The world's graveyards have no shortage of residents 56 years or even less old.Originally Posted by Uchiha Barles
The world's graveyards have no shortage of residents 56 years or even less old.
That's brutal dude. Those are the kinds of things I faced when I converted to Atheism. If you don't believe in an afterlife, the here and now is all there is, and each minute that passes you become aware that you're not getting that minute back.
Of course I'm making no assumptions on your faith or lack thereof, but it is an obstacle a lot of people have to clear, and to people like me, it makes me value life more since I live under the impression that this is all we have or ever will have. I didn't come to that conclusion immediately, and it's a very painful subject to get through. In my case it pushed me away from religion, for others it may cause them to embrace it.
Regardless, you should get professional help if your depression is affecting your life.
"They call it 'The American Dream' because you have to be asleep to believe it" - George Carlin
Fedor just lost.
“For God will not permit that we shall know what is to come... those who by some sorcery or by some dream might come to pierce the veil that lies so darkly over all that is before them may serve by just that vision to cause that God should wrench the world from its heading and set it upon another course altogether and then where stands the sorcerer? Where the dreamer and his dream?”
Uchiha Barles,
Reminded me of a movie that stared Jackie Chan as a Chinese General in the Qing dynasty.
Anyhow, if you face a situation whereby you have just 1 immortality pill, would you eat the pill or pass the pill to your love one?
1. If you eat the pill and gain immortality, you will live an eternity of seeing your love ones die one by one.
2. If you give the pill to your lover(or any significant person), your lover will live an eternity of seeing you(and any other significant others) die over and over again.
Either way, is a suffering, knowing the pain of losing someone and knowing that someone feels the pain of losing you.
In this case, the desire to solve the problem of death is causing conflict in your mind. The knowledge that you have a desire and not be actively blinded by the desire could give you a better time.
Hope the best for ya,
depthcharge
PS: I miss you Tiger.
of course, the mechanics of immortality would be interesting to delve into, too. Just being told you'll live forever doesn't say much. Is it possible to die by accident or injury, or will you simply regenerate? Similarly, if you're maimed, will you be able to survive that? Will you age, or will you be frozen in time at the age you took the pill? If you're frozen in time, does that mean you're frozen in capacity? Like, will it become impossible for you to work out to become stronger, or to study to learn more or otherwise sharpen your intellect?
If you're not going to be able to learn, grow, and improve forever, then immortality isn't worth it. If you are, then .... I think the pain of losing loved ones would be worth suffering through, in exchange for being able to provide them years, even decades of joy.
If immortality isn't eternal youth and infinite capacity for plasticity, then yeah, probably not worth it, because you end up some decrepit cryptkeeper, disoriented in a world you're not built for. Think of the people you know who're in their sixties today and who have problems understanding computers and the internet, and then compound that out to a thousand years of separation from the era you grew up in.
Beyond that, if you're going to make an immortality pill, why would you only make one of them? How hard would it be, once you've made the first one, to repeat the recipe? Did you kill a unique animal, last of its species to make it? Or did you exploit a once-in-a-millennium natural phenomenon to create it? In which case, is the creation just subject to waiting a thousand years to duplicate the phenomenon? If there's only one of them, how do you know it works?
Yeah ... Immortality is philosophically challenging. Especially for someone who specializes in beating people up in comedic ways.
Also: my bitch: work is hard, and it's making it pretty hard to do the home-work stuff I need to do to do this stupid forum upgrade.
When you solve one problem, another one pops up. Catch-22 so to speak.
An immortality pill that causes the user to phase into an ethereal form.
You will not die of accidents, hunger or diseases. You lose the sense of touch, smell and taste. You can observe and interact with your environment but not interact directly with living things.
You can provide tons of entertainment to your loved ones, by "floating" objects while being invisible to them. You can scribble notes on paper to pass them messages. You can learn infinite amount of knowledge but be unable to conduct creative processes.
(Think of the most boring person you ever met and multiply it by 1000 times.)
Lastly, in fact you made 100 of those "immortality" pills(could have made more too), however with no direct way for the ethereal to communicate with you, you figure that the pill isnt an immortality pill and you moved on. You tested the first pill on a guinea pig, saw it disappear before your own eyes, pique your interest. Perform further test on your some other animal, same thing happened. Figured that the animal have low intelligence and has no way to communicate to you. So you trained a monkey to write on a blackboard and fed it the pill. "Magically" after disappearing you continue to see scribbles on the blackboard, however what ever you do, you fail to detect life in the cage.
You decided that you need a test subject with the IQ in the range of an average mature adult. You proceed to deceive the person to consume the pill in an laboratory setting. You create the first haunted house in your neighborhood.
*this is not the last of the fine prints, you cant interact with other ethereal.
My bitch: How much loopholes do I have to cover before my Perfect supersaiyan, sage mode immortality pill comes into fruition?
What's with all the mini-essays being written on the forums these days?? Small, digestible bites are the way to go, or its TLDR.
“For God will not permit that we shall know what is to come... those who by some sorcery or by some dream might come to pierce the veil that lies so darkly over all that is before them may serve by just that vision to cause that God should wrench the world from its heading and set it upon another course altogether and then where stands the sorcerer? Where the dreamer and his dream?”
This lady at work brought her computer for me to look at. This thing is yellow/orange with tobacco residue all over it and it's so gross. I really dont even want to touch it again after carrying it inside for her...
Too many people misuse the term "lady". An adult female is a "woman". An adult woman with proper manners and social skills is a "lady".
“For God will not permit that we shall know what is to come... those who by some sorcery or by some dream might come to pierce the veil that lies so darkly over all that is before them may serve by just that vision to cause that God should wrench the world from its heading and set it upon another course altogether and then where stands the sorcerer? Where the dreamer and his dream?”
Yeah, sounded far from a lady.
I hate living in the hood.
Two weeks ago my neighbors were finally evicted for not paying rent. Those assholes stuffed all their trash in my outside closet and I had to clean that shit out.
I don't even talk to my other two neighbors, I prefer it that way. But today I was going out to check the mail and these huge fucking dogs are tethered to the roughly 3 foot guard rail on the upper level of my building (I live on the second of two levels). So when I go out I walk a couple yards to the neighbors' half of the building and that's where the staircase is.
So she has these two voracious dogs tied to this rail with what, I swear to fucking christ, might as well be a fucking strand of dental floss, and they go crazy everytime they happen to see someone. There's like 6 inches between the staircase and these dogs trying desperately to get to me. I go get the mail and come back and they raise all hell again and the woman comes outside to calm them. I asked her what the hell those dogs were doing there and she looked at ME like I was fucked up.
She told me they wouldn't bite me because they couldn't reach me, and I said fuck that, I'm not gonna be held hostage in my own apartment, what the fuck are they doing there tied up with that flimsy ass little cord? Then her nasty daughter comes outside and says it's no worse than when my cats that run loose.
"Um, what? Are you on fucking cocaine? You mean my two cats that I accompany outside because they like to play? You seriously think that's the same thing as my life being threatened by your goddamn dogs?"
Then she tells me she walked by my place and said it stunk and reported it to my landlord.
"Sweetheart, there's not a thing wrong with my apartment. I just cleaned yesterday. You're fucking full of it. By the way, if I get bitten by one of those dogs I'm going to take everything you fucking own"
Later when I left for work, they weren't there, nor were they when I got off tonight.
God I hate people.
"They call it 'The American Dream' because you have to be asleep to believe it" - George Carlin
As much as you must have been distressed by these dogs, it brings me a little entertainment reading that
Good that they're gone.
If it's not Isuzu-chan Mii~
You know what starts with N and ends with R and you don't want to deal with it? Neighbor, that is.
Two families are drunks(they are drinking in garden(if they are not drunk enough) or in house.
There was one that had 5 big aggressive dogs in 38 m^2 flat, the dogs used to make mess inside building, but not in their flat.
One family is trying to force us, that is the other residents, to pay for their new bathroom.
The last family from Annoying Five used to make parties at their, garden - nothing wrong with that, but for the goddamn sake every summer they are 'playing' Vuvuzelas for the whole day, because their children thinks that the sound is funny...
Number of works of fiction that made me shed at least one tear: 3Thou seeketh soul power, dost thou not?TOX: 33524385841A92B08787EEBEBA2DB51ED293C4F15A2E292F3F C92165E82388281433A77EA8FE
With what reasoning are they forcing you to pay for their bathroom ?
If it's not Isuzu-chan Mii~
two words: Nerve gas......it'll cure what ail's ya
Two more words: bird seed. It will attract birds that will shit all over their garden\backyard.
“For God will not permit that we shall know what is to come... those who by some sorcery or by some dream might come to pierce the veil that lies so darkly over all that is before them may serve by just that vision to cause that God should wrench the world from its heading and set it upon another course altogether and then where stands the sorcerer? Where the dreamer and his dream?”
Well, i don't know English words about plumbing enough to say how they are exactly making us pay for that...
I'll try to describe this as best as i can. Its not like we are forced to - they arledy used our money to do so, and now we are forced to get it back..
In this building there are 3 main pipes that deliver water(Left, Central and Right), and the administration of the building is responsible for maintenance of them. the pipe that went to this guy's flat was in bad shape, so he told the administration that he'll fix it itself and send the receipt to them - but that guy made himself new bathroom and damaged the wall that splits his flat and staircase while doing this. The price on receipt was way over the cost for repairing his pipe(Left one) - it was the price of complete bathroom plus the repair price.
But from where administration gets money? from us - each family contributes to the budged of repairs. Now we have to get petition signed to make him pay back this additional money used for the bathroom. and hope that goddamn director of administration is not lazy, this time.(because she is lazy as hell - she still not responded to the problems from 2 years ago..)
Nerve gas? inserting but i live at the top so probably it will reach me too..
Bird seed? we all live in one building so its not good idea - and my family's garden is too close to his one..
Number of works of fiction that made me shed at least one tear: 3Thou seeketh soul power, dost thou not?TOX: 33524385841A92B08787EEBEBA2DB51ED293C4F15A2E292F3F C92165E82388281433A77EA8FE
I don't really see why it's necessary to go about it in such a roundabout way of first paying the ridiculous amount of money and then trying to get a part of it back. The worst case scenario is that by paying it you will be considered to have accepted it since you knew beforehand it included more than it was supposed to.
Though I suppose you could sue the administrator for corruption or something.
Administration just paid him, legally, without noticing us about the sum - we had nothing to say about that, the issue came up on the last meeting.
Number of works of fiction that made me shed at least one tear: 3Thou seeketh soul power, dost thou not?TOX: 33524385841A92B08787EEBEBA2DB51ED293C4F15A2E292F3F C92165E82388281433A77EA8FE
Oh, I meant you paying the admistration. You could have left the office hanging with the loss of money they stupidly paid to the fucker.
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