This song by Marina and the diamonds got me thinking. In the song she chooses yes. I think I would too.
well… yeah… like elven immortality of just never getting sick or aging… or like… indestructible immortality where I could just run around beating up criminals and eliminating the foulness of the world with no danger to myself…
really I’d chose either… more in an effort to allow myself to learn everything I can…
I’m also content with mortality.
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yeah I would, have spent a lot of time thinking about this and the answer is yes.
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the bones are a shell of a mortal life,
shed from the spirit like the finest mussel meat,
and that substance that made us whole
is given to other life.
My roommate and I want to be like the couple in “only lovers left alive” (most romantic movie ever made, if you’re unfamiliar with it). It’s about two vampires who have been in love for hundreds of years, and what to live for when you just keep living.
I don’t know that I could stand to be immortal. But I would like to live as long as I like in relative good health, and then leave when I’m ready.
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I wouldn’t want to in my present state of being, but if I somehow transcended myself I would.
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Cool @Rhubot, I read the series of Twilight, cuz my daughter was so into it.
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The very young and the very old struggle being required to be in our bodies. The baby girl in the song is obviously finding it work. Immortal would be finding a total cure for all injuries and ills that befall us on Earth. Some people believe this can be done. Meanwhile, I believe in reincarnation. Both ends of life are the most difficult.
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Same, if I could stop living when I had seen enough, then yes I could see being immortal as being a good thing.
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Billy Collins writes about he and his wife getting into routine every day,
but not seeking meaning!!
I want to tell him all life will be stripped and then what we couldn’t do,
union or power or fulfillment is revealed before our eyes,
in something we were dying for then died for and found.
I remember reading tuck everlasting in fifth grade
hmm, I read The Lottery Rose, or most of it, can’t remember if I finished it. But did Box Car Children.
Can’t remember if I read that one or not but I remember it
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But did Box Car Children.
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How so, Jon? just curious about that book.
Tuck Everlasting is an American children’s novel written by Natalie Babbitt and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 1975. It explores the concept of immortality, which might not be as desirable as it may appear to be. Wikipedia
I remember asking the teacher “what if they got their heads chopped off, would they still be alive?”
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Yeah, but just for three days.
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I agree with wonderdunk. I have read the Inner Chapters of Chuang Tzu and he said to look beyond right and wrong and to dwell in the infinite Dao. Once we return to God, the source of all life, we receive immortality or actually were immortal. Christ said he knew us before we were born. People worried about leading a legalistic life are only fooling themselves.It is through love and the quest for understanding through spiritual truth. Every spirit and beings live forever and all of us are manifestations of parts of God.
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