What if you didn't age? - Functionally immortal

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Let's say, hypothetically speaking, that you didn't age for whatever reason. What would you do? Like, you just notice one day that you stop getting old until you age backwards until you're in your peak physical prime. Hundreds of years pass, and everyone you know has passed away, but yet you still remain.

What would you do? Personally, I would still come here to shitpost.
 
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I'd think it's rather swell, and just use my infinite time, peak health, and ever growing wisdom to become rich. I'd work my way into politics and eventually rule the Earth alongside my army of descendants.

Eventually, after thousands of years, I'd die along with the last remnants of humanity when an inevitable apocalypse occurs, and calmly embrace death.
 
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Would you also be immortal (i.e. unable to die from accidents)?

If no, I'd probably live my life really carefully at first, building my powers financially and otherwise. Once I had become financially independent I'd explore the world and develop myself spiritually. Then, if nothing kills me before that, I'd probably get really bored and start doing all kinds of crazy shit not caring if I lived or died.

If yes, then I assume that my main objective would eventually be to find a way to end my consciousness or, if the future allows, to shape it into something completely different. I wouldn't want the existential horror of floating around in empty space in my human body billions of years from now.
 
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AbyssGazer said:
Would you also be immortal (i.e. unable to die from accidents)?

If no, I'd probably live my life really carefully at first, building my powers financially and otherwise. Once I had become financially independent I'd explore the world and develop myself spiritually. Then, if nothing kills me before that, I'd probably get really bored and start doing all kinds of crazy shit not caring if I lived or died.

If yes, then I assume that my main objective would eventually be to find a way to end my consciousness or, if the future allows, to shape it into something completely different. I wouldn't want the existential horror of floating around in empty space in my human body billions of years from now.
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In this scenario, you wouldn't be actually immortal. If you get shot, it'll probably kill you. And I would want to say that only you are practically immortal not your descendants or anyone related to you too.
 
I'd make up weird secrets to explain why I don't age and see how many people do it. Like "the reason I don't age is because every morning I put 10 ice cubes up my ass". What's the point of living forever if you don't use it to fuck with people?
 
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it'd probably be either a very lonely life or one full of lies and deception; not worth it, men were made to die somewhere between 50 and 100 years after being born and it is wise that it aint any other way
 
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umseriously said:
Let's say, hypothetically speaking, that you didn't age for whatever reason. What would you do? Like, you just notice one day that you stop getting old until you age backwards until you're in your peak physical prime. Hundreds of years pass, and everyone you know has passed away, but yet you still remain.
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Even if we could avoid old age, our brains would eventually run out of space for permanently storing new memories. We'd begin forgetting what happened at a certain point. Unsure of where we are or what's been happening since we began forgetting. If your body doesn't fail you first, your mind will. Make the most of the life that's been given to you because you're not going to get another chance at living through this very moment.
 
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I will be fighting Gods like Kratos and harness their eternal powers until I become the most eternal God of all Gods and I will enslave mortals.
 
There's a pretentious 2007 indie movie about this, The Man From Earth. Guy's an immortal who's been wandering around since caveman times, can get sick or injured but does not age. If he stays anywhere too long the people start to realize something's up so he moves around at least once a decade. He's been around long enough that he can fudge credentials for anything and he likes to teach, so he's been working colleges.
Whole movie's just a conversation between him and some friends from the school as they help him move, first posing his condition as a hypothetical and letting them mull over how such a man would live, then revealing facts of his life that align with the proposed hypothetical.
 
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Otterly said:
It sounds hellish. Everyone you love dying around you and you’re stuck here.
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After 500 years everyone you knew is a distant memory, you're behind the times, you speak weirdly as the language advances around you, etc.

You would be so utterly alone.
 
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I guess you can go the highlander route, have a project and something to work towards, and a yen for antiques
 
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Everyone around you dies, but you turn a new page, still in your youth, onto a new adventure.

Then you meet new people and start over, it's all about attitude.
 
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