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Lossefalme
Gondor
Mar 6 2007, 9:52pm
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If you had the chance to become immortal and you could select one other person to become immortal with you if you wanted to, would you do it? Why or why not?
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RosieLass
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Mar 6 2007, 10:32pm
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Absolutely not under any circumstances.
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There is nothing about this life that is so great that I'd want to keep living it forever. Ugh!
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SandWitch King
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Mar 6 2007, 10:34pm
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Given eternity, I might learn how to spell
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Not to corrupt your excellent question but isn't the point of many religions that death has no sting and God grants eternal life?
I have often thought many more things exist that I would love to do and learn about and see and travel to than I can fit in one life. I pick YES!
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Morwen
Rohan
Mar 6 2007, 10:50pm
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I don't want to bind myself forever to the circles of the world. This is a great life, there are many things I would like to do that I probably won't be able to fit in, but I don't want to shut myself out of the next life altogether. If you offered me an extra hundred years, and then the afterlife, I'd take you up on it.
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Radhruin
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Mar 6 2007, 10:59pm
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Although this life holds many joys, it has a whole lot of sorrow. Give me the afterlife any day. Not saying that I regret having this life, but to go on to infinity doesn't sound very attractive.
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Aerlinn
Lorien
Mar 6 2007, 11:01pm
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Threescore and ten is plenty, thanks!
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Or whatever the going rate may be. I don't want to be around to see everyone I know and their children die, the oceans rise, etc.
Though if I could live forever that might see my house paid off, at least.
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Greenwood Hobbit
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Mar 7 2007, 12:41am
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I remember his slightly manic cheerfulness, and the hollow agony he showed briefly when he acknowledged that no-one could stay with him. *shiver* I voted No. Outliving all you know and love would be an incredibly lonely way to pass the years, even with one other to share them. That would help, but not heal. Every season is new and different, but knowing they will go on after you're gone is more of a comfort than a regret.
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Noneoftheabove
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Mar 7 2007, 1:04am
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Lossefalme, do you offer immortality as an un-ending state of being, or to live free of death from sickness and aging, yet still be capable of death?
If I had to live life eternal and never be able to experience death, I would not choose to live forever. But if I was given the ability to live life free of sickness and disease, to avoid the infirmities of old age; I would choose that.
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Annael
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Mar 7 2007, 1:52am
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Physical existence is the hard part; why perpetuate it?
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Lossefalme
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Mar 7 2007, 2:10am
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I was thinking of it more in an Elven sense when I thought of the question.
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I was thinking about Arwen and Aragorn and then about the "gift" of mortality given to the race of Men by Iluvatar and that led me to this poll question.
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Aerlinn
Lorien
Mar 7 2007, 4:11am
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I think it really is a gift...
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At least till we have the not-wrecking-the-planet part down.
With my luck I'd live forever surrouned by the likes of Howard Stern and what's her name - Ann Coulter.
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Noneoftheabove
Lorien
Mar 7 2007, 8:29am
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If only I could go into the West, when all became weary!
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Stapper
Lorien
Mar 7 2007, 9:51am
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Life's good, but it has to end some day.
Besides, I wouldn't want to see people around me dying while I knew I had to continue living forever more
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Elfmei
The Shire
Mar 7 2007, 2:45pm
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Being immortal is a good thing or bad thing?
This is a question need to be discovered by personal experience.
As the LOTR said, when everyone else left me, I would be all along on the world.
Might want someone else to be with me.
But if I would foreseen the future life would be more and more boring or the life would get harder and harder, I might not want to secrifised the life of my loved ones.
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Alcarcalime
Tol Eressea
Mar 7 2007, 3:26pm
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I am torn between yes and no...
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I would love more years with my husband (I don't think 1,000 years would be enough) but how could I leave my children behind.
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Alassëa Eruvande
Valinor
Mar 7 2007, 4:13pm
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I wouldn't mind the lifespan of a Numenorian.
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I'd like to live longer than the current lifespan of about 80 or so years. I wouldn't want to live forever, though. I think I'd feel like the elves, fading, stretched thin, weary. I think life can be pretty tiresome at times, but I would like to see my grandchildren's grandchildren. Think of all the spoiling I could do as their great-great-granny. Then, when they are good and rotten, I'd lay down and simply pass away, like Elessar.
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Darkstone
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Mar 7 2007, 5:37pm
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There's a lot more to life than just life and I'm looking forward to seeing what it is. To live forever would be like being stuck in a bus station: Everyone else hustling and bustling arriving and departing coming and going from exciting places and there you are stuck in the same surroundings forever and ever. Nah, when my bus comes, I'm on it with a window seat enjoying the scenery.
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SandWitch King
Rohan
Mar 7 2007, 5:48pm
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Do not the words of Jesus promise immortality and eternal life?
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Darkstone
Immortal
Mar 7 2007, 6:03pm
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But it's not going to be like this life. Heaven's going to be new and exciting and full of experiences and challenges we can't even imagine.
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Idril Celebrindal
Tol Eressea
Mar 7 2007, 6:06pm
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Part of me wants more life, to do and see everything that I won't get a chance to in the time I have.
But I would not want to live forever if it meant that I would have to watch everyone I loved age and die.
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elvenhobbit
Rohan
Mar 7 2007, 7:52pm
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hmmm, not sure is my answer because....
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In a way yes it would alieviate suffering (grieving) to those left behind but would you actually want to be immortal against the laws of nature (except to the elves of course...minus a couple).
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Penthe
Gondor
Mar 7 2007, 11:07pm
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No thanks, not under any circumstances.
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I do not like to live forever.
Not as an Elf
Not up in heaven.
I do not like imortality.
I like to live quite finitely.
I will not have it all alone.
I will not have it as a stone.
I will not live with everyone.
Alive forever is no fun.
Although if I had more alive time,
I'm sure I could improve this rhyme.
The End
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