You’ve been offered a pill that will make you live forever

[kay]

Yes, without a doubt, provided my physical and mental abilities are maintained at a reasonable level.

There is too much to see, do and learn to fit within a regular human lifetime.

[exfox]

Yes, without a doubt, provided my physical and mental abilities are maintained at a reasonable level.

There is too much to see, do and learn to fit within a regular human lifetime.

this. really depends on if the pill maintains your physical/mental state and if there is always to ability to kill yourself if you want to.

[jorge]

^ lol at you being so sure about that.

Truth is no one can explain what the conscious experience is, where it comes from and what happens to it after death. Mainly because we are in it and cant see from outside of it.

What you're saying seems possible, I believed it myself at one point. But I dont really buy it anymore. Or at least it is much more complicated than that.

Who 'I' am is not exclusively inside this body and what has made me what I am is made up of things outside of myself. When I die, things change and this body wont work anymore but what 'I' am doesnt necessarily cease to exist.

either way one thing is for certain, dont be too certain.


Btw this is in reply to mason.



In answer to the original question. Definetly not, the finite nature of life is what makes it worth living and making the most of. If i lived for ever I would probably just get blazed all day until the end of time because there would be no hurry to do anything.

[scspkr99]

this. really depends on if the pill maintains your physical/mental state and if there is always to ability to kill yourself if you want to.

if you can kill yourself then it becomes less interesting cos it's a extension without any downside

[dickman69]

Yes, without a doubt, provided my physical and mental abilities are maintained at a reasonable level.

There is too much to see, do and learn to fit within a regular human lifetime.

u say this now

but ud prob end up sitting on the couch for 10 years in a row by the time ur 168

"YEAA... ILL SEE MACHU PICHU... NEXT YEAR"

[exfox]

this. really depends on if the pill maintains your physical/mental state and if there is always to ability to kill yourself if you want to.

if you can kill yourself then it becomes less interesting cos it's a extension without any downside

true
let's just have the first condition then

[nousd]

literally forever? like once the earth is destroyed and the sun supernovas you will still be floating about space?

but that's when the fun would start
I'd have all the time needed to knit a spaceship
and then go out and about meeting other life forms
though it might get a bit weird when the universe gets to a state where physical existence isn't possible

apart from there being no tv, couch nor potato
there'd be no food whatsoever and without food you can't shit
and if you don't shit...well, you know...

is this one of those paradoxes?

[dickman69]

hunger pains would rack ur body endlessly

[nousd]

I suspect that hunger pains need a body to experience them
and a brain to sense them

By the time the universe no longer supported corporeality including nervous system and brain,
I would be incapable of thought, thus self-reflection
and would naturally form part of any eternal incohate persistence of being
which would be indistinguishable from death to the casual observer.
So, effectively, taking the pill wouldn't change anything, just delay the inevitable.

[jigglypuff]

yes and no. yes cuz i wants to live forevers and no cuz one day i'll have to kill ma self and then baby jesus will never let me into heaven

[nousd]

if you lived forever you would eventually meet baby jesus
and, no doubt, because of his compassionate nature,
and seeing as you being desperate and all,
he would kill you himself so that you could enter the pearly gates.

[Terpit]

We discussed this before and I said there's a 100% chance or getting trapped and ppl laughed at me

[Muncey]

I'd stick it on eBay.

[Sonika]

oh come on who doesn't want to live forever let's be honest


could you still be killed/take your own life?

anyways, unless I was miserably depressed, I would definitely take it

[Sonika]

also, am I allowed to stay at the prime of my physical and mental condition?

[Forum]

You'd be locked up under the pentagon for dem experiments

[node]

Yeah as long as I could keep my faculties, no if I still had the frailities of a normal human body that degrades over time...altho I'd still consider it even then. Everyone you ever know dying around you like flies would be a bit depressing though..

[Forum]

I would if it was like highlander

[vishes]

No.

[particle-jim]

also, am I allowed to stay at the prime of my physical and mental condition?

You might wanna wait a few years before taking that pill then, you have yet to reach your prime