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hyphenate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-11-09 12:31 AM Original message |
The subject is immortality |
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Tuesday Afternoon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-11-09 12:38 AM Response to Original message |
1. If you were given immortality, with your closest family members as well, would you take it? |
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Dogtown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-11-09 07:05 AM Response to Reply #1 |
19. Especially *not* |
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hyphenate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-11-09 12:38 PM Response to Reply #19 |
23. That's okay |
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Iggo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-11-09 12:44 AM Response to Original message |
2. Abso-effin-lutely. |
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LostInAnomie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-11-09 12:56 AM Response to Original message |
3. Immortality is cool in theory... |
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rcrush (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-11-09 02:30 AM Response to Reply #3 |
10. Think of all the interest on your bank account 10,000 years from now. |
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LostInAnomie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-11-09 03:52 PM Response to Reply #10 |
30. Yeah, but in 10,000 years... |
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hyphenate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-11-09 12:50 PM Response to Reply #3 |
24. I thought about that aspect of it, too |
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northzax (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-11-09 06:25 PM Response to Reply #24 |
32. who said you'd have the resources? |
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hyphenate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-11-09 07:15 PM Response to Reply #32 |
33. Actually, I have the resources |
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GoddessOfGuinness (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-11-09 01:07 AM Response to Original message |
4. I don't think I would, unless |
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hyphenate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-11-09 12:59 PM Response to Reply #4 |
25. I agree with you |
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quakerboy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-11-09 01:07 AM Response to Original message |
5. there are many questions to be answered |
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hyphenate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-11-09 01:23 PM Response to Reply #5 |
26. Answers |
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quakerboy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-11-09 08:23 PM Response to Reply #26 |
35. Then I would probably take it. |
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Lucian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-11-09 01:48 AM Response to Original message |
6. I would love to be immortal. |
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Sigh Sister (358 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-11-09 04:10 AM Response to Reply #6 |
13. You already have a good vamp name. |
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Lucian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-11-09 07:19 PM Response to Reply #13 |
34. It's an even better werewolf name. |
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Broken_Hero (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-11-09 01:58 AM Response to Original message |
7. Yes, I would take the immortality |
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merh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-11-09 02:13 AM Response to Original message |
8. hell no |
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Sigh Sister (358 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-11-09 04:11 AM Response to Reply #8 |
14. +1 |
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baldguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-11-09 06:59 AM Response to Reply #8 |
18. +2 |
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rcrush (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-11-09 02:28 AM Response to Original message |
9. I get to be immortal but I have to have my family along to? |
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Richard Steele (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-11-09 03:53 AM Response to Original message |
11. When G*D ran out of boils and plagues , he CURSED one dude who PO'd him beyond all others... |
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MilesColtrane (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-11-09 04:06 AM Response to Original message |
12. You'd have to move every 10 -15 years before those around you notice that... |
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SemiCharmedQuark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-11-09 04:12 AM Response to Original message |
15. What happens when the human race dies out? Or when the sun becomes a red giant? |
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armyowalgreens (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-11-09 04:28 AM Response to Original message |
16. Immortality means living FOREVER. Which would be horrible. |
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joshcryer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-11-09 04:10 PM Response to Reply #16 |
31. "Immortality" cannot violate thermodynamics, under current theory we cannot literally live forever. |
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YankeyMCC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-11-09 05:42 AM Response to Original message |
17. Two SF stories you might want to look to for examples |
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JustABozoOnThisBus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-11-09 08:12 AM Response to Original message |
20. Who sez we don't have immortality? |
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NV Whino (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-11-09 09:40 AM Response to Original message |
21. Hell, no |
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merh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-11-09 11:08 AM Response to Reply #21 |
22. +1 |
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SteppingRazor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-11-09 01:29 PM Response to Original message |
27. I'd take it in a heart beat. |
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Solly Mack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-11-09 01:38 PM Response to Original message |
28. Yes. Alive forever. And I can pick the family members. |
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RFKHumphreyObama (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-11-09 02:50 PM Response to Original message |
29. Absolutely not |
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BlueJazz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-11-09 08:25 PM Response to Original message |
36. I'd do and love every minute of it. |
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quakerboy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-11-09 08:32 PM Response to Reply #36 |
37. Even the part when |
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BlueJazz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-11-09 10:01 PM Response to Reply #37 |
39. I'd just turn on DU (or a Lady) |
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Rabrrrrrr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-11-09 08:36 PM Response to Original message |
38. If by "closest" you mean "like the mostest", then absolutely yes. |
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JTG of the PRB (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-11-09 10:20 PM Response to Original message |
40. I'd take the immortality if I can have eternal youth as well. Also, I don't want to have to work. |
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