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If you could be immortal... (poll)
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Irascato, I liked your story. Maybe it could be a revenge story. Imagine one of the scientists who approved you for the experiment had a grudge against you and guessed that never ending life would be torture. In the end, you would know that they got their revenge.
Eternal life sounds horrible.  RE: If you could be immortal... (poll)
June 20, 2015 at 9:34 am
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(June 20, 2015 at 12:01 am)Catholic_Lady Wrote: If you could take a pill that would cause you to stop aging and render you immortal until the end of the world (whatever this means to you), would you take it? Yes I'd definitely take it. I don't like the thought of aging, mental and physical deterioration. I enjoy living. And this is only until the end of the world, which to me means the point when the earth stops supporting life I'm guessing. I wouldn't want to live on a molten ball of rock with no one else around waiting for it to explode for a few millennia. I could learn new languages and new skills beyond normal human comprehension, I can't see a downside to it. This is as long as I can definitely die when everyone else dies around me and it's the end of the world in that sense. Are you ready for the fire? We are firemen. WE ARE FIREMEN! The heat doesn’t bother us. We live in the heat. We train in the heat. It tells us that we’re ready, we’re at home, we’re where we’re supposed to be. Flames don’t intimidate us. What do we do? We control the flame. We control them. We move the flames where we want to. And then we extinguish them. Impersonation is treason. 
Definitely. I don't want to die unless it's my own choice.
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No. One can only jerk off and watch re-runs for so long.
 (June 20, 2015 at 12:17 am)Jenny A Wrote: It would depend on what immortality really meant. That is to say I'm aging and slowing down both mentally and physically. If this went on indefinitely, an eternity of it would be hell. Wait, take that back, an eternity of just about anything might be really, really bad. Can I live eternally until I don't want to anymore? That would be perfect. That ^
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 (June 20, 2015 at 12:01 am)Catholic_Lady Wrote: If you could take a pill that would cause you to stop aging and render you immortal until the end of the world (whatever this means to you), would you take it? Sure as heck i don't want to die.. but given the choice i would given that people i love would die around me i would want to hang around and just see what we can achieve in the end before its too late. Just observing and stuff in general.
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Code: <iframe width="100%" height="450" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/255506953&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true"></iframe> (June 20, 2015 at 8:15 am)Nope Wrote: Eternal life sounds horrible. Every time I seriously think about the idea of eternal life, the character Paul Edgecomb from "The Green Mile" (played by Tom Hanks) comes to mind. The look of utter desperation on his face as he's leaving (what is implied to be) the funeral for yet another dear friend gives me the willies every time I watch that movie.
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 (June 20, 2015 at 4:25 pm)SnakeOilWarrior Wrote:(June 20, 2015 at 8:15 am)Nope Wrote: Eternal life sounds horrible. FANTASTIC movie, btw.
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