immortality sounds like a blessing to me. you'll get to see how the earth develops and eventually how it ends. be able to see how humanity goes. the good thing is, when the earth inevitably meets its end, you'll be sent rocketing off to space (tho if you're smart you'll have bought a spaceship with your bank savings (interest rates tend to give you loads of money after a thousand years) or just hijack one (nobody's stopping an immortal man) and explore other planets
there's only two ways it could suck and that'd be falling into a black hole or reaching the heat death of the universe
Assuming my body could not decay or be damaged, then I think I would be fine. thousands and thosands and millions and millions and years would pass, but I am sure I would eventually go insane and then it would no longer matter to me. I have no interest in finding out if there is some sort of afterlife, mainly because I think those concepts were invented by people who wanted power, and the only reason I would want death would be eternal rest. Being immortal would also mean that I wouldn't have to constrain myself and my goals to a set length of time, and would give me the means to accomplish any feat I could think of.
As for people mentioning things like "what if I was imprisoned or locked in a dark room or buried underground". Eventually circumstances would arise where I would be able to escape. My body would be indestructable, whereas my constraints are not. Floating through space would be a predicament, but I am sure I would eventually become insane and nothing would matter to me anymore, and I would mentally reach a state similar to death.
Also, on the subject of one's consiousness never ceasing to exist, I recommend the movie Johnny Got His Gun, as the main conflict in the movie is that situation.
[URL]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQWyQ55hR1w[/URL]
I think the most ideal form of immortality for me would be the ability to transfer my consiousness into anything. It's certainly an immoral idea in the case of people and probably also animals, but it intrigues me nonetheless.
[QUOTE=SteakStyles;41825082]I say Both. It would suck constantly seeing everyone you know and love over the years die while you keep cruising along. If you had anti-aging as well you'd probably be branded a monster or something as well. On the good, you'd get to see how humanity advances and if you are good with record keeping/memory you could end up knowing something that would otherwise be long forgotten that helps humanity and the world keep going.[/QUOTE]
If we ever achieve a point in medical science or w/e where you could actually live for even a thousand years, then I can surely say [i]some[/i] faces will come very familiar over the years.. and hundreds of years.
You could basically imagine almost any rich/healthy person right now who would be living in his current shape for the next 400(0?) years doing his thing or work, except.. Maybe all the future Justin Beavers and other celebrity personas get to live forever in the future. We'll see.
I say it's a blessing.
If you are immortal, you can gain all knowledge in the universe.
You don't depend on anything else, you only depend on you.
Whenever you would actually not be able to take the pain of everyone you know dying, you could take xanax until we have a way of erasing memorys.
Life in immortality would allow you to live in unlimited variations of you.
But one thing it depends on is - what you mean with immortality.
Immortality would suck if it means that someone could throw you in a hole and you would be stuck in there for a really long period of time.
If it means you die -> You wake up in an 100% healed version of your body in a safe place, it would be awesome.
blessing for the first 40 years until everyone you know dies off, then it gets slightly less and less fun, I'd imagine.
Eventually you will probably be driven insane by the fact that you are immortal, rather than being cool about it. Everyone you know or ever will meet will always, no matter what, die before you and you will probably hear about it. No, it won't make you hard, it'll hurt more and more each time.
[QUOTE=Maniacmike;41811257]I've debated this before with friends. I'm in the minority that wants to live forever. There are different variations you live your life as.
Think of how many different fields of work you can learn, how many foods to try, how many people to meet.
Yep, I would not mind living forever. Even if in the end you are floating in darkness. You would evolve to a point where you wouldn't notice it.[/QUOTE]
That is not how evolution works though, you would be stuck with the same body for your entire life. Everything you change about your body is something that's been done unnaturally.
[QUOTE=Mike Tyson;41811515]A curse. Everyone you know would die, and I dont think anyone could really take that kind of pain so many times.[/QUOTE]
We all eventually die, I seriously can not imagine how you would feel sad over a death.
If you were invulnerable, you could do [URL="http://www.nirvani.net/misc/bullet_proof_truffle_shuffle.gif"]this[/URL]
Suddenly want to save the world from evil ninja pirate zombie terrorists? Just truffle shuffle your way to their base and punch them in the face.
I'm part of the group that would want to live for enternity, id love to see the rise and fall of nations, see the ever changing fate of humanity. To see the ever rise, and eventual fall.
I would pursume, you would soon "get used to" watching those you love die, a sort of emotional evolution. You would learn to not get emotionally attached. And with the length of time you will live, it will seem just like another day.
My view is just based on the concept of human teachings, such as if you put your hand into fire, you learn not to do it again. Therefore, continue to feel pain from loved one dying, learn to suppress the emotion and attachment.
On the otherhand, immortality could make you lose the sense of being a human. In terms of that i mean you would become more of a machine than human, ever watching and suppressed emotional feeling and attachment.
It could be a curse and a blessing in many various cases. Such as that as many has mentioned, being a witness of the death of the people you love. Drastic, I say. So in my opinion it'll be more likely a curse. I don't really see the point of considering immortality as a blessing. Sure you'll be invincible to most things; The thought of it simply scares me.
Unless you don't survive the end of existence, it would be a curse. There are quadrillions of years worth of things to see and do, but you would live for an infinitely bigger amount of time. All possible atomical configurations of this universe would be reached in a finite amount of time; an infinitely small amount of time compared to your life. Unless existence is cyclical, immortality would result in only an infinitely small fraction of your life spent being happy and entertained. The rest would be eternal darkness.
You would be the most powerful man in the world. You could literally do anything you wanted. You could walk into the white house and kill the president without consequence. You could kill everybody and nobody could touch you.
I could finally recreate the beta x10
[sp]but then everyone who knew about it would be dead[/sp]
I'd imagine you'd end up like this guy eventually.
[img]http://i.imgur.com/5NJangI.jpg[/img]
But it would be one hell of a ride there.
TBH immortality would be great if humankind progresses at the rate it has in the last 100 years. i figure if we're still around in the next 200 years, immortality won't be just a possibility but a reality. its kinda hard to say if it will be a curse. sure if you were living in 1053 and became immortal id call it a curse, but becomming immortal today and living to see humanity grow to become a stealar species? totally worth it.
Seeing your loved ones die is not important, really. I mean after centuries and centuries of living, you won't give a fuck anymore. You'll learn to cope with it, and your first family/friends will just become another of the countless relationships you'll have over time.
It'd personally be okay if I become immortal (with limitless mental capacity) and I wouldn't really care if I were say, stuck somewhere like underground or in the void of space. Not everything lasts forever and such fates included, despite the incredible pain I might experience, I'm sure I'd get 'used' to all that eventually and maybe even learn how to block out such sensations mentally and just bury my mind deep into a mental state of trance, fill my head with songs using my memories and imagination, put myself in Nirvana and slumber until something happens and I manage to get out.
While being the only immortal person in existence would be unpleasant to a certain extent, I sincerely doubt there is anyone here who would decline the opportunity given the chance.
Though that scenario is so implausible that you are more likely to shit out a diamond, realistically if it was available to you it'd be available to anyone with your status or higher, so I don't think there would be a single negative especially considering if there is a way to do that, there would probably be a way to counter-act the negative effects too.
If someone found out they would probably bury me alive or in concrete or something and that would be the worst thing ever
[QUOTE=Pantz Master;41885263]You would be the most powerful man in the world. You could literally do anything you wanted. You could walk into the white house and kill the president without consequence. You could kill everybody and nobody could touch you.[/QUOTE]
Just because you're immortal doesn't mean you can't be trapped or overpowered.
[QUOTE=kill3r;41952516]If someone found out they would probably bury me alive or in concrete or something and that would be the worst thing ever[/QUOTE]
kinda like the beginning of dark shadows where vampire-depp gets burried for like 200 years
Blessing. If you want to die, you can suicide at any time.
[QUOTE=.FLAP.JACK.DAN.;41953301]Just because you're immortal doesn't mean you can't be trapped or overpowered.[/QUOTE]
If you are trapped and you are immortal you can use brute force to get out.
Wouldn't immortality become boring after a long period of time?
[thumb]http://pics.mobygames.com/images/covers/large/946510059-00.jpg[/thumb]
After reading this, I take it as a curse.
In my opinion it would be more of a blessing than a curse.
In my opinion, it would be a curse.
Firstly, since as you grow older time becomes faster, in theory, if you were immortal time would eventually start flying like a bullet from a gun.
Secondly, you would have to experience the deaths of all your loved ones. That would be rather painful having to suffer that over and over knowing how much it hurts when you lose someone you love. I'd rather die to be honest.
Thirdly, people may evolve (if evolution is true) in to some sort of new species, whilst you will be a bloody ancient figure of history running around. (Imagine seeing an unkillable(?) monkey man runnin' 'round. It'd be like that.)
I don't know about you, but it doesn't seem like much of a blessing to me.
Immortality would be absolute hell. Apart from the whole "being trapped" thing. It wouldn't be hard for people to notice that you aren't aging, and before you know it, people would give anything to turn you into a lab rat and try to discover what's keeping you immortal.
An eternity of watching every person you developed compassion for die eventually would be never-ending torture. At best, you might help history books have a little more accurate information, because you'd make the perfect interviewee due to you being the only person alive who witnessed or knew about something happening 300 years ago.
[QUOTE=xZippy;42018549]Immortality would be absolute hell. Apart from the whole "being trapped" thing. It wouldn't be hard for people to notice that you aren't aging, and before you know it, [B]people would give anything to turn you into a lab rat and try to discover what's keeping you immortal.
[/B]
An eternity of watching every person you developed compassion for die eventually would be never-ending torture. At best, you might help history books have a little more accurate information, because you'd make the perfect interviewee due to you being the only person alive who witnessed or knew about something happening 300 years ago.[/QUOTE]
I never even though of that, knowing how messed up people are, that would probably happen.
Think about it like this for a second. If you are indestructible and immortal, but without superpowers, the possibility that you will get trapped at some point in your life is 100%. What if you were buried inside a mine, or a debris field, with no chance of rescue ? And if you live to see the civilization and/or planet come to an end, how would you cope with floating into nothingness for eternity / until universe collapses ?. Sure, it could be a hell of a ride, but you have to take into consideration the fact that the human brain also has limits. How can you expect yourself to stay sane after centuries upon centuries of human evolution and devolution ?
Sorry, you need to Log In to post a reply to this thread.
