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 Post subject: The Secret Infinity.
PostPosted: Sun May 09, 2010 10:09 am 
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Just curious about something...how do you guys feel about the idea of living forever? Like, never aging or dying. Basically, being immortal...I hate that word, actually, but I was just wondering since most people expect to live maybe 100 or so years, at the most. And a lot of that time is spent growing older and frailer by the day..if you could suddenly find yourself able to go on living and never dying how would you feel about that?

I'm actually doing research for my novel and I'm just curious what people think in general about this sort of thing, btw.
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 Post subject: The Secret Infinity.
PostPosted: Sun May 09, 2010 10:10 am 
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 Post subject: The Secret Infinity.
PostPosted: Sun May 09, 2010 10:15 am 
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Just tell me how, and I'm there.



It's simple. Just give your ok in advance to want to take part in the Mimickers Project and be prepared to live forever.

Simply say "Yes" on this thread and that will be good enough. Your response will be recorded and entered into the database and you'll be contacted at the appropriate time. :ohyes:


P.S. You'll need to play an instrument or sing. :-D

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 Post subject: The Secret Infinity.
PostPosted: Sun May 09, 2010 10:35 am 
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Darn, With a title like Secret Infinity I thought this was going to be about a huge crossover series between Marvel and DC.


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 Post subject: The Secret Infinity.
PostPosted: Sun May 09, 2010 10:45 am 
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Darn, With a title like Secret Infinity I thought this was going to be about a huge crossover series between Marvel and DC.


Sorry about that, Ross. :? I'd like to make it up to you. Just send me your mailing addy and I'll send you FOC an entire year's supply of Sammy The Creepy Salamander so you can spend endless hours of fun reading one of comic world's greatest and most beloved Superheros.
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 Post subject: The Secret Infinity.
PostPosted: Sun May 09, 2010 11:07 am 
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I would only want to be immortal if everyone else was immortal.

I read Michael Moorcock's Corum novels and while Corum was immortal, his wives and children were not. He watched his wives, kids, grandkids, etc die of old age, while he remained forever young and had to live with all the losses.

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 Post subject: The Secret Infinity.
PostPosted: Sun May 09, 2010 11:14 am 
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Dr. Chris Evil wrote:
I would only want to be immortal if everyone else was immortal.

I read Michael Moorcock's Corum novels and while Corum was immortal, his wives and children were not. He watched his wives, kids, grandkids, etc die of old age, while he remained forever young and had to live with all the losses.


Oh...that's so sad. It's just something you'd have to live with. But I can understand how that could be tough. :sigh:

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 Post subject: The Secret Infinity.
PostPosted: Sun May 09, 2010 11:18 am 
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The book was well written. He lived with a sadness that would never go away, even as he took on other wives, etc.

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 Post subject: The Secret Infinity.
PostPosted: Sun May 09, 2010 11:20 am 
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Dr. Chris Evil wrote:
The book was well written. He lived with a sadness that would never go away, even as he took on other wives, etc.




Well that's because he was the only person who lived on. It's different if a whole bunch of people together never age or die. Then they're never alone.
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 Post subject: The Secret Infinity.
PostPosted: Sun May 09, 2010 11:49 am 
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PostPosted: Sun May 09, 2010 7:09 pm 
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Francine wrote:
Simply say "Yes" on this thread and that will be good enough.
P.S. You'll need to play an instrument or sing. :-D


Yes.
Can I choose my age and physical condition?
I can sing, badly.


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Tommy Tomorrow wrote:
Francine wrote:
Simply say "Yes" on this thread and that will be good enough.
P.S. You'll need to play an instrument or sing. :-D


Yes.
Can I choose my age and physical condition?
I can sing, badly.



Welcome aboard, Tommy! :hug:

Well...you're sorta stuck with being 18 and in phenomenal physical shape. I hope that's ok with you.
:-D

We'll work on your singing voice. :ohyes:

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 Post subject: The Secret Infinity.
PostPosted: Sun May 09, 2010 10:17 pm 
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If one signs up, are you saying they can never change their mind?

If not, then I'd certainly rather be free from age related problems and live as long as I'd like. You'd have so many actual opportunities to start over or reinvent yourself.

It might be a problem, of course, if you can have kids endlessly. Especially when none of them call or come to visit. :ohyes:


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If one signs up, are you saying they can never change their mind?

If not, then I'd certainly rather be free from age related problems and live as long as I'd like. You'd have so many actual opportunities to start over or reinvent yourself.

It might be a problem, of course, if you can have kids endlessly. Especially when none of them call or come to visit. :ohyes:


Once you sign up you're in it forever. So there's going back. As for having kids, I'm afraid that's out. Once you've been "transformed" you'll no longer be in any intimate relationship with any person or have children. That's just how it is.On the plus side, you'll have lots of friends and forever to spend with them.
:ohyes: :yay:

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PostPosted: Sun May 09, 2010 10:40 pm 
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 Post subject: The Secret Infinity.
PostPosted: Sun May 09, 2010 10:42 pm 
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And we wouldn't be free to choose anymore, or decide everything for ourselves, so it sounds pretty horrible. How can one know what it would be like with such limited data? It could be a living hell, and with no way out - no sweet release - I wouldn't risk it. The price is too high.


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PostPosted: Sun May 09, 2010 10:43 pm 
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Brotoro wrote:
So I wouldn't be "me" anymore?



Of course you'll be you! You'll just be the best possible "you" that you can possibly ever be! You'll be fully complete.

Besides...we could really use your photoshopping skills and bright mind! Which, btw, would be working at an optimum capacity!
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PostPosted: Sun May 09, 2010 10:50 pm 
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Brotoro wrote:
So I wouldn't be "me" anymore?



Of course you'll be you! You'll just be the best possible "you" that you can possibly ever be! You'll be fully complete.

Besides...we could really use your photoshopping skills and bright mind! Which, btw, would be working at an optimum capacity!
:ohyes:


Then what is this limitation on "you'll no longer be in any intimate relationship with any person." I'm afraid my wife would not approve.

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PostPosted: Sun May 09, 2010 11:07 pm 
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Brotoro wrote:
Francine wrote:
Brotoro wrote:
So I wouldn't be "me" anymore?



Of course you'll be you! You'll just be the best possible "you" that you can possibly ever be! You'll be fully complete.

Besides...we could really use your photoshopping skills and bright mind! Which, btw, would be working at an optimum capacity!
:ohyes:


Then what is this limitation on "you'll no longer be in any intimate relationship with any person." I'm afraid my wife would not approve.


Oh, don't worry about that. She can come along. It's just that in your newly transformed state you won't require to have children..it's tough to explain. Anyways, you'll be having too much fun to worry about trivial issues like that.
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Jilerb wrote:
And we wouldn't be free to choose anymore, or decide everything for ourselves, so it sounds pretty horrible. How can one know what it would be like with such limited data? It could be a living hell, and with no way out - no sweet release - I wouldn't risk it. The price is too high.


Of course you'll be free to decide for yourself and make freewill decisions. It's just that in your newly transformed state you will find new priorities taking shape. Trust me, once you've joined up you'll no longer even care about being intimate with anyone. It won't bother you in the least. You won't ever think about it at all. I don't.
:ohyes:

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 Post subject: The Secret Infinity.
PostPosted: Sun May 09, 2010 11:12 pm 
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Francine wrote:
it's tough to explain.

You got that right!

(God wrote physical pleasure into my v.1 operating system, so She can damn well include it in the v.2 upgrade.)


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 Post subject: The Secret Infinity.
PostPosted: Sun May 09, 2010 11:22 pm 
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Stephen Strange wrote:
Francine wrote:
it's tough to explain.

You got that right!

(God wrote physical pleasure into my v.1 operating system, so She can damn well include it in the v.2 upgrade.)


Haven't you heard? Sex is so yesterday! If you join up... you would get a new and profound joy from life that would supercede any previous desire for that sort of thing. Besides...so many people are having sex that it's actually kind of cool right not to not have sex...it's like an underground music movement, you know? It's like, everybody is on Facebook right now...so how can it possibly be cool? It's the same with sex! :-D

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