How would you pass the time if you were immortal?
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I'd start doing press ups every day for twenty years then add a new exercise every twenty years to see what my body looked like hulking mass or small and scarily ripped. Probably become the number one authority on all things martial art and weapon related and run across the world parkouring.
I'd probably just live an epic adventurer, mountain-climbing, skydiving, rockstar life.
Basically a mix of James Bond, Eddie Van Halen and David Attenborough :-D
As to solving the problems of mankind, if you can't do it yourselves you don't deserve my help. Just because I'm immortal doesn't mean that my way is right, in fact being immortal my choices may end up being totally wrong for the human race and screw it up more. Though I would certainly do something along the lines of what Steve Irwin tried to do with his life... the whole looking after the natural world and trying to get others interested is a worthy path, it's when you try to force people that it's wrong.
Basically a mix of James Bond, Eddie Van Halen and David Attenborough :-D
As to solving the problems of mankind, if you can't do it yourselves you don't deserve my help. Just because I'm immortal doesn't mean that my way is right, in fact being immortal my choices may end up being totally wrong for the human race and screw it up more. Though I would certainly do something along the lines of what Steve Irwin tried to do with his life... the whole looking after the natural world and trying to get others interested is a worthy path, it's when you try to force people that it's wrong.
1. Create vast global conspiracy to control the world.
2. Give some information/advanced power armor to a carefully selected youthful rebel.
3. Train for Showdown.
4. Repeat.
2. Give some information/advanced power armor to a carefully selected youthful rebel.
3. Train for Showdown.
4. Repeat.
taking over the world sounds like a good choice and once there are none of those lousy politicians in the way i can work on fixing the worlds problems at the point of my sword then decree that the villain must win against the pathetic hero in at least 2 in 6 films and finally learn everything i can and make my contribution to advancing humanity so i will want for nothing
To those who said they try to conquer the world, kill people, wage wars etc.- the problem with your thinking is that you mistake immortality for invincibility. For instance, if you were to say invade a country single handedly it would be entirely possible for that country to capture you. Then they could imprison you in a block of concrete buried under the ground, trapping you in an unending hell for all of eternity. There would be nothing but darkness and immobility forever.
Remember that there are many forms of dead. It would also be plausible to hack off your limbs, break your spinal cord, or horribly disfigure you (this applies to the ?stab my self?, ?jump off a building? people as well). I suggest you read the novel ?Johnny Got His Gun? to illustrate the horrors of not dying.
Remember that there are many forms of dead. It would also be plausible to hack off your limbs, break your spinal cord, or horribly disfigure you (this applies to the ?stab my self?, ?jump off a building? people as well). I suggest you read the novel ?Johnny Got His Gun? to illustrate the horrors of not dying.
Learn all the languages of the world,
Read/listen to/look at/appreciate in general all the works of art in the world
Travel the world and visit everywhere, then do it continualy because it will have changed by the time I reached the other end
Make enough money to buy a private island
Spend my days as an elusive celebrity immortal who has seen everything, knows all and has met nearly everyone
Write my memoirs
Play computer games forever
This would be my dream life, actually
OH, AND NUMBER ONE: Construct a private zeppellin
Read/listen to/look at/appreciate in general all the works of art in the world
Travel the world and visit everywhere, then do it continualy because it will have changed by the time I reached the other end
Make enough money to buy a private island
Spend my days as an elusive celebrity immortal who has seen everything, knows all and has met nearly everyone
Write my memoirs
Play computer games forever
This would be my dream life, actually
OH, AND NUMBER ONE: Construct a private zeppellin
I would become a god and create my own universe.
Time is relative, and that relativity is based upon life span. If one were to be immortal the standard definition and conception of time would no longer have any merit. Therefore the passing of centuries would not be that big of a deal to the immortal as one might imagine.
Since years are not an issue, it would be entirely possible to amass a substantial amount of wealth with little to no effort. Take a significant amount of money and invest into several high return CDs (the banking kind not the music kind), a few Roth IRAs (tax free after the age 59 or so), and savings account or two. Take the money out in a century, reinvest at a better rate if possible, and repeat.
After a large fortune as been accumulated, I would invest the money (with the assistance of programs like NASA) into engineering the first galaxy-to-galaxy transportation. Since time is relative the centuries it would take to reach these other galaxies would seem much shorter than for the average life form(even when taking into account Einstein?s theory of time and light speed travel). Also, due to immortality, my metabolism rate should be astronomical. Thus negating the need to stock the ship with the necessities to maintain the average mortal. Less food and water, more space for things to occupy time such as literature and music. The ship would also contain several DNA samples as well as dormant bacteria and other simple celled organisms.
After, scanning the universe and finding a planet that most closely represents earth (although devoid of life)I would land. Upon the simple act of my arrival, the very bacteria inside my digestive tract as well as the bacteria I brought with me including the DNA samples, would theoretically jump start the evolutionary processes on the new planet. Being the dominant life form (as well as my DNA), evolutionary traits could possibly dictate a trend to resemble myself. Therefore I could possibly create a world in my image.
Witness the birth of life through the phases of evolution continuing to a new space age, and repeat.
I have no idea if this theory holds up to rigor, but I think it sounds pretty cool.
Time is relative, and that relativity is based upon life span. If one were to be immortal the standard definition and conception of time would no longer have any merit. Therefore the passing of centuries would not be that big of a deal to the immortal as one might imagine.
Since years are not an issue, it would be entirely possible to amass a substantial amount of wealth with little to no effort. Take a significant amount of money and invest into several high return CDs (the banking kind not the music kind), a few Roth IRAs (tax free after the age 59 or so), and savings account or two. Take the money out in a century, reinvest at a better rate if possible, and repeat.
After a large fortune as been accumulated, I would invest the money (with the assistance of programs like NASA) into engineering the first galaxy-to-galaxy transportation. Since time is relative the centuries it would take to reach these other galaxies would seem much shorter than for the average life form(even when taking into account Einstein?s theory of time and light speed travel). Also, due to immortality, my metabolism rate should be astronomical. Thus negating the need to stock the ship with the necessities to maintain the average mortal. Less food and water, more space for things to occupy time such as literature and music. The ship would also contain several DNA samples as well as dormant bacteria and other simple celled organisms.
After, scanning the universe and finding a planet that most closely represents earth (although devoid of life)I would land. Upon the simple act of my arrival, the very bacteria inside my digestive tract as well as the bacteria I brought with me including the DNA samples, would theoretically jump start the evolutionary processes on the new planet. Being the dominant life form (as well as my DNA), evolutionary traits could possibly dictate a trend to resemble myself. Therefore I could possibly create a world in my image.
Witness the birth of life through the phases of evolution continuing to a new space age, and repeat.
I have no idea if this theory holds up to rigor, but I think it sounds pretty cool.
I'd beat WoW 
Or I would put myself in a freezerwhen all my relatives die and wait 500 years and see if you can resurrect people then and if I could I would ressurrect mommy and daddy and live happyever after :]
Or I would put myself in a freezerwhen all my relatives die and wait 500 years and see if you can resurrect people then and if I could I would ressurrect mommy and daddy and live happyever after :]
Do everything there ever was ever. Invent everything, create everything, build everything, learn everything. Everything. I would be the ultimate being of knolledge. My last project would be a bomb that would destroy everything, so that nothing else could ever reach my level of being ever again.
