WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE.

@ Tnoph: So you don't think there's something worth living for, yet you don't want to die?

...

That's actually an interesting thought.

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I'm glad I have the life I have. The only reason it sucks is because others and myself made it that way.

I wasn't born in a crappy country, with horrible pedophiliac parents, with generic friends, free education, in a place with limited crime, with emphasis on the left side of my brain, and a quirk in my brain that makes me unable to get interested in things outside my hobbies, which kept me out of drugs and spreading my legs to everyone, and now, I am fearing death. Funny.

I'm glad I'm alive.

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Same. While I am fucking terrified of death, fretting about it doesn't do anything. Shit happens.

Oh, definitely. I sure as hell wouldn't have wanted to be born even 50 years ago. >_<

Can we cool it with the shitposting? This has the potential to actually be an interesting topic.

What's there to say? The only direction this topic can go is us discussing how we managed to accept the inevitability of death.

edited 31st Oct '10 9:04:29 PM by Angrbor

"Alright, I'll troll them. Please don't kill me."

Is there a name for a question that is unanswerable by its very nature and thus kind of irrelevant? Could you call this a fallacy?

^^ And, either way, it's inevitable.

... *sob*

Then what if you die from old age? Will you get older and older until you're trapped in a state of perpetual death?

:)

edited 31st Oct '10 9:05:38 PM by TheMightyAnonym

Where were you when I laid the earth’s foundation? Tell me, if you understand. Who marked off its dimensions? Surely you know! ~ GOD

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I'm clearly not making my point. Forget it.

I will keep my soul in a place out of sight, Far off, where the pulse of it is not heard.

@ Nornagest - But consciousness in that scenario would be fleeting and simply based on perception, not reality. A scenario where life is ending every nanosecond but each generation of life fools itself into thinking that it's the same as what happened before because it's reading stored memories which it didn't partake in. After all, it can only exist for a nanosecond.

edited 31st Oct '10 9:06:33 PM by CBanana

and that's how Equestria was made!

I know this doesn't have much to do with the thread, but has anyone else noticed, after following the link on the other page, that the first part of our Who Wants To Live Forever article was stolen from Cracked? I know there's no such thing as notability, but isn't that the kind of thing we could get sued over?

@C Banana — Again, how is this different from what you've got? I'm not looking for grand philosophy; I'm looking for something you could, in principle, measure.

I will keep my soul in a place out of sight, Far off, where the pulse of it is not heard.

Even assuming transhumanism extends our lifespan to the heat-death of the universe... there's still the heat-death of the universe. Granted, it's ridiculously more than we're even hoping to get now.

Yes, but that is a problem which you can try to solve after you solved the much more urgent problem at hand - the natural life span-.

That is assuming it is a problem that can even be solved.

I also imagine that accidents or other such things could potentially kill of humanity before the heat-death of the universe even occurs.

edited 31st Oct '10 9:12:42 PM by Galeros

Given that it doesn't carries a disadvantage. I don't see why you shouldn't.

... That's it. I'm building me a Perfectly Safe Capsule. :/

-Shrug-

Either way, Immortality in this world is likely out of reach for everyone living today.

edited 31st Oct '10 9:13:35 PM by Galeros

Personally, my favorite end of the universe scenario is the entire universe collapsing and getting destroyed in flame.

Which is sort of what happens in the Bible, go figure.

Where were you when I laid the earth’s foundation? Tell me, if you understand. Who marked off its dimensions? Surely you know! ~ GOD

@ Nornagest = You're talking about measuring the most special qualities of life and consciousness which is impossible as of right now, it's something that's experienced, not quantified.

Of course, I'm more of the quantum mechanics philosophy branch anyways that says that reality is just a construct based on perception. Control your perception and you control your reality. Really, what I said before is just a possibility I came up with late one night which while can't be proven or disproven is not something I believe but might be some food for thought.

and that's how Equestria was made!

This probably sounds juvenile as hell, but...do I have to die?

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Heat death of the universe? Fuck that. We're the human race! We're going to take on that heat death thingy and we're going to kick the shit into it.

And if we don't, I won't be alive to feel disappointed, so I may as well go on believing that.

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I have actually always been fascinated by death ever since I was a child.

It is where all of my LORD OF ROT AND KING OF DECAY talk comes from.

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Jesus christ.

Also, I'd always envisioned the universe going by the Big Crunch.