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J U S T
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Yes. Nothing beyond this life is guaranteed, so why would I risk death?
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Real is not how you are made--It is a thing that happens to you
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8:57 pm on April 18, 2009 | Joined: Jan. 2005 | Days Active: 149
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OttoReckless
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I would not take that potion for several reasons:
1. I am curious about the workings of the after world. I want to know if I am going to be a thinking being like I am now, or if it will be completely different, mentally.
2. If all of my friends die off, what is there left to live for? I'm not saying I would be mentally instable if all of my friends were to die now .(I would be sad but it would be situationally appropriate, and for an appropriate amount of time) The difference is that in the situation of such a potion, there is no possibility of seeing your deceased loved ones ever again. When you know that you will die eventually, you have hope (or at least I have hope) that you will possibly see that person in the afterlife.
3. That would be boring. There would be no risks in life. Nothing I did would carry consequence. If I got sent to jail, I would eventually get out. I couldn't be killed as you say, so I would no longer have a fear of heights, making roller coasters not so exciting.
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S0LITUDE
g u a p a
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not at all. I don't like the idea of eternal life. IT seems too long. Like too much. If I could decide when to die then yes
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All I know is that I know everything
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SpM
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No. Firstly, eternal life is not the same as eternal preservation of identity. As the centuries rolled by you would forget your family, your culture, your proclivities, your education. Your knowledge and personality would gradually be replaced by new ideas and conceptions of self as society metamorphosed around you. Secondly, being the only perennial consciousness in a sea of ephemeral lifespans and ideologies would preclude absolute commitment to anyone or anything, which I imagine would lead to cynicism and a lack of fulfillment. Thirdly, and this one's the kicker, after the sun had died and all life in the universe was snuffed out by time and entropy, you would linger eternally on in the dark with nothing but your own insanity for company. Even an irrelevant blip of life culminating in oblivion sounds more palatable than that.
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10:42 am on April 19, 2009 | Joined: Feb. 2007 | Days Active: 656
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ElephantStone
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we're all doomed and that's what makes life so tragically beautiful
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Punctured bicycle on a hillside, desolate,
Could nature make a man of me yet?
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lisma
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I would only take it if i could decide when i wanted to die. I want to see the beauty in the world but i am not willing to sacrifice my curiosity of the mystery of death.
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6:04 pm on April 20, 2009 | Joined: Oct. 2008 | Days Active: 33
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delysid
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Definitely not. Without death the purpose of life is obsolete.
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"Reality is inside the skull." - George Orwell, 1984
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Neodymie
Omnipotent One
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The only way I would consider it is if I were able to travel. And I mean like around the universe. If I could travel to other galaxies and such in a reasonable amount of time I totally would. There's so much out there to see.
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Here force failed my high fantasy; but my
desire and will were moved already-like
a wheel revolving uniformly-by
the love that moves the sun and the other stars.
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4:46 pm on April 26, 2009 | Joined: July 2008 | Days Active: 327
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nikki
music is power
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If I could decide when I died, yes. But apart from that, the idea of being alive for all eternity with no way of dying scares me.
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oh, she's a dreamer ♥
be the change you wish to see in the world
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9:24 am on May 27, 2009 | Joined: Dec. 2002 | Days Active: 1,768
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