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layout: post
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title: "Immortals go extinct"
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permalink: immortals-go-extinct/
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categories: life
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excerpt_separator: <!--more-->
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author: Mahdi
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We are all going to die, we all know that well.<br /><br /> Now I want to take
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you to a world of immortals where humans don't die, they live and live and live
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and... you know, live. From now on, pretend I'm a human on this world of
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immortals, I'm immortal bitches.
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 {% include caption.html text='There is
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no campfire because they don\'t need it' %}
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In this world, there is no excitement in jumping from a cliff or doing flips
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over walls or pretending to be a bird or even loving each other, in general,
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there is no excitement in any experience, because there is nothing to miss if I
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don't do that right now, I will always have another chance to do that again,
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even if that's going to be a thousand years from now, because you know, we're
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all good at waiting here.
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There is no technology and no fast transportation system here, because, hell,
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who gives a fuck about fast transportation systems.
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Who gives a shit about tools to harvest more food, or something you can write
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with, you can know about our meaningless past as much as you want, there are
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always people to tell you about that.
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Who cares if 2 + 2 = 4 or 5, I'm not going to die if the non-existing plane
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crashes because of an error, none of that is needed.
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We have an infinite amount of time to explore the globe, but we don't, because
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there is no fun in doing that, how is that, you might ask. Someone from your
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world told me I should explain it this way:
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> Simple mathematics we know says, in an infinite timespan, no other timespan is
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significant, basically, any number divided by infinity yields zero. Your
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neighbour could tell you about how he spent a thousand years exploring Earth,
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eating bugs and trying different methods to kill himself, and you could tell him
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he literally spent 0% of his life doing all that, same as you, who just stood
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there. > > 
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Now I don't understand much of that, but I had enough time, and nothing else to
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do, to repeat this to myself since he told me that until now.
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Here, in this world, we can't suicide, if that was an option, we know well that
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we would go extinct soon after finding out the fact that we are immortals, we
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really don't like this numb life.
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_Pooof_
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Alright I'm back. You see, we need death, we really do, without death our lives
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would be meaningless, we would have no purpose. Okay we would probably still
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[contribute to increase of entropy of the
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universe](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxTnqKuNygE), but that's not what we
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_want_ to be here for, we want a higher purpose in life, and it's death that
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gifts us this higher purpose.
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When I was a kid, I was told that in order to stay alive after death, you have
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to submit your name on this planet, and in this universe if possible. I know,
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that might sound ridiculous, but aren't we all fighting for the same thing, but
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in our own ways? Maybe you just want to be remembered between a specific group
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of people (and that's perfectly fine) or you might actually want to become a
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global role model, like Gandhi, Albert Einstein and people alike, it doesn't
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matter, what matters is, we all want to be remembered for what we've done in our
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way to the end.
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Immortals go extinct, but mortals find a mission to accomplish before the
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deadline. Be grateful for this gift of death.
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<!--It's not all about being famous, it's about being role model for a lot of
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people, there are lots of famous people and celebrities--> <!--that will be
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forgotten after a decade or two, but some people are remembered forever, either
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for doing very good or very bad to others,--> <!--I don't think Albert Einstein,
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Gandhi and Hitler will be forgotten in the near future (near as in thousand
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years).--> <!--They are global role models, we want to be like some of them and
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avoid being like others (okay, maybe not absolutely global, but you get it).-->
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