An Eternal Lifespan.

[So_Indecisive]

Most of the people in churches preach about how this life is inconsequential and how a mere 100 or so years on earth pales in comparison to an eternal life.

The problem here is that the people who say this fail to comprehend the insane length of time that is a hundred years and also don't understand the meaning of 'eternity'.

I'm sure all of you know what it means to be eternal and if you aren't aware Google it. So I was curious, with an eternal lifespan most of us, probably everyone at some point or the other would go crazy and choose to kill ourselves out of heartbreak or sheer boredom, while a rare few will probably find something so interesting that they'd have to devote their eternity to.

Like a quote from one of my favourite webnovels ever " Eternal life isn't something that is entirely grand or unachievable but do you have an obsession or a goal so unreasonable only the length of an eternity will allow you to achieve" . It goes something like that but that isn't it but you get the gist. Only an outrageous goal can support an eternal being.

Me personally I'd like to travel across worlds, meet interesting people and document their stories. Yep I'd love to build a library full of the stories of people I'd meet throughout my eternal existence. The bookkeeper of civilizations.

What about you? What grand goal will keep you from killing yourself out of boredom.

 

[SailusGebel]

Milfs.

 

[So_Indecisive]

Milfs.

For millions of years, Milfs?

 

[ArchlordZero]

Mine would be the ever-so expanding collection of big tiddy hentai and porn collection in the internet that is bound to be bigger that the endlessly growing size of our universe after millions of years

 

[Obsoleteness]

What about you? What grand goal will keep you from killing yourself out of boredom.

Waiting for Half-Life 3

 

[Rhaps]

I had stare at a speck of dust for 4 hours straight. An eternity wouldn't make me bored.

 

[SailusGebel]

For millions of years, Milfs?

 

[Jerynboe]

The fun thing that these stories almost never take into account is attrition. Sure, an elf might potentially live for a thousand years but how many humans make it to 100? How many die from their own body breaking down on its own?
Sure, a lot of immortals have superpowers that make them harder to kill, but still. If they were slumming it on the lower floors of the titanic to save money, they probably died. Most immortals would kinda need to live fairly safe lives or they would eventually die to some tragic accident or another.
As to what I’d like to do? Probably study societies. Work and invest to save up ridiculous amounts of money, buy islands, and try different setups for how societies can operate. See what works. See what doesn’t. See how LONG they work, since an adult who opts into a society might be materially different than a child raised into it. (Source: tons of children of immigrants who hate the country they were raised in)
This is a pretty fucked up thing to do, especially with setups you don’t actually expect to work, but I also assume I’d get a bit weird by 500 years old.

 

[Obsoleteness]

The fun thing that these stories almost never take into account is attrition. Sure, an elf might potentially live for a thousand years but how many humans make it to 100? How many die from their own body breaking down on its own?
Sure, a lot of immortals have superpowers that make them harder to kill, but still. If they were slumming it on the lower floors of the titanic to save money, they probably died. Most immortals would kinda need to live fairly safe lives or they would eventually die to some tragic accident or another.
As to what I’d like to do? Probably study societies. Work and invest to save up ridiculous amounts of money, buy islands, and try different setups for how societies can operate. See what works. See what doesn’t. See how LONG they work, since an adult who opts into a society might be materially different than a child raised into it. (Source: tons of children of immigrants who hate the country they were raised in)
This is a pretty fucked up thing to do, especially with setups you don’t actually expect to work, but I also assume I’d get a bit weird by 500 years old.

Vault-Tec would like to know your location

 

[Prince_Azmiran_Myrian]

Living eternally alongside God will be amazing! What he's got planned is sure to be great.

 

[NotaNuffian]

The fun thing that these stories almost never take into account is attrition. Sure, an elf might potentially live for a thousand years but how many humans make it to 100? How many die from their own body breaking down on its own?
Sure, a lot of immortals have superpowers that make them harder to kill, but still. If they were slumming it on the lower floors of the titanic to save money, they probably died. Most immortals would kinda need to live fairly safe lives or they would eventually die to some tragic accident or another.
As to what I’d like to do? Probably study societies. Work and invest to save up ridiculous amounts of money, buy islands, and try different setups for how societies can operate. See what works. See what doesn’t. See how LONG they work, since an adult who opts into a society might be materially different than a child raised into it. (Source: tons of children of immigrants who hate the country they were raised in)
This is a pretty fucked up thing to do, especially with setups you don’t actually expect to work, but I also assume I’d get a bit weird by 500 years old.

If immortality is just longevity, then all it takes might just be a millenium for you to get killed by the most unlikely way possible, eg meteor strike.

I don't want immortality if I was to continue suffering IRL. It is the same with me not wanting powers, super or otherwise. I am inherently a bad person, lazy because restricted. If my immortality only covers my lifespan and no protection whatsoever, I will die by 100 to 150.

If I do have protection, I am probably going to turn the world into what AM did in I have no mouth and make its inhabitants into my sick plaything.

 

[SainS]

Would probably spend next couple hudnred years on trying to write/storytell better and keep at it past that too. But the real goal would be trying to uplift humanity to a point where others can achieve immortality via technology. It might take a thousand years. Maybe ten. Maybe million. But surely it's possible. And if it is, then I wouldn't be alone anymore.

 

[georgelee5786]

Collecting firearms and learning about machinery

 

[SsemouyOnan]

Defeating entropy so the universe can live eternally alongside me. Gonna make real-life magical girls on the side, totes has nothing to do with the last one.

 

[BearlyAlive]

That's the weird thing. Why only one choice? If I were to live forever I'd do whatever currently tickles my fancy, then do something else

 

[ILOVENOVELver3]

Perhaps in the first few decades, I will satisfy all my personal interests. After that, I will try to show my greatness with the knowledge I have cultivated in every field from finance, art to sports,... Maybe I will immerse myself in the time That glorious period lasted from 200 to 300 years. Then, when I realize that those things will not last over time, I will start doing my best to help humanity become better until everything becomes nothing. I have always thought immortality was wonderful and will maintain that opinion. I don't think I'll ever be bored with the limitless wonderful things in this universe.

 

[TremendousHuman]

Collect souls for Hell across countless realities with very unfair contracts and be an amazing witch?

 

[Bartun]

Watch the end of One Piece.

 

[Don_Quacko]

I wonder how bad my procrastination will be.....

 

[LesserSarcasm]

You die, and meet this being, he tells you to go out and explore the universe dont worry bout time or quotas you have eternity after all, so you leave meet new races watch empires rise and fall, elevate and destroy races on a whim, eventually after a few billion years you grow bored and frustrated, you return to the being and tell him I can't take this anymore this is torture this is hell, to which the being replies where do you think you are now buzz off im busy.