| Whenever I hear someone say they want immortality all I can think of is Czeslaw from Baccano and Rin from Mnemosyne and how horrible it is for them. Like imagine dealing with fatal injuries but you can still feel all the pain. Or if like Utsutsu from Pupa that pain medicine doesn't work on you as well. |
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| I like to think I'd react to immortality the same way Isaac and Miria did, personally. Taking away circumstances where I'd be in permanent excruciating pain, if at any point in time you asked me, "would you prefer to die, or would you prefer to live?," I imagine my answer would always be that I prefer to live. Doesn't mean I spend my days agonizing over it, but the preference is obviously there. Hence I'd say immortality under certain circumstances would be great. |
| It sounds terrible when you actually think about it. Because for one, you'll be stuck watching your loved ones die and you'll probably end up alone. And unless there's a clause that you don't age, you'll have to deal with the health and orthopedic problems of being old with no way out. Like...people are stuck with cane's and walker's by 70, imagine how bad your mobility will be by 170. |
| My waifu is the most wonderful waifu. Mai Valentine. We're freaking out that we're running out of time, but to do what? Should i stop and think of that? Is there something i could do to slow it down? Live in a day for once, instead of watch it sprinting by |
| yeah but such pain doesnt happen as often in real life as in ... baccano of all things lol. |
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| Depends on how Immortal you are. Living after the heat death of the universe would actually suck. |
| Nah, it's the best one. Unless you suffer from depression, you'll always figure out something to spend time on. At least that's how I feel. If you're good at dealing with loss in general, it'll be easier to cope with things that happen over the course of your life. I'd personally enjoy the gift of immortality given my body remains healthy and fit. |
| With Baccano reference of Czesław you've pointed the ones who might have complained but you have forgotten about the other two characters the couple who have gained it somehow [forgot how they received it] and they haven't even realised that they lived through over 2 hundred years. It is hard to say how hard it is, or easy it is all what you have in mind, if you know how to deal with it than it is a blessing, if you can't deal with life while being mortal than why on earth would you even consider to being immortal at first place? @Cei_Von_Velsia Wait what? If you're speaking about science mind giving an article or literature at first place from where you've received such information? Cause so far I haven't heard about it. And after seeing what is left after people from archaeological point of view I would disagree with it, cause you even need a specific ground factors, humidity factors, air factors and many more for bones to be not perished, not gonna even say about muscles for which it is very unlikely to be not perished, the only example which I can think of such thing surviving till nowadays is the nomad princess in Altai Republick [back than] from Pazyryk culture, where the mummy was completely frozen [best conditions for surviving the ageing process of body] which gave us the very nice tattoos reconstructions. [Dean/Doyen of my university field already was speaking of how USSR was making archaeological sites back than, some ideas were fine but alot of them were... as it is expected from USRR] Just type Siberian Ice Maiden or Pazyryk Tattoo to find more about it. |
ZettaikenJun 1, 2023 10:05 AM
Cei_Von_Velsia said: My source: Go and ask your own doctor.... or any physician. Than you can put that source and your initial and later "scientific" writing into the same category with Cleopatra's "Documentary". People lose bone mass when they age, especially Calcium or other Minerals. [Which is natural which is also why it is recommended to take suplements of Vitamind D which is also lost through ageing] The lifestyle only may this happen later or being more prepared for it. Heel Striking or other exercises will not make your knee joints being as good as they are in 20s. Such thing were seen within laboratory through rats cause it is easier on animal studies. But still eating a perfect diet and having a perfect healthcare approach will not make you live over 200 years x) You might make yourself in better shape for maybe a decade but not in such extend as you've pointed to someone writing about 170... Source: Just search articles through google which can give that information. I won't sacrifice time to go to Medical University Library to read on that topic for a random guy at these forums. |
| It's only worse if you're imortal and keep on aging until you look like a raisin. |
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| @Cei_Von_Velsia https://www.mountsinai.org/health-library/special-topic/aging-changes-in-the-bones-muscles-joints https://health.clevelandclinic.org/how-do-your-bones-change-over-time/ https://www.physio-pedia.com/Effects_of_Ageing_on_Joints https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/004015.htm https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5389428/ Btw as it is common thing said in alot of Universities, you shouldn't listen/read information from only one person or one site/article/book, unless you're lazy. You'd be surprised about how the "average" has been changed in nowadays compared to past, meaning they had better trained bodies but worse healthcare, I don't know where you live [would guess that not in Europe] when you speak about such % of people being lazy or owerweigth as that is not the reality of Europe. Just take a simple morning/midday/afternoon/evening/night walk around the city which I often do to realise how many people go out for cycling, running, jogging, other exercises on free air, skating, roller skating or however you say that, walking, hiking, going to the gym, other activities which are less or more productive cause you would notice how many people at daily manner visit biliard places, sport clubs, dart places, martial arts places and many more. Speaking about being ignorant and not seeing those stuff. Aren't you in those assumed and made up 99%? Cause you surely sound like that. [If you respond quickly I'd be late cause gonna take another walk around the city as I do often] Zettaiken said: I won't sacrifice time to go to Medical University Library to read on that topic for a random guy at these forums. If you'd like to ask why I haven't given you literature from any Doctors working at hospitals or being lecturers from Medical Universities, which maybe I'd be able to provide due to trying dating a medical student in the past so she might have know who researched that here. Cause of the stuff mentioned above, I have already enough on my head with my own studies and master degree to waste my time on reading stuff which I am not even interested in. |
ZettaikenJun 1, 2023 11:58 AM
| Immortality a blessing just not in the realm of mortals. |
| @Cei_Von_Velsia oh ok, actually how does it look like in Italy? [been twice but not for a long period of times] with obesity, cause in one google search it says 1 in 10 people are overweight while in the other site saying that 47% of the population. [Checked and gonna correct myself 10% is for obesity, 35% fo overweight **, while 50% for normal and the rest for under, - just tired from little exercises and university duties so my reading skills are at level 0 rn] Well good for you. Remember that gym doesn't make anyone better than others, aswell as it doesn't make anyone worse than others. |
| Only if we keep looking at it from our temporary meat-suit point of view. |
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| Immortality is great when you can kill yourself whenever you want. |
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| Yes I think so too...i made posted similar comments.. |
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| I'd be fine with it. Just let me die a bit before the heat death of the universe. That might hurt a bit to sit through. |
| Nothing can be eternal: human societies can all be dumbed down to an endless cycle of union and division; The greatest, richest, most successful human in the world shares the same fate as an obese pedophile, that is, being reduced to a sack of bones. These two persons are equally as shitty because death equalizes all. But the concept of Immortality is the only absolute that exists, it is the only thing that goes against that law, the only thing that goes against the impartial river of time. I don't know of any super power more meaningful than immortality. From our standpoint, immortality would be unbearable in the long term (mostly emotionally), sure, but what if you had a thousand years' worth of life experiences? Would your goals, ambitions, and understandings of life be the same as now? Would you still be bound by the same values and worldly desires? No, I think anyone with enough life experiences would eventually realize, that immortality is the only goal worth pursuing, that the pursuit of immortality is the only life worth living. My view is somewhat limited to the earth: I don't take into consideration the end of the universe and galactic stuff like that either because I am too narrow-minded or because I realize I lack the ability to even attempt to form a conjecture on what immortality would entail at that scale. Objectivity is a myth; everything is relative. |
MeruloxJun 3, 2023 12:46 PM
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