Can you withstand immortality?

[Gray_Mann]

I'm not Christian, and the idea of spending eternity making "moon-eyes" at some self-important being forever sounds not too far off from Hell, just in a different way.

That said, I'm not Atheist either.

Either way, I find most people are best kept at a distance measured in tens or hundreds of miles, if not moreso. Believe me, I'll shed no tears if I gained immortality and had to watch strangers go. Guess I'm evil that way.

 

[ACertainPassingUser]

Can you withstand being rich with one or two million dollars and thriving in th top of society ?

Most Immortal in Xianxia world actually earns those immortality. They get it through hardwork, competitions, tactics, and bloody fights.

Might makes right. If you're not evil, then you're a loser. Those Immortals might as well be called immorals.

On the other side, western immortal tend to be long living races or those who don't get it through competition with others who search immortality too.

Therefore they have the leisure to live in immortality crisis without worrying about their dwindling lifespan.

 

[PancakesWitch]

Ah, I'd be chilling. We have the internet after all, and I'd be able to finish so many books. Imagine creating a library from books you wrote.

yeah until you reach the point where society collapses and then there's no internet, then all your beloved possessions or everyting you ever wrote decay away and dissapears over time, then the earth dies as the sun explodes, then you're left floating in space for trillions of years.
for immortals its never a "well i wont be alive when that happens so it doenst matter" but just a "when", for an immortal things only get worse as they live.

 

[Theirl]

I believe u would get used to losing loved ones and being bored the question is how long it would take and how you would change

 

[PancakesWitch]

Can you withstand being rich with one or two million dollars and thriving in th top of society ?

Most Immortal in Xianxia world actually earns those immortality. They get it through hardwork, competitions, tactics, and bloody fights.

Might makes right. If you're not evil, then you're a loser. Those Immortals might as well be called immorals.

On the other side, western immortal tend to be long living races or those who don't get it through competition with others who search immortality too.

Therefore they have the leisure to live in immortality crisis without worrying about their dwindling lifespan.

the cultivator immortality you talked about is not true immortality if they can get killed, it just being very strong and living long

 

[Deleted member 84247]

yeah until you reach the point where society collapses and then there's no internet, then all your beloved possessions or everyting you ever wrote decay away and dissapears over time, then the earth dies as the sun explodes, then you're left floating in space for trillions of years.
for immortals its never a "well i wont be alive when that happens so it doenst matter" but just a "when", for an immortal things only get worse as they live.

I will wade in space for the heat death of the universe.

 

[gaylolis]

whether i'm immortal or not won't change much how i do things actually.

assuming that i will always stay young and on top of my health at all times from it, i probably will just find somewhere peaceful, quiet and chill and enjoy life.

hmm...basically nothing changed

 

[Navillus]

I am pretty confident I would be fine as an immortal I think I would even enjoy it... I'd bet I would even enjoy a situation where nothing exists except for my mind so I could spend eternity doing my favorite thing... Pondering~

 

[SsemouyOnan]

yeah until you reach the point where society collapses and then there's no internet, then all your beloved possessions or everyting you ever wrote decay away and dissapears over time, then the earth dies as the sun explodes, then you're left floating in space for trillions of years.
for immortals its never a "well i wont be alive when that happens so it doenst matter" but just a "when", for an immortal things only get worse as they live.

Sounds like a skill issue to me. Didn't even unify the world after society collapsed, become god king, push the earth somewhere else, wage war on aliens, defeat entropy and conquer the universe as is humanity's birthright smh

 

[NotaNuffian]

They are people who aren't you.

They say that if you have nothing good to say, don't speak then.

They also say that if you don't speak, you are rude. Don't be rude.

So anyway, if I am ever immortal, I probably will summon Slaanesh.

Though it will take awhile before I accept guro, cannibalism and snuff porn. I'd say ten years.

 

[RainyLiquid]

Sure.

 

[Navillus]

So anyway, if I am ever immortal, I probably will summon Slaanesh

Reasonable.

 

[TheEldritchGod]

Immortality is meh.

So anyway, if I am ever immortal, I probably will summon Slaanesh.

Oh don't do that. Let me explain Slaanesh. He is the edgy-ist of edgelords. He is the God of 10th grader syndrome. He literally goes around saying "there is Evil bound into my hand" then starts masturbating right there at the poker table going, "It's not me, it's my EVIL HAND!" And just to be polite, we all ignore him.

We're like, "Dude, yer a god. That's special enough." But Noooooooooo... he's got to be the most SPECHUL of gods. He can't live without being the center of attention. He says stuff like, "I'm the god of surprise butt-sex!" Well, you know why? Nobody else wanted the job. Of all the portfolios you could have, there are REASONS nobody else is the god of those portfolio yet. I mean, even the god of darkness, madness, and evil looks upon Slaanesh and calls him a try-hard. I know he's got good self promotion skills, but TRUST ME, nobody likes the guy.


I mean, if you are LOOKING to crater your reputation, sure. invite him over, but trust me, it's just not fun.

How do I put this?

AH. I got it.

Okay. Imagine you walked in on your naked hot-step mom and your sister having sexy time on your bed. You brain would just disconnect and you would step out of the room and close the door, trying to figure it out. As disturbed you would be, there would be some part of your brain that said, "That was kinda hot."

Slaanesh WISHES he was the god of that.

No. Slaanesh is the god of walking in on a 38 year old, overweight, pimply, Otaku japanese guy who you never met before, naked, on your bed, having sex with a jar of mayonnaise while wearing your underwear over his head so he had to breathe through it. As you stare, you see he had a tattoo on his ass that is, for no possible reason you can fathom, a copy of his ass. You see a smudge on it that could be yet another, smaller tattoo on THAT ass or just a particulary strange looking double zit in just the right spot to LOOK like a small ass-tat, but you can't make it out from the doorway and there is no way you are going to get any closer to find out if he has an Ass-ception tattoo on his left buttcheek.

Slaanesh is the god of THAT.

 

[John_Owl]

Frankly I do not possess such deep obsession. I may enjoy a couple hundred years a thousand tops before I contemplate suicide, or maybe in that time I will find my own obsession.

your obsession could be finding your obsession. as for me? I'm ADHD. My obsession changes with the phase of the moon.

 

[TreasureHouse]

Part of me immediately thinks of all the plant breeding projects or genetic modifications I could pursue in the name of humanity and, of course, cat girls. ?

However, I think there would have to be a reincarnate option/button due to technology as one day some AI assistant is going to tell Kim Jung Goon "Hey this guy is actually a vampire or something. You should totally hunt this person down and conduct various experiments on their body."

Then you'd have weirdos or various government agencies trying to hunt you down.

Plus it would keep things interesting getting a different body.

 

[ThrillingHuman]

I am already immortal.
I don't obsess over boring things nor do I feel sad for anything. I just am and what can anybody do about it?

 

[Snake99]

According to the rare esoteric texts I read, the normal thing for a humans is to live for 800 years, but after the universal flood, God nerfed us to only live a maximum of 120 years.

 

[georgelee5786]

Can I? Yes. Would I want to? Not really. After a while it would just be boring and repetitive.

 

[Hans.Trondheim]

So for some reason people. When I say people I mean many people believe that immortality is a curse and say stupid stuff like "watching everyone you love die while you're the only one left behind is terrifying".

While that would be a sad occurrence and make me feel bad for a certain amount of time I'm pretty sure I would get over it surprisingly quick.

No the main problem is 'obsession'. I can't remember who but in the novel 'I am god' they broached the subject quite deeply. Well in summary to live forever you need to have a goal so deep rooted, so impossible to achieve that only infinity can provide that possibility.

The blood Goddess is basically the last proof that her race existed she chose eternity to preserve her culture and knowledge her people created. One of the other guys is insane enough to want to watch all the stars die out. Vandal savage in DC wants to unify the earth. Cultivators can almost never reach true immortalility so they are always chasing after the possibility of becoming immortal.

Frankly I do not possess such deep obsession. I may enjoy a couple hundred years a thousand tops before I contemplate suicide, or maybe in that time I will find my own obsession.

So the question is as you are now so you have a goal that you feel only immortalility would allow you achieve.
And if you don't how many years do you believe you'll last before offing yourself.

I just wanna have life as naturally as possible, so even if immortality is offered to me, I'll refuse it.

I just want a death so quick and painless.

 

[l8rose]

Probably not. If we're going with just suddenly gaining immortality, I don't think I could handle living forever with the health issues I've got. Sure, they're not crippling but going through eternity as a partially deaf anemic with a displaced hip just doesn't sound all that fun.