I'll explain each a bit better:

Immortality:

You don't die. You can get wounded, but the wounds heal rapidly when you meditate on them. So if you get an slash across the chest you just stop and gvie thought on your wound and it'll heal rapidly. Head gettign cut off: your head grows a body over the course of a week or two. Basicly you have ultimate control over your body to the point where, given a week or so, you could change forms completly if you meditated on it enough.

Mind you though that you live forever. As in you will never not be here. You'll see the human race rise and colonise the moon and mars, and you'll see what ever fate they meet. You'll see stars die, and forget you even seen them after thousends of eons. In millions of eons you'll even see a race that resembles humans, races that resemble any biologically possable creature ever dreamt of.

You'll be a ruler, and a peasent. A praised hero, and a hated villian. Most of all you'll be there. Always and forever. Nothing has power over you. You are you, and always will be.

Immortality with god powers:

You are basicly the god. You can do what ever you wish. You can destroy planets, or make them. You can erease hight and see two dimensions, or create 10 more.

You have ultimate power, though you can't kill yourself.

Die now:

You choose to die and accept what ever fate comes. This is for people without the gull to kill themselves. At least you'll find out what religion is right, if any are.

Cease to exist:

You don't die becouse there is no "you". Your self awarness is stripped away and your veary being is compusted and gone.

If souls exist: you don't have one.

live like you are now:

Just like the die now option, only comes into effect when you happen to die.
You die of old age, or getting hit by a bus. Who knows.
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Personaly, I can't answer this now for I am still busy trying to figure the universe out. I'm close, but not done yet.

But what about you?

God. As if there is really a choice....

hmm, die, because ive always wanted to find out there is no heaven nor hell and think to myself "hahah, guess those suckers are wasting their time"...it it were true, gee, id kill myself again just to make sure!

but then again, after playing Doom 1 and 2 in 1028x1024 has made me excited

So you both would rather die now, then not?

Whether one chose immortality might be affected by uniqueness. If I am immortal and nothing and nobody else is I am sure I would feel differently to being immortal as part of a race of immortals.

Two things to think of:-

Human emotions will over time have no meaning to an immortal. Also there can be no urge to try the new. Each time you try something new it is one less possibility in a finite list. ALthough the list might seem to a mere mortal to extend forever, it would not seem that way to an immortal.

Therefore I do not know what I would be choosing in opting for immortality and would not attempt to make such a choice unless I knew it was actually feasible.

Which, basically, is a cop out!

My own personal choice would actually be none of the above. It would really be option two (immortality with god powers), but with the option of killing myself if I so wish. That way, once I had experienced the universe as totally as I could, I could kill myself instead of being bored for the rest of eternity.

Though saying that, if I was basically a god, I could always make another universe....

I would find immortality rather boring after a time. In some other(nearley identical) thread someoe said imoortality would be boring after escaping death for the 80,000,000th time. But I would Like to see things and terrorizing the little mortals would be a fun pass time......So i'm undecided......I need to think........
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I would certainly choose immortality with god powers. Then I could do what I want and would live forever. If I liked, I could create a complete new universe (I personally would create Arda the way Tolkien described it) or perhaps even be a being inside this universe. And I don't think it will get boring. When you are god, you are above such feelings. Time and space cease to exist for such a being, so it can't get bored at all. Such a being would know what "boring" means, but acctually would not experience it.

God off-course... Silly question

Boredom? What's boredom? I'm an omnipotent diety, I can simply decide boredom doesn't exist.

Ok, so I voted to keep things as they are. But can I have a vespa too?

Things the way they are, Well, that is just fine with me. Being immortal (Not god) was a close second. I like the idea of allways being around, seeing things from a passive perspective, bringing justice to the unworthy of mortals, walking on lava although it burns my feet and then thinking "With time, this wound shall heal" and having it heal instantly. Pain would be acceptable, feelings would be acceptable, as it is all a part of current life, with the exception that it will never end, and therefore you have infinite ammounts of plesure as well as pain. And my pain will easily go away, which is even better. But, all good things must come to an end, and therefore I chose to keep things the way they are.

But you wouldn't have to get bored. By definition, you are omnipotent, with the exception of being able to destroy yourself. If you get bored, you simply decide boredom doesn't exist. Or forget the memories. If you don't want to use your powers and allow reality to handle itself, you can do it.

anyway, how could you get bored of doing what you want? you could find out what magma tastes like or throw rocks at the president.....each having consequeces(such as the death sentence for the latter one, but you can escape death, right?)

I'd choose immortality with god powers. If the human race dies around you, if the whole galaxy disappears, you can make your own in whichever fashion you wish. No matter what, you would be able to have something to do. And I really want to throw rocks at the president

God-like powers! Yeehah, let's see...new universe...intergalactic space travel....ah screw it...can I throw rocks with you guys?

Didn't you already do that in the Snow Arena, Mojlnir?

I entirely agree with Peregrine, if you have godly powers you can eliminate boredom and replace it with catatonia - much more restful. If only infinity wasn't such a long stretch...

I recall throwing snowballs, but not rocks my good sir! Though, knowing myself I wouldn't put it past myself to have slipped a rock or two into a snowball

Anyway, to the point, why would you choose to spend eternity, with god-like powers mind you, in a catatonic state? Think of all the stuff you would miss. And would you be able to bring yourself out of said state? I assume so, but that would call into question whether or not you were truly catatonic or simply keeping your eyes closed, not moving, and ignoring everyone.

Who cares. You're god. You can define those things to be whatever you feel like. You can do anything with the exception of kill yourself.

Truth. I am just curious as to why Malchik would choose to sleep away eternity when he could be off galavanting with the lady-types? Seems an awful waste to me.

Heh, Immortal. That's what I would choose.

We Humans have such a horrendous habit of repeating history, that it would seem fitting for a living Relic to guide the future generations away from the mistakes of the past, then we might get somewhere as a species. I've always wanted to be like an Elf, but would there be others? Or only yourself? Hrm, Hoom, root and twig would I love to be as ageless as a great tree...
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Oh I'd wake up now and again, Mojlnir, just to cause a bit of trouble. Interesting thought about gallivanting with the ladies. In the Makropoulos Document, an opera by Janáček, the lead character has a potion of everlasting youth. She gives up on the relationships bit because all her partners die on her and she loses any emotion. Presumably in her case the sex drive is linked to the need to have emotion. As I said before, an immortal would not have human perceptions or emotions so I don't know whether it would want to sport with nymphs and houris or not.

Interestingly very few 'gods' in history have been either omnipotent or omniscient. I'm not sure whether making such an assumption isn't too specific. Maybe I should define the attributes your god has. Could it be Loki, Sekhmet, Ares, Amaterasu or Chac mul?

If you had to choose an ancient deity, would there be a particular one?

Ancient God?

hmmm...doubt Shiva is ancient...but I would be Shiva (or Vishnu) whichever one is the Destroyer. It would kick ass, nuff said

Vishnu = preserver
Shive = destroyer
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It was a few days ago I choose to live like I am now. Though at the moment I choose Immortality. If I had a button to press to make the choice definite I would press it now.

Though I know that in the morning my choice will change, and in the afternoon it will become undesided, I choose immortality now.

Bordem may come, but it'll pass too. Fluries of self-doubt would be likely to pass by as I would be kneeling in solitude. How could I ever truly know I was immortal untill I die?

But I'd take the bad to take the good.

I personally want to eventually float off into space, for what ever reson, into a long trip though the viod unmasked and exposed to the vacum. My flesh splintering and my eyes freezing on the inside. only to fall into a sun and burn countinusly alive for years until the sun collapses and be crushed for eons in a black hole till that to is eventually disperresed.

It may take milions of billions of eons but eventually I would be free from those extremes and back to a planet with living creatures agian, and that time with knowledge that no one else could possably know.

To reach my 68,000th birth day and know that I havn't even begon would be wildly educational. My experinces and my wisdom would countinsly grow.

And on the day my own emense knowledge crushes my sanity, I would eventually sleep, and awake anew and healthy as my body heals it's nerological wounds and discrepencys.

Though I'm rambling.

Immortality with god powers, being able to return to your own life and being able to see who visits ur own funeral (thats the word I supose). Then start a new life, imagine, having god as baby.

That brings up an interesting thought; Would you tell others that you are a god?

I personally wouldn't. At most I would pretend that my powers where limited. Or...

I'd recarnate my self as a person with the physical powers of The One (As in Jet Lee, not the one from those idiotic matrix movies). Then as a super-being I'd be a hero, a darker one though.

I wouldn't just arrest criminals like Batman, I'd kill them outright. Only of course if I see them doing wrong. Say I stalk the allyies at night, see a drug deal going down, and their all dead.

Death after all is a good insentive to be a good citizen.

Over the course of, well, forever I'd keep carnating as simular people and keep doing that. Eventually I would be shaping humanity the way I want it whith out the boredom of doing it using my omnipotence and just changing them with a thought.

and...why would you kill the dope wars? definitly kill the murderers, but that makes you just as bad as them. but, youd be dark, id be light I suppose. Kill the corrupted. Martyr the murderously insane, and take their minds. leave the peaceful ones who break earth-only laws be. and what about the rest of your universe?

Given the choice, I would choose immortality (with regeneration factor: I would hate to be maimed and mutilated and not have the ability to contribute to society, much less this forum, for all eternity). It is a bit of a flight of fancy, but I have always detested incomplete stories. The only reason I would desire immortality would be to “see how it all ends”. Would the universe go out with a bang or as silent as a light wind?

Immortality with my LORD. That would be the most blissful experience. that is why I am a Christian. a moment without the LORD would be like, for some, a day without fun.

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Not sure witch thread came first too lazy to check.

I'd like to be immortal, but I couldn't handle the responsibility of having God-like powers...

But you may get bored of living forever after a while. And does "immortal" mean you don't feel pain? What if you get decapitated and still live forever in the worst pain imaginable?

Being immortal is not as fun as it sounds. You live on forever and ever. All of your relatives and friends will die while you live. Sorry but I'll keep my life and move on to the next level when I die what ever that is.

If one has no ambition to be immortal then its problay best they die. I on the other hand I would love the oppertunity to live forever and learn the ways of the universe. As for eternal pain, im sure that it would not be possiblre to make a real immortal without the ability to adapt, so in the time spectrum of eternity you would learn to deal with any kind of discomfort. However if we are talking about a magic immortal fantasy then id say if I cant adapt to pain and bordem then I should be ammune to it.

Why? You're given the option of immortality with god powers. How can an eternity second to someone else be as much fun as being god yourself? Especially when as god, you can simply define the happiness of your afterlife to be "2x happiness with the LORD"?

I'd choose to live like I am now. Immortality within time, when you think about it, would be torture. Sure it may be entertaining for the first few billion years but eventually you'd have seen and done everything. I think I'd rather live my life and then die, then find out what it's like to live a timeless existence (yes I believe in the afterlife, so sue me ).

My point exactly. Who nows there may be something better then immortality in the Afterlife. Plus on top of that who would want to see te next World War in there life time or the (near) exinction of the human race which is inevitable.

Ah, switch and chaosmaker, how uncreative.... didn't you see the part about getting god powers? An eternity as god would only be boring if you wanted it to be. No matter how long you live and what you experience, how can you be bored when you can simply say "boredom does not exist" and not be bored?

Don't you remember what happened to Almelexia and Sotha Sil after they had their "divinity" They were driven mad by almighty power. It takes responsibility and a pure holy mind to wield the power of a god.

I agree. Even if your friends and relatives lived forever too, you would soon get bored of eternal life.


Science argues (very well, I might add) that this "next level" is ceasing to exist. But if you're religious I'll respect whatever your beliefs about the afterlife are.


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I think I could handle godlike powers... It'd be great! Haven't you ever seen Bruce Almighty. I'd be like that except I wouldn't screw things up by lowering the moon's orbit or, more importantly, losing my girlfriend.

Wasn't that Ming the Merciless in Flash Gordon?

Immortality - nah. An extended lifespan - perhaps... just to get a chance to read all the books I want to read, and learn everything I want to learn.

How convenient that being omnipotent means that all you need to do to get that responsibility and pure holy mind is say "I want it". Or if you feel like it, simply decide that those things are not needed to avoid madness.

I agree with Peregrine, if you where given Godly powers the possibilities are endless. You dont have to have to be pure or holy even responsible

And because you have the powers of a God anything is possible, as has been said before you'd never get bored because you just make bordem cease to exist along with anything else you want. Hell you could even create emotions 10x better than any mortals love or joy and happieness!

To be honest i find it a little hard to comprehend thats because i think where all bound to human emtions and so on and just making them cease to exist and changing things we think are unchangable is a little hard to grasp. But if your a god then you can do it.

I think you misunderstood Peregrines' post. I got the idea he was being sarcastic...

I don't think so. He said this a fiew times already, he couldn't have been sarcastic all those times.

Oh, then I misunderstood his post...

I was being entirely serious. If you accept the "immortality with god powers" offer, you can not be bored unless you want to be. An omnipotent being can simply say "boredom doesn't exist" or "I'm not bored" and then not be bored. Therefore the only logical option is to pick the god powers.

I may not be pro-immortality but I am pro-Godly powers.