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reply posted on 21-7-2008 @ 07:22 PM by Anonymous ATS
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I think i would go with immortality. I have always wanted to invent something or make a peice of music/art worthwhile, immortality gives me a lot of
spare time to do so  although it would be very lonely... being nonexistant isnt any better
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reply posted on 2-8-2008 @ 06:32 PM by Anonymous ATS
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there nothing good about living forever going on an on not knowing only longing for it too end, seeing you friends and family vanishing one by one
knowing you can never join them, it not a life humans should live
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reply posted on 8-10-2008 @ 03:05 PM by Anonymous ATS
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i just met my ex... and realized how deep the things are between us. we love each other, but cant be together... how can i live eternaly if i cant
even bear a second of an existance like this? the only preson who would want to live forever is th one who never loved...
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reply posted on 8-10-2008 @ 03:12 PM by PuRe EnErGy
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Wouldn't the question read something like this in our day and age?
would you become mortal?
With the suppressed patents, the suppressed technologies and unethical scientists out there, there are already people on this planet that we would all
flat out disbelieve in.
I would like to think I am already Immortal.
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reply posted on 8-10-2008 @ 03:15 PM by JaxonRoberts
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Absolutely! Well, as long as I stop aging!!!
In the end there can be only One!
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reply posted on 8-10-2008 @ 05:02 PM by sdrawkcabII
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Well, immortality is a nice way to transcend time. You can do what you want, when you want to do it. There's no rush...you got forever...or as long
as the Earth lasts.
If I were to become immortal...I'd do all in my power to take down the corrupt, vile and powerful elitist of the world.
But, that wasn't the question. Do I want to be immortal?
No! I'm in my 20's and I'm already hoping for something better than this crappy place when I leave here. Not to mention, if the human species dies
out, or all life dies out...you're the only one left...to do absolutely nothing...for forever. See, what a lot of you are forgetting is being
immortal doesn't mean you won't feel pain, etc. In fact...the term being "bored to death" will mean nothing to you. You'll wish you could be
bored to death. Trust me.
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reply posted on 8-10-2008 @ 05:35 PM by seejanerun
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If I wouldn't age and I would remain healthy I would do it in a second. The only other requirement I would have to insist on is not losing for soul
for the experience.
Yes I would watch people I loved pass away, however I have been there and done that. To me that would be the hardest part.
As for what would motivate me to get out of bed in the am ? I would have to believe that if a person had immortality they could recognize patterns,
see things that have happened before and that were happening again and would have been smart enough to put themselves in a position to help
humanity.
Plus, it would just be cool.
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reply posted on 8-10-2008 @ 05:45 PM by All Seeing Eye
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 Originally posted by Astyanax
But a modestly extended lifespan -- yes, by all means.
In The City and the Stars, Arthur C. Clarke describes a society in which people live a thousand years at a time, then are painlessly deprived
of life, while their personalities and a self-chosen selection of their memories are uploaded into the memory banks of their city. These personalities
and memories are resurrected in a new body after a few millennia, to run the whole course again. This seems like a better arrangement than
immortality, though I think 150 years or so at a time might be preferable to a thousand.
However, Clarke's novel also points up the inevitable result of such immoderate longevity: social stagnation, leading ultimately to decay. That's
the problem with immortality, really, in the end. It might be good for the individual, but it's fatal to the species.
Finally, if the above arguments fail to convince, consider this: the wish to live forever is greedy, selfish and rather cowardly. It is, in a word,
ignoble. Long live death.
I must agree with this summation. Considering the restraints of a life to be rather confined I believe this would be the eventual situation. What
would there be to inspire spiritual growth, where would the inspiration come from to better ones self? The spirit after a time would wither and die
 Even if they added new blood the eventual outcome would be the same.
I know one thing, I would never be able to endure such a existence without some type of music. It gives inspiration, but only to a certain degree.
Hearing the same music over and over would be the end of me LOL LOL LOL
I think the perfect solution would be a space traveler that lives to see as much of Gods creation as possible. Give me immortality, and send me to
the stars...........
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reply posted on 8-10-2008 @ 06:27 PM by cancerian42
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Forever, that is a long time.
However, I think we already do live forever if you want. Your body dies, but you, yourself live on. However, if you truly don't want to live anymore
you can go back to the source, like a raindrop falls into the ocean and just cease to exist. I believe it is that way, but don't know how it works
exactly.
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reply posted on 8-10-2008 @ 06:52 PM by thedigirati
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I would Love to be Immortal, I could get so many PHD's, I live to learn and could really do that.
Living for ever isn't that what "Woodrow Wilson Smith" aka Lazarus Long did?? ( any other esoteric bookworms out there? )
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reply posted on 8-10-2008 @ 06:56 PM by semiunknown
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I think that if I was given the coice, I'd probably say "No". I'd rather just have a normal lifespan with perhaps, a better quality of life until
the day I die. Forever is a very long time and I'd think that one would really have to fight off boredom or insanity at some point in time. I think
that it could be both a blessing and a curse. Plus, to watch all your loved ones pass on would really wear on you after awhile.
Great topic for debate, though.
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reply posted on 8-10-2008 @ 07:00 PM by Unisol
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yes i would like to be immortal thank you very much,and if i get bored..ill just find a way to kill my self,throw my self in magma...teminator style
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reply posted on 8-10-2008 @ 07:01 PM by semiunknown
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HAHA! Ok, what if immortality meant something more on the line of "Groundhog's Day"?
Would that change anyone's mind at all?
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