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you would cheat her of her bragging rights of outlasting a gwai-lo?
Who wants to live forever?
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you would cheat her of her bragging rights of outlasting a gwai-lo?
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Personally I think that eternal life, without any curse attached to it, like one could choose to stay just as one is, at a certain point in time, and being able to opt out of it via suicide, would be awesome.
To quote Batou: "A way-cool dude like me will never die"
To quote Batou: "A way-cool dude like me will never die"
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interesting. but the need to employ self murder as the only means for nature to turn you into compost would be a heavy burden to bare.
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I think living forever might be ok, if you could stay young physically. If you could live for hundreds years, or as long as it takes to do everything you wanted to do in life.
Do you mean the average/expected age might be extended to 115? There have already been people 122 years old, and probably older than that.
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It would be hell. Death is probably the only profound meaning of life. Everything else is just volatile, erratic and exactly designed to be this way to make us think about it. Till the thinking stops. I like the idea of getting old, as old as it gets to see what happens with this planet -- but forever? ...that's just a misunderstanding.
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Yeah nearly everyone I've spoken to finds the idea of living forever off putting, which makes me wonder why the religious obsession of eternal life after death? Not for me ta.
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Quite a nihilistic reaction to something we can't experience. I don't know what happens in the afterlife, but the concept of eternity maybe as vital there, as is the concept of a beginning and an end here. It's either forever or a variation of our earthly purgatory.
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Yeah, When I read the thread title, I heard Michael Ironside's voice in my head.
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I personally would go for it. It would suck to see everyone die, but i think the ability to traverse and see the entire planet, or planets, would be awesome.
Even if you could live forever you would eventually die when tbe earth gets hit by a comet, burns away from the sun, or theres a massive catstrophe somewhere in space.
Would you get older, or age i guess? Or be young lookin forever?
The previous poster in the first page is right. Once biological computing really takes off were going to destroy that 115 age prediction. They will eventually be programming dna so that will pretty much eliminate disease and birth defects. Plus theres printing and growing of organs already being done.
The real hurdle will be preserving ones brain. So until they find a way to transplant one of those bad boys back in you and upload your memory we're not living forever.
Theres still a LONG way to go before anyone is making it well past 115. Hundreds or even thousands of years.
Even if you could live forever you would eventually die when tbe earth gets hit by a comet, burns away from the sun, or theres a massive catstrophe somewhere in space.
Would you get older, or age i guess? Or be young lookin forever?
The previous poster in the first page is right. Once biological computing really takes off were going to destroy that 115 age prediction. They will eventually be programming dna so that will pretty much eliminate disease and birth defects. Plus theres printing and growing of organs already being done.
The real hurdle will be preserving ones brain. So until they find a way to transplant one of those bad boys back in you and upload your memory we're not living forever.
Theres still a LONG way to go before anyone is making it well past 115. Hundreds or even thousands of years.
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Nah bro, doesn't work that way. When the earth dies or when heat death of the universe or whatever, the thing is you would still be alive, that's whart. No get out of earth free card, earth blows up? You're floating around for billions of years in space. Hell why billions, how about trillions of years floating and swimming alone in space. fuck that shit
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You're only hope is to have eaten enough beans so that you can propel yourself to a new world with a mighty fart. That's why immortals always carry a can of beans, for in case they get stranded in space.
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Yeah, I guess I'm out then.
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This: Seeing all your love ones die yet you don't die.
On the other hand: From a music perspective, it would be amazing to live forever! Seeing new bands, enjoying music forever!
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Yeah, my first thought, too.
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Queen are almost an institution here, to the point that "who want's to live forever" borders on being a saying. So yeah, it was actually a reference to the song of the same name in some way.
Kind of like someone linking a story in the news about a herd of cows escaping and crushing a town and naming the thread "Got Milk". They don't actually want to discuss the 90s advertising campaign.
I've confused myself with this now too. Sage, you teach English, what am I talking about?
Anyway, it was a fail.
Kind of like someone linking a story in the news about a herd of cows escaping and crushing a town and naming the thread "Got Milk". They don't actually want to discuss the 90s advertising campaign.
I've confused myself with this now too. Sage, you teach English, what am I talking about?
Anyway, it was a fail.
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man the other day i looked in our textbook and saw the word 'ping-pong bat' and i yelled out in class OH MY GOD ping-pong bat?
I feverishly searched the internet and apparently Europeans - and since you're british that means you're one of them - say ping-pong bat?
I told everyone the book is a lie, everything you learned is a lie, your life is a lie, your t-shirts are a lie, Tian'anmen is a lie and that's when security burst through the door and dragged me away as I kept screaming PING-PONG BAT? PING-PONG BAAAAAAAAAATTTTTTTTTT
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Yeah, when I taught English, I had to break students of a bunch of dumb England-English they'd unwittingly been fed by UK teachers.
Hey, UKers and Europeans: people around the world don't learn English because they want to talk to you. They learn English so they can do business with the USA, you egomaniacs. Stop teaching them your outdated bullshit fake English. The point of teaching is to prepare students for their future, not bolster your flagging sense of self-worth.
Hey, UKers and Europeans: people around the world don't learn English because they want to talk to you. They learn English so they can do business with the USA, you egomaniacs. Stop teaching them your outdated bullshit fake English. The point of teaching is to prepare students for their future, not bolster your flagging sense of self-worth.
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Well, I will talk posh if I like it, whenever I like it!