Everyone is forgetting that the Earth is not eternal.
When the sun expands billions of years from now and devours us in a heat death of the world and you're watching the entire show, alive but still able to feel pain - you'll be screeching and crying in the most intense agony imaginable. Humanity will have long been extinct, and you'll have been alone for a good eon or two, doomed to spend several more floating in blackness. You'll be gasping for air and begging for a death that will never come. All you can hope for is to land on an atmospheric planet and repeat the entire process. God forbid you find a black hole first.
Pain, experience, and the range of human emotion - these things are beautiful because they are finite. I'll take death when it comes to me.
Depends. Perhaps they mean immortal but not indestructable?
What if the person can be desinigrated? (Don't know if I spelled that right).
What if your skin gets burned, but it regenerates? Wouldn't that suggest that you burn away all the nerve cells that make you experience pain? Perhaps through all the pain, you faint or go into a comma due to the blood being taken out from the burning to the bone? Then maybe you get picked up by another species? (If you believe alien life exists).
All those things are possible, but the only information I had to go on was that I would never die. But even if pain was not an issue, and even if I could stand eons of emptiness and loneliness, I wouldn't want to live forever. Like I said, the transience of beauty and experience is what appeals to me about life.
If you had the chance to live forever, would you want to?
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Everyone is forgetting that the Earth is not eternal.
When the sun expands billions of years from now and devours us in a heat death of the world and you're watching the entire show, alive but still able to feel pain - you'll be screeching and crying in the most intense agony imaginable. Humanity will have long been extinct, and you'll have been alone for a good eon or two, doomed to spend several more floating in blackness. You'll be gasping for air and begging for a death that will never come. All you can hope for is to land on an atmospheric planet and repeat the entire process. God forbid you find a black hole first.
Pain, experience, and the range of human emotion - these things are beautiful because they are finite. I'll take death when it comes to me.
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Beautiful.
Depends. Perhaps they mean immortal but not indestructable?
What if the person can be desinigrated? (Don't know if I spelled that right).
What if your skin gets burned, but it regenerates? Wouldn't that suggest that you burn away all the nerve cells that make you experience pain? Perhaps through all the pain, you faint or go into a comma due to the blood being taken out from the burning to the bone? Then maybe you get picked up by another species? (If you believe alien life exists).
Just my thoughts on the matter...
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All those things are possible, but the only information I had to go on was that I would never die. But even if pain was not an issue, and even if I could stand eons of emptiness and loneliness, I wouldn't want to live forever. Like I said, the transience of beauty and experience is what appeals to me about life.
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Yeah, I was just throwing out some possibilities out there. I see your point.
Just because the world ends doesnt mean you die.... smart ass
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That was the point of the entire post... dumb ass