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[Bane]

we have a bunch of stupid nonsense threads so here's a stupid nonsense thread with a bunch of random questions I want to see your answers to. Skip any you don't care for.

1. If you had the choice, would you be immortal? Immortality here entails agelessness and invulnerability; you do not require things like air or sustenance (but may use/have them anyway), nor can serious harm be done to you. You're otherwise normal.

2. What is best in life?

3. I read Replay recently so I have to ask. Imagine you reach your eventual end and die. You wake up in an earlier year, when you were between the ages of ten and 20. Everything has reverted, save your memories, experience, etcetera. In a deterministic fashion, everything will play out as it had before if you minimize your influence, but can change based on what and how much you do. You don't know if or when it'll stop, but this will continue to happen at least several more times. How do you live your lives?

4. You're the last person on earth, everyone else having died or vanished abruptly. What do you do?

[Moondog]

we have a bunch of stupid nonsense threads so here's a stupid nonsense thread with a bunch of random questions I want to see your answers to. Skip any you don't care for.

1. If you had the choice, would you be immortal? Immortality here entails agelessness and invulnerability; you do not require things like air or sustenance (but may use/have them anyway), nor can serious harm be done to you. You're otherwise normal.

2. What is best in life?

3. I read Replay recently so I have to ask. Imagine you reach your eventual end and die. You wake up in an earlier year, when you were between the ages of ten and 20. Everything has reverted, save your memories, experience, etcetera. In a deterministic fashion, everything will play out as it had before if you minimize your influence, but can change based on what and how much you do. You don't know if or when it'll stop, but this will continue to happen at least several more times. How do you live your lives?

4. You're the last person on earth, everyone else having died or vanished abruptly. What do you do?

Yes.

A pleasant night with friends.

As heavy-handed in making everything fuckin' awesome on my end as possible. Abusing lotteries, predicting natural disasters, betting on super bowls and horse-races, the like.

Raid the liquor store.

[Pink]

I'm not sure if I'd be immortal. Maybe. I don't want an untimely death, but I don't want to watch everyone I've ever loved die for eternity, either. However, I do have a pretty hardcore knowledge boner.

Living----for better or worse. Life is just worth going through.

I'd probably go nuts---trying different occupations, going different places. Maybe preventing or responding differently to a few different things in my life. I think I might focus on my looks earlier, haha. But I can't imagine my life without the love of it. I'd like to think that no matter what, I'd try to meet and fall in love with Geoffrey time and time again.

Devote myself to chronicling all of human history in a form that can be interpreted by whatever species or thing might visit this place eventually.

[Xachariah]

I would be immortal, but only if there was some way to, well, not be immortal anymore. I'd certainly like to be ageless. I don't look forward to getting old.

I can't answer question #2; everything is more or less the same to me, barring things that start out great and then turn to shit. So yeah, I'm not answering that one 'cause I can't.

I would kill myself, over and over, or take up more and more dangerous, extreme occupations. If I have to live over and over, I might as well make it interesting - or get it over with quickly, before I go insane. Alternately, engineer things to conquer the world.

Wander, leaving glyphs scratched into the streets of abandoned cities, words scrawled upon empty cars, and generally being as much of a dick as I can be to future archeologists. "But what do all these words mean?" "Well, apparently he was writing a story. ... alternately, it's all one big dick joke." "And the glyphs?" "Oh, those are dick jokes. Terrible ones."

[Furr]

1) Why, yes indeed.

2) Shelter, family, food, and friends.

3) Abuse the knowledge from previous lives, do things differently. NOT work in Netto, for once. Fuck that shit. That place can burn in all possible hells.

4) Last Man Alive. Hm. I'd erect some monument somewhere, with some cryptic message for future space archeoLOLogists. Or just go completely insane, and end up killing myself for lack of contact to other human beings.

[SilverStreak]

1. If you had the choice, would you be immortal? Immortality here entails agelessness and invulnerability; you do not require things like air or sustenance (but may use/have them anyway), nor can serious harm be done to you. You're otherwise normal.

2. What is best in life?

3. I read Replay recently so I have to ask. Imagine you reach your eventual end and die. You wake up in an earlier year, when you were between the ages of ten and 20. Everything has reverted, save your memories, experience, etcetera. In a deterministic fashion, everything will play out as it had before if you minimize your influence, but can change based on what and how much you do. You don't know if or when it'll stop, but this will continue to happen at least several more times. How do you live your lives?

4. You're the last person on earth, everyone else having died or vanished abruptly. What do you do?

1 - Absolutely not. Living forever and watching people I love die off would be excruciating, at best. I'd rather leave a legacy, than live endlessly.

While I have to admit, the wisdom that could be garnered from having an infinite life-span could definitely be worth having, I'm not certain it justifies the cost.

2 - The ability to create something out of nothing. Twisting raw unbridled passion into a form of expression that speaks to someone else.

3 - Honestly, seeing as my personality would be pretty much fixed, I might try to change a few 'trivial' decisions ... where I go to school, people I hang out with, cars I buy, ... etc. etc. ... though I'm sure eventually I'd be driven mad... Say, for example, in my "first" life, I married the woman of my dreams, and led a fairy tale life. The temptation to build a connection with that person again would be too great to resist, but the sadness and insanity would stem from knowing that the 'new' person, despite being the exact same individual, would never be the person I was married to.

If I were forced to repeat my life several times, I would probably have to make some drastic changes.

Here's a question to answer the question though... does one's life reset or repeat only when one dies of natural causes, or would I be granted a reset if say, I died in a plane crash at age 28? The latter being the case, my 'resets' might get a tad more adventurous.

4 - Last man standing. I'd probably, spectacularly, pull an "I am Legend" move and keep a close animal confidante, just to keep from losing my mind, and also take possession of a ridiculous sports car (or twelve).

I'd probably also try to create a safe bunker or some kind ... an ark, if you will, to preserve what elements of human culture I could collect that would be worth saving.

Maybe eventually I'd commit suicide though... If I were to get fatally injured or terminally ill, there would be no medicine, no surgery, no treatment. Scary.

[KitDreamer]

1: Immortality? ... It would suck to out live everyone I know, love, and care about.... But there is a part of me that is so scared of Death that it would instantly jump at the chance. Given that much time though... I could learn anything, do anything... I guess I'd actually say yes, because then I'd be able to do something honestly worthwhile.

2: Nobody yet has done the stock Conan quote, so that's good. Nor shalL I. What is best in life is to love, and be loved, in return, wholly. To know you are not alone. And to know that you can make a difference in the world, even by some small fashion.

3: ... I just noticed one of the plugs for my PC has a Triforce on it. awesome. Back to the question though. I'm not sure how much of a difference I'd be able to make.

But I'd be able to talk to people more honestly. I'd be able to tell my school crush I had feelings for him. I'd be able to stop myself doing tons of stupid shit. I'd take more care of my body, I'd largely be a completely different person... It would utterly change several key things about my life...

So I wonder who I would meet and who I would find along the way?

4: Join them.

[Devin`Asures]

1. Immortality, yes. The pain of losing everyone I loved would be terrible, but I'm also pretty egocentric, and my reasons for wanting to live forever are stupid. See, I think about things, like buildings, and the 'world' and TV soapies that have been on since before I was born. Comics that have been around for a long time as well etc. It pisses me the fuck off that after I die, these things will still continue to exist. The stories on the TV shows and in the comic books will keep going (for as long as they're profitable). Technology will keep evolving. The world will keep changing and that pisses me off because I won't be there to take advantage of these things, or see how the 'rest' of the stories go. Not that I read comic books or watch many TV shows these days, but the very thought of them outlasting me really makes me angry.

2. Experiencing things. This includes, love, grief, anger, having a family, hating and being hated, creating... And most of all, one of the best things in life is contributing to the community/world in whatever way you can make it a 'better' place.

3. I'd try harder at school, not waste years in a shit relationship, go to Uni sooner than I did, and be better to my parents. using my knowledge from each life to do even better next time, eventually taking over the world and shaping it in whatever vision I saw fit.

4. Take a nap.

[Furr]

I have an addendum: Use 3) to achieve 1), and secure 2) in the end. It will, however, inevitably lead to 4)...

[Bane]

1. Yes. As I've never lost anyone I've genuinely liked I can't say how such a death impacts me, but I don't suspect it'd really discourage me. Somehow it seems that the periods spent in dynamic complex environments justify the waits inbetween that last much longer. Even if interstellar travel turned out to be an impossibility or was never developed and winding up in a complex environment again was left to chance, I want the experience of being an entity that has existed for so long, whether pleasant or not.

2. Understanding. Being in particular places that have acquired some sort of theme or feel to me. The journeys between discontent and contentedness. And people I like.

3. The same sort of things I'd do with immortality really, save that now I can also experiment a little more too. Learn a ridiculous amount. See how much I could singlehandedly advance science. Travel everywhere. Go freeclimbing a lot.

4. Raid the library for books on survival. Explore. Break a lot of things. Be extraordinarily paranoid at night. Start talking aloud to myself. Urinate off of bridges. Explore top secret zones.

[MadMusician]

1. No. Being immortal would suck when the planet eventually exploded and I would be cursed to sailing the void of space for all of time.

2.Hennessy. That is all.

3.Know what would happen? I would invent google, the Iphone, and abuse the knowledge of the future in general for my own benefit. Not to mention I would write several hit songs.

4.Masturbate.

[H]

1. Yes. As I've never lost anyone I've genuinely liked I can't say how such a death impacts me, but I don't suspect it'd really discourage me. Somehow it seems that the periods spent in dynamic complex environments justify the waits inbetween that last much longer. Even if interstellar travel turned out to be an impossibility or was never developed and winding up in a complex environment again was left to chance, I want the experience of being an entity that has existed for so long, whether pleasant or not.

Bane is gonna be the Face of Boe

[SilverStreak]

1. Yes. As I've never lost anyone I've genuinely liked I can't say how such a death impacts me, but I don't suspect it'd really discourage me. Somehow it seems that the periods spent in dynamic complex environments justify the waits inbetween that last much longer. Even if interstellar travel turned out to be an impossibility or was never developed and winding up in a complex environment again was left to chance, I want the experience of being an entity that has existed for so long, whether pleasant or not.

Bane is gonna be the Face of Boe

Impossible, otherwise his answer for #2 would have been "sex."