Thread 82126961

>immortality is le bad actually
Why is this theme so common in media when it's literal pure cope?

the key to immortality lies within the tardigrade aka water bear

>>82126961 (OP)
Would you really want to live forever? If you're even remotely depressed now, imagine watching everyone you've ever known die before you. At some point names will cease to matter and your mind will be consumed by madness.

>>82126961 (OP)
You answered your own question. When we can't change something (easily), we moralize about why changing it is bad actually. Look at weight, we were well on our way to normalizing "fat acceptance" until Ozempic came out and now everyone is scrambling to get their chubby fingers on it. If an Ozempic for aging came out, everyone who preached about the beauty of mortality would be in line for it along with the rest of us.
Bonus anecdote: You know all those stories about old people who are just ready to die since they lived a full life? Horseshit. Anyone in the medical field has seen just how scared and desperate they really get when you drop cancer news on them, they want every possible treatment to fight for another day of life like anyone else.

>>82126961 (OP)
Immortality sounds good if you have never given even 10 seconds of thought to what the actual implications are. Doesn't being permanently tortured sound so fun? No. Does surviving the planet becoming uninhabitable sound great? Does surviving the sun swallowing the earth sound enjoyable? Does surviving the heat death of the universe sound interesting? Wanting immortality is some brainlet tier shit.

>>82126981
>If you're even remotely depressed now
the things that do make me feel depressed sometimes are all caused by my limited time on earth like not having enough time to enjoy and get good at all the things I like, not having enough time to try a bunch of shit I want to, growing older and weaker and less capable to do things I want, worrying about having to eat or protect myself from stuff that could easily kill me

>>82127018
Okay great, so let's extend that time until the Earth is devoured by the Sun and you're just left floating in space with absolutely nothing to do and no way to die. I'm sure you'll be much happier then.

>>82126981
Just meet new people

>>82127029
Just meet new people... Over the course of millions and millions of years knowing full well they're going to die like the rest and you'll have met so many over such a vast expanse of time not a single one of them will stick in your mind.
You know about time dilation? If you're immortal, after a thousand years, time is going to fly. You're going to witness people living their entire lives in what seems like the blink of an eye for you.

>>82127039
If I'm magic enough to be immortal I'm magic enough to not have to deal with any of that.

>>82127023
are you retarded? if I had all the time to do things then I wouldn't worry about not having time to do things

>>82127086
Well, you can't slow down time or change the flow of time, you're just immortal. You have no other powers besides that. So yes, you would be subjected to those things.
>>82127143
Nigger, you'd eventually witness your birth planet get nuked by the sun and you'd get sent hurtling into space without any oxygen - but you're immortal so you can't die! - so you just spend the rest of eternity choking in the vacuum of space. Yeah, you wouldn't have to worry about time to do things because time would become a blur and everything would cease to have any meaning to you.

>>82127239
Nope, I'd have other powers and I'd stop the sun from exploding.

>>82127289
Well shit if we're just giving ourselves powers outside of the initial theoretical I can shit gold, but only when I want, and it takes a while like a 3D printer. Then I get a wife and call her my gold digger, and everybody lived happily ever after.

>>82126961 (OP)
What would you do when humans eventually go extinct hundreds of millions of years from now?

>>82126961 (OP)
>immortality
>but you're an incel chud

>>82126961 (OP)
Because the people in power could, and most likely would, stay in power for literally ever.

>>82127018
And yet you're wasting your time on this mindless thread instead pursuing those skills you allegedly want to be good at, interesting.
Why don't you sharpen a broom handle and shove it up your queer ass, faggot?

>>82128066
>And yet you're wasting your time on this mindless thread instead pursuing those skills you allegedly want to be good at, interesting.
I don't get these kind of arguments, they're basically non-arguments, if anything it just loops back to and affirms my initial point being that yeah, now I have a very limited time to waste on mindless fun instead of practicing things but if I was immortal I would have all the time in the world to waste on both mindless fun and more productive endeavors
I could live for 70 years, wasting all day one day on mindless fun and sharpening my skills the next day and do that for the rest of my life
but I would still be able to get much better at said thing and probably even more if I could live for 1000 years and follow the exact same routine of wasting one day on having mindless fun and one day practicing, in the 1000 years scenario I would be able to both have more mindless fun without any worries and get much better at the thing I am practicing and even more
in the 70 years lifespan scenario I would have to give up something, in this case the mindless fun, to spend more time on sharpening one skill and I would still have less time to sharpen said skills
either way you look at it you're at a disadvantage in the 70 years lifespan scenario no matter what, it's not that hard to understand

>>82126961 (OP)
I wish it was real. I'm super scared of dying but it's inevitable. The concept of "wasting your time" would completely disappear since you no longer have the background pressure of your own demise in your head.

>>82126961 (OP)
>entire universe explodes into nothingness
What do

>>82126961 (OP)
Because people know they will never actually achieve it