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Re: How do you deal with feeling your mortality?
« Reply #15 on: June 15, 2014, 07:47:06 pm »
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Pretty happy that I can die. Immortality is something id imagine my personal hell to be like. We are people. We eventually get bored of everything. The only downside is if you live long, eventually u are gonna reach the stage where u cant even wipe your own ass anymore and every part of your body aches.
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Re: How do you deal with feeling your mortality?
« Reply #16 on: June 15, 2014, 07:57:42 pm »
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I always wonder if sleeping is comparable to dying. Is the guy awaking just a new "you", who has the same properties as you with the same memories?

This sounds stupid but seems very misterious if you think a bit longer about it.

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Re: How do you deal with feeling your mortality?
« Reply #17 on: June 15, 2014, 07:59:17 pm »
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I always wonder if sleeping is comparable to dying. Is the guy awaking just a new "you", who has the same properties as you with the same memories?

This sounds stupid but seems very misterious if you think a bit longer about it.

Damn, now I'm afraid of sleeping after reading it  :D

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Re: How do you deal with feeling your mortality?
« Reply #18 on: June 15, 2014, 08:06:20 pm »
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I distract myself with trivial activities while hoping that medical technology is gonna make some leaps and bounds soon. If I get the choice I'll live a thousand years without a doubt.

I always wonder if sleeping is comparable to dying. Is the guy awaking just a new "you", who has the same properties as you with the same memories?

This sounds stupid but seems very misterious if you think a bit longer about it.
I thought a bit longer about it and it still sounds like a stupid attempt at sounding interesting.

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Re: How do you deal with feeling your mortality?
« Reply #19 on: June 15, 2014, 08:43:18 pm »
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A thousand years at LEAST. People can sink decades into WoW, think about what games will be in a hundred years -- right now we have technology that automates forests, but when we get proper AI, games could have content enough for a thousand years of playtime - or more. All the art, all the literature (old and new), video games, movies, professions, sports, locations, planets, galaxies, multiverses, foods, people, activities.... I can think of things to keep me occupied for a few thousand years in a minute, and I have no clue what the future will bring. "Boredom" is just a crappy coping mechanism. Nobody who understands what death and life are goes "oh welp, I guess I'd just rather not-exist right now" because they're "bored."

Games, in fact, would probably be enough to keep anyone occupied for a ridiculously long time, once we reach the point where we can feel what's in the game and see it as it were real - then only imagination is the limit and we can experience anything.
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Re: How do you deal with feeling your mortality?
« Reply #20 on: June 15, 2014, 08:52:00 pm »
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That made me imagine a game that programs and changes itself.
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Re: How do you deal with feeling your mortality?
« Reply #21 on: June 15, 2014, 09:03:11 pm »
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That made me imagine a game that programs and changes itself.
Yeah, why not? You could have an AI play a "Dungeon Master" 24/7, creating random encounters and changing the game all the time.
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Re: How do you deal with feeling your mortality?
« Reply #22 on: June 15, 2014, 09:31:07 pm »
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I don`t mind dying, I just want it to be fast.
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Re: How do you deal with feeling your mortality?
« Reply #23 on: June 15, 2014, 09:36:30 pm »
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Re: How do you deal with feeling your mortality?
« Reply #24 on: June 15, 2014, 09:41:27 pm »
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I distract myself with trivial activities while hoping that medical technology is gonna make some leaps and bounds soon. If I get the choice I'll live a thousand years without a doubt.
I thought a bit longer about it and it still sounds like a stupid attempt at sounding interesting.
Same. Call me narcissistic, but dying just ain't for me.

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Re: How do you deal with feeling your mortality?
« Reply #25 on: June 15, 2014, 09:41:58 pm »
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die
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Re: How do you deal with feeling your mortality?
« Reply #26 on: June 15, 2014, 09:42:28 pm »
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Re: How do you deal with feeling your mortality?
« Reply #27 on: June 15, 2014, 09:44:07 pm »
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Funny because this was the wishgranter ending I got back in the day.
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Re: How do you deal with feeling your mortality?
« Reply #28 on: June 15, 2014, 09:44:49 pm »
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I live.

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Re: How do you deal with feeling your mortality?
« Reply #29 on: June 15, 2014, 09:46:52 pm »
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I don`t mind dying, I just want it to be fast.

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