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Would you like to be immortal?

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Yes I would
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Yes I would like but.......
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I never thought about it
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Nah
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RE: Would you like to be immortal?
January 30, 2017 at 9:19 pm
Hell yes, I want to see how it all turns out.
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RE: Would you like to be immortal?
January 30, 2017 at 9:24 pm
Only if I have the ability to say, "enough is enough", and chose to stop existing.

But what I want, and what I believe is true, are different things.

You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
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RE: Would you like to be immortal?
January 30, 2017 at 11:01 pm
I'd like to live long enough to see organised religions disappear....
Then mankind may be able to make some real unhindered progress... Stem cells, etc
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RE: Would you like to be immortal?
January 30, 2017 at 11:03 pm
(January 30, 2017 at 9:19 pm)Omnibus E Plrus Nhilist Wrote: Hell yes, I want to see how it all turns out.

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RE: Would you like to be immortal?
January 31, 2017 at 1:41 am (This post was last modified: January 31, 2017 at 1:44 am by Huggy Bear.)
(January 30, 2017 at 11:01 pm)ignoramus Wrote: I'd like to live long enough to see organised religions disappear....
Then mankind may be able to make some real unhindered progress...  Stem cells, etc

That statement is kind of an oxymoron, the purpose of stem cells would be to allow people to live longer, no?

Also death is what hinders mankind's progress the most, and if you didn't die you wouldn't need stem cells in the first place...

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RE: Would you like to be immortal?
January 31, 2017 at 1:56 am
If I was like the Doctor, and able to travel throughout different time periods in history or different places in the universe, and also travel inside fictional worlds and explore, then yes, I would want to be immortal. What I would say is that for a safety measure, if I became bored with it all, I would want also to be able to erase my own memories and thus start everything over with the same sense of wonder as the first time. That way I would never regret it, or at least not know I was regretting it. But only under ALL of those conditions. Otherwise it would be a curse. Even an eternal afterlife, no matter how blissful, would have to suck eventually.
Religions were invented to impress and dupe illiterate, superstitious stone-age peasants. So in this modern, enlightened age of information, what's your excuse? Or are you saying with all your advantages, you were still tricked as easily as those early humans?

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RE: Would you like to be immortal?
January 31, 2017 at 2:07 am
I've had a taste of it.

It's not all it's cracked up to be.

The big flaw with immortality is if it isn't universal. Outliving everyone around you sucks.
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RE: Would you like to be immortal?
January 31, 2017 at 2:12 am
(January 31, 2017 at 2:07 am)vorlon13 Wrote: I've had a taste of it.

It's not all it's cracked up to be.

Pray tell... 

(January 31, 2017 at 2:07 am)vorlon13 Wrote: The big flaw with immortality is if it isn't universal.  Outliving everyone around you sucks.

I think that's the point, death no longer exists.
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RE: Would you like to be immortal?
January 31, 2017 at 2:35 am
(January 31, 2017 at 2:07 am)vorlon13 Wrote: I've had a taste of it.

It's not all it's cracked up to be.  

The big flaw with immortality is if it isn't universal.  Outliving everyone around you sucks.

That's why I outlined my approach to it the way I did. You'd be moving around so much you would likely not have cause to get so attached that you have that happen much. Of course never developing truly meaningful relationships would also suck...but there's that handy memory erasing caveat I stipulated.
Religions were invented to impress and dupe illiterate, superstitious stone-age peasants. So in this modern, enlightened age of information, what's your excuse? Or are you saying with all your advantages, you were still tricked as easily as those early humans?

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RE: Would you like to be immortal?
January 31, 2017 at 11:08 am
(January 31, 2017 at 2:12 am)Huggy74 Wrote:
(January 31, 2017 at 2:07 am)vorlon13 Wrote: I've had a taste of it.

It's not all it's cracked up to be.

Pray tell... 


Don't know about Vorlon but I've been immortal all my life.  I've existed since before I can remember and am still alive.  I expect my immortality to persist until l am no more at which point I look forward to a career as worm food.  I think I may have a real aptitude for that job.
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