/lit/ - Literature

>>20178247

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It's always been more a touch than an impetus. To the last love I wrote, I asked her the breeze, to guide my sail, that she filled me with spirit. We honestly grew closer flirting in a hall of mirrors, or fucking in a hot tub changing room at a ski resort. The instant, the moment, the pathos of things holds more potential, as I've found it. The writing is a touch, not the thing itself. One exception.

In the sunlight, after a journey, she laid with me. I read Whitman to her as she drifted away, in perfect love.

-The KJV Bible
-The Illiad
-The Odyssey
-The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
-The Little Prince
-Alice in Wonderland
-The Princess Bride
-Robinson Crusoe
-The Three Musketeers
-Treasure Island
-Journey to the West (the long term girlfriend and probably wife is Chinese, It would be wrong of me not to include her culture and her further requests)

Some more specialized children's stories as well. Open to Dahl, Kipling, Wells (H.G. or Orson). Will likely discover more once I'm in that market. Not Tolkien. Star Wars antagonists have more complex motivations.

>>10556369

1. Illusory. You are not immortal through this. You just have a kid. The kid has a kid. Your percentage of the genetic pool will be one irrelevant drop within a thousand years.

2. Paper yellows. Contributing to the wider human body of knowledge though.... That's pretty good, I'll have to give that one more thought. We don't remember who invented the wheel, but we certainly have them.

Does the supplement of knowledge lend itself to your immortality? I don't see how it does. You still die, the technology merely exists for others. I'd call it a good thing to do, like feeding the hungry or clothing the naked, but it doesn't make you immortal.

3. Not an option for us, at least until genetically engineering human embryos is socially acceptable. Also, Ship of Theseus.

4. Computers rust. Hard quartz storage is a lot slower to degrade, but the most dangerous aspect is actually digital obselesence. Let's say my soul is rendered in the future equivalent of windows 95. If windows 10 comes along and I'm not compatible, I'm dead.

Do you have a cassette tape player in your house? What about VHS? Same thing but with souls. Bill Gates believes image format change to be a serious threat to the existence of photographs. They've got a massive operation in (i think) colorado, just printing pictures so that we have hard copies, and scanning pictures we don't have digital versions of.

>>10556378

I would say that any one strand of my DNA is an object.

By your definition, stars are immortal because their hydrogen is in our bodies. The separation from one thing from another is a priori to our conception of mortality and therefore immortality. One thing does not die if all things are plural and cyclical, and if you want to go the buddhist route our conversation pretty quickly becomes useless. I am an entity, an organism, not an object. This thing that I am, I will someday not be.

>>10556387

Cool. I mean, you want to tell me why I'm wrong I'm all ears.