Immortality. Is it for you?

[Volnotova]

No.

Once Godhood has been achieved so has the ultimate goal.

Which means life is no longer worth living and self-destruction is the only option left.

[Krakadarek]

I would rather be all powerful......

[The Great Watchers]

Interesting. More people wish to rule the world by weilding immortality. Why do they think immortality grants them that power?

[Krakadarek]

Interesting. More people wish to rule the world by weilding immortality. Why do they think immortality grants them that power?

It doesn't....
You have to be all powerful for that!

[The Great Watchers]

:twisted:

Interesting. More people wish to rule the world by weilding immortality. Why do they think immortality grants them that power?

It doesn't....
You have to be all powerful for that!

Like, when you become immortal, you would also wish for the ability to change things at your will? That makes it very easy to rule the world.

[Tatec]

Yes. I'd use my powers to take over Russia and force the populace to let me lead them into a golden age (see my NS Nation for an example)

[The Great Watchers]

Yes. I'd use my powers to take over Russia and force the populace to let me lead them into a golden age (see my NS Nation for an example)

So, no fear of boredom, then?

[Hallistar]

The future always seemed interesting, and if I ever did find a whole new bunch of friends and family or w/e like in futurama then maybe, otherwise i'd have to say no, even though I might be interested in seeing what the year 2155 how everything has developed, I'd miss the people that I knew....plus itd get boring after a while unless I was like a thrill seeker or something

[Krakadarek]

:twisted:
It doesn't....
You have to be all powerful for that!

Like, when you become immortal, you would also wish for the ability to change things at your will? That makes it very easy to rule the world.

Meh not as much fun...to easy......
Think overwhelming dark magical powers!
Or a huge invincible army!
Preferably both.

[Tatec]

Yes. I'd use my powers to take over Russia and force the populace to let me lead them into a golden age (see my NS Nation for an example)

So, no fear of boredom, then?

I'd be dictator of Russia. I'd have plenty of things to do with my time.

[Farnhamia]

Yes. I'd use my powers to take over Russia and force the populace to let me lead them into a golden age (see my NS Nation for an example)

So, no fear of boredom, then?

There's always something to do. Granted, I was rather bored for a few years here and there, but it was a good kind of bored, more like being a little burned out. I spent most of the 650s sitting on a cliff in Galicia watching the ocean, and there was a decade or so in the 2nd millennium BCE when all I really did was kick sand around in Egypt, but those were exceptions.

[The Great Watchers]

Like, when you become immortal, you would also wish for the ability to change things at your will? That makes it very easy to rule the world.

Meh not as much fun...to easy......
Think overwhelming dark magical powers!
Or a huge invincible army!
Preferably both.

Hmm... I wouldn't wish to rule the world, but I'd rather watch the world play out in front of me. I'd only intervene if there was a dark magic wizard and his invincible army trying to take over the world.

[Lackadaisical2]

I feel as D. H. Lawrence did:

"I WAS so weary of the world
I was so sick of it
everything was tainted with myself,
skies, trees, flowers, birds, water,
people, houses, streets, vehicles, machines,
nations, armies, war, peace-talking,
work, recreation, governing, anarchy,
it was all tainted with myself, I knew it all to start with
because it was all myself.

When I gathered flowers, I knew it was myself plucking my own flowering.
When I went in a train, I knew it was myself travelling by my own invention.
When I heard the cannon of the war, I listened with my own ears to my own destruction.
When I saw the torn dead, I knew it was my own torn dead body.
It was all me, I had done it all in my own flesh.


III

I SHALL never forget the maniacal horror of it all in the end
when everything was me, I knew it all already, I anticipated it all in my soul
because I was the author and the result
I was the God and the creation at once;
creator, I looked at my creation;
created, I looked at myself, the creator:
it was a maniacal horror in the end.

I was a lover, I kissed the woman I loved,
and God of horror, I was kissing also myself.
I was a father and a begetter of children,
and oh, oh horror, I was begetting and conceiving in my own body.


IV

AT last came death, sufficiency of death,
and that at last relieved me, I died.
I buried my beloved; it was good, I buried myself and was gone.
War came, and every hand raised to murder;
very good, very good, every hand raised to murder!
Very good, very good, I am a murderer!
It is good, I can murder and murder, and see them fall
the mutilated, horror-struck youths, a multitude
one on another, and then in clusters together
smashed, all oozing with blood, and burned in heaps
going up in a foetid smoke to get rid of them
the murdered bodies of youths and men in heaps
and heaps and heaps and horrible reeking heaps
till it is almost enough, till I am reduced perhaps;
thousands and thousands of gaping, hideous foul dead
that are youths and men and me
being burned with oil, and consumed in corrupt
thick smoke, that rolls
and taints and blackens the sky, till at last it is dark, dark as night, or death, or hell
and I am dead, and trodden to nought in the smoke-sodden tomb;
dead and trodden to nought in the sour black earth
of the tomb; dead and trodden to nought, trodden to nought.

V

GOD, but it is good to have died and been trodden out
trodden to nought in sour, dead earth
quite to nought
absolutely to nothing
nothing
nothing
nothing."

Thanks for that.

[The Great Watchers]

So, no fear of boredom, then?

I'd be dictator of Russia. I'd have plenty of things to do with my time.

Hmm...

[Krakadarek]

Meh not as much fun...to easy......
Think overwhelming dark magical powers!
Or a huge invincible army!
Preferably both.

Hmm... I wouldn't wish to rule the world, but I'd rather watch the world play out in front of me. I'd only intervene if there was a dark magic wizard and his invincible army trying to take over the world.

And than get blown to smithereens of course....

[Samuraikoku]

No. When my time has come, then I will leave. That is the path of the warrior.

[The Nuclear Fist]

I'd totally want immortality. Never growing old, never growing tired, never getting injured. If I do ever want to die, it would have to be by my own hands.

Besides, I'm narcissistic enough to handle it.

[The Great Watchers]

I'd totally want immortality. Never growing old, never growing tired, never getting injured. If I do ever want to die, it would have to be by my own hands.

Besides, I'm narcissistic enough to handle it.

A lot of people would want the ability to self-terminate. Why is that?

[Lordieth]

I would happily live forever if I can remain in peak health and be able to go peacefully if I get bored or too cynical of life.

I would much rather die naturally and reincarnate in any time as anyone ad infinitum.

[The Great Watchers]

I would happily live forever if I can remain in peak health and be able to go peacefully if I get bored or too cynical of life.

I would much rather die naturally and reincarnate in any time as anyone ad infinitum.

But, would you want to remember your past lives?

[The Nuclear Fist]

A lot of people would want the ability to self-terminate. Why is that?

Just an insurance policy. In the event I dislike what I have become and seek to end it all.

However, there would need to be a massive explosion, if I do it. Like, Michael Bay on steroids times a billion big.

[Farnhamia]

I'd totally want immortality. Never growing old, never growing tired, never getting injured. If I do ever want to die, it would have to be by my own hands.

Besides, I'm narcissistic enough to handle it.

A lot of people would want the ability to self-terminate. Why is that?

Fear, I suspect. Fear of ending up alone, everyone you knew and loved gone, and you unable to "join" them. As if a sane person wouldn't meeting new people, find love again. I don't know. Perhaps if you were the only immortal, that fear might be justified to an extent. And if you were the only one, it would be scary to realize that you were outliving everyone.

[Great Nepal]

I'd totally want immortality. Never growing old, never growing tired, never getting injured. If I do ever want to die, it would have to be by my own hands.

Besides, I'm narcissistic enough to handle it.

A lot of people would want the ability to self-terminate. Why is that?

Because when universe dies, I dont really want to live alone in dark for ever in middle of nowhere.

[Farnhamia]

A lot of people would want the ability to self-terminate. Why is that?

Just an insurance policy. In the event I dislike what I have become and seek to end it all.

However, there would need to be a massive explosion, if I do it. Like, Michael Bay on steroids times a billion big.

If you dislike what you've become and you have all the time in the world, just change. Move away, change your name, become someone else.

[The Great Watchers]

Just an insurance policy. In the event I dislike what I have become and seek to end it all.

However, there would need to be a massive explosion, if I do it. Like, Michael Bay on steroids times a billion big.

If you dislike what you've become and you have all the time in the world, just change. Move away, change your name, become someone else.

Maybe it's not as simple as that.