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Coulpe of things I was wondering.

Firstly - when I was asked the question ''If you could live forever, where would you live?'' I replied ''in my own head'', but I was wondering about you guys and gals on the board...where would you live?

Secondly - If you're an atheist (as I am) how could you be under oath in a courtroom as you have to swear on a bible which would be something you dont believe in?

Thirdly - Do people who say ''never say never'' realise they have said it twice?

The Great Unbearded One wrote:Coulpe of things I was wondering.

Firstly - when I was asked the question ''If you could live forever, where would you live?'' I replied ''in my own head'', but I was wondering about you guys and gals on the board...where would you live?

In a world of my own design, full of tall, busty women and videogames. Every man's dream, really.

The Great Unbearded One wrote:Secondly - If you're an atheist (as I am) how could you be under oath in a courtroom as you have to swear on a bible which would be something you dont believe in?

This is one of the most blatant violations of separation of church and state that exists here, but nobody realizes it because of the sheer amount of Judeo-Christians in America. However, I believe you can choose to swear on the Constitution instead.

The Great Unbearded One wrote:Thirdly - Do people who say ''never say never'' realise they have said it twice?

Good point...

The Great Unbearded One wrote:Coulpe of things I was wondering.

Firstly - when I was asked the question ''If you could live forever, where would you live?'' I replied ''in my own head'', but I was wondering about you guys and gals on the board...where would you live?

I answered a very similar question in the Living forever thread. (The entire purpose is more or less to keep me from getting bored.) My response is as follows.

My favorite version of the afterlife would be actually like a between-life, which I suppose you'd might have an idea if you read the 'Homer' segments in the comic strip Non Sequitur, although this particular idea I simply kept around in my mind for years without any particular source that I know of.

In general, you live life as it is, then when you die, you have a free-floating spirit of sorts. You then get to choose how and who you would be reincarnated as, then live out that live however you please, although to prevent boredom you can choose to start from stratch, knowledge-wise. The spirit-form of course will retain knowledge of all the 'lives' lived. If you wish, you and a group of your friends can agree to make a world with it's own set of rules, cultures, geography, and open it to other people while retaining god-like powers. You can also choose a 'plotline' for a life that you live, and even choose to make important 'people' in your life that can actually be 'promoted' to a real person.

Of course, this sounds suspiciously like an RPG instead of an afterlife/life... which I suppose shouldn't be too suprising.

The Great Unbearded One wrote:Secondly - If you're an atheist (as I am) how could you be under oath in a courtroom as you have to swear on a bible which would be something you dont believe in?

See Dalton's Response. At the moment, I would consider swearing on a bag of Doritos just as valid.

The Great Unbearded One wrote:Thirdly - Do people who say ''never say never'' realise they have said it twice?

It's meant to be deliberately ironic, I think.

The Great Unbearded One wrote:Coulpe of things I was wondering.

Firstly - when I was asked the question ''If you could live forever, where would you live?'' I replied ''in my own head'', but I was wondering about you guys and gals on the board...where would you live?

more than one place, but i´d start with amsterdam

Secondly - If you're an atheist (as I am) how could you be under oath in a courtroom as you have to swear on a bible which would be something you dont believe in?

where i come from you can swear on god but you don´t have to.

Thirdly - Do people who say ''never say never'' realise they have said it twice?

probably.

So, what if you don't believe in the Constitution? Why the fuck do you have to swear on anything?

The Great Unbearded One wrote:Coulpe of things I was wondering.

Firstly - when I was asked the question ''If you could live forever, where would you live?'' I replied ''in my own head'', but I was wondering about you guys and gals on the board...where would you live?

In an orgy.

Secondly - If you're an atheist (as I am) how could you be under oath in a courtroom as you have to swear on a bible which would be something you dont believe in?

I'm not under oath. If I ever lie in court and they catch it, I have my defense.

Thirdly - Do people who say ''never say never'' realise they have said it twice?

Never.

Cyborg Stan wrote:

The Great Unbearded One wrote:Coulpe of things I was wondering.

Firstly - when I was asked the question ''If you could live forever, where would you live?'' I replied ''in my own head'', but I was wondering about you guys and gals on the board...where would you live?

I answered a very similar question in the Living forever thread. (The entire purpose is more or less to keep me from getting bored.) My response is as follows.

My favorite version of the afterlife...

But for an afterlife you'd have to be dead, in which case you wouldnt be living forever you'd be dead and therefore have no choice...and re-incarnation still doesnt allow you to live forever, well not in the sense I took the question to be. When someone said 'if you could live forever' I assumed, and I believe I'm right in assuming this, that it was in my own body at this time for the..well..forever.

The Great Unbearded One wrote:But for an afterlife you'd have to be dead, in which case you wouldnt be living forever you'd be dead and therefore have no choice...and re-incarnation still doesnt allow you to live forever, well not in the sense I took the question to be. When someone said 'if you could live forever' I assumed, and I believe I'm right in assuming this, that it was in my own body at this time for the..well..forever.

Well, it was an unaltered version of what I posted eariler..... a cut and paste job. However, it doesn't require that much modification. In this 'living forever' part, I simply used a continiuty of the mind rather that of a body, since if the body still could age, you would eventually turn into a glorified fungus-like thing. Besides, you're still you in-between lives.

If you really wish to get nit-picky, imagine it's a complex body-modification and memory manipulation run by otherwise undectable nanomachines. It's certainly more realistic than living forever in any case.

Cyborg Stan wrote:

The Great Unbearded One wrote:But for an afterlife you'd have to be dead, in which case you wouldnt be living forever you'd be dead and therefore have no choice...and re-incarnation still doesnt allow you to live forever, well not in the sense I took the question to be. When someone said 'if you could live forever' I assumed, and I believe I'm right in assuming this, that it was in my own body at this time for the..well..forever.

Well, it was an unaltered version of what I posted eariler..... a cut and paste job. However, it doesn't require that much modification. In this 'living forever' part, I simply used a continiuty of the mind rather that of a body, since if the body still could age, you would eventually turn into a glorified fungus-like thing. Besides, you're still you in-between lives.

If you really wish to get nit-picky, imagine it's a complex body-modification and memory manipulation run by otherwise undectable nanomachines. It's certainly more realistic than living forever in any case.

Oh dear...

The Great Unbearded One wrote:Coulpe of things I was wondering.

Firstly - when I was asked the question ''If you could live forever, where would you live?'' I replied ''in my own head'', but I was wondering about you guys and gals on the board...where would you live?

Wherever I damn well please.

Secondly - If you're an atheist (as I am) how could you be under oath in a courtroom as you have to swear on a bible which would be something you dont believe in?

If you lie on the witness stand, you get sent to jail. The Bible ritual is just a formality left over from the days when Christians beleived God would smite them if they lied.

Thirdly - Do people who say ''never say never'' realise they have said it twice?

Just like the kids at school who would say "Ain't ain't a word."

The Great Unbearded One wrote: Thirdly - Do people who say ''never say never'' realise they have said it twice?

The first never is being being used as "do not".

The second never is being used as "never say [this specific thing] won't happen"

Unless you degenerate into literal semantics, the expresion isn't contradicting itself: by saying it, you're not doing what you're saying not to do.

Firstly - when I was asked the question ''If you could live forever, where would you live?'' I replied ''in my own head'', but I was wondering about you guys and gals on the board...where would you live?

I'd like to travel. Of course Dalton's suggestion has it's merits. I'd need a wider selection of women, and of course they'd all have to be constantly horny over me.

Secondly - If you're an atheist (as I am) how could you be under oath in a courtroom as you have to swear on a bible which would be something you dont believe in?

I've been to court a number of times as a witness, they never made me swear on the bible. It was just a plain old oath without any reference to God at all.

Thirdly - Do people who say ''never say never'' realise they have said it twice?

Probably.