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Poll: Would you like to live forever?
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Yes
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No
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22 61.11%
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Who Wants to Live Forever?
#21
RE: Who Wants to Live Forever?
Personally I agree with chucks requirements, except my purpose would be different. I'd like to travel time as well as space, namely because I've always wondered what a dinosaur would taste like. See I imagine if I was immortal my motives would be even more screwed up then they are now. I may end like a character from hitch hikers guide to the galaxy and build a restaurant at the end of time.. To quote a certain Lord Tyrion "Death is final, where as life is full of possibilities."
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
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#22
RE: Who Wants to Live Forever?
I would hate living forever. It would be kinda a lonely experience. I'd like to live maybe one or two lifetimes, but not forever, that sounds dreadful.
I've learned something from science fiction: the idea of wanting to live forever in itself can sound pleasurable, but actually living it out would be very scaring. Seeing all the people you love die, etc.

Just my two cents there.

-Lady Katherine
"The more I study religions, the more I am convinced that man never worshiped anything but himself."
- Sir Richard Francis Burton

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#23
RE: Who Wants to Live Forever?
I don't want to die Sad
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#24
RE: Who Wants to Live Forever?
This much awesomeness should not be allowed to die. Just sayin'.
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#25
RE: Who Wants to Live Forever?
Life is not a choice. You did not choose to enter life when you entered your mother's womb, no one asked you. We are not here because we have a choice, we are here because we do not. Even if our current form dies, another will arise. It will never end. You can't end life no matter what you do.
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#26
RE: Who Wants to Live Forever?
(May 20, 2014 at 9:28 am)Ksa Wrote: Life is not a choice. You did not choose to enter life when you entered your mother's womb, no one asked you. We are not here because we have a choice, we are here because we do not. Even if our current form dies, another will arise. It will never end. You can't end life no matter what you do.

What? Please explain.
Skepticism is not a position; it is an approach to claims.
Science is not a subject, but a method.
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#27
RE: Who Wants to Live Forever?
I thought I had already posted in this thread, but I suppose I had not.

Would I want eternal life if it was granted to me? Most assuredly.

i believe some of the people who write about immortality, and the negatives that are attributed to eternal life, honestly have limited their imaginations for the sake of a rather dismal plot.
"Never trust a fox. Looks like a dog, behaves like a cat."
~ Erin Hunter
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#28
RE: Who Wants to Live Forever?
(May 20, 2014 at 9:41 am)Kitanetos Wrote: i believe some of the people who write about immortality, and the negatives that are attributed to eternal life, honestly have limited their imaginations for the sake of a rather dismal plot.

hmmmmm. I don't think so.

Take 10 billion years and multiply it times a trillion years and then multiply that by 100 trillion years and then realize that that is like the very first SECOND of eternity. No thanks. You can have forever.
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#29
RE: Who Wants to Live Forever?
(May 20, 2014 at 9:49 am)Cinjin Wrote: You can have forever.

Gladly accepts it. Wink Shades
"Never trust a fox. Looks like a dog, behaves like a cat."
~ Erin Hunter
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#30
RE: Who Wants to Live Forever?
I thought I had seen this discussion somewhere, but...no. Life is infinitely fascinating, but various infrastructural questions would need answered before I could see living even one more lifetime.
"For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring." - Carl Sagan
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