Immortality: would you take it?

JacksColon · Post by **JacksColon** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 4:50 pm

XemnasXD wrote:So i'd be like The Highlander?

Yes, except you probably would have to fake the scottish accent.

Man, I'd love to have that sword!

Vindicator · Post by **Vindicator** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 4:51 pm

JacksColon wrote:
Vindicator wrote:
shoto wrote:the conditions on immortality are basically this:

you will stay 24-30 forever. Otherwise you will be like a normal human being.

I think there should have been more conditions... like you will be ugly as hell, or you will go through a painful experience every month..bad luck for eternity.

with the current conditions of immortality who wouldn't take it?

you live forever......for...ever......wtf do you do once youve done everything? and when the world goes into a nuclear holocaust, or inter galactic warfare, or the su blows up. Have fun in space, maybe save yourself a pattleball and play with it for eternity afterwards.

LOL yes..I agree..bring something to entertain yourself with

but, I do believe there is enough to experience that one would not get bored. I mean, essentially, you could travel to anywhere because, if you don't die, then you could travel to another planetary system and seek out intelligent life. SUre, it may take you thousands of years to get there, but what else are ya gonna do??

1 hour of boredom is enough to drive me crazy....a thousand or a million years and i would defy the concept of immortality and implode myself from boredom.

torinchibi · Post by **torinchibi** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 8:03 pm

No one took the time to read my first post on pg. 3? If you do some planing you wouldn't have to be bored, in pain all the time, live alone... etc. When you have a few billion years before the sun explodes, and probably a few hundred years before humans invent their way into interstellar travel, I am sure you won't have to be a genius to prevent getting yourself into something you can't get out of.

Post by **Doron** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 8:11 pm

shoto wrote:the conditions on immortality are basically this:

you will stay 24-30 forever. Otherwise you will be like a normal human being.

I think there should have been more conditions... like you will be ugly as hell, or you will go through a painful experience every month..bad luck for eternity.
with the current conditions of immortality who wouldn't take it?

Then I think I know a girl that is immortal... xD

Luoma · Post by **Luoma** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 8:30 pm

Hmm yes i would probably do it O.o Think how much you could contribute to
humanity after learning almost everthing there is to know about science etc.

But yea would probably go insane after a thousand years or so =/

CrimsonNuker · Post by **CrimsonNuker** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 8:30 pm

So yeah, just watched a shitload of Discovery Channel..and some Heroes

Future= Super Humans With Powers (teleportation HEROOOO)=

Getting your immortal ass teleported into a damn coffin and stuck there for the rest of your life.

-True Story.

Dystopia · Post by **Dystopia** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 8:33 pm

I wouldnt take it, thats horrible it would be nice, if you stayed the same age, but imagine, all the pain and isolation you would have to go through after a couple of years...and keep in mind humans wont be around for very long, like the year 3000 will be farked.

Craven's · Post by **Craven's** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 8:34 pm

MastaChiefX wrote:I would never take it.
The whole reason you live is to die.
Think about it for a little, it will make sence.

Yea you have right there . and why someone want to have a eternity life and see other die , flow around like a ghost

JacksColon · Post by **JacksColon** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 8:35 pm

Dystopia wrote:I wouldnt take it, thats horrible it would be nice, if you stayed the same age, but imagine, all the pain and isolation you would have to go through after a couple of years...and keep in mind humans wont be around for very long, like the year 3000 will be farked.

year 3000? Did you just make that up? hahaha

I don't think we'll be farked unless we get plowed over by a huge comet or asteroid. Hell, that could happen any freakin' day! :shock:

iGod · Post by **iGod** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 8:39 pm

Possibly others will evolve and you'll stay the same primitive human.. :/

JacksColon · Post by **JacksColon** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 8:43 pm

iGod wrote:Possibly others will evolve and you'll stay the same primitive human.. :/

True, then you could become someone's pet monkey or locked up like we do with chimps and apes. doesn't sound good to me.

torinchibi · Post by **torinchibi** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 8:46 pm

JacksColon wrote:
Dystopia wrote:I wouldnt take it, thats horrible it would be nice, if you stayed the same age, but imagine, all the pain and isolation you would have to go through after a couple of years...and keep in mind humans wont be around for very long, like the year 3000 will be farked.

year 3000? Did you just make that up? hahaha

I don't think we'll be farked unless we get plowed over by a huge comet or asteroid. Hell, that could happen any freakin' day!

It's probably like 80% probability that by the year 3000, humanity will screwed itself in the ass a little too much. We could have so many things happen... Terminator style, matrix style, WW3 style, natural disaster caused by pollution, natural disaster caused by weapon (The Core style), natural disaster on global scale...like the next super volcano, alien invasion by accident, alien invasion caused by random human technology development (star trek style), biological weapon disaster (zombie style), etc etc.

Chances are, in 1000 years, if we don't do something about our way of life, we would be super farked.

Love · Post by **Love** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 8:53 pm

i would take it eventually i would become a super human woot lol and ya rite try to keep me in jail i brake a leg take the bone and dig out w/e the walls are made of =P

Dystopia · Post by **Dystopia** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 8:55 pm

JacksColon wrote:
Dystopia wrote:I wouldnt take it, thats horrible it would be nice, if you stayed the same age, but imagine, all the pain and isolation you would have to go through after a couple of years...and keep in mind humans wont be around for very long, like the year 3000 will be farked.

year 3000? Did you just make that up? hahaha

I don't think we'll be farked unless we get plowed over by a huge comet or asteroid. Hell, that could happen any freakin' day!

Just a guess, dude, in like a couple of centuries we will run out of reasources and there will be world war III that will seriously damamge the earth because of all the nukes and bombs and all the money spent on national security today!

pr0klobster · Post by **pr0klobster** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 8:56 pm

No way. I'd rather die and move on to something possibly better.

Isis · Post by **Isis** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 8:57 pm

No I wouldn't, I wouldn't want to see all the people that I love die around me...

DildoGoblin · Post by **DildoGoblin** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 8:58 pm

redneck wrote:There is a better life after this one so no..

agreed

Reise · Post by **Reise** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 8:59 pm

Dystopia wrote:
JacksColon wrote:
Dystopia wrote:I wouldnt take it, thats horrible it would be nice, if you stayed the same age, but imagine, all the pain and isolation you would have to go through after a couple of years...and keep in mind humans wont be around for very long, like the year 3000 will be farked.

year 3000? Did you just make that up? hahaha

I don't think we'll be farked unless we get plowed over by a huge comet or asteroid. Hell, that could happen any freakin' day!

Just a guess, dude, in like a couple of centuries we will run out of reasources and there will be world war III that will seriously damamge the earth because of all the nukes and bombs and all the money spent on national security today!

In a couple centuries you would think mankind invents some kind of use for another virtually inexhaustible resource. Like hydrogen, or solar power, or other shit on a mass scale with a ton more efficiency than we have now. I doubt in a few centuries that resources will be an issue.

Love · Post by **Love** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 9:02 pm

DildoGoblin wrote:
redneck wrote:There is a better life after this one so no..

agreed

full of it got to love it

Dystopia · Post by **Dystopia** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 9:05 pm

Reise wrote:
Dystopia wrote:
JacksColon wrote:
Dystopia wrote:I wouldnt take it, thats horrible it would be nice, if you stayed the same age, but imagine, all the pain and isolation you would have to go through after a couple of years...and keep in mind humans wont be around for very long, like the year 3000 will be farked.

year 3000? Did you just make that up? hahaha

I don't think we'll be farked unless we get plowed over by a huge comet or asteroid. Hell, that could happen any freakin' day!

Just a guess, dude, in like a couple of centuries we will run out of reasources and there will be world war III that will seriously damamge the earth because of all the nukes and bombs and all the money spent on national security today!

In a couple centuries you would think mankind invents some kind of use for another virtually inexhaustible resource. Like hydrogen, or solar power, or other shit on a mass scale with a ton more efficiency than we have now. I doubt in a few centuries that resources will be an issue.

Doubt it, because we are already trying right now and nothing good has come up, exept a rather recent discovery that salt water can be burned as fuel http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/11/can- ... d-as-fuel/
but I dont think were getting anywhere, the world has to come to the end...maybe WW3 is the apocalypse, maybe not, theres a possibility you are right and same with me, but lets hope your right, I wouldnt want to give my kids and my kid's kids, a shitty world to live in

gamef · Post by **gamef** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 9:14 pm

No way.

Love · Post by **Love** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 9:18 pm

i really really really like the idea of becoming a super human i could learn so many things ....................

JacksColon · Post by **JacksColon** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 9:22 pm

[quote="torinchibi"

It's probably like 80% probability that by the year 3000, humanity will screwed itself in the ass a little too much. .[/quote]

Umm, that makes no sense. You just made those numbers up. Probably LIKE 80% probability..what?!

Dystopia · Post by **Dystopia** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 9:23 pm

Love wrote:i really really really like the idea of becoming a super human i could learn so many things ....................

Best super power, ability to change what people think. or telekenisis or to be immune to all things......OR SUPER SPEED ZOMGZ !!

*jumps into a pool of radioactive material*

JacksColon · Post by **JacksColon** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 9:31 pm

Dystopia wrote:
Love wrote:i really really really like the idea of becoming a super human i could learn so many things ....................

Best super power, ability to change what people think. or telekenisis or to be immune to all things......OR SUPER SPEED ZOMGZ !!

*jumps into a pool of radioactive material*

I like the speed idea personally..OR, invisibility. yeah, then you could spy on hot chicks in the shower! woot!

Dystopia · Post by **Dystopia** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 9:33 pm

JacksColon wrote:
Dystopia wrote:
Love wrote:i really really really like the idea of becoming a super human i could learn so many things ....................

Best super power, ability to change what people think. or telekenisis or to be immune to all things......OR SUPER SPEED ZOMGZ !!

*jumps into a pool of radioactive material*

I like the speed idea personally..OR, invisibility. yeah, then you could spy on hot chicks in the shower! woot!

But if you were super speed, they'd come to you...

oh wow, i cant imagine, satisfaction in under 30 seconds GUARANTEED!

JacksColon · Post by **JacksColon** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 9:39 pm

Dystopia wrote:
JacksColon wrote:
Dystopia wrote:
Love wrote:i really really really like the idea of becoming a super human i could learn so many things ....................

Best super power, ability to change what people think. or telekenisis or to be immune to all things......OR SUPER SPEED ZOMGZ !!

*jumps into a pool of radioactive material*

I like the speed idea personally..OR, invisibility. yeah, then you could spy on hot chicks in the shower! woot!

But if you were super speed, they'd come to you...

oh wow, i cant imagine, satisfaction in under 30 seconds GUARANTEED!

Yeah, I wouldn't want THAT kind of speed. You gotta make it last :wink:

Love · Post by **Love** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 9:41 pm

JacksColon wrote:
Dystopia wrote:
JacksColon wrote:
Dystopia wrote:
Love wrote:i really really really like the idea of becoming a super human i could learn so many things ....................

Best super power, ability to change what people think. or telekenisis or to be immune to all things......OR SUPER SPEED ZOMGZ !!

*jumps into a pool of radioactive material*

I like the speed idea personally..OR, invisibility. yeah, then you could spy on hot chicks in the shower! woot!

But if you were super speed, they'd come to you...

oh wow, i cant imagine, satisfaction in under 30 seconds GUARANTEED!

Yeah, I wouldn't want THAT kind of speed. You gotta make it last

lol

torinchibi · Post by **torinchibi** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 9:45 pm

JacksColon wrote:
torinchibi wrote:
It's probably like 80% probability that by the year 3000, humanity will screwed itself in the ass a little too much. .

Umm, that makes no sense. You just made those numbers up. Probably LIKE 80% probability..what?!

It's just like saying "Chances are in favour of it happening" but I am throwing in a random number higher than 50% to make it seem more likely to...people with less understanding.

Or a full translation. Probably like = around, 80% = number higher than 50% so more likely, probability = chance. So around 80% chance.....

StuckUP · Post by **StuckUP** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 10:22 pm

No because then I'd watch all my friends grow old and die as I stay young and never die. That's a wretched existence. I couldn't bear it. I think most people say that they would like to be immortal because they fear death but I read this somewhere saying: Pity the Living, don't pity the Dead. This is actually true, because if death is what people say it is then no pain, no stress, and no worries. That compared to Life? I'd rather live to a ripe old age (not like 90 years+ but like 70-80) and die peacefully in my sleep.