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Postby capt_weasle » 2010.07.09 (20:32)

I think it would be awesome to live as kind of a ghost/spirit who is able to control time and travel indefinitely. It would be interesting to venture back in time and see historical events happening as they did, see how the universe was created, see if life existed in different galaxies, or perhaps just follow someone you knew around and see what they were up to when you weren't there. It would be even better to be able to split time and see what would happen if, say, you had asked that one girl out in the tenth grade, or perhaps what would have happened if you hadn't gone out driving drunk and gotten yourself killed. It would be interesting to see where life would have taken you if you were still alive. To be able to see what the future holds and what the past held secret would be incredible. I could just say being omniscient would be fine, but fuck that. I want to find out for myself, not just suddenly know everything. Also, your memory is infinite so you don't forget things.

Or perhaps if I could interact with the world as a spirit, I would just insult everyone in the universe. Alphabetically.
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Postby SlappyMcGee » 2010.07.09 (20:43)

I think it would be awesome if we never died, or at least, never perceived death as such. Essentially, everyone of us would be living in a reality where we become the oldest person alive.
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Postby a happy song » 2010.07.09 (20:52)

Some kind of transcendence with an awareness at first, but perhaps one that fades after a time. I can't think of anything worse than being /aware/ of living forever, but the actual concept itself would be wonderful.
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Postby T3chno » 2010.07.09 (21:29)

I never liked the thought of being incredibly old and living forever. If I wanted to live forever, I'd prefer to be in a physical state, say, similar to someone in their 20s.
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Postby smartalco » 2010.07.09 (23:26)

I want to end up in a pool full of spaghetti.
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Postby Amadeus » 2010.07.09 (23:46)

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Postby otters~1 » 2010.07.10 (02:43)

capt_weasle wrote:Or perhaps if I could interact with the world as a spirit, I would just insult everyone in the universe. Alphabetically.
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Postby OneSevenNine » 2010.07.10 (04:28)

Every time you die, you wake up somewhere else and figure it was all a dream.
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Postby t̷s͢uk̕a͡t͜ư » 2010.07.10 (06:29)

I've thought it'd be cool to wake up and realize that I'm some transcendent being who chose to experience what my life amounted to, and then maybe grab a snack before diving back in again as a different human.
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Postby otters~1 » 2010.07.10 (20:00)

OneSevenNine wrote:Every time you die, you wake up somewhere else and figure it was all a dream.
I wouldn't like this. You don't get any perception of the length of your "life" that way. Suki's is better.
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Postby OneSevenNine » 2010.07.10 (22:57)

SBD wrote:
OneSevenNine wrote:Every time you die, you wake up somewhere else and figure it was all a dream.
I wouldn't like this. You don't get any perception of the length of your "life" that way. Suki's is better.
Wow, that is better.

Though that would imply that anyone undergoing suffering wanted it when they were in their transcendent form. Aargh, I'm too tired to philosophize right now.
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Postby Pheidippides » 2010.07.11 (02:48)

Inspired wrote:
smartalco wrote:I want to end up in a pool full of spaghetti.
I wonder if living an after-life in a pool of spaghetti would be a fun way to PASTA time away.
Now that's using my noodle.
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On-topic, I wouldn't wanna be alone like most of you seem to be suggesting. It'd be sick if I could meet people who had been dead long before I was born. And, of course, people I actually knew when I was alive. Heck, even people who were born after /I/ died.
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Postby Universezero » 2010.07.11 (03:38)

Pheidippides wrote:On-topic, I wouldn't wanna be alone like most of you seem to be suggesting. It'd be sick if I could meet people who had been dead long before I was born. And, of course, people I actually knew when I was alive. Heck, even people who were born after /I/ died.
I agree; that would be totally awesome.

I also think it would be cool if I could have Suki's idea, but I could become a new person at any time in history.
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Postby OneSevenNine » 2010.07.11 (04:07)

Universezero wrote:
Pheidippides wrote:On-topic, I wouldn't wanna be alone like most of you seem to be suggesting. It'd be sick if I could meet people who had been dead long before I was born. And, of course, people I actually knew when I was alive. Heck, even people who were born after /I/ died.
I agree; that would be totally awesome.

I also think it would be cool if I could have Suki's idea, but I could become a new person at any time in history.
If you could meet everyone who'd died before you in the afterlife, then everyone who's famous and dead would be subjected to an eternity of nervous, awkward handshakes and/or "I'm such a fan!"s. At least until civilization is wiped out or something and everyone alive forgets who they are.
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Postby 乳头的早餐谷物 » 2010.07.11 (04:55)

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Universezero wrote:
Pheidippides wrote:On-topic, I wouldn't wanna be alone like most of you seem to be suggesting. It'd be sick if I could meet people who had been dead long before I was born. And, of course, people I actually knew when I was alive. Heck, even people who were born after /I/ died.
I agree; that would be totally awesome.

I also think it would be cool if I could have Suki's idea, but I could become a new person at any time in history.
If you could meet everyone who'd died before you in the afterlife, then everyone who's famous and dead would be subjected to an eternity of nervous, awkward handshakes and/or "I'm such a fan!"s. At least until civilization is wiped out or something and everyone alive forgets who they are.
I guess that's Celebrity Hell.
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Postby origami_alligator » 2010.07.11 (11:41)

SlappyMcGee wrote:I think it would be awesome if we never died, or at least, never perceived death as such. Essentially, everyone of us would be living in a reality where we become the oldest person alive.
I've often thought this too. My only hope is that when I am dying my brain is overloaded with DMT so that I believe I have lived many hundreds of thousands of years longer.

If there is an afterlife, I'd like it to be a place where a giant database exists and one could query the database to discover all sorts of statistical information.
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Postby otters~1 » 2010.07.11 (13:18)

OneSevenNine wrote:
SBD wrote:
OneSevenNine wrote:Every time you die, you wake up somewhere else and figure it was all a dream.
I wouldn't like this. You don't get any perception of the length of your "life" that way. Suki's is better.
Wow, that is better.

Though that would imply that anyone undergoing suffering wanted it when they were in their transcendent form. Aargh, I'm too tired to philosophize right now.
Part of the bargain, I suppose.
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Postby enespanol4268 » 2010.07.11 (18:37)

southpaw wrote:If there is an afterlife, I'd like it to be a place where a giant database exists and one could query the database to discover all sorts of statistical information.
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Postby Sunset » 2010.07.11 (18:55)

my ideal afterlife is just... when you die, you die. your soul goes where it wants to go.

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Postby Donfuy » 2010.07.12 (02:22)

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Postby NachoCheese » 2010.07.12 (07:20)

My afterlife? Well...

The second I died, NReality_v6d4, in all it's awesomeness, would pop up. I would open "Play Game" , and every single level would be unlocked. I would open a level, and chainguns would run in fear, mines explode on the spot, and rockets would freeze in mid air! I would jump to the roof, and go through it into a whole new level. Greedy drones as far as the eye can see. Flow sequence after flow sequence. You. Are. N. God.

You call yourselves dedicated N Players >->

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But seriously? I would probably want to be reincarnated as some sort of virus, spreading through all, infecting the population, and implant myself into the people.Wouldn't that be swell? And when they found a cure, I would come back bigger and better. And when I had had enough of it all, I would go to southpaw's idea of an afterlife. Yeah. :)

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Postby origami_alligator » 2010.07.12 (07:38)

NachoCheese wrote:But seriously? I would probably want to be reincarnated as some sort of virus, spreading through all, infecting the population, and implant myself into the people.Wouldn't that be swell? And when they found a cure, I would come back bigger and better. And when I had had enough of it all, I would go to southpaw's idea of an afterlife. Yeah. :)
Then you could ask the database how many people you infected and/or killed over a specific timeline by country by ethnicity!
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Postby t̷s͢uk̕a͡t͜ư » 2010.07.12 (08:51)

NachoCheese wrote:But seriously? I would probably want to be reincarnated as some sort of virus, spreading through all, infecting the population, and implant myself into the people.Wouldn't that be swell? And when they found a cure, I would come back bigger and better. And when I had had enough of it all, I would go to southpaw's idea of an afterlife. Yeah. :)
A virus infecting a community, eh? If your ISP provides you with a dynamic IP, I'd say you seem to be living the dream now.
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Postby yungerkid » 2010.07.13 (00:53)

I've thought it'd be cool to wake up and realize that I'm some transcendent being who chose to experience what my life amounted to, and then maybe grab a snack before diving back in again as a different human.
Along these lines, I think it would be cool if I had lived in a previous life, become immortal and all-powerful in that life, somehow, but then decided to create a new universe, and start a new, mortal, limited life, with no knowledge of the previous one (because immortality and complete power would get old), in that universe. And maybe after I die, I would automatically revert to this previous being, once again at a milestone, able to think back over the previous life, able to do it again, able to decide how future lives would turn out, able to create anything. I think that would be fun.

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Postby capt_weasle » 2010.07.13 (05:38)

Tsukatu wrote:I've thought it'd be cool to wake up and realize that I'm some transcendent being who chose to experience what my life amounted to, and then maybe grab a snack before diving back in again as a different human.
Something along those lines.
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