Hypothetical Question: If you had to kill your best friend...

[Ben Kenobi]

That's why Djinn are not considered to be benevolent spirits.

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by Dissident
what would you do if you were immortal and the space ship broke down and was adrift in space? Everyone else would die, but you'd be stuck there alone, forever.

immortal is not all it's cracked up to be.

You could just jump. If your immortal, you'll get there eventually. And you could "swim" against the insterstellar hydrogen

[KrazyHorse]

If I were immortal and didn't want to live any more I'd jump into a black hole

That way the universe would end in (very) finite proper time.

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by Azazel
Why not, Boris? read my answer up there.

I'm not a utilitarian, and I'm not going to commit murder/rape/whatever atrocity in an ends-justifies-the-means mentality.

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse
If I were immortal and didn't want to live any more I'd jump into a black hole

That way the universe would end in (very) finite proper time.

You wouldn't have a very finite time of it though...

[KrazyHorse]

I've been meaning to ask you: is it you or Jaguar on top most of the time?

[Kuciwalker]

ewwww

[Dis]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse
If I were immortal and didn't want to live any more I'd jump into a black hole

That way the universe would end in (very) finite proper time.

a black hole wouldn't kill you either.

and that would be cool. I'd love to see what it looks like in a black hole. Though there is no light, and nothing to see

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by Dissident


a black hole wouldn't kill you either.

I didn't say it would. But as you approach the schwarzchild radius the time you experience goes to zero relative to an observer at infinity.

You never reach the schwarzchild radius. A short amount of time passes for you; an infinite amount of time passes for all outside observers. That way the rest of your life is only five minutes long if you take a plunge into the black hole. You never die, but you only experience a finite amount of time.

[Space05us]

Space, I think immortality would be boring as hell after the first few thousand years

Nah, maybe after a million after the sun dies and the earth is super heated it would suck, but then you would have all the time in the world to meditate.

Eventualy, after a few billion years life would reappear, and then a few billion years after that perhaps a new form of intelligent life. Or maybe you would have to wait for the next few cycles to run before anything better than a plant appeared. Or maybe humanity will find a way to stop the sun from decaying, or create a new sun, who knows? If you live forever you will know!

Also it pretty much goes without saying that when you are immortal you feel pain and can lose limbs, get burns, etc. They just heal themselves back to normal after a day or two. After the first few atomic blasts you experience the random bullet to the face or stubbed toe wouldnt feel so bad.

[Space05us]

black holes suck

Maybe I would become like a god and seal all of those damned things off. Or at least post warning signs.

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Space05us
black holes suck

Of course they do. Was that intentional?

[Az]

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Space05us
I would do it for Immortality.

Bah.

Tass is right, omnipotence beats that hands down. With omnipotence, you can make yourself immortal. Then when you get bored, you remove the immortality.

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Solver
Reminds me of the X-Files episode, "Je Souhaite", where wording of wishes played a role. When Mulder wished for world peace, he found out that all people disappeared.

Bah, that's so old. That has been done in D&D for ages.