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Re: Who James Isn't (was:Re: New Castle Sucks (so far...)
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On Wed, 29 Dec 1999 22:55:31 GMT, "Shiri" <shirid@hotmail.com> wrote:

Not to insult or something, but being immortal is much more than 200 years.
It's for eternity. If you can't grasp eternity, think 1 million years. (which
is nothing compared to eternity.)
Think of this - everybody you know dies. You meet new people, they die too.
You lose everyone you know (unless you happen to have an immortal friend.
You'd get tired of him/her after, say, 2000 years.)
You enjoy 200, 300, maybe 1000 years of extreme fun, then ponder the facts of
life for some 2000 years more.
What next?
You'll learn to play all music instruments, all languages, all arts...

You create a bit of universe, make a planet, seed it with nearly
intelligent simians, and toy with them for a few million years...

You watch them shoot nuclear explosion amounts of fireworks in the sky
one millennium..

Jasper (total fireworks among the 16 million inhabitants of .nl was ~6
_kilo_tons.)



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(...) Not to insult or something, but being immortal is much more than 200 years. It's for eternity. If you can't grasp eternity, think 1 million years. (which is nothing compared to eternity.) Think of this - everybody you know dies. You meet new (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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