Discussion You wake up and discover that you're immortal. How do you feel?

[The Schizoid]

Well, not invincible per se. You will still be able to suffer like a human. It's just that you can't die

Understood but certain immortals in fiction can be killed by some things it's just they wont die naturally unless they are killed. Like Highlander immortals who cannot die unless deliberately killed.

 

[CuriosityAndCat]

Fantastic. I don't need to feel bad about time lost on recovery. I'd taste a lot of stupid things (deathcap mushrooms, cyanide, antifreeze, etc), go to space (high altitude weather balloon. No parachute), do it again as an ultra extreme sport, go tour the oceans using lead weights and maybe a bicycle?

 

[ijustwishtodie]

Fantastic. I don't need to feel bad about time lost on recovery. I'd taste a lot of stupid things (deathcap mushrooms, cyanide, antifreeze, etc), go to space (high altitude weather balloon. No parachute), do it again as an ultra extreme sport, go tour the oceans using lead weights and maybe a bicycle?

I feel like this is considering only the short term impact of immortality (then again, any finite amount of time considered is short term relative to infinity). Still, I wonder how you would feel about just having to float in space endlessly with no entertainment once the sun explodes and consumes earth along with it.

Also, wanting to intentionally cause pain to yourself by having things like cyanide is a unique answer and a scary one too. No offence to you but, with an answer like the one you gave, I'm glad that you aren't immortal

 

[thesadbrazilian]

I was gonna ditch everything in my life and just wander around the world without any identity,but I think I would be confused because I gained the power of life when what I most want is to die.
Talk about a cruel joke from a god with a seriously twisted sense of humor.

 

[sserafim]

I would go traveling and explore the world. I think that I would eventually get bored of it though

 

[CuriosityAndCat]

I feel like this is considering only the short term impact of immortality (then again, any finite amount of time considered is short term relative to infinity). Still, I wonder how you would feel about just having to float in space endlessly with no entertainment once the sun explodes and consumes earth along with it.

Also, wanting to intentionally cause pain to yourself by having things like cyanide is a unique answer and a scary one too. No offence to you but, with an answer like the one you gave, I'm glad that you aren't immortal

I really like Trinidad Scorpion peppers. Some pain wouldn't be an issue. I have enough time to figure out ftl or build a generation ship and go slow route to somewhere else before sun explodes. Even at a snails pace what's a few billion years with a few billion friends? I'm immortal so accruing resources and wealth quickly or slowly is a real option. As far as no entertainment, I'm pretty sure AI would have far exceeded human intelligence at some point or humans would be able to upload.

I take it you've got some extreme pessimistic biases, and you took this out of the scope of time I set. Your response is socially awkward and lacks perception of my tone.

Out of curiosity are you high functioning autistic or the like? If not, have you been tested? You may feel like you are unique and alone otherwise.

 

[ijustwishtodie]

I take it you've got some extreme pessimistic biases, and you took this out of the scope of time I set. Your response is socially awkward and lacks perception of my tone.

I am pessimistic, sure, but one of the areas in which I'm not pessimistic in is claiming that wanting to consume cyanide with the knowledge that it won't kill you is scary

Out of curiosity are you high functioning autistic or the like? If not, have you been tested? You may feel like you are unique and alone otherwise.

I am autistic, yes, but what does that have to do with this conversation? And how does your last sentence even relate to anything that I said on this thread?

 

[Sprite_Geist]

I would likely feel very happy. The fact that I will never live long enough to experience the (potential) interstellar stage of human space travel has fueled my suicidal thoughts over the last 3 years; immortality would give me the opportunity to live far into the future, and experience things which I cannot in this life. Another reason I want to die is because I am really unhappy with the current climate of society, and immortality would allow me to see if humanity has changed for the better; if my strong optimism for the future is misplaced, and things have changed for the worse, then I can always fall back to my plan to commit suicide.

 

[Raven_Nevermore]

WTF ?!

 

[CuriosityAndCat]

I am pessimistic, sure, but one of the areas in which I'm not pessimistic in is claiming that wanting to consume cyanide with the knowledge that it won't kill you is scary

I am autistic, yes, but what does that have to do with this conversation? And how does your last sentence even relate to anything that I said on this thread?

Basically you're taking it wayyyy too far in seriousness. Instead of keeping it light and fun, you're being social awkward and insulting. You're finding absolutes and the rigidity is off-putting. I don't think it was your intention to come off so negatively, but you're not easily able to gauge the how you affect others or how you're perceived.

I don't know if you're getting coaching. Do this instead. It's called "Yes, and" and is common in improv. If there's something negative you don't like, don't say anything or ignore it. Just accept whatever someone else says and build on it. Ask something fun to expand on. If something bugs you, ignore it instead of fixating on a detail. I'm sorry if all of this is difficult, I can sympathize, but I'm not on the spectrum so I can't tell if this is doable.

 

[kawaiiphantom]

Oh god, that would be so horrifying TwT I guess I would do all of the dangerous and fun stuff I always wanted to do though like parkour and other things. But imagining being severely injured and never able to die would be awful :< unless this also means you can heal from anything?

 

[Ferdinand Bardamu]

Try and improve my life