Immortality

[AYHJA]

If you were presented w/the the option of dying in this life, and being reborn into any place, and any time to continue from that point on to be immortal...Would you..? If so, when and where..? What do you think the challenges of such a life would be..? The biggest gains..?

[Deepak]

Hmm although it may sound great to be an immortal I wouldnt choose to be one. Reasons are simple enough you will watch the world go by, you will watch those who you care about shrivel and die in front of you and it will happen over and over again. The pain of that will be unbearable. I doubt that you would want to care about anyone after it happens a few times in a row. It will be harder to have a love relationship. I assume when you say immortal you also mean eternal youth. In that case just think how many times could you fall in love and how many times you will see that love grow old and stuff in front of you and you being the same through out that.

I think there was this one episode in the superman series that dean cain was in about how superman would remain the same all his life. I think for me personally I would not want to do it. In the beginning it may seem great but you will never make friends or even be able to love someone after a while. What good is immortality when you have no one to share it with.

[AYHJA]

Isn't it better to have love and lost than never to have loved at all..? Using what you said for and example Deep, if you put anything else besides immortality in there, like say, dating...Wouldn't you be more insisting on 'getting back up on the horse' as they say..? Why do you think that immortality would lead to misery instead of something on the side of divine..?

[raum]

What do you mean *if*? ;)

[trashtalkr]

If I had a choice on when and where to be immortal, it would have to be in the 1700s when the first settlers came to America. If I could live from then on to be immortal, I would be able to watch the country grow (and decline like it is now). I believe having someone like that would be so valuable to forming a strong nation. Being able to be immortal during that time would also put me in a great position of power in which I could change the course of history - which would hopefully mean that poverty wouldn't be as big and wars wouldn't be fought.

Of course I would want to be eternally young though. I don't want to continue to age. Put me in the mid 20s to early 30s range so I have a young, active body yet I'll have the wisdom of hundreds of years

[Pete]

I would only become immortal if I could use a time machine to travel to parallel worlds. So when my own world has turned to shit and everyone I know has passed on, then I'd visit a parallel world that is in a different part of time, and hang out there for a while, then move on again, back in time, forward to the present but on different parallel worlds, everywhere.

In other words- I'd only want to be immortal if I could be a Time Lord.

[AYHJA]

Wouldn't being a time lord defeat the purpose of being immortal..?

[raum]

If I had a choice on when and where to be immortal, it would have to be in the 1700s when the first settlers came to America.

Um, you musta had a hot girl in your history class, cause you sure weren't paying attention to the teacher. ;)

Columbus sailed the ocean blue in 1492.

But Leif Ericson even beat him by over 450 years, though he rarely gets credit. Google "Le'Anse aux" and see the convert Christian Viking who is known to have been the first european to find the "New World."

Even Louisiana (i.e. "New France") was settled in 1534.


On a completely different note, did you see the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie. This has relevance to Ayhja's question because there is an immortal overlord who is pretty much trying to redeem himself.

[re-paff]

I was immortal in my previous life

[Deepak]

lol at re-paff but this isnt the part of the forum you make jokes lol.

Anyway A,

Isn't it better to have love and lost than never to have loved at all..? Using what you said for and example Deep, if you put anything else besides immortality in there, like say, dating...Wouldn't you be more insisting on 'getting back up on the horse' as they say..? Why do you think that immortality would lead to misery instead of something on the side of divine..?

It is better to have loved and lost then never have loved at all. But honestly how many times can you do that? 10 times, 100 times but once you are immortal, how many times are you going to do it? To actually sit back and not be able to do anything as you just watch them grow old and die in front of you over and over again, how much of that can you take?

How many times would you actually want to get back on the horse? You will share your true and all emotions and everything once and twice and a few times but after a while it will just become habbit and yeah you wouldnt want to do it again. and you wouldnt want to keep doing that over and over again.

Im not saying that you wont get to have some memorable experiences along the way but yeah thats my view