An Eternal Lifespan.

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So_Indecisive said:
The problem here is that the people who say this fail to comprehend the insane length of time that is a hundred years and also don't understand the meaning of 'eternity'.
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Sorry for being rude but I noticed lately number of people writing: church this, or church that, while their sole knowledge about churches comes from anime or webnovels.
It requires a special amount of arrogance and ignorance at the same time to think that you are the first person who thought about eternal life or to claim that church "fails to comprehend". Church is at least 1994 years old. And through all those years was sustained by multitude of scholars. Church managed to preserve knowledge of roman empire and build on it. Church was and is filled with brilliant scientists, inventors, philosophers and theologists. Those two last groups tacked problem of eternal life many times in last almost 2000 years. I can assure you that church knows the most about that topic.
But before church was established in year 30 AD there were civilizations and religions who also tried to tackle that problem.

That said please read myth of Tithonus and Eos. It is older than Homer who lived in 8th century BC.
It describes dangers of just eternal life.

Ok enough of my rant. I do not have anything against you specifically.
It is just the multitude of topics that are similar in underestimating wisdom and knowledge amassed by church over the years.


To answer your question.
So_Indecisive said:
What about you? What grand goal will keep you from killing yourself out of boredom.
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To function as an ethereal being I would need a way to change my appearance, to change my identity every four to six decades.
I see it as extremely important in age of electronic identification and government databases.
Too long lifespan would be suspicious enough to grant you eternal life chained in some secret laboratory as a lab rat so that the wealthy elites could take your gift for themselves.
In face of eternity, changing yourself to a baby to get new ID and waiting those few years until you are 18 (again), to be able to continue your mission is a small trade off.

In past you could retain your body and just move to different town or country. You could go and explore new lands and than go back and claim you are your own child. It was not without fuss but was easier done than in today's digital age.
(accidentally one of the stories I write right now has a character that was changing towns for centuries until digital age came and now has problems to adapt)

What would be my goal?
Science!
With eternal life I would finally have time to learn all the things I want to learn!
All disciplines are interesting and i would like to learn them all. But I would concentrate on physics and engineering, to secure mode of transportation, so I could leave earth, before it will be swallowed by sun (which is predicted to happen in few years).

Vision of floating in the vast emptiness of space without any space ship is both boring and terrifying. Not to mention that without way to leave earth's surface I would be stuck being fried on the surface of sun for billions of years.
 
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Implying I won't lobotomize and turn myself into a plant so I feel nothing for all eternity at one point.
 
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So_Indecisive said:
For millions of years, Milfs?
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Give me an eternity, and I will churn out a whole library worth of books XD. I have a reason to live, no one can take that away from me.
 
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So_Indecisive said:
with an eternal lifespan most of us, probably everyone at some point or the other would go crazy and choose to kill ourselves out of heartbreak or sheer boredom, while a rare few will probably find something so interesting that they'd have to devote their eternity to.
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:blob_hide: you live one day at a time. If you get bored do something new. If there is nothing new invent something new. How many years of video game playtime is there right now? Now that number is going to grow at an exponential rate and that's just for games. What about movies? What about developing new skills?

Saying someone would go crazy out of boredom is extremely shortsighted. Think about technological growth, virtual realities, and more. You can live a million different lives and still think of something new. Sure you can be a streamer for one lifetime, an astroid miner the next, then a Dyson swarm manager. You can start your own colony on another planet after teraforming it after a sunlight journey of ten thousand years.

And once you do literally everything your eternity allows, I'm sure you'd be ready for nostalgia and do everything again.

Of course you'd forget most of what you do so in reality you'd always have something novel.
 
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Comiak said:
:blob_hide: you live one day at a time. If you get bored do something new. If there is nothing new invent something new. How many years of video game playtime is there right now? Now that number is going to grow at an exponential rate and that's just for games. What about movies? What about developing new skills?

Saying someone would go crazy out of boredom is extremely shortsighted. Think about technological growth, virtual realities, and more. You can live a million different lives and still think of something new. Sure you can be a streamer for one lifetime, an astroid miner the next, then a Dyson swarm manager. You can start your own colony on another planet after teraforming it after a sunlight journey of ten thousand years.

And once you do literally everything your eternity allows, I'm sure you'd be ready for nostalgia and do everything again.

Of course you'd forget most of what you do so in reality you'd always have something novel.
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Eventually everything gets boring and recycled, look at most movies these days if they aren't " IP: latest number" they are same ol' themes to the point where you know how the story goes before it is even told, that gets boring fast. The same thing happens with books. You quickly grow bored of the themes rather then the story. No amount of new media or rehashed media will prevent that. In my short life ive already grown tired of some themes to the point where i do not even bother reading synopsis of the books as I know what the story will be about, its a pity though alot of stories on this site are missed due to the prevalence of that theme.
 
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SailusGebel said:
Milfs.
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This.

Chase tail through every millenia. Spread seed like Genghis Khan but leave the cheeks to become single moms. Watch my kids either become successful or absolute failures, only for me to mock the failures as a hobby. Successful kids are boring--they don't need you or want you. They'll do fine. The failures are the excitement.

And when that generation gets old, find more MILFs to make replacements. Repeat cycle for eternity until Humanity dies and then just off myself because no more MILFs.
 
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J_Chemist said:
This.

Chase tail through every millenia. Spread seed like Genghis Khan but leave the cheeks to become single moms. Watch my kids either become successful or absolute failures, only for me to mock the failures as a hobby. Successful kids are boring--they don't need you or want you. They'll do fine. The failures are the excitement.

And when that generation gets old, find more MILFs to make replacements. Repeat cycle for eternity until Humanity dies and then just off myself because no more MILFs.
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You're either a mad genius or just plain insane. The fact I can't decide which is scary
 
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Eating. I'm looking forward to the banquet.

I would say other things as well but other people have already said them.
 
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