by now, they would've figured out a way* or use you.
So all and all, Yay on immortality and Nay on publicity.
Paranoid people eat this up and fuel these morons with any necessities and requests they want.. allowing them to pretty much prob and probe you until they are satisfied. After that, they will either kill you *by now, they would've figured out a way* or use you.
So all and all, Yay on immortality and Nay on publicity.
Fuck yeah ....
Living is better than dying, therefore eternal living > eternal death.
And yeah I can put up with the whole WoD Vampire Masquerade bullshit of having to hide away from humanity till the end of my days because I don't want other people to discover I'm immortal.
Living is better than dying, therefore eternal living > eternal death.
And yeah I can put up with the whole WoD Vampire Masquerade bullshit of having to hide away from humanity till the end of my days because I don't want other people to discover I'm immortal.
Step one: Eat gummy bear (omnom nom nom nom red ones are the best)
Step two: Freak out about the fact that I now need a new wall, coz cool-aid man famously doesn't do doors.
Step three: Sell everything of value I own and maybe a few things I don't. ;o)
Step four: Invest in stocks and shares for stable long term growth companies and start a few savings accounts.
Step five: Travel the world for about a hundred years or until see and do everything i can.
Step six: Use massive wealth generated from step four to invest in space travel.
Step seven: Blast off into space in my bad ass spaceship and tour the universe.
Step two: Freak out about the fact that I now need a new wall, coz cool-aid man famously doesn't do doors.
Step three: Sell everything of value I own and maybe a few things I don't. ;o)
Step four: Invest in stocks and shares for stable long term growth companies and start a few savings accounts.
Step five: Travel the world for about a hundred years or until see and do everything i can.
Step six: Use massive wealth generated from step four to invest in space travel.
Step seven: Blast off into space in my bad ass spaceship and tour the universe.
Hell yes I take immortality, even with the negative aspects as I think you could work around them.
1. Yes you could possibly be out evolved, however you would have knowledge and experience on your side. I magine any new sentient beings would make the same mistakes as humans have and I sure these new creatures are smart enough to know having someone who has lived through all this before could offer invaluable advice. Or if that fails remind them that I have one advantage over them, I can't become extinct they can and there is a likely chance that my body will still carry extinct human viruses and bacteria that these creatures aren't immune to. MUHAHAHAHA!
2. I suppose I could try and hide my immortality eg, changing my hair colour to grey and such as if I where ageing. Though that would only last so long as eventually people are going to start wondering why there is a supposedly 90 year man walking round with no wrinkles or health problems. Though if people do come after me again they need to remember I'm immortal, bullets and knives are like neetle stings to me, so if there coming for to use me for evil purposes they better have alot of expendable henchmen. Though if they come wanting to worship as a god then my ego might just allow it
3. That is a possibility, though I still could keep records and photographs which would certainly jog the memory banks. Also the human brain can hold serveral lifetimes of memories if wasn't for old age and death getting in the way. Staying forever at the peak of my bodies condition I imagine would help slow the loss of memory down quite a bit.
4. Time would possibly fly by quicker and quicker, but I imagine your perspective of how time passes would adapt. Also given that appear time passes quicker you get older maybe because it becomes clear that you will eventually get old and die, which by then you realise that there isn't enough time to do everything you want to do. If the prospect of old age and death is then taken away, in my opinion it might be possilbe that the reverse happens and time appears to go slower like when your a kid as your not worrying getting older and just living in the moment.
5. Getting trapped would be a problem that unfortunately you could nothing about unless you are rescued or soil erotion eventually frees you. Being stuck on this planet after it becomes uninhabitable could be more avoidalbe though, as the sun won't die for hundreds of millions of years, who knows what science will have uncovered in that time. I could possibly leave the planet and travel to a new planet, or even time travel could be possible by then and I could just go back to very beginning of the Earth and live through it all again. At least that way I have a way to go back and see loved ones that have died off, or if I eventually get bored, imitate Wowbagger and insult everyone in existence.
1. Yes you could possibly be out evolved, however you would have knowledge and experience on your side. I magine any new sentient beings would make the same mistakes as humans have and I sure these new creatures are smart enough to know having someone who has lived through all this before could offer invaluable advice. Or if that fails remind them that I have one advantage over them, I can't become extinct they can and there is a likely chance that my body will still carry extinct human viruses and bacteria that these creatures aren't immune to. MUHAHAHAHA!
2. I suppose I could try and hide my immortality eg, changing my hair colour to grey and such as if I where ageing. Though that would only last so long as eventually people are going to start wondering why there is a supposedly 90 year man walking round with no wrinkles or health problems. Though if people do come after me again they need to remember I'm immortal, bullets and knives are like neetle stings to me, so if there coming for to use me for evil purposes they better have alot of expendable henchmen. Though if they come wanting to worship as a god then my ego might just allow it
3. That is a possibility, though I still could keep records and photographs which would certainly jog the memory banks. Also the human brain can hold serveral lifetimes of memories if wasn't for old age and death getting in the way. Staying forever at the peak of my bodies condition I imagine would help slow the loss of memory down quite a bit.
4. Time would possibly fly by quicker and quicker, but I imagine your perspective of how time passes would adapt. Also given that appear time passes quicker you get older maybe because it becomes clear that you will eventually get old and die, which by then you realise that there isn't enough time to do everything you want to do. If the prospect of old age and death is then taken away, in my opinion it might be possilbe that the reverse happens and time appears to go slower like when your a kid as your not worrying getting older and just living in the moment.
5. Getting trapped would be a problem that unfortunately you could nothing about unless you are rescued or soil erotion eventually frees you. Being stuck on this planet after it becomes uninhabitable could be more avoidalbe though, as the sun won't die for hundreds of millions of years, who knows what science will have uncovered in that time. I could possibly leave the planet and travel to a new planet, or even time travel could be possible by then and I could just go back to very beginning of the Earth and live through it all again. At least that way I have a way to go back and see loved ones that have died off, or if I eventually get bored, imitate Wowbagger and insult everyone in existence.
I can't really answer the question. Immortality isn't something I really wish for, but I would need to get a taste of it 1st in order to give an opinion. I'm guessin' it would be fun for the 1st thousand years or so, but it would depend of the kind of person one is. Are you emotionally attached to people or other things that fade away over the course of time?... it's really beyond our comprehension at this point, but the personality of the immortal person would be a defining factor that determines mental stability.
