Unfulfilled dreams

Jim North · Post by **Jim North** » Tue Jun 01, 2004 5:26 pm

I have two vegetarians in my family (an aunt and uncle), and they're both nice people, but . . . kind of flighty. The only vegetarian I really know personally outside my family is a complete moron, a braggart, and . . . well, that just about covers it. The only vegetarian I've really had any major contact with over the 'net was a militant, know-it-all asshole.

Fortunately, I don't believe in absolutes, so I know well enough that not all vegetarians are as psycho as these people. Or, at least, I would hope so.

Sortelli · Post by **Sortelli** » Tue Jun 01, 2004 7:17 pm

faub wrote:You're either very lucky or you understand the system well enough to make it work for you. Either way, congratulations. You're winning at life.

It's all luck. I'm enjoying it while I've got it, lest some cosmic accident make everything vanish. I sure as heck wouldn't know how to get it back.

Hank · Post by **Hank** » Tue Jun 01, 2004 7:21 pm

I guess somewhere deep down inside, I wish to posess a tenth of the sexiness that is Shirtless Bob.
That or I want an orange afro and my head levitating inches above my shoulders, sans neck.

SuperSnob · Post by **SuperSnob** » Tue Jun 01, 2004 7:28 pm

My best friend is a vegetarian. She's always making jokes about "dead animals". That's really all they are though. Jokes. She doesn't think I'm evil for eating meat or anything.

It would be really scary if my life was like my comic in any way. It'd be cool if I could fly though. Yeah...

RPin · Post by **RPin** » Wed Jun 02, 2004 4:08 am

Hank wrote:That or I want an orange afro and my head levitating inches above my shoulders, sans neck.

So you're jealous of me then?

RPin · Post by **RPin** » Wed Jun 02, 2004 4:12 am

mcDuffies wrote:
phactorri wrote:
RPin wrote:This is very interesting. The original idea I had planned for my character was to be a vegetarian pacifist and stuff... Then I realised I was making Alex like a little version of me, and then started the idea from scrap.
Your a vegitarian Pacifist as well RPin? now I don't feel so alone in the mighty 'space.
Hey, you can consider me vegeterian pacifist too, except that I eat meat and resort to violence, but in everything else I'm vegetarian pacifist!

We should all start a new NGO pro-carnivorous violencists! They have rights too you know!

Rkolter · Post by **Rkolter** » Wed Jun 02, 2004 5:41 am

My unfulfilled desires aren't in my comic. I don't want to be a ball of light employed by a sadistic artist.

Actually, I'd like to live forever. But not like the curses suggest - molded into stone, or skeletal and useless. I'd like to live forever, without deterioration or loss of functionality.

Think of all the things you could learn.

Ruxen · Post by **Ruxen** » Wed Jun 02, 2004 6:37 am

Wow, all this time I thought my true calling was to be a Mailbox (it's a long story don't ask), but I suppose deep down I do wish my life was a little more interesting like the life of my character in the comic, but many aspects of her life and the things I make her go through kind of put me off. So I'm not giving up on that Mailbox idea!

Warren · Post by **Warren** » Wed Jun 02, 2004 10:07 am

rkolter wrote:Actually, I'd like to live forever. But not like the curses suggest - molded into stone, or skeletal and useless. I'd like to live forever, without deterioration or loss of functionality.

Think of all the things you could learn.

And Vampires attract a serious class of babes!

Rkolter · Post by **Rkolter** » Wed Jun 02, 2004 11:50 am

Warren wrote:
rkolter wrote:Actually, I'd like to live forever. But not like the curses suggest - molded into stone, or skeletal and useless. I'd like to live forever, without deterioration or loss of functionality.

Think of all the things you could learn.
And Vampires attract a serious class of babes!

Nonono... Vampires fall under "skeletal" for being dead and "useless" for being unable to handle sunlight.

I just wanna be me. Alive, healthy, capable of all things a living human being is normally capable of, except I want to live forever.

Ruxen · Post by **Ruxen** » Wed Jun 02, 2004 11:57 am

rkolter wrote: Nonono... Vampires fall under "skeletal" for being dead and "useless" for being unable to handle sunlight.

I just wanna be me. Alive, healthy, capable of all things a living human being is normally capable of, except I want to live forever.

Why live forever if you have to come out at night with scary or drunk people right? I can see why you'd want to live forever but me personally I wouldn't want to stick around that long to see how low society sinks in oh 200 years from now.

Orion · Post by **Orion** » Wed Jun 02, 2004 12:06 pm

Well I sure don't plan on dying until I'm good and ready. And who cares what society will be like, when you live forever (or until you get bored with it in my case) you can just ignore them for the most part.

Ruxen · Post by **Ruxen** » Wed Jun 02, 2004 12:12 pm

Society can be difficult to ignore if everywhere you go you'll see someone doing something stupid, it's all around us and with human population multiplying with nature not being able to take care of it eventually you'll run out of places to go, unless you earn enough money (which you might) to buy yourself an island to live on, but then you won't learn that much and you'd be terribly bored on your own all the time. That's my take on it anyway, I'd rather die when my time comes. Scary deal living forever. By the way if you're going to have an endless life span would you want to be invincible too? That would be interesting, that way you'll last forever and no one can do anything about it neh?

Warren · Post by **Warren** » Wed Jun 02, 2004 12:15 pm

ruxen wrote:Society can be difficult to ignore if everywhere you go you'll see someone doing something stupid, it's all around us and with human population multiplying with nature not being able to take care of it eventually you'll run out of places to go, unless you earn enough money (which you might) to buy yourself an island to live on, but then you won't learn that much and you'd be terribly bored on your own all the time. That's my take on it anyway, I'd rather die when my time comes. Scary deal living forever. By the way if you're going to have an endless life span would you want to be invincible too? That would be interesting, that way you'll last forever and no one can do anything about it neh?

Eh. I'd probably end up getting sent to jail for life anyway.

Sortelli · Post by **Sortelli** » Wed Jun 02, 2004 6:21 pm

Strangely, and it may be because I'm still young, but I kinda agree with Ruxen. I think death makes life more important, in its strange way. If I lived forever, I'd want the option to pass on when I think I've done everything there is to do.

JPSloan · Post by **JPSloan** » Wed Jun 02, 2004 7:31 pm

Sortelli wrote:Strangely, and it may be because I'm still young, but I kinda agree with Ruxen. I think death makes life more important, in its strange way. If I lived forever, I'd want the option to pass on when I think I've done everything there is to do.

*cue the Queen music*

"Who wannnnts to liiiiive forehhhhhh-vuhhhhhh..... whooooaaahhh.... when love must die?"

Mr.Bob · Post by **Mr.Bob** » Thu Jun 03, 2004 12:50 am

There can be only one!

Warren · Post by **Warren** » Thu Jun 03, 2004 5:08 am

*beheads McDuffies*

Rkolter · Post by **Rkolter** » Thu Jun 03, 2004 6:24 am

Sortelli wrote:Strangely, and it may be because I'm still young, but I kinda agree with Ruxen. I think death makes life more important, in its strange way. If I lived forever, I'd want the option to pass on when I think I've done everything there is to do.

You see, I agree that the chance of dying makes living all that much more important. I just think that there are also things you could do and see if you could live forever, that would supplant death as a motivator.

JexKerome · Post by **JexKerome** » Thu Jun 03, 2004 10:57 pm

rkolter wrote:
Sortelli wrote:Strangely, and it may be because I'm still young, but I kinda agree with Ruxen. I think death makes life more important, in its strange way. If I lived forever, I'd want the option to pass on when I think I've done everything there is to do.
You see, I agree that the chance of dying makes living all that much more important. I just think that there are also things you could do and see if you could live forever, that would supplant death as a motivator.

Academic, since no one yet lives forever and that is too far off yet. I myself will only live to be 85. And most philosophers (and vampire book authors) agree that immortality would strip away your humanity, since you would lose empathy with humanity's eternal plight, death. Now, being far far FAR from perfect, I'd still rather keep my humanity that eventually turn into a cold, distant being. I simply don't believe it's worth it.