why we can't be immortal:
we're not meant to live forever; if we did, our will would break down into total nihilism because the only reason we feel any sense of meaning at all in anything is because we are constantly avoiding death. If we didn't have to avoid death, we would feel no pain, but consequently we would also feel no pleasure.
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08-12-2013
your uncles cock up your ass is pleasure and pain.
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08-12-2013
young tim kind of looks like serj tankien or something but not anymore why
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08-12-2013
yeah hes got a lil abo in him
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08-12-2013
There is a rush, a "high", if you will, to cheating death. Part of it is egotistical, knowing you can do something that nobody else can. But the pleasure still lasts through those long, lonely periods when there are no witnesses to your greatness. The pleasure then is purely internalized; the immortal not only takes pride in his longevity, but also in his independence from those secondary emotions that are merely products of interactions with lesser beings.
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08-12-2013
There is plenty of pain in avoiding death, and to realize pleasure one must indeed experience pain, and longing, and loss...
The greatest pleasure comes from surmounting the greatest difficulties. To bury your children, and childrens' children. To know you will outlive your love interests, regardless of your futile attempts to impart your gift. To watch the living world burned to ash and blown away, the stars sundered from their constellations and disappearing into the distance one by one until there is absolutely nothing left in the observable universe except for the darkness, and your mind . And not just to experience these tragedies once, but infinitely many times. And to anticipate the inevitable return of all you loved. To seek and desire ways of passing the times between just a few billion years faster.
Yes, there is great satisfaction and self-import in such an existence.
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08-12-2013
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08-12-2013
And how dare you feign the capability to ken the thoughts and feelings of a God! Shall an ant in his hole ponder the abstractions of his own nature from yours? You utterly inconsequential fool.
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08-12-2013
ugh i gtg to bed or i'll be falling asleep at my desk again
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08-12-2013
i knew bobhugs would be the only person to seriously reply to this thread
he's the only one who's as fucked in the head thinking he's some super genius, blessed important chosen fag type like plugdrugs himself
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08-12-2013
chosen fag? that was almost a barry shithead type post. I think you may be his dad after all.
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steveyosking steveyos08-12-2013
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steveyosking steveyos08-12-2013
sorry op you couldn't be more wrong, you see, I'm hoping science can make me live forever so I can help save humanity and keep it going forever, living throughout the universe, that's the only thing keeping me going, if I planned on dying I would care a lot less, so, long story short, you're a one track minded faggot but you think you're not but you can't even put yourself into other people's shoes because you're a generic druggie who shouldn't even be opsting here because your hand shouldn't even work with how depe you cut your wrist and wtf is wrong with you holy shit get the fuck out
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steveyosking steveyos08-12-2013
I g+1'd and shared that on facebook you should make a facebook page to like
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08-13-2013
i was positive that this thread would be a long stimulating discussion about philosophy and not just everyone calling plug drugs a faggot, and i was very let down,
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08-13-2013
It is a hypothetical thought experiment; "eternal life" after death (i.e., Heaven) would be meaningless.
You wouldn't need to eat food because you're immortal. You wouldn't need to sleep because you're immortal. You wouldn't need to urinate/defecate because you're immortal.
So you'd never feel hungry or thirsty (and consequently would feel no satisfaction from eating/drinking), you'd never feel tired, and you'd never feel the satisfaction of taking a dump.
Also, the only reason we search for things like power and knowledge is in hope that they will prolong our own life; so the pursuit of power and knowledge would also be meaningless for the immortal.
One could argue that sex would still feel pleasurable, as the sex drive is rooted not in self-perseverance but the creation of new life - spreading our DNA. But how would sex for an immortal person feel? They wouldn't feel exhausted/relieved after sex, because they're immortal.Last edited by Ghost of Plug Drugs; 08-13-2013 at 08:37 AM.
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08-13-2013
maybe u should watch the highlander and shut the fuck up
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08-13-2013
ya the highlander really covers all the bases on this, no need to rehash it,
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