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by katzgrau 2067 days ago
Existing as a human forever would suck, but I'm sure an eternal being could find other ways to keep himself occupied.
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This. I hope being human is merely something we’re doing to experience human existence as one of many options.
It would be weird after a trillion years when your human life was just a tiny sliver of your whole life.

I can't handle that thought any more or less than the thought that I'll die - As a cartoon dog said, I just distract myself with pointless stuff, it seems to work.

Not to get too esoteric, but at some point a trillion years is meaningless. Nothing really matters or doesn't matter - it's how you want to look at it. And distracting yourself with pointless stuff is totally valid. In fact, it's probably what we're all doing in one way or the other.