May / June 100 Word Anonymous Challenge Discussion

Version 2.0 - some forms of immortality have quite a short shelf life.

Pandemic - a true immortal might view our brief lives as unimportant.

Battle on the Mountain - humanity needs rescuing from immortals.

My Fellow Immortals. - immortal does not mean wise.
 
Apart from the excellent quality of writing we have on offer this challenge, the ideas about immortality that have been brought up have certainly got me thinking. I'd love to live forever IF I... wouldn't grow old or sick... had friends and family with me...witnessed an ecological revival...had a good standard of living...could remember the past...
We humans don't demand much. :whistle:
But would you want to commit to never having children? There will be no room for the following generations if none of us ever die.

if you weren’t prepared to give up parenthood, I suppose you could try to kill everyone who isn’t a family member or friend (before they become immortal, of course!) and make room for your descendants that way. It’s a tried and tested method, very popular with invaders. Or if they were already immortal you could nail them into boxes, stack them in a giant space ship and shoot them into the Sun. That might involve a substantial amount of deforestation, of course, but it would cause less pollution than if you cremated them all here, on Earth. If you just pointed their ship at the stars and told them to find another world they might come back to wreak their revenge at a later date, so it’s probably wise to be ‘cruel to be kind’ under the circumstances.

I’m reminded of a Star Trek episode where Captain Kirk is kidnapped and locked in a room with a beautiful woman. Unfortunately, all she wants from him is the Venusian Swine Fever (or some such disease) which almost killed him as a child, so that she can give the people on her terminally over-crowded planet the gift of death.
 
Version 2.0: Being out of step with the times can have dire consequences.

Pandemic: To understand humanity, you have to consider the big picture.

Battle on the Mountain: Every ending requires a beginning.

My Fellow Immortals: Even the all-powerful suffer from common foibles.
 
But would you want to commit to never having children? There will be no room for the following generations if none of us ever die.

if you weren’t prepared to give up parenthood, I suppose you could try to kill everyone who isn’t a family member or friend (before they become immortal, of course!) and make room for your descendants that way. It’s a tried and tested method, very popular with invaders. Or if they were already immortal you could nail them into boxes, stack them in a giant space ship and shoot them into the Sun. That might involve a substantial amount of deforestation, of course, but it would cause less pollution than if you cremated them all here, on Earth. If you just pointed their ship at the stars and told them to find another world they might come back to wreak their revenge at a later date, so it’s probably wise to be ‘cruel to be kind’ under the circumstances.

I’m reminded of a Star Trek episode where Captain Kirk is kidnapped and locked in a room with a beautiful woman. Unfortunately, all she wants from him is the Venusian Swine Fever (or some such disease) which almost killed him as a child, so that she can give the people on her terminally over-crowded planet the gift of death.
Good point about the next generations. Personally, I'd made the choice to only raise the four legged variety, so I never think about that.
 
The Curse of Forever - ... is always to be alone in the crowd.

A child of his time - some kids are easier to ignore than others.
 
Good point about the next generations. Personally, I'd made the choice to only raise the four legged variety, so I never think about that.

I’ve heard people say they wanted children so they’d have someone to look after them when they were old. I guess an essential component of enjoyable immortality would be eternal youth. On the other hand, would people ever be allowed to retire? Imagine being in a dead-end job for eternity! Perhaps everyone would have to be allowed a turn at being their employer’s CEO and/or World President if society wanted to avoid repeated revolutions.
 
’ve heard people say they wanted children so they’d have someone to look after them when they were old. I guess an essential component of enjoyable immortality would be eternal youth. On the other hand, would people ever be allowed to retire? Imagine being in a dead-end job for eternity! Perhaps everyone would have to be allowed a turn at being their employer’s CEO and/or World President if society wanted to avoid repeated revolutions.
True. Someone has to do the 'crappy' jobs.
If humans became immortal, we wouldn't be human any more. The whole world would have to be set up so differently it would be impossible to imagine. Sort of like how people in the 1950s tried to view what the world would be like with computers.
Any wish I would have to be immortal would be to satisfy my curiosity of what the future has in store and that's about it. And we're not talking about the big picture here--mostly I'd like to see what my garden would look like 50 years from now :giggle:
Otherwise, I have no desire to live forever.
 
The problem with immortality is that it is forever. Even when other people are gone, food, water, the Earth itself then the galaxy and finally the universe. Until all that is left is you. Unless it comes with an 'off' switch , immortality is ultimately the worst thing that could happen to you.
 
The problem with immortality is that it is forever. Even when other people are gone, food, water, the Earth itself then the galaxy and finally the universe. Until all that is left is you. Unless it comes with an 'off' switch , immortality is ultimately the worst thing that could happen to you.
And yet we are, for the most part, terrified of dying... Perhaps the desire for immortality is really just a wish that we could somehow put off that last experience indefinitely.
 
The Creator - I suspect God hasn’t really thought this through, despite having omniscience.

Y2K - another rebel seeks to end their oppression and/or boredom.
 
Four Gods in Conversation - the collective noun for gods is ‘sulk’.

A Warm Tingle - we always think we know better than the person we’re taking over from.
 
In praise of the Naked Mole Rat - immortality through our offspring is the only kind which allows growth, change and improvements, but to make it work properly death due to old age is essential.
 
Always Make Sure it's a Head Shot: Sometimes a warning is as effective as punishment.

Small Talk Over Breakfast: It is difficult to empathize with those who are very different from us.

Near-forgotten gods: Those who need us make us feel real.
 

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