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You get to choose to live forever or not. What do you choose/why?

Padawanbater2

Padawanbater2

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To be clear, living forever, means forever. This means you are unable to die, ever. Pain still affects you normally as you would experience as a human. This means if you are ever caught in a fire somehow, you physically experience that pain for as long as it takes you to get out of it. The only thing different is that your body isn't physically affected, meaning it can sustain the elements indefinitely.

This means when the Earth is no longer inhabitable, you're still around. Floating in space until something else happens. Perhaps humanity has traveled elsewhere by now, it's been a few billion years, it's not out of the realm of possibility.. but what happens when the universe you're in faces cold death? The point where existence on the atomic level stops. What then? Is a few dozen billion years worth a potential eternity of nothingness?

What if existence just kept going? Would your answer still be the same?
 
ThE sAtIvA hIgH

ThE sAtIvA hIgH

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hmmmmmmmm i think i would say yes i want to live forever , but depends ...............when do i stop age-ing? it would suck to be stuck in a 100 year olds body forever .but to be young and healthy forever would be good .
 
Bonsai

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ThE sAtIvA hIgH said:
hmmmmmmmm i think i would say yes i want to live forever , but depends ...............when do i stop age-ing? it would suck to be stuck in a 100 year olds body forever .but to be young and healthy forever would be good .
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Of course you'd expect to at least be some-what elf-like where you're matured but not old aged, I would accept it too for it would benefit not only you but the rest of man kind with the amount of knowledge you would eventually possess. You would probably end up having some serious psychosis after a while though...
 
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joe macclennan

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ThE sAtIvA hIgH said:
hmmmmmmmm i think i would say yes i want to live forever , but depends ...............when do i stop age-ing? it would suck to be stuck in a 100 year olds body forever .but to be young and healthy forever would be good .
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yep, it depends on the quality of life experienced. If your body degrades..then hell no!

watching everyone you care about die...not so cool either.

nope, I hope I'm dead before 80...seriously. After that point your contribution to society is nil......not that i'm a huge contributor now or anything lol.

I don't want to be shitting my pants or having to use "life alert" when i've fallen and can't get up.
 
racerboy71

racerboy71

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ThE sAtIvA hIgH said:
hmmmmmmmm i think i would say yes i want to live forever , but depends ...............when do i stop age-ing? it would suck to be stuck in a 100 year olds body forever .but to be young and healthy forever would be good .
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that's the thing, do you age, or do you stay say 20 for ever?? i'm already not looking forward to getting old, too much pain, too much death around you to deal with, too much old person body..
if you lived forever, i'm assuming you'll also age forever, in which case, umm, no... i love old people, but sometimes they can be depressing as all get out.. alzheimers, forgetting who you are, who your family is, eff that, it's for the birds..
who wants to live forever only to be bed ridden for 900 million years? no thanks, i'll pass..
 
Zaehet Strife

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No, i would get bored and lonely. I would rather cease to exist than to exist without anyone or anything to keep me company. I would drive myself fuckin crazy, shit i do a pretty good job at that even now, lol.
 
krrrap

krrrap

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I feel I already am living forever. I remember past lives that I've gone through and I keep coming back to this boring place. I remember being all kinds of animals too not just various humans. So if I could I would choose cease existing. It would be nice to truely rest.

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Padawanbater2

Padawanbater2

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Where does the value originate from something that is infinite?

I think infinity is a concept we can't really grasp, so to the average person, an eternity in paradise sounds awesome, but if you think about it, even the best things get tiresome.. Imagine having a constant orgasm.. how long do you think it would take before you eventually started feeling like it was just normal? Pleasure fades, that's one of the things about it, it doesn't last forever.. Unless somehow within this ultimate paradise you had a way to tell your brain to constantly be stimulated by the same amount of pleasure, that limit would be reached really early. Think of a heroin addict with an unlimited supply.. Sure, he'd be in heaven for a while, but how long till he needs enough to kill him to feel the same amount of pleasure?


If I were in this situation, I feel like I'd need to take a vacation to Hell every couple centuries just to recharge my batteries on what paradise actually is...


Also, not having the option to ever opt out terrifies me. Imagine if you had to exist, always... holy shit!
 
Zaehet Strife

Zaehet Strife

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Padawanbater2 said:
Where does the value originate from something that is infinite?

I think infinity is a concept we can't really grasp, so to the average person, an eternity in paradise sounds awesome, but if you think about it, even the best things get tiresome.. Imagine having a constant orgasm.. how long do you think it would take before you eventually started feeling like it was just normal? Pleasure fades, that's one of the things about it, it doesn't last forever.. Unless somehow within this ultimate paradise you had a way to tell your brain to constantly be stimulated by the same amount of pleasure, that limit would be reached really early. Think of a heroin addict with an unlimited supply.. Sure, he'd be in heaven for a while, but how long till he needs enough to kill him to feel the same amount of pleasure?


If I were in this situation, I feel like I'd need to take a vacation to Hell every couple centuries just to recharge my batteries on what paradise actually is...


Also, not having the option to ever opt out terrifies me. Imagine if you had to exist, always... holy shit!
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Never thought of that, what if this right now, is our little vacation to "hell"? Great idea.
 
dannyboy602

dannyboy602

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Padawanbater2 said:
To be clear, living forever, means forever. This means you are unable to die, ever. Pain still affects you normally as you would experience as a human. This means if you are ever caught in a fire somehow, you physically experience that pain for as long as it takes you to get out of it. The only thing different is that your body isn't physically affected, meaning it can sustain the elements indefinitely.

This means when the Earth is no longer inhabitable, you're still around. Floating in space until something else happens. Perhaps humanity has traveled elsewhere by now, it's been a few billion years, it's not out of the realm of possibility.. but what happens when the universe you're in faces cold death? The point where existence on the atomic level stops. What then? Is a few dozen billion years worth a potential eternity of nothingness?

What if existence just kept going? Would your answer still be the same?
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with these parameters i don't know anyone who would want to live forever. i would like however to go from the birth of man to the death of man. that would be a wild ride.
 
Zaehet Strife

Zaehet Strife

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It would be sweet to live from the time of the caveman to present times until we become extinct. That would be ideal.
 
Beefbisquit

Beefbisquit

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If I'm going to live forever, does my body age, or do I stay at my ideal age forever? e.g. 28-32 years old?

Am I impervious to damage? Like, if I stood right beside the Tzar bomba when it went off, would my body withstand the blast, or would I just be vaporized and be some 'consciousness' just floating around? Would I feel the pain, but my body wouldn't be damaged?

Are you assuming that consciousness can exist outside of the mind?



And on a side note; a little comedic relief!

[video=youtube_share;LZJ-_OTvsqo]http://youtu.be/LZJ-_OTvsqo[/video]
 
MonkeyGrinder

MonkeyGrinder

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I think in theory it would be pretty awesome to do something like that. I mean you would get to experience so much it's almost unfathomable. If you take a step back and think about all the changes that have gone on in the last 5 centuries alone it's pretty awesome. And where we're at right now and the speed we're progressing forward? Hell yeah. I'd like to see/experience the future.
 
Padawanbater2

Padawanbater2

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Beefbisquit said:
If I'm going to live forever, does my body age, or do I stay at my ideal age forever? e.g. 28-32 years old?

Am I impervious to damage? Like, if I stood right beside the Tzar bomba when it went off, would my body withstand the blast, or would I just be vaporized and be some 'consciousness' just floating around? Would I feel the pain, but my body wouldn't be damaged?

Are you assuming that consciousness can exist outside of the mind?

And on a side note; a little comedic relief!

[video=youtube_share;LZJ-_OTvsqo]http://youtu.be/LZJ-_OTvsqo[/video]
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Yeah exactly, you can't die no matter what. The Earth gets destroyed by the Suns expansion in 4 billion years, you're still here (interesting, you'd get to experience that shit, I might change my mind just for that experience..) floating off in space til you either reach some planet you can live on or some alien race scoops you up or whatever. No physical pain from damage, and I'll give you being stuck at around 30 years old indefinitely

Jim Jefferies is awesome, that was a great set

MonkeyGrinder said:
I think in theory it would be pretty awesome to do something like that. I mean you would get to experience so much it's almost unfathomable. If you take a step back and think about all the changes that have gone on in the last 5 centuries alone it's pretty awesome. And where we're at right now and the speed we're progressing forward? Hell yeah. I'd like to see/experience the future.
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For eternity, though?
 
Beefbisquit

Beefbisquit

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Padawanbater2 said:
Yeah exactly, you can't die no matter what. The Earth gets destroyed by the Suns expansion in 4 billion years, you're still here (interesting, you'd get to experience that shit, I might change my mind just for that experience..) floating off in space til you either reach some planet you can live on or some alien race scoops you up or whatever. No physical pain from damage, and I'll give you being stuck at around 30 years old indefinitely

Jim Jefferies is awesome, that was a great set



For eternity, though?
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If I didn't also inherit other powers that would prevent me from being 'captured' and experimented on, I don't think I'd want to live forever. Being a powerless immortal doesn't sound fun.

Now, If I was immortal and had say.... Superman or Dr. Manhattan's powers that's a different story altogether.... :D

[video=youtube_share;k_7kg5ZzDZo]http://youtu.be/k_7kg5ZzDZo[/video]
 
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