ash-mda wrote:You could still astral project, obe and travel the universe, couldn't you? Or is every immortal bound to his body unable to leave it? How would long lived beings survive if what you said is the case, they would become bored and numb too, right?
TOTALLY DEPENDS ON THE IMMORTALITY CURSE. SOME ARE CURSED TO THE EARTH WHICH MEANS THEY AREN'T GOING ANYWHERE OUTSIDE OF HERE.
IF YOU LIVED FOREVER, AS A HUMAN IMMORTAL, YOU'D BE BORED STIFF WITHIN 1,000 YEARS. IMMORTAL BEINGS WHO WERE CREATED AS IMMORTAL BEINGS ARE NOT HUMAN SO THEY DON'T HAVE THE SAME LIMITATIONS. YOU'RE NOT CURSED WITH IMMORTALITY & THEN SUDDENLY GET ALL THESE COOL, NEW POWERS. YOU'RE STUCK WITH WHO YOU ARE & HOW YOU ARE THE REST OF TIME, UNTIL THEY LET YOU OUT, OR UNTIL YOU SATISFY WHATEVER CONDITIONS WERE A PART OF YOUR CURSE.
Here's the other problem... if you are stuck on Earth forever... what happens when the Sun runs out of fuel, goes all Red Giant and swallows up the first three or four planets? You'd darn well BETTER be able to die then, or life would
really become too hideous to contemplate.
Also, the Andromeda galaxy is on a collision course with the Milky Way. The going theory is that while it's unlikely that any stars will actually hit other stars, the gravitiational craziness is likely to fling stars and planets out of their orbits. Let's say the Sun is still around and working fine when the galaxies meet up. (And pass through one another/merge -- the graphic on the Science channel was much more dramatic than I can describe). What if Earth gets flung off to kingdom come and has no more Sun? Who would want to be immortal and living on a sunless planet where no other life can exist, because everything's frozen solid? Geesh, I can't even tolerate the short Winter days without a bout of Seasonal Affective Disorder. I don't think I'd want to have NO Sun at all ever again.
And I don't think I'd want to be IN the Sun, either, should it run out of fuel before the galaxies meet up.