Jay Peas 42
El Dandy
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Post by Jay Peas 42 on Aug 18, 2010 20:18:57 GMT -5
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Lord Rahl
Dennis Stamp
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Post by Lord Rahl on Aug 18, 2010 20:20:51 GMT -5
I literally just got done reading this. Interesting read.
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Post by Hulkshi Tanahashi on Aug 18, 2010 20:25:33 GMT -5
I don't know. I'd still want to live forever. Still sounds better than being dead.
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Post by Orange on Aug 18, 2010 20:28:50 GMT -5
Wow......that was a great article. Well done Cracked, well done.
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Post by The poster with no name on Aug 18, 2010 21:45:37 GMT -5
They forgot the fact you outlive your family.
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Post by Koda, Master Crunchyroller on Aug 18, 2010 21:56:00 GMT -5
They forgot the fact you outlive your family. They mentioned that in their list of super powers that would suck(immortality was one of them). |
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Post by Jason Todd Grisham on Aug 18, 2010 23:03:26 GMT -5
I think it'd be very boring.
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erisi236
Fry's dog Seymour
... enjoys the rich, smooth taste of Camels.
Not good! Not good! Not good!
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Post by erisi236 on Aug 18, 2010 23:37:21 GMT -5
Some of that reminds me of the vampires in the vampire chronicle books, people are so attached to their times that after 2 or 3 hundred years they pretty much go crazy longing for it to be like it was. It's like mid life crisis multiplied by centuries. This also reminds me Highlander is on in half an hour.  |
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Futureraven: Beelzebruv
Bill S. Preston, Esq.
The Ultimate Arbiter of Right And Wrong
Spent half my life here, God help me
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Post by Futureraven: Beelzebruv on Aug 19, 2010 5:30:43 GMT -5
I think it'd be very boring. This, it freaked me out when I was a kid and I realised Heaven's FOREVER, and realised at some point, you'll have done everything as much as you wanted and still have forever left. |
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Post by Loud $ound Ziggy, or The $hady on Aug 19, 2010 5:56:21 GMT -5
I'm happy with living and then not.
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darthalexander
Hank Scorpio
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Post by darthalexander on Aug 19, 2010 6:03:59 GMT -5
The Kane novels by Karl Edward Wagner have a character who is immortal. His biggest problem tends to be boredom and loneliness.He's lived so long that he's "seen it all".
He does have some luck in battle though - since he's been around so long he can pretty much anticipate how people will fight because he has "the perspective of centuries" (a quote from the books).
They're pretty amazing books.
The issue with this article is that it's based on our current medical abilities. I am sure that medicine would be highly evolved by the time you got to the years 2200, 12000, etc...so you should be ok (unless the world suffers some horrible catastrophe).
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hassanchop
Grimlock
Who are you to doubt Belldandy?
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Post by hassanchop on Aug 19, 2010 7:38:52 GMT -5
Remember the Twilight Zone episode Long Live Walter Jameson? There is an answer, "It is death that gives this world meaning, we all love a rose because we know it will be gone, whoever loved a stone?"
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Post by Loud $ound Ziggy, or The $hady on Aug 19, 2010 7:39:53 GMT -5
The idea of living forever terrifies me. I'm glad it just stops, to be honest.
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Post by whitecrxsses on Aug 19, 2010 8:58:14 GMT -5
Remembering the alien in the Hitchhiker's Guide (I forget which book) who travelled across the galaxy insulting every living person, because he was immortal and hated living.
I need to re-read those books.
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Grendel
Bill S. Preston, Esq.
But ... why is all the rum gone?
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Post by Grendel on Aug 19, 2010 9:16:45 GMT -5
I'm sad to say I used to watch this all the time ... And you best learn your skills, boy ... ;D |
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Post by YAKMAN is ICHIBAN on Aug 19, 2010 9:25:40 GMT -5
I knew I couldn't be the only one to read the topic and immediately here
HEEEEEEEEEEERE WE ARE! BORN TO BE KINGS!
My word though, does that opening sequence look dated.
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Post by Doctor Tull-eus S. Venture on Aug 19, 2010 10:25:52 GMT -5
I'm sad to say I used to watch this all the time ... And you best learn your skills, boy ... ;D I seem to recall an episode of this show where MacLeod was trying to help a fellow Immortal who's present day cover was that of a rock star, and he kept OD'ing on drugs every night, dying, and then coming back to life an hour or so later. |
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Dean-o
Grimlock
Haha we're having fun Maggle!
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Post by Dean-o on Aug 19, 2010 10:50:25 GMT -5
That was one of the best Cracked articles i've ever read. #1 made me laugh out loud, then struck me with fear.
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Sajoa Moe
Patti Mayonnaise
Did you get that thing I sent ya?
A man without gimmick.
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Post by Sajoa Moe on Aug 19, 2010 15:35:39 GMT -5
One thing I've always wondered about immortality: Does it prevent you from getting hurt or maimed? I know that no matter what happens, you can live forever, but can you, I don't know, get your arm chopped off or something?
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Post by Koda, Master Crunchyroller on Aug 19, 2010 15:40:05 GMT -5
One thing I've always wondered about immortality: Does it prevent you from getting hurt or maimed? I know that no matter what happens, you can live forever, but can you, I don't know, get your arm chopped off or something? Some fiction says you would, others say you wouldn't. |
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