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Immortality Question
#20440089 - 08/18/14 10:05 PM (9 years, 5 months ago) |
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What do you think a 500, 1000, 10000, or 100000 year old person would be like, psychologically? They live all this time in a 28 year old body.
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Re: Immortality Question [Re: automan]
#20440103 - 08/18/14 10:11 PM (9 years, 5 months ago) |
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I don't think it would be too pretty.
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Re: Immortality Question [Re: Icelander]
#20440198 - 08/18/14 10:26 PM (9 years, 5 months ago) |
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500 would be cool.
1,000 would turn me insane.
10,000 would turn me into a reclusive being that lies dormant for millennia at a time.
This earth will not be around 100,000 years with humans populating it. Probably wouldn't make it to 12,000 AD.
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Re: Immortality Question [Re: Icelander] 1
#20440220 - 08/18/14 10:30 PM (9 years, 5 months ago) |
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Icelander said: I don't think it would be too pretty.
Why wouldn't it be too pretty?
You occasionally contradict this view when posters bring up some not-so-novel optimistic approach to life and you respond with the ole', "you're young, you're body is still full of energy and cum" shpiel..
I think I don't understand the question..But to answer to the best of my understanding, I think they would be able to do whatever they wanted to for the most part. If you have a 10,000 year old mind and a 28 year old body, you should be attuned to stay away from most all the world and have learned what brings you the most pleasure/comfort in daily living.
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Re: Immortality Question [Re: cez]
#20440261 - 08/18/14 10:37 PM (9 years, 5 months ago) |
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Well you'd be totally alone because you'd have seen to the bottom of human folly. You'd be outside it and looking in while everyone else was endlessly caught in the bs. That would feel very lonely over the eons. Anything fun would likely lose it's appeal with endless repetition. Maybe it would be like being all dressed up for a party but nowhere to go and no date.
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Re: Immortality Question [Re: Icelander]
#20440300 - 08/18/14 10:43 PM (9 years, 5 months ago) |
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Well, when you put it like that..
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Re: Immortality Question [Re: cez]
#20440596 - 08/19/14 12:03 AM (9 years, 5 months ago) |
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Sorry, but take heart, you are mortal.
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Re: Immortality Question [Re: Icelander]
#20440614 - 08/19/14 12:13 AM (9 years, 5 months ago) |
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it'd be pointless if you got alzheimers at age 60 and had to live another 100,000 years
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Re: Immortality Question [Re: automan]
#20440658 - 08/19/14 12:29 AM (9 years, 5 months ago) |
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I think that I would greatly enjoy it, provided I had the option of committing suicide whenever I felt it was appropriate.
I don't want to die when I don't want to... all the years would give me the option of trying all possible experiences and pursuing those that interested me the most. A meager 80-100 years ain't nearly enough for me; I'd need at least a thousand to exhaust all possibilities.
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Re: Immortality Question [Re: deCypher]
#20440672 - 08/19/14 12:34 AM (9 years, 5 months ago) |
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i would live out the rest of my days in darkness until i see if it's possible to live out the rest of my waking state and sleeping moments in consciousness, see what that hardcore Dzogchen stuff is all about. then i would jump off a cliff and try to fly.
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Re: Immortality Question [Re: Hobozen]
#20440688 - 08/19/14 12:40 AM (9 years, 5 months ago) |
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If your body was equipped and ready to live for 100,000 years , I find it hard to believe you would be copping something like Alzheimer's at 60 even in a hypothetical situation. If you did i doubt you would live that long anyway because presumably one doesn't know about their condition and whilst the physical form wont change after 28 years others will. Eventually they will begin to cotton on until the indifference is caught out, after that your in the hands of mortals...
As for OP, no'one can possible even really contemplate that question let alone give a real insightful answer. I mean what the fuck do any of us know about living for 500 years. Any answer would just be a bias assumption from your own current perspective as a mortal that lives 100+ years at the max and knowing about it too.
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Re: Immortality Question [Re: Withinity]
#20440693 - 08/19/14 12:43 AM (9 years, 5 months ago) |
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just yanking your chains 
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As for OP, no'one can possible even really contemplate that question let alone give a real insightful answer. I mean what the fuck do any of us know about living for 500 years. Any answer would just be a bias assumption from your own current perspective as a mortal that lives 100+ years at the max and knowing about it too.
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Re: Immortality Question [Re: deCypher]
#20440709 - 08/19/14 12:51 AM (9 years, 5 months ago) |
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deCypher said: I think that I would greatly enjoy it, provided I had the option of committing suicide whenever I felt it was appropriate.
I don't want to die when I don't want to... all the years would give me the option of trying all possible experiences and pursuing those that interested me the most. A meager 80-100 years ain't nearly enough for me; I'd need at least a thousand to exhaust all possibilities. 
That's not the deal dood. It's immortality, you don't get to die.
I could take a few grand if I got to have everything my way all the time and have total control of my fate.
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Re: Immortality Question [Re: Icelander]
#20440729 - 08/19/14 12:58 AM (9 years, 5 months ago) |
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Same here. The main thing that sucks about getting old is getting old.
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Re: Immortality Question [Re: Rahz]
#20440907 - 08/19/14 02:50 AM (9 years, 5 months ago) |
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It's really fucked up but better than immortality. I can think of nothing worse than living forever in a fucked up place like this.
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Re: Immortality Question [Re: automan]
#20441033 - 08/19/14 04:26 AM (9 years, 5 months ago) |
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automan said: What do you think a 500, 1000, 10000, or 100000 year old person would be like, psychologically? They live all this time in a 28 year old body.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzahT2FaH6U
Yeah, you remember Lestat from the movies but if you read the books you would know what immortality did for him. Drove him to insanity. Lol. Who knows what life would be like if one was immortal. The 90's goth kid in me screams it would be fucking awesome to be an immortal vampire but who knows. I'm sure it would suck not dying.
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Re: Immortality Question [Re: automan]
#20441089 - 08/19/14 05:06 AM (9 years, 5 months ago) |
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automan said: What do you think a 500, 1000, 10000, or 100000 year old person would be like, psychologically? They live all this time in a 28 year old body.
There's two critically important factors here that would need to be taken into consideration - starting conditions (internal and external) and environment.
The result could cover the entire gamut depending on the specifics of those factors.
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I guess I'm talking about someone that ages very slowly, but can't be killed or injured.
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Re: Immortality Question [Re: automan]
#20441582 - 08/19/14 08:56 AM (9 years, 5 months ago) |
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The reason the possible manifestations of their psychology would vary so much is because the transformation of the culture in which they live over the course of ten thousand years could go in so many directions. Just one aspect of this is freedom, and with it, the options through which one could exert that freedom. If the individual had a high degree of influence over the course of their life all those years, and the "game" kept changing and bringing novel and interesting pursuits and endeavors, they'd likely be much more healthy psychologically than if they had to slog through millennia of the same basic thing. Novel experience, stimulation, and also stability are integral to psychological health.
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fireworks_god said: The reason the possible manifestations of their psychology would vary so much is because the transformation of the culture in which they live over the course of ten thousand years could go in so many directions. Just one aspect of this is freedom, and with it, the options through which one could exert that freedom. If the individual had a high degree of influence over the course of their life all those years, and the "game" kept changing and bringing novel and interesting pursuits and endeavors, they'd likely be much more healthy psychologically than if they had to slog through millennia of the same basic thing. Novel experience, stimulation, and also stability are integral to psychological health. 
Yeah it's a big unknown. Given enough time to evolve humans might actually be likeable. And considering the novelty of the known/suspected universe if you could really develop emotionally and mentally in healthy vibrant ways a very very long life would be nice indeed.
Dreamers.
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