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[Anonymous No.]

What is it like to be immortal?

[【 五角场 ～ 之 ～ 无名氏 】 No.]

Well as long as you don't get blasted to space by a volcanic eruption.

[Anonymous No.]

Gets boring.

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>>3699396
Shit sux.
Just look at how she turn out.
Just piss and shit on the floor without doing anything worthwhile.

[Milfeulle is my Waifu !iS.Yuri/S. No.]

like a bag of... something immortal

[Anonymous No.]

Remember when we had threads about this topic that kept reaching the post bump limit?

Makes me feel tired whenever this topic shows up.

[Anonymous No.]

You need someone to be immortal with you, or else you are in for an awful life

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>>3699431
wouldn't you get tired of them though

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>>3699405
DIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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>>3699478
that was cars

[Fujiwara no Mokou !!mGXYMm0qKk/ No.]

>>3699416
Bad example. As long as you find something to live for, one can savor the gift.

[Anonymous No.]

feels impossible man

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>>3699538

Ray Kurzweil.

[Anonymous No.]

I thought people die when they are killed.

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>>3699529
I prefer the touch.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZKpByV5764

[Ty the Immortal !!lr/umT8hhpz No.]

Loved ones all die, Loneliness, etc.

Getting shot in the head gets old too.

[Anonymous No.]

Feels like being on 4chan every day. You see the same posts with the same replies. You wish something different would happen, but it never does. And if it does, then it eventually gets to be the same old repeated shit. You yearn for something different to do, some other way to kill your unused and limitless time. You refresh the page instead.

[One Night in !BangkoKkTU No.]

like a bag of the sands of time.

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>>3699548
>people die when they are killed.
This.

They are being delusional thinking immortals and vampires are real.
Why can't they be real ;_;

[Anonymous No.]

feels good man

[White Ren !YLuFFdRcFQ No.]

>>3699570
No man, that's far too accurate and real. That's hell, right there.

That's fucking scary. Don't ever post that again.

[Anonymous No.]

Depends on the type of immortality.

-If it's "You live forever unless you are killed" (probably with a specific type of death, like the Highlander series or vampires), then your feeling, as you surpass a "normal" lifespan, grows from first being lonely as the people you knew grow old and die, to wanting to experience things so you can forget - a reckless, daredevil approach to life. You feel invincible, just like any young adult, only you know it for a fact, so there's no chance of moderating yourself. After this period, you'll find these things more and more boring, and become depressed, and your heart will grow colder and colder, and you will retreat into a sense of superiority - You are after all immortal, and those around you might as well be insects, and their lifespans make them as insignificant to you as such. Depending on your experiences thus far, you may treat them any number of ways, depending on your experiences with them (studying them, wanting to kill them all, avoiding them or just not caring about them, etc).

[Anonymous No.]

http://touhou.wikia.com/wiki/Ellen

If I could be immortal, it'd have to be like this. Never growing old, and forgetting things after a time so I wouldn't grow bored. I'd just keep diaries of important things.

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>>3699595
- If you have a "series" of lives (reincarnation or cloning, and gaining memories at a set point), you will most likely feel like any other human, but will not fear your own death. You will most likely prioritize others above yourself, whether in a good way (protecting loved ones) or in a bad way (getting revenge!). After all, if you die, you'll come back. If they die, they probably won't. You are likely to use foresight and attempt to improve yourself - skills you gain in your current life are available to you in the next one, and you can set in place plans that will span several generations.

Not as likely to get bored of life as the previous one because you still have your earliest formative years to imprint a new personality and way of thinking than you had before.

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>>3699606
And then a jealous yandere lover would burn your notebooks so that you would look only at her, love only her.

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>>3699595
if you become immortal and cannot regenerate, and your body is gone permanently, how can you still be alive

[Anonymous No.]

I guess any immortals would be true hedonists.

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>>3699614
-You are cursed to be immortal. This is much like the first type that lives until it is killed, only in your case it's most likely punishment. Think of a Mummy, denied the right to pass on to the afterlife and thereafter forced to serve as guardian in a tomb. In most cases, you skip straight to the "depressed" stage, and if you aren't forced to stay in one place (or you manage to get past that somehow) you are likely to actively search out a way to die. You may also seek to bring a large number of people with you when you die, or you might just not care how many people die when you go, but that desire will be strong from early on after the "normal" lifespan.

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>>3699613
and then she would die and be forgotten, realizing only on her deathbed, that she destroyed the only means for you to remember her by. So what?

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>>3699621
That 'type' assumes that you regenerate from or just don't take damage from anything but a certain source.

>>3699632

And another type is 'true' immortality. You don't age, you can't be harmed by anything or regenerate almost instantly, you have always existed and will always exist. The other forms of immortality have an "exit". You don't, and you know there's no chance you will ever die. You're in luck, though; most of the time a being with this attribute is either relatively mindless, can be sealed (put to sleep indefinitely), or, failing that, can lose their memories from any number of methods - some not requiring even any kind of magic or hard science, just a little self-hypnotism or blunt trauma. You're stuck with the same body shape as when you started, whether it was a little girl, a Neanderthal, or an old, sickly man. Unless you pursue an option for erasing your memory periodically, there is a high chance of simply going insane. Depression and the like aren't likely, although debauchery is highly likely. There is no reason for you to improve yourself, so chances are you will spend your days as a hermit or NEET. Forever.

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>>3699669
The last form of immortality I can remember is the "closed loop" from Cross+Channel. In most ways it's the best. Repeating a set amount of time over and over again, you won't go crazy (from being immortal, at least), and the immortality doesn't directly affect you. It's tragic looking at it from the outside, but from the inside you're just living life. Depending on the circumstance, of course.

[Anonymous No.]

Well, if you believe in the quantum suicide machine, it means that all conscious beings are essentially immortal. However, it also means that you will always end up alone.

NOT THAT'S ANY DIFFERENT FROM HOW YOU LIVE NOW ANYWAY ;_;

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>>3699669
No damage.
No forgetting.
No mindlessness.
Eternity only.

Well he technically ages, but then he can just mindjump into younger clones.

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>>3699687
more like higurashi immortal

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>>3699669
>Unless you pursue an option for erasing your memory periodically, there is a high chance of simply going insane.

The human memory capacity is finite anyways. I doubt any human would go insane from immortality; your memory capacity is nowhere near large enough to remember everything, so eventually you'll forget things and be able to enjoy doing them again.

More worrisome would be the long-term future of the universe, but if you have the kind of magic to make yourself hard-immortal (i.e. like Mokou) you can likely reverse the heat death too.

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>>3699606

Probably not necessary to keep notebooks.

Your memory is naturally refreshed by thinking about the things in it. Thus, you forget things that you didn't think about for a while and you remember things you think about often. So you'll never forget important things anyways.

[Anonymous No.]

I'm fine with it as long as I get to be with my waifu.

[Anonymous No.]

Remember the moment in your childhood where you noticed no, you can't transform into a T. rex no matter how much you tried?

Immortality is like being able to do it.

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>>3699738
Unfortunately, memory isn't so easily manipulated as that. You can try to avoid thinking about things, but most of the time your mind will make connections. The bigger the impact it has on you, the harder it is to forget about it. For instance, seeing the color red bringing back bad memories of a car crash where your parents died.

[White Ren !YLuFFdRcFQ No.]

>>3699873
>For instance, seeing the color red bringing back bad memories of the fire that happened a long time ago.

Or, alternatively, anemia.

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>>3699873

But the capacity is still finite. You can't effectively manipulate exactly *what* you forget, but you will unavoidably forget about most things eventually.

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>>3699845
>Immortality is like that, forever.
You can't turn into a T. rex when you're immortal.

[Anonymous No.]

Whoooooo wants to liiiiiive foreveeeeeeeeeeeer ?
Ok, I'm leaving...