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2018-03-05, 09:27 PM (ISO 8601)
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2018-03-06, 04:54 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Would be willing to be forever young?
For the people who know at which age they should have locked themselves in, who using hindsight can say "I would want to be that age forever": would you actually have locked yourself in at that right moment had it been an option? Or would you have been too early, or too late? At which age do you think you'd have first said "okay, this is exactly old enough"?
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2018-03-06, 06:28 AM (ISO 8601)
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2018-03-06, 06:55 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Would be willing to be forever young?
It's impossible to say, really. When I was 20 I didn't really worry much about what I was going to be like at age 47, and I'm pretty sure that my 20-year-old self would look at me now and wonder how the heck I got to here from there. When I started getting my regular back pain I was only in my early 20s, so I wouldn't have looked at that at the time as being something related to aging, because it demonstrably wasn't.
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2018-03-07, 11:43 AM (ISO 8601)
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Spoiler: On aging
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2018-03-16, 03:08 AM (ISO 8601)
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2018-03-16, 03:30 AM (ISO 8601)
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2018-03-24, 09:32 PM (ISO 8601)
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2018-05-06, 05:42 AM (ISO 8601)
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Forever young, I want to be forever young
Do you really want to live forever?
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2018-05-06, 12:17 PM (ISO 8601)
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Yes. Being forever anything is better than being dead right?
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2018-05-06, 01:03 PM (ISO 8601)
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2018-05-06, 02:36 PM (ISO 8601)
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2018-05-06, 07:40 PM (ISO 8601)
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I would take eternal immortality and youth (I'm 22) in a heartbeat. I want to get to the future with all the flying cars and space exploration!
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2018-05-14, 03:54 PM (ISO 8601)
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"It's the fate of all things under the sky,
to grow old and wither and die."
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2018-05-15, 06:19 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Would be willing to be forever young?
No. Think of this: if you were forever young, and never died of old age, you could live forever. But none if your friends and family could. You would live to see the deaths of everybody you love. You would see the deaths of everybody you love's children. On and on. Witnessing death after death. You would have infinite life, but also see infinite funerals. And when the time finally comes, you would die from the end of Earth. Or not, depending on what you believe. The point is, it would be depressing to see your brother have a kid, but know you'll see your brother, your nephew, and youe great nephew die, as well as everybody descended from your great nephew, or to meet the perfect soul mate for you, then watch as they age and die while you stay young. I couldn't handle that. I just couldn't handle seeing everyone I love or have ever loved die.
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2018-05-15, 06:23 PM (ISO 8601)
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2018-05-15, 06:38 PM (ISO 8601)
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I'd go for it as long as I could still die from other causes. Never understood why people like immortality, after the planet blows up and the sun goes out, what would you do then?
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2018-05-15, 07:48 PM (ISO 8601)
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2018-05-15, 07:53 PM (ISO 8601)
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2018-05-16, 01:20 AM (ISO 8601)
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Travel to a different star system? The journey will take centuries, but you're immortal!
Mind you, something that happened in the Sandman comics by Neil Gaiman occurs here...he had a chap in that who was immortal (thanks to a bet between Death and Dream), and at one point he fell on hard times. As he asked of Dream at their next meeting, "Do you know how hungry a man can get if he doesn't eat, but can't die?".
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2018-05-16, 02:33 PM (ISO 8601)
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*groan*
I mentioned people assuming immortality gives you other arbitrary superpowers. These are two cases in point.
First: immortality does not itself give any sort or form of space travel ability. If you'd be jettisoned to the void for whatever reason, chances are you'd be entirely at the mercy of gravity and unable to control your course. Plus, space is a big and sparse. It's entirely possible to end up drifting for millions of years without hitting anything, before falling into a sun or a black hole, where you can't do anything but suffer.
Second: why are you assuming that any sort of immortality which allows you to survive planetary devastation actually allows for any parts of yourself to leave your body? Even if we take for granted an ability of perpetual motion, there's no guarantee any energy produced by you is easily convertible into matter. You might as well be a sealed, impervious container giving out low levels of blackbody radiation, and nothing else."It's the fate of all things under the sky,
to grow old and wither and die."
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2018-05-16, 03:36 PM (ISO 8601)
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Um, if I'd meant some sort of magical space travel ability in my post, I'd have said so. What I obviously meant was that you build a rocket and leave this solar system *before* the place goes kablooey? Still no easy task, don't get me wrong, but considering you've got a few *billion* years to prepare for the event, I'm sure it's not beyond human wit to come up with some way of doing this.
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2018-05-16, 07:23 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Would be willing to be forever young?
I've never understood why people say that they'd have this sort of problem with immortality. Seeing lots of people you love die isn't some sort of unbearably miserable fate worse than death - it's something that eventually happens to literally every person who has ever loved someone. Personally, I consider seeing thousands of friends and family members die a reasonable price for the opportunity to have thousands of friends and family members.
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2018-05-16, 09:20 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Would be willing to be forever young?
I have a wife, who is an essential part of who I am.
Yes, I know that the odds are that either I will die first, and she will live without me, or she will die first, and I will live without her. Nonetheless, the plan and desire is that we live as much of the rest of our lives together as possible.
My Mom has now lived ten years without Dad. And she's done well. But he was central to her life for 55 years, and that was at the core of their happiness. I hope I have as long with Diane, because that is the core of my happiness.
Similarly, I have friends who have been part of my life for the majority of my time on earth, and are a part of who I am. I have no desire to start over with new friends who weren't a part of my maturation, my schooling, my development, etc.
I still fence with somebody who started fencing the same day I did, 45 years ago.
My life is a story, and it includes people who have been crucial to me for most of that story. Immortality (for myself alone) means that that would not be true.
I'm not suggesting everybody should feel this way. I have no reason to believe that everybody should. But this is how I feel.
You said you didn't understand how somebody could feel this way. I'm not trying to convince you to feel this way, just to help you understand how people could say it.
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2018-05-16, 10:32 PM (ISO 8601)
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Is floating around is the void of soace really so bad? The view is quite nice.
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2018-05-17, 12:54 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Would be willing to be forever young?
I've outlived:
A son
My father
My grandparents
A girlfriend
My best friend(and DM)
Nine customers (of the motorcycle shop I worked at for seven years)
At least six co-workers
Other friends
Countless pets
Sorrow lingers, but tears dry.
Being alone with the heat death of the universe might be a bit much though.
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2018-05-17, 09:56 AM (ISO 8601)
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People assume loss is devastating sure it's bad but you can survive it, that's the greatest human virtue adaptability. You get used to it.
That's why I like sandman take on a immortal man:
Spoiler
The argument is that when a immortal see all his loved ones die and he doesn't, he gives up the idea of immortality, people who asusme that in my view are ignoring human adaptability.
People do lose loved ones, they do lose everyhting they had, and they move on, why would immortals be any different?
Besides as the comic shows an immortal can see things change and evolve, tecnology and all the comfort they bring, can you iamgine the tecnology that is going to come and make life more awesome? You can't because it's not here but if you were immortal you could for exemple go to other planets somethign we won't be able to do.
So when I see a immortal get all emo and stuff I don't buy it, I belive immortality brings tragic situations and a lot of angst but not in the way the do in most media.Last edited by S@tanicoaldo; 2018-05-17 at 10:04 AM.
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2018-05-17, 10:21 AM (ISO 8601)
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There's a lot of critical things to be said of Aubrey De Grey but I really like his baseball bat to the head analogy. I'm sure I'm not quoting him correctly here since it's been 5 or 6 years since I listened to that TED talk.
Imagine that every morning since the dawn of time everyone gets hit in the head with a baseball bat. It's an accepted, normal fact of live, as normal as growing old and dying is. Sure in recent years helmet technology had advanced and the baseball bat hurts less and leaves less bruises but every morning here it is. In that world if you were to suggest that we should look for a way to remove the baseball bat entirely you would probably run into much of the same objections that people looking into rejuvenation or more singularity-ish technologies. The baseball bat gives meaning to life, without it how would you tell the passage of time, it's a central part of the human experience, is God didn't want us to get hit by a baseball bat he wouldn't have created it, etc...
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2018-05-17, 10:45 AM (ISO 8601)
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2018-05-17, 10:50 AM (ISO 8601)
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