Would You Want To Live Forever?

PadawanBater said:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orlando_(film)

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I wouldn't see that if someone paid me money.

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Why? because wiki doesn't have an article about it?

CrackerJax said:

Why? because wiki doesn't have an article about it?

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If that's the movie you were talking about, I'd like to refer you to Transformers 2, not some poet monologue Billy Zane flick...

Why did you bring that movie up? I missed something..

It's about someone who goes through 400 years of history. I consider it to be an important film. I think it made it into the Criterion Collection. I'd have to check.

whats the definition of criterion off subject but i do races called criterions or criterioms it must mean something circular i assume as thats how the courses are i could look this up but im sure someone knows off hand. many use the word as criterium but that may be false as someone told me.

It means the same as criteria. Something which has a standardized equal footing through which an accurate measurement can be made.

The criterion collection is a gathering of important films.

ahh that would make sense so a lap or course of equal distance would be a criterion. my dad was right i always argued it was criteriom as thats how they mostly spell it in the states when its a race but the prior appears to be the proper term. he raced cars so we debate various things on that subject.

Don't ever forget that your dad would win if you both got road rage....

yeah i always lose that one believe me. 6 months ago a big truck or suv im not sure hit me with a rearview a bolted on non flexible kind at 35-40 mph. never stopped hit and run drunk or something even though it was on a dead straight away. sent me up in the air knocked off the rearview on my lower back and kidneys i was lucky. so far i have done damage to auto bodies with my soft human body 3 times and was mostly unscathed my luck hopefully will continue as i like not being dead or disabled. anyways accidents happen as in my first 2 incidents its all good. but i would love some personal time with the driver of the hit and run and my springfield operator.

Ouch. Ever been to Holland? Bikes rule there.

i have been to holland(amsterdam) they have free white bikes you can just take and leave at various places no need for people to steal there everywhere a great program imo.

Yes, the dreaded white bike.... when i see one I know it's a tourist and my life may be in danger.

No self respecting Dutchie would be without their own bike.

The possibility of having infinite time to compile knowledge is definitely appealing. Unfortunately watching all that is transient (just about everything, if not everything) dissolve and cease to exist seems like it would be a difficult experience.

Also, what would I do after I learned everything?

I'll go with the mortality I have; one thing is certain - I will die.

Your best friend would turn out eventually to be a rock.

its certainly a complicated question living forever and what that would entail. it would be great if you could choose to die at whatever point you wanted.

we will all cuz the sun rules us alll!!!we will live long after we falll!!!as i sing

bicycle racer said:

its certainly a complicated question living forever and what that would entail. it would be great if you could choose to die at whatever point you wanted.

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Heh, but you would be plagued by the thought that you are going to miss the next BIG thing!!

I didn't bother to read all 10 pages of this, so for all i know, this thread is already way off topic. However, if that is the case, I'd like to bring the idea of an everlasting existence back into focus. J.R.R. Tolkein's elves have everlasting life, even in death (yeah, i know. Just read the book if you don't get it). In an existence like that, I'd be down with immortality. I think it would be very interesting, to say the least, and I don't think I'd tire of living. When you have eternity to perform your tasks, you can then devote all necessary time to each and never feel rushed or hustled. Of all things that are slowly killing me about this life, hustling and rushing are the most effecient.

yes. I would love to live forever with the stipulation that i could end my life when i wanted.

one issue would be the changing of society in the way that in our normal life times we se change that is undesirable to our way of thinking. that would be another issue with living infinitely.