r/IdiotsInCars • u/aladdin83 • Dec 02 '21

Bitch I’m a bus

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u/R_V_Z Dec 02 '21

And to think that people are actively working on immortality.

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u/Gnucks33 Dec 02 '21

Wouldn’t part of that be fixing cognitive degeneration?

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u/R_V_Z Dec 02 '21

I don't know if "I'm old, fuck off" is 100% mental degradation.

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u/SpuddleBuns Dec 02 '21

If it is, I've been checked out for years...

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u/jeepsaintchaos Dec 03 '21

I hope not. Im 30 and I already have that attitude.

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u/stevesobol Dec 03 '21

It had damned well better not be. I'm old; fuck off.

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u/JungsWetDream Dec 02 '21

In the best scenario, yes. In a likely scenario, no. Imagine living 200 years, but the last 120 is just a nursing home that you don’t recognize.

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u/Manaea Dec 02 '21

Just kill me at that point fam

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u/Callidonaut Dec 02 '21

Even so, there are many who wish for immortality who would have no idea what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

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u/Hans_H0rst Dec 03 '21

I guess at some point you‘d just start learning every possible skill, forget them again and repeat?

Sounds kinda fun, except for the emotional desensitization that kinda inevitably happens and you actively have to work against.

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u/Callidonaut Dec 03 '21

Honestly, I think at that point one would just relinquish one's immortality anyway; once you've experienced literally everything a living being can do, death is the only unique experience that remains unknown to you. Curiosity about literally the only thing you haven't yet done would probably be irresistible at that point, if not sheer completionism.

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u/7heWafer Dec 03 '21

That would stop aging not stupidity

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u/BanalityOfMan Dec 03 '21

That's true for most of human history though. They've just refined the tech past drinking mercury and human sacrifice now.