Immortality
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Without the sense of the clock ticking so to speak whats the incentive to do anything? If you've got forever to do something, why bother?
Our limited time on this mortal coil does sort of force us into action.
Our limited time on this mortal coil does sort of force us into action.
I'd enjoy immortality, up until the point when the world is, in billions of years, destroyed when the sun dies. Then I would be screwed. I suppose then I could wait for a bit and then start making my way towards other planets that show signs of life, getting around space using a swimming motion. That might take a while though. And I'd get tired.
if i could stay this age or maybe get to 30 then yes i would live forever
however im not sure, i would see everyone i know die around me, make new friends? they will do the same
live for millions of years, inevitably i would be revered, probably travelling the universe as much as i want
but all this would come at the cost of never having anyone to share it with.
however im not sure, i would see everyone i know die around me, make new friends? they will do the same
live for millions of years, inevitably i would be revered, probably travelling the universe as much as i want
but all this would come at the cost of never having anyone to share it with.
If you stay eternal young, then yes.
Everything boils down to that everyone will die and you'll stay alive.
Granted there is no difference to how it is now, being mortal.
I know I will outlive my parents (unless i die of accident or anything else), just as they outlived their parents.
Friends will die, sure, but you can always get new ones. I lost contact with alot of people since...kindergarden and gotten new ones over time as I grew up.
Companionships, well alot of people re-marry these days and time heals everything even if you dislike remarrige.
What I mean to say is; Every person goes through this and can handle it. Only difference is as a Immortal, you'll experience it alot more. Myself I don't see it as a problem. If you're born with it or make the decision yourself, is another matter.
I'd rather make the decision myself (choose to be immortal that is), then having it put onto me by birth. Why? Because I believe myself to be mentally capable of handling it.
Now people say it can be boring after some millenia,
What would be boring? You can basically do everything and due to the human society, things will evolve and there will always be new things to do.
We don't know what will happen in 100 years, but if space exploration and colonization will become reality, even better. New planets, new things.
What would really suck is if humankind dies out and you're left alone, but even that doesn't mean it the end. You have a infinite time to travel searching for aliens or hell make new humans if you have the knowledge, and why wouldn't you? Read books dammit. Yes you'd be God in that sense.
The best part though: No need to take out the trash. It will turn into dirt if you wait long enough.
Ps.
Take it with a grain of salt.
Everything boils down to that everyone will die and you'll stay alive.
Granted there is no difference to how it is now, being mortal.
I know I will outlive my parents (unless i die of accident or anything else), just as they outlived their parents.
Friends will die, sure, but you can always get new ones. I lost contact with alot of people since...kindergarden and gotten new ones over time as I grew up.
Companionships, well alot of people re-marry these days and time heals everything even if you dislike remarrige.
What I mean to say is; Every person goes through this and can handle it. Only difference is as a Immortal, you'll experience it alot more. Myself I don't see it as a problem. If you're born with it or make the decision yourself, is another matter.
I'd rather make the decision myself (choose to be immortal that is), then having it put onto me by birth. Why? Because I believe myself to be mentally capable of handling it.
Now people say it can be boring after some millenia,
What would be boring? You can basically do everything and due to the human society, things will evolve and there will always be new things to do.
We don't know what will happen in 100 years, but if space exploration and colonization will become reality, even better. New planets, new things.
What would really suck is if humankind dies out and you're left alone, but even that doesn't mean it the end. You have a infinite time to travel searching for aliens or hell make new humans if you have the knowledge, and why wouldn't you? Read books dammit. Yes you'd be God in that sense.
The best part though: No need to take out the trash. It will turn into dirt if you wait long enough.
Ps.
Take it with a grain of salt.
You know how time seem shorter as you get older? It would seem likely that if you had lived for a thousand years, someone else's lifetime would just seem like the blink of an eye. So, basically you'd be incapable of making friends.
http://www.cracked.com/article_17185_7-awesome-super-powers-ruined-by-science.html
Read number one.
http://www.cracked.com/article_17185_7-awesome-super-powers-ruined-by-science.html
Read number one.
Screw all the naysayiers, immortality would rock!
Think of all the things we could learn and master, all the information we could absorb, all the places you could see, all the girls you could get.
It would be awesome.
Think of all the things we could learn and master, all the information we could absorb, all the places you could see, all the girls you could get.
It would be awesome.
If you think about it, ingrained into the subconscious mind of every human being is the knowledge that one day, they will die. This is ingrained from the point that we achieve self-consciousness and the ability to conceptualise - we realise from observation of the world around us and from our own thoughts that one day, we will no longer exist.
I think at this current point in time very few people could cope with the mental strain of being immortal - we are used to boundaries, to limits (hence our problems with understanding how the universe is infinite), and to change this to a degree where time doesn't matter to us any more would likely prove too much of a system shock to most people imo.
However, that being said, if you grew up in a world where this sort of thing was common-place then your attitude would probably be shaped differently. Although I'm not sure how you'd stave off interminable boredom...
I think at this current point in time very few people could cope with the mental strain of being immortal - we are used to boundaries, to limits (hence our problems with understanding how the universe is infinite), and to change this to a degree where time doesn't matter to us any more would likely prove too much of a system shock to most people imo.
However, that being said, if you grew up in a world where this sort of thing was common-place then your attitude would probably be shaped differently. Although I'm not sure how you'd stave off interminable boredom...
My point exactly. I like the idea of eternal youth, but imagine the state you would be in if you were 300 hundred years old... not exactly attracting the ladies...bernthalbob616 said:
Yes, butGothmogII said:
I'm really not too sure. Somebody immortal would live life from a completely different perspective we simply cannot imagine. Try and imagine you were a 70 yard long Dinosaur. Or a fly. The entire way you percept and feel things would be completely different. In the end I reckon immortality would either lead to (what we would call) madness or some kind of 'state of divine knowlegde'. Which we'd probably call madness as well.GothmogII said: