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I am assuming I get eternal youth included, even so I would likely refuse.

We are making a toilet of this planet fast and one immortal will not easily be able to stop it.

Without any sort of special abilities, being invincible could suck. As in if you piss someone off they could stick you in a tank full of water and you experience drowning for a very long time.

sebster wrote:Most of that is due to chemicals in the brain. I hear new music now and I don't get that excited, and it isn't because I've heard new music before. I'd heard lots of new music when I was 20, but I still got a rush when I heard something new and amazing. It's because the chemicals that used to rush through my brain when I heard new music don't happen on the same level any more.

Take that effect, and apply it to things that are far more important than music. New experiences (especially scary/adrenaline pumping ones) don't produce the same buzz (I went on that rollercoaster in Vegas last year, and instead of getting the buzz I would have 10 years ago, it was mostly just kind of annoying). Meeting new people isn't as exciting as it once was (on the plus side it's also less nervous). And I'm not that old. Another 10 or 20 years and sex will be less important, not because I will have had more than I'd had when I was 20, but because the chemicals driving arousal and released during sex simply aren't released in the same quantities. Nor are the chemicals released that drive infatuation, or countless other human experiences.

Oh god, you make growing old sound really scary, where can I find some chemicals to pump in me to stop this happening, I don't want to grow up now.

Asherian Command wrote:Its really an open ended question my own thoughts I really don't want to share because my thoughts on this matter are quite offensive to a large amount of teenagers my age. Most kids my age see death as kind of the end all be all.

I've never heard many people being 'offended' by anything concerning immortality, though I think lots of people will disagree with you and refuse but I doubt offended.

Honestly, I see the biggest issue as the lack of evolution. In a million years, you will be this really old wise dude with tons of life experience but to the humans of 'today' you'll be like a museum piece. You may well be bat gak crazy by then also so they're just shove you a tank in like Cardiff Museum or something and you would spend several thousand years being gawped at kids on school trips as you drool and poo yourself.

Lord-Loss wrote:
but to the humans of 'today' you'll be like a museum piece.

Ooo or a vampire, without the sparkles and sunlight aversion

 Peregrine wrote:

 dogma wrote:
Heat death paradox.

That doesn't even make any sense as a reply. Did you just throw some random words together to avoid admitting that you were wrong?

Cold front conundrum.

 Peregrine wrote:

 dogma wrote:
Heat death paradox.

That doesn't even make any sense as a reply. Did you just throw some random words together to avoid admitting that you were wrong?

No, I referenced a well established concept; the heat death paradox. If you continue to exist in the event of the "heat death" of the universe, then it is not the "heat death" of the universe. Moreover, there is a decent argument that, because we are having this conversation, the universe cannot experience "heat death".

 dogma wrote:

 Peregrine wrote:

 dogma wrote:
Heat death paradox.

That doesn't even make any sense as a reply. Did you just throw some random words together to avoid admitting that you were wrong?

No, I referenced a well established concept; the heat death paradox. If you continue to exist in the event of the "heat death" of the universe, then it is not the "heat death" of the universe. Moreover, there is a decent argument that, because we are having this conversation, the universe cannot experience "heat death".

More of a side question than anything, under what circumstances did you first learn that term?

 Necroshea wrote:

More of a side question than anything, under what circumstances did you first learn that term?

During a meeting of my college philosophy club.

Ain't no paradox like a heat death paradox, that's what I say.

 dogma wrote:

 Necroshea wrote:

More of a side question than anything, under what circumstances did you first learn that term?

During a meeting of my college philosophy club.

Fascinating. Wish we had one of those around me.

 dogma wrote:

 Peregrine wrote:

 dogma wrote:
Heat death paradox.

That doesn't even make any sense as a reply. Did you just throw some random words together to avoid admitting that you were wrong?

No, I referenced a well established concept; the heat death paradox.

But that's not an answer. Let's review the conversation:

Me: blah blah blah heat death.
You: why are you talking about heat death, nobody else is?
Me: WTF, I just quoted someone who was talking about heat death, pay attention.
You: PARADOX!

So how exactly does "Heat death paradox" fit into this conversation?

If you continue to exist in the event of the "heat death" of the universe, then it is not the "heat death" of the universe.

Sigh. That's exactly what I said.

Moreover, there is a decent argument that, because we are having this conversation, the universe cannot experience "heat death".

Not really, since the paradox you mentioned only applies to a static universe, and it's pretty much settled that the universe is expanding.

 Peregrine wrote:

So how exactly does "Heat death paradox" fit into this conversation?

It doesn't.

 dogma wrote:

 Peregrine wrote:

So how exactly does "Heat death paradox" fit into this conversation?

It doesn't.

Ok, so you just quoted my post for no reason, and didn't feel the need to offer any context for your comment. I guess if you feel that non-constructive posting is enjoyable and the moderators don't mind then you can do it that way, but I really don't see the appeal.

i'd start my own country and single handedly take over the world, after all, i cant die so who'll stop me? then once I gew bored of these playthings I would institute countries with prechosen leader maybe act as a puppet controller of the world for a while to see if that amused me, depending on technology I would probably launch myself out of a railgun and see what exoplanets are like. build a railgun and return to earth in a couple hundred years see if people still remember me, they probably would but not recognize me. after that I might see if I could find any aliens, because I have so much time I'd design a ship that makes a quatum leap over the speed of light and lets me accelerate. maybe have a hobby of killing alien by punching them in their faces. oh yeah and I'd take every drug known to man at least once just to see what it was like

You'd have plenty of time to work on your punctuation and capitalization, too!

Lord-Loss wrote:
Oh god, you make growing old sound really scary, where can I find some chemicals to pump in me to stop this happening, I don't want to grow up now.

It's good and its bad. Stuff is less exciting, but it's also less stressful.

I would forgo immortality every time without question. Life is only good so long as the ability to lose it exists, otherwise it's not a transitive state, but a constant.

The latter is Hell were there to ever be one.

 sebster wrote:

Lord-Loss wrote:
Oh god, you make growing old sound really scary, where can I find some chemicals to pump in me to stop this happening, I don't want to grow up now.

It's good and its bad. Stuff is less exciting, but it's also less stressful.

My bills disagree with you on that last point Sebs.

 Monster Rain wrote:
You'd have plenty of time to work on your punctuation and capitalization, too!

Enough time to work on changing what is and isn't correct punctuation

 KalashnikovMarine wrote:
My bills disagree with you on that last point Sebs.

Imagine how much those bills would have freaked you out when you were 21

 sebster wrote:

 KalashnikovMarine wrote:
My bills disagree with you on that last point Sebs.

Imagine how much those bills would have freaked you out when you were 21

I'm only 22, so... a couple months difference on being stressed out

I said no, because how this is going, I'd see it as living a very long time, all the way down through the generations, seeing the people, the world, and the universe as we understand it changing. But if the universe ends, 'you', as in your disembodied thought patterns, will be stuck in a void of absolute nothingness. No sensory input at all. All that's left is your own thoughts and memories. In fact, the concept of the universe no longer existing, the prospect that absolutely everything you knew was gone, perhaps even forever, could instantly drive you insane. You might end up in your own imaginary universe, which quite ironically in theory, since your mind is the only thing left in creation, this imaginary universe is the universe. That could be nice, left in your own heaven for eternity. However, the other option is hell: your mind basically scrambles to the effect that all that's left in creation is a reeling convulsing mind pattern, completely incoherent and losing the identity of the person you were. For all intents and purposes, that is pretty much death, and I think I'd rather go the normal way than having to suffer through that horrifying concept.

 Grey Templar wrote:

 Monster Rain wrote:
You'd have plenty of time to work on your punctuation and capitalization, too!

Enough time to work on changing what is and isn't correct punctuation

My punctuation is flawless.^

 Monster Rain wrote:

 Grey Templar wrote:

 Monster Rain wrote:
You'd have plenty of time to work on your punctuation and capitalization, too!

Enough time to work on changing what is and isn't correct punctuation

My punctuation is flawless.^

My punctuation isn't. AnD ThIs THreAD JuSt BeCAme A GraMMeR NaZi ThReAd YaLl Mad BrOs?

potatosack wrote:

 Monster Rain wrote:

 Grey Templar wrote:

 Monster Rain wrote:
You'd have plenty of time to work on your punctuation and capitalization, too!

Enough time to work on changing what is and isn't correct punctuation

My punctuation is flawless.^

My punctuation isn't. AnD ThIs THreAD JuSt BeCAme A GraMMeR NaZi ThReAd YaLl Mad BrOs?

YOLO Grammar Nazi's.

Apparently this thread is immortal, or a zombie. We must cleanse it with purifying flame.

Was it really necessary to resurrect this thread just to make a crap joke?