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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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(...) NORAD almost freaked at the triple Scud launch near Midnight, Moscow time, that was taken as a nuke launch at first--turns out they were just sending some Happy New Year missiles to Chechnya. :( Stupid gits. (Not Russians in general, just (...) (27 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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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 (...) (27 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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