| Some see it as a curse living forever without an end in sight while others tend to think this is the end goal of humanity. |
| "among monsters and humans, there are only two types. Those who undergo suffering and spread it to others. And those who undergo suffering and avoid giving it to others." -Alice “Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.” David Hume “Evil is created when someone gives up on someone else. It appears when everyone gives up on someone as a lost cause and removes their path to salvation. Once they are cut off from everyone else, they become evil.” -Othinus  |
| A Curse, ”The meaning of life is that it ends” -Franz Kafka, imagine doing the same shit for eons, tried everything under the sun, witnessing repeated history in an endless cycle, and worst of all seeing all your loved ones go away. Even if hypothetically your loved ones are also immortal, who is to say that the relationship between you and them will stand the test of time? In the end or rather, endlessly, you’ll be alone. |
 ˗ˏˋ ꒰ ♡ ꒱ ˎˊ˗ 𝒻𝑜𝓇𝓊𝓂 𝓈𝒾𝑔 𝒷𝓎 𝓂𝑒! | ━─━────༺༻────━─━ | 𝑜𝓀𝒶𝒶-𝓈𝒶𝓃 𝑜𝓃𝓁𝒾𝓃𝑒 wise ˗ˏˋ ꒰ ♡ ꒱ ˎˊ˗ |
| Still working it out myself. What I can add to the discussion is how mentally strong you must be, as some can't manage the repercussions of life within the lifespans they do have. Multiply that by infinity--- no wonder some immortal figures are illustrated as crazy. |
| "In the end the World really doesn't need a Superman. Just a Brave one" |
| Depends what that even means. If it means growing older and older and older just having a degenerating body but never dying sounds like torture. If it's having eternal youth then that could go either way depending what someone likes. If it's someone who can't be killed by anything but doesn't properly heal that's even worse than the just growing older and older. |
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| Double-edged sword I'd say. First it depends on what kind of immortality it is. Do you stay young? Are you immune to diseases or do you just live with them forever? How does the healing process work if you get a cut or lose a limb? Do you ever develop a stronger pain threshold? Also, you have to worry about society. Sooner or later people will learn you are immortal and want to learn more about it. You can end up in a cell being experimented on for decades or centuries. People can bury you in the ground and you will never get out. Vampire is probably the way to go. You live longer but not immortal, stay young, powers to defend yourself. |
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| I would never want live forever That's a curse.I want to die 45 years from now. |
| Depends if you mean "can't die no matter what" type immortality or "never age but still can die to injury" type immortality. The former would be a curse since if you get bored of life you can't off yourself and when the sun eventually burns out you will be stuck on a dead Earth forever. The latter would be a blessing imo. |
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| Odds are you will end up like doomsday infinitely flosting in space after our planets and stars collapse. |
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| Hold that thought, Ill let you know when I get there. |
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| The prospect of living for eternity is terrifying. It's most definitely a curse in my opinion. I think most people would jump at the chance of a extra 50 years or so, provided it's with good physical and mental health. But anyone that would jump at the chance of living for eternity I don't think has a good grasp on how long the concept of eternity is, no end whatsoever. It's guaranteed misery. |
| Curse... Imagine being immortal and living in 50 degrees centigrade with 90 percent humidity.. Forever |
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| Immortality is not nearly as interesting of a topic as eternity. I'm pretty much completely done with the discussion of immortality, and yes my answer is curse. But for eternity, it's much more complicated. Sort of like I only like eternity only when it's convenient, which makes it a lot more fascinating. I'd actually bitch about nothing being inherently eternal, even the kickass movies, the cool books and great music. Which sometimes leads me to asking what even is the point. Yes money but you know what I mean. Sometimes listening to those great music and thought "damn dude's dead but his music surely lives on, essentially forev-" just to cut myself off quickly. I guess that's what happens when you watch too many black hole videos oh well. |
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| A curse if everybody achieves immortality, it would be a blessing if I'm the only immortal person. Imagine how wars would play out if nobody can effectively die... Immortality brings power and power is great as far as only a few select qualified people hold it, imagine the violence rate and how violent blowing shit up would get, nobody would fear the consequences of being shot, and it would be rather difficult chasing and arresting criminals. |
''Enemies' gifts are no gifts and do no good.'' |
| With the current human biology it would be difficult since your head won't be able to store all that information from the eons worth of lifetime that pass. Ultimately, immortality is a blessing since it gives you more time to explore the universe and unearth its secrets. Technically speaking, life could be immortal by default unless the information of it is deleted and the Black Hole Information Paradox remains unsolved. Like, a person who died 2000 years ago is not gone since you can still collect all the particles and arrange them in the exact way they were before they died. Maybe a more ambitious future version of us would easily be able to achieve that and "death" would be just the absence of consciousness rather than the end of existence. On the other hand, that creates a scarier premise that the Universe is an inescapable prison that even death can't save you from. |
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| First a blessing and later a curse.. |
| Having healthy bodies till we die seems something I would want rather than immortality. Our brain isn't made to be immortal, being immortal means repeating and nothing kills humans more than endless repeating Are you even alive at that point? Or just a shell, law of physics? |
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