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Lur you could still work... hell you'd be the most indemand history teacher ever!
"Professor tell us about the early 21st century!"
"Well I was about your age three hundred or so years ago... and goddess was our species dumb! Have you ever heard of a snooki? It's an orange troll like creature we put on TV a lot... that's the 2d screen version of a holochamber"
I beg of you sarge let me lead the charge when the battle lines are drawn
Lemme at least leave a good hoof beat they'll remember loud and long
I dunno if you could flaunt your immortality like that. You would probably have to drop off the face of the planet about once every 20 years(before people became suspicious), Would need to get a new set of all important paperwork (birth cert, SSC[in the us],ect) just in case someone one day looked in your file and noticed that social you're using is over 300 years old.
And if you didn't do that, there's always the risk of drawing unwanted attention from Gov't. They'd want to experiment on you and try to find out why you've been alive for so long. Sure you're immortal and could break free, but then you'd defiantly have to vanish on the face of the earth and obtain new documentation for whatever country you decide to hide in.
Or they'd just figure you stole that paperwork and then you'd have fun with a shot credit rating.
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I would only accept immortality if I had to compete against other immortals in sword duels to the death in an attempt to be the "last" immortal; even though new ones keep being born.
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Iur_tae_mont wrote:I dunno if you could flaunt your immortality like that. You would probably have to drop off the face of the planet about once every 20 years(before people became suspicious), Would need to get a new set of all important paperwork (birth cert, SSC[in the us],ect) just in case someone one day looked in your file and noticed that social you're using is over 300 years old.
And if you didn't do that, there's always the risk of drawing unwanted attention from Gov't. They'd want to experiment on you and try to find out why you've been alive for so long. Sure you're immortal and could break free, but then you'd defiantly have to vanish on the face of the earth and obtain new documentation for whatever country you decide to hide in.
Or they'd just figure you stole that paperwork and then you'd have fun with a shot credit rating.
But tadashi can alter probability so that none of that can happen.
A more appropriate title to this thread would be, "Would you like to be a god?"
Melissia wrote:And then you'd try to make anime real so that you can have your perfect anime-girl lover!
I have already rejected the idea of deliberately creating her...it would only work until she asks "Do you really love me? Or do you love the person I'm supposed to be?" Yeah, not liking the idea one bit.
I should have left him there. He had served his purpose. He owed me nothing - yet he gave himself to me willingly. Why? I know not. He is nothing more than a pathetic human. An inferior race. A mon-keigh. But still I broke off my wings so that I might carry him easier. I took him from that place, into the snowstorm where our tracks will not be found. He is heavy. And he is dying. And he is slowing me down. But I will save him. Why? I know not. He is still warm. I can feel his blood ebbing across me. For every beat of his heart, another, slight spill of heat. The heat blows away on the winter wind. His blood is still warm. But fading. And I have spilled scarlet myself. The snow laps greedily at our footsteps and our lifeblood, covering them without a trace as we fade away.
'She sat on the corner, gulping the soup down, uncaring of the heat of it. They had grown more watery as of late she noted, but she wasn't about to beggar food from the Imperials or the "Bearers of the Word." Tau, despite their faults at least didn't have a kill policy for her race.'
wikipedi wrote:As such, Belldandy is depicted as being very sweet and exceptionally kind-hearted, with very "old-fashioned" sensibilities. Combined with domestic skills portrayed through the series and her loyalty to Keiichi.
You're sure you will never find anyone with this these characteristics throughout your entire life? Are these really such rare qualities?
WARBOSS TZOO wrote:Grab your club, hit her over the head, and drag her back to your cave. The classics are classic for a reason.
wikipedi wrote:As such, Belldandy is depicted as being very sweet and exceptionally kind-hearted, with very "old-fashioned" sensibilities. Combined with domestic skills portrayed through the series and her loyalty to Keiichi.
You're sure you will never find anyone with this these characteristics throughout your entire life? Are these really such rare qualities?
In the modern world yes...women of my generation are too 'liberated', they are fickle, their hearts easily swayed by sweet untruths...the yamato nadeshiko is forged of steel (so to speak), and her loyalty is unquestionable. I wouldn't betray her, and she will not betray me.
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I should have left him there. He had served his purpose. He owed me nothing - yet he gave himself to me willingly. Why? I know not. He is nothing more than a pathetic human. An inferior race. A mon-keigh. But still I broke off my wings so that I might carry him easier. I took him from that place, into the snowstorm where our tracks will not be found. He is heavy. And he is dying. And he is slowing me down. But I will save him. Why? I know not. He is still warm. I can feel his blood ebbing across me. For every beat of his heart, another, slight spill of heat. The heat blows away on the winter wind. His blood is still warm. But fading. And I have spilled scarlet myself. The snow laps greedily at our footsteps and our lifeblood, covering them without a trace as we fade away.
'She sat on the corner, gulping the soup down, uncaring of the heat of it. They had grown more watery as of late she noted, but she wasn't about to beggar food from the Imperials or the "Bearers of the Word." Tau, despite their faults at least didn't have a kill policy for her race.'
Easy E wrote:I would only accept immortality if I had to compete against other immortals in sword duels to the death in an attempt to be the "last" immortal; even though new ones keep being born.
Holy Imperial Throne's Magazine Rack! This!
I beg of you sarge let me lead the charge when the battle lines are drawn
Lemme at least leave a good hoof beat they'll remember loud and long
I'm pretty sure if you picked someone to offer immortality to, and you weren't a complete toad, they'd probably take you up on it. I'd go for it. Time to look up Avril Lavigne's number and see how she'd enjoy immortality...you never forget your first celebrity crush. Lol
Reality is a nice place to visit, but I'd hate to live there.
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wikipedi wrote:As such, Belldandy is depicted as being very sweet and exceptionally kind-hearted, with very "old-fashioned" sensibilities. Combined with domestic skills portrayed through the series and her loyalty to Keiichi.
You're sure you will never find anyone with this these characteristics throughout your entire life? Are these really such rare qualities?
In the modern world yes...women of my generation are too 'liberated',
I hear Melissia coming, baying for the blood of the misogynist. Hurry, we must sate her thirst before she destroys us all!
Immortality will destroy who you are, and one day you will only wish to die, as you make friends with people that you loved, and they will wither and die, while you stay immortal and never perish, to be a true immortal means you cannot be killed and cannot die, You will see empires fall and rise, and you will damn yourself for becoming immortal, you will see many wonders yes, you will escape death, that is true. But nothing will destroy you more than seeing death as your friend.
Every Immortal in books has always wished to die after they had lived for so long. You cannot abandon Mortality in my opinion.
I will not join the damned of the immortal, I will be a mortal, I will be human.
Being Immortal makes you less human.
To be Immortal is to be damned to live forever. It is a curse, Not a blessing.
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Tadashi wrote:In the modern world yes...women of my generation are too 'liberated', they are fickle, their hearts easily swayed by sweet untruths...the yamato nadeshiko is forged of steel (so to speak), and her loyalty is unquestionable. I wouldn't betray her, and she will not betray me.
I'm sure women of generations past would have been just as likely to want to leave men as they're today, it's just alot easier now for a women to leave her husband then it was a hundred years ago. I guess that's a biproduct of ermm 'liberation' though.
Whatever floats your boat I guess.
WARBOSS TZOO wrote:Grab your club, hit her over the head, and drag her back to your cave. The classics are classic for a reason.
Immortality will destroy who you are, and one day you will only wish to die, as you make friends with people that you loved, and they will wither and die, while you stay immortal and never perish, to be a true immortal means you cannot be killed and cannot die, You will see empires fall and rise, and you will damn yourself for becoming immortal, you will see many wonders yes, you will escape death, that is true. But nothing will destroy you more than seeing death as your friend.
Every Immortal in books has always wished to die after they had lived for so long. You cannot abandon Mortality in my opinion.
I will not join the damned of the immortal, I will be a mortal, I will be human.
Being Immortal makes you less human.
To be Immortal is to be damned to live forever. It is a curse, Not a blessing.
Hmmm... well I suppose you have a point, I mean all my friends and family will die! The horror! How shall I cope? How shall I remain sane?... Wait! I have it! I could make some new friends! It's radical but it just might work! Also I can trace my line through the generations so I will always have blood relatives.... especially with an immortal companion to whither the ages with.
Yeah, still not seeing a down side here.
I beg of you sarge let me lead the charge when the battle lines are drawn
Lemme at least leave a good hoof beat they'll remember loud and long
Immortality will destroy who you are, and one day you will only wish to die, as you make friends with people that you loved, and they will wither and die, while you stay immortal and never perish, to be a true immortal means you cannot be killed and cannot die, You will see empires fall and rise, and you will damn yourself for becoming immortal, you will see many wonders yes, you will escape death, that is true. But nothing will destroy you more than seeing death as your friend.
Every Immortal in books has always wished to die after they had lived for so long. You cannot abandon Mortality in my opinion.
I will not join the damned of the immortal, I will be a mortal, I will be human.
Being Immortal makes you less human.
To be Immortal is to be damned to live forever. It is a curse, Not a blessing.
Hmmm... well I suppose you have a point, I mean all my friends and family will die! The horror! How shall I cope? How shall I remain sane?... Wait! I have it! I could make some new friends! It's radical but it just might work! Also I can trace my line through the generations so I will always have blood relatives.... especially with an immortal companion to whither the ages with.
Yeah, still not seeing a down side here.
Well, none of them have to die, actually! Not when you can alter probability!
Well they'd still die, sooner or later the human body just shuts off. But yeah letting everyone around me live long lives with increased chances of winning the lotto and the like wouldn't be negative at all would it?
I beg of you sarge let me lead the charge when the battle lines are drawn
Lemme at least leave a good hoof beat they'll remember loud and long
wikipedi wrote:As such, Belldandy is depicted as being very sweet and exceptionally kind-hearted, with very "old-fashioned" sensibilities. Combined with domestic skills portrayed through the series and her loyalty to Keiichi.
You're sure you will never find anyone with this these characteristics throughout your entire life? Are these really such rare qualities?
In the modern world yes...women of my generation are too 'liberated',
I hear Melissia coming, baying for the blood of the misogynist. Hurry, we must sate her thirst before she destroys us all!
I was waiting for Tadashi to say that. It was only a matter of time. And now I as you do eagerly await Melissia's response. Hilarious!
KalashnikovMarine wrote:Well they'd still die, sooner or later the human body just shuts off. But yeah letting everyone around me live long lives with increased chances of winning the lotto and the like wouldn't be negative at all would it?
Thaaaat's Right! With the ability to alter probability you can do ANYTHING!
Tadashi wrote:I'll sleep for a thousand years. Then I'll make a planet of my own...create my own life.
Mhm. And then?
I will watch over them...what else is a god supposed to do?
And then?
See what I'm getting at?
I'll do it over and over again...the universe is vast. The possibilities are endless.
Until you exhaust them. Or until you lose interest in pursuing them, which I'd wager would happen much sooner.
Take the time you've got and create as much happiness as you can. Don't spend that time fruitlessly struggling to find more.
I think if you lived forever, you, at least me anyways, would learn to enjoy things longer then a mortal would, simply because you know you can. As I get older, I find myself enjoying simple things far better then when I was younger. The other day I sat on my front porch and ate some breakfast and just looked at everything for a good 30 minutes for no reason. Now imagine being undying and being able to take the time to literally learn all the leaves on the trees around you, and watching say, a family of squirrels going through a few generations and anything else that can come from just your front yard. The time it took to do that wouldnt matter to you, because time doesnt affect you anymore.
And thats just your front yard. Trust me, you can look at it negatively if you wanted, but I think if it were me, Id be able to handle never dying just fine. Not to mention the knowledge and life experience I could pass on to those I deemed worthy of my experience.
KalashnikovMarine wrote:Well they'd still die, sooner or later the human body just shuts off. But yeah letting everyone around me live long lives with increased chances of winning the lotto and the like wouldn't be negative at all would it?
Thaaaat's Right! With the ability to alter probability you can do ANYTHING!
Well in that case you can avoid all the horrible consequences someone listed above blah blah government tests, etc. The ability to alter probability means you could sit down and have coffee with the federal agent hunting you and he'd never catch you. Or there'd be an incredibly low chance of anyone who ever knew your secret thinking "You know, Mr. KM's been in his mid-twenties since I was seven and I'm in my fifities now... I wonder if the government would want to know about it?"
Hell it's a gate way to a Jedi mind trick nearly *waves hand* "Oh Mr. Johnson! So good to see you sir, we've upgraded your flight to first class and have no need to see your personal identification!"
I beg of you sarge let me lead the charge when the battle lines are drawn
Lemme at least leave a good hoof beat they'll remember loud and long
KingCracker wrote:Problem with that argument xole, because we cant ask people that just died if it was worth it. So stay on topic ya?
Part of your argument was that as you get older, you appreciate things more. What if that is connected with that you are approaching death? That's hardly off topic.
Now answer the first question, because you need to an infinite number of times.
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wikipedi wrote:As such, Belldandy is depicted as being very sweet and exceptionally kind-hearted, with very "old-fashioned" sensibilities. Combined with domestic skills portrayed through the series and her loyalty to Keiichi.
You're sure you will never find anyone with this these characteristics throughout your entire life? Are these really such rare qualities?
In the modern world yes...women of my generation are too 'liberated',
I hear Melissia coming, baying for the blood of the misogynist. Hurry, we must sate her thirst before she destroys us all!
A door on the upper floor blows open and a Terminator with an Assault Cannon marches out and raises merry hell. "Japanese grim reaper, at your service!"
Lord-Loss wrote:
Tadashi wrote:In the modern world yes...women of my generation are too 'liberated', they are fickle, their hearts easily swayed by sweet untruths...the yamato nadeshiko is forged of steel (so to speak), and her loyalty is unquestionable. I wouldn't betray her, and she will not betray me.
I'm sure women of generations past would have been just as likely to want to leave men as they're today, it's just alot easier now for a women to leave her husband then it was a hundred years ago. I guess that's a biproduct of ermm 'liberation' though.
Whatever floats your boat I guess.
Hence the term ideal...an ideal cannot exist in reality. But I'm fine with that...certainly better than the alternative. TBH, I'm the only one left among my friends who hasn't had a, ahem, encounter, or have a girlfriend AT ALL. Meh, I don't really care though. Compared to my friends or even my sister (she has 23 past relationships last I looked - I wash my hands of any unfortunate consequences), I'd rather be alone and follow my own path as opposed to simply conforming to the expectations of society.
KalashnikovMarine wrote:
Asherian Command wrote:No.
Immortality will destroy who you are, and one day you will only wish to die, as you make friends with people that you loved, and they will wither and die, while you stay immortal and never perish, to be a true immortal means you cannot be killed and cannot die, You will see empires fall and rise, and you will damn yourself for becoming immortal, you will see many wonders yes, you will escape death, that is true. But nothing will destroy you more than seeing death as your friend.
Every Immortal in books has always wished to die after they had lived for so long. You cannot abandon Mortality in my opinion.
I will not join the damned of the immortal, I will be a mortal, I will be human.
Being Immortal makes you less human.
To be Immortal is to be damned to live forever. It is a curse, Not a blessing.
Hmmm... well I suppose you have a point, I mean all my friends and family will die! The horror! How shall I cope? How shall I remain sane?... Wait! I have it! I could make some new friends! It's radical but it just might work! Also I can trace my line through the generations so I will always have blood relatives.... especially with an immortal companion to whither the ages with.
Yeah, still not seeing a down side here.
Either eternal love...or the eternal quest for knowledge...no downsides for me at all. Just perfect. It all depends on your perspective: if you view it negatively, you will not appreciate immortality. If you view it positively, you will learn to ignore time and ultimately come to consider yourself fortunate in being granted the gift of immortality.
I've had family and friends died before (one of the latter died from dengue fever just years ago)...I've moved on, and if I can become immortal, I will keep moving on throughout endless time.
Knowledge is power...even if in reality I'll probably just start out with biological immortality, I'll have all eternity to figure out a way to achieve true immortality and godlike power.
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I should have left him there. He had served his purpose. He owed me nothing - yet he gave himself to me willingly. Why? I know not. He is nothing more than a pathetic human. An inferior race. A mon-keigh. But still I broke off my wings so that I might carry him easier. I took him from that place, into the snowstorm where our tracks will not be found. He is heavy. And he is dying. And he is slowing me down. But I will save him. Why? I know not. He is still warm. I can feel his blood ebbing across me. For every beat of his heart, another, slight spill of heat. The heat blows away on the winter wind. His blood is still warm. But fading. And I have spilled scarlet myself. The snow laps greedily at our footsteps and our lifeblood, covering them without a trace as we fade away.
'She sat on the corner, gulping the soup down, uncaring of the heat of it. They had grown more watery as of late she noted, but she wasn't about to beggar food from the Imperials or the "Bearers of the Word." Tau, despite their faults at least didn't have a kill policy for her race.'
KingCracker wrote:
And thats just your front yard. Trust me, you can look at it negatively if you wanted, but I think if it were me, Id be able to handle never dying just fine. Not to mention the knowledge and life experience I could pass on to those I deemed worthy of my experience.
Yeah, I always figured the best thing about being immortal would be having the time to become impossibly good at just about anything.
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
KingCracker wrote:
And thats just your front yard. Trust me, you can look at it negatively if you wanted, but I think if it were me, Id be able to handle never dying just fine. Not to mention the knowledge and life experience I could pass on to those I deemed worthy of my experience.
Yeah, I always figured the best thing about being immortal would be having the time to become impossibly good at just about anything.
That would be pretty sweet. Also, it would be awesome for "Historians" to come up to you and ask you what it was like to drive a car or use a "computer" in the future.
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