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Would you?
Yes 7 (33.3%)
No 10 (47.6%)
Seriously tempted 3 (14.3%)
Undecided 1 (4.8%)
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Elixer of Life; A question
Topic Started: Dec 5 2007, 12:15 PM (587 Views)
schindler
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If you had the chance to drink the elixer of life and live forever, would you?
This question came up in class today, and I wondered what my good friends at TNCR would think about it. So, would you?
We're all mad here!
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Aqua Letifer
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ZOOOOOM!
No way. A limited life span is a gift, not a burden.

(IMO.)
I cite irreconcilable differences.
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Moonbat
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Undecided.
Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem
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Frank_W
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Agree with AL.
Anatomy Prof: "The human body has about 20 sq. meters of skin."
Me: "Man, that's a lot of lampshades!"
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sarah_blueparrot
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There's something a bit evil about it. Anway, if you couldn't share it with everyone, what would be the point?
Death is simply a shedding of the physical body like the butterfly shedding its cocoon. It is a transition to a higher state of consciousness where you continue to perceive, to understand, to laugh, and to be able to grow.

- Dr. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
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Mikhailoh
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
No. Thet temptations of it - to live long enough to become wise enough to really help, is offset by watching all I loved wither and die, over and over. One would be truly, truly alone in the world.
Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball
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Frank_W
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On second thought, if I could forever be at the age of about 32-36, with perfect health, yes I would. In a heartbeat. :thumb:
Anatomy Prof: "The human body has about 20 sq. meters of skin."
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Phlebas
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No, but if you offered me some of that Funky Cold Madina I wouldn't turn you down.
Random FML: Today, I was fired by my boss in front of my coworkers. It would have been nice if I could have left the building before they started celebrating. FML

The founding of the bulk of the world's nation states post 1914 is based on self-defined nationalisms. The bulk of those national movements involve territory that was ethnically mixed. The foundation of many of those nation states involved population movements in the aftermath. When the only one that is repeatedly held up as unjust and unjustifiable is the Zionist project, the term anti-semitism may very well be appropriate. - P*D


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Moonbat
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Coincidently i was thinking last night that if we live in a multiverse, which we may well, then we might all be stuck living forever or atleast for a ridiculous length of time. Multiverse immortality sounds pretty awful until you realise you can exploit the source of your immortality to mould the universe around you to pretty much anything you want.

So listen up - if you find yourself living for a seemingly impossible length of time look up quantum suicide and think about how you could use it to improve your quality of life.
Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem
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sarah_blueparrot
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Don't forget that silly woman who used one of her wishes to ask for eternal life, but forgot to ask for eternal youth. Posted Image
Death is simply a shedding of the physical body like the butterfly shedding its cocoon. It is a transition to a higher state of consciousness where you continue to perceive, to understand, to laugh, and to be able to grow.

- Dr. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
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The 89th Key
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I voted "yes" with the understanding that there is no God, heaven, and that I would be in decent health the whole time.

Edit: Plus if I ever got bored after a long while, I could always commit suicide.
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Aqua Letifer
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Dec 5 2007, 01:01 PM
Edit: Plus if I ever got bored after a long while, I could always commit suicide.

I think that goes against the rules of the entire premise. The way it's been brought up to me, anyways.

I cite irreconcilable differences.
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sarah_blueparrot
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According to JK Rowling (cue for a lot of people here to start snoring) Nicholas Flamel took the Elixir for some 600 years and then stopped taking it, so I guess you could die when you wanted to.
Death is simply a shedding of the physical body like the butterfly shedding its cocoon. It is a transition to a higher state of consciousness where you continue to perceive, to understand, to laugh, and to be able to grow.

- Dr. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
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Frank_W
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Dec 5 2007, 04:01 PM
I voted "yes" with the understanding that there is no God, heaven, and that I would be in decent health the whole time.

Edit: Plus if I ever got bored after a long while, I could always commit suicide.

Why commit suicide and be alone? Be a PITA long enough, and there will be any number of people willing to help! :devilgrin:
Anatomy Prof: "The human body has about 20 sq. meters of skin."
Me: "Man, that's a lot of lampshades!"
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The 89th Key
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Frank I meant if you become lonely (like in Mik's post) then you could always force yourself to stop living...otherwise the elixir would by default keep you healthy and alive.
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Aqua Letifer
Dec 5 2007, 04:04 PM
The 89th Key
Dec 5 2007, 01:01 PM
Edit: Plus if I ever got bored after a long while, I could always commit suicide.

I think that goes against the rules of the entire premise. The way it's been brought up to me, anyways.

If so then I dunno.

I would want to live a couple hundred years, but certainly not forever.

Although the Eloi (The Time Machine) were kinda hot. :excited:
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ivorythumper
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I am so adjective that I verb nouns!
Moonbat
Dec 5 2007, 01:49 PM
Coincidently i was thinking last night that if we live in a multiverse, which we may well, then we might all be stuck living forever or atleast for a ridiculous length of time. Multiverse immortality sounds pretty awful until you realise you can exploit the source of your immortality to mould the universe around you to pretty much anything you want.

You could always become a Mormon if that's what you're looking for.
The dogma lives loudly within me.
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John D'Oh
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If anyone is tempted by the thought of living forever, they ought to spend twenty minutes listening to 'The Magic of Christmas' by Celine Dion, which should give an idea of how you'll feel a couple of millenia after everyone else has died.
What do you mean "we", have you got a mouse in your pocket?
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Aqua Letifer
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sarah_blueparrot
Dec 5 2007, 01:05 PM
According to JK Rowling (cue for a lot of people here to start snoring) Nicholas Flamel took the Elixir for some 600 years and then stopped taking it, so I guess you could die when you wanted to.

Oh interesting! Did Rowling also reveal to the world Flamel's sexual orientation, too?

No interjection in the English language could accurately describe my lack of interest in anything Rowling tries to communicate.
I cite irreconcilable differences.
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sarah_blueparrot
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:lol2:
Death is simply a shedding of the physical body like the butterfly shedding its cocoon. It is a transition to a higher state of consciousness where you continue to perceive, to understand, to laugh, and to be able to grow.

- Dr. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
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sarah_blueparrot
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Aqua Letifer
Dec 5 2007, 10:16 PM
sarah_blueparrot
Dec 5 2007, 01:05 PM
According to JK Rowling (cue for a lot of people here to start snoring) Nicholas Flamel took the Elixir for some 600 years and then stopped taking it, so I guess you could die when you wanted to.

Oh interesting! Did Rowling also reveal to the world Flamel's sexual orientation, too?

No interjection in the English language could accurately describe my lack of interest in anything Rowling tries to communicate.

Then your strong outburst is thoroughly appropriate to show us the indifference you feel.
Death is simply a shedding of the physical body like the butterfly shedding its cocoon. It is a transition to a higher state of consciousness where you continue to perceive, to understand, to laugh, and to be able to grow.

- Dr. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
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Frank_W
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Living forever would give me the opportunity to amass enough wealth, that I could build a cabin in the wilderness, in the middle of a couple hundred acres, and I wouldn't have to listen to anything but the sounds of owls, the wind through the trees, and maybe the occasional howling of a wolf. Sounds like a pretty nifty deal to me.
Anatomy Prof: "The human body has about 20 sq. meters of skin."
Me: "Man, that's a lot of lampshades!"
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Aqua Letifer
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ZOOOOOM!
sarah_blueparrot
Dec 5 2007, 01:17 PM
Aqua Letifer
Dec 5 2007, 10:16 PM
sarah_blueparrot
Dec 5 2007, 01:05 PM
According to JK Rowling (cue for a lot of people here to start snoring) Nicholas Flamel took the Elixir for some 600 years and then stopped taking it, so I guess you could die when you wanted to.

Oh interesting! Did Rowling also reveal to the world Flamel's sexual orientation, too?

No interjection in the English language could accurately describe my lack of interest in anything Rowling tries to communicate.

Then your strong outburst is thoroughly appropriate to show us the indifference you feel.

Fair enough. I do care, truth be told. I wish she'd be sent to her own private island (I know, England is an island but we occasionally have to deal with the English) where she cannot contaminate the world with her crappy crap. Replace "lack of interest in" with "disrespect for."

:lol:

Seriously though, I'm not on the JK Rowling Hate Bandwagon, it's just fun to, well, poke fun.
I cite irreconcilable differences.
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ivorythumper
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I am so adjective that I verb nouns!
Frank_W
Dec 5 2007, 02:18 PM
Living forever would give me the opportunity to amass enough wealth, that I could build a cabin in the wilderness, in the middle of a couple hundred acres, and I wouldn't have to listen to anything but the sounds of owls, the wind through the trees, and maybe the occasional howling of a wolf. Sounds like a pretty nifty deal to me.

Yeah, maybe for the first 12,132 years -- after that it might get old.
The dogma lives loudly within me.
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Frank_W
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Hrmmmm.... Yeah, it might, but I'm reminded of a poem by Basho:

"In my hut
This spring
There is nothing
And there is everything."

:)
Anatomy Prof: "The human body has about 20 sq. meters of skin."
Me: "Man, that's a lot of lampshades!"
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