Comments on: who wants to live for ever…?

By: ricardo

ricardo — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:20:45 +0000

ok – I see what you mean. Makes sense… No need to shut up – I like such chat… and if I don’t want to talk I will simply remain silent :O)

By: Daniel Cardoso

Daniel Cardoso — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:02:59 +0000

It wasn’t just that part of the book, although it certainly relates to it: there was an ultimate boredom, an ultimate waiting gripping and holding the sartlar untill the very end. But the whole book I linked was about the difference (or lack thereof) between man and animal. Quite fitting for the sartlar.

This is me shutting up now!

By: ricardo

ricardo — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 10:01:40 +0000

ah, I’ve never watched that series – though I quite liked the films… hmmm… I’ve never considered ‘boredom’ with such intensity… I’m afraid I could only skim it… and this was not enough to see how it might be related to the sartlar… and though you may be distracting me a little, man does not live by writing alone… :O)

By: Daniel Cardoso

Daniel Cardoso — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 19:04:05 +0000

Sorry, by TV series and the context I meant, of course, The Highlander; which in Portuguese was called "Os Imortais". The thing is that boredom (l'ennui) is very much human, just because it is what reminds the human that s/he too is an animal, and thus it seems to me that boredom would be maybe the single most dangerous thing presented to an immortal being. I mean, let us turn to Christianism *gasp* - even God got bored and decided to play around with stuff. "Profound boredom, drifting here and there in the abysses of our existence like a muffling fog, removes all things and men and oneself along with it into a remarkable indifference. This boredom reveals being as a whole.", Martin Heidegger, from Wikipedia. Also, I invite you to skim through this, it is deeply interesting, and I kept thinking about it when reading about the sartlar. Yes, I do seem to distract you as of late, my apologies *grin*. Wouldn't want to have to wait longer for another one of your excellent books! :D

By: ricardo

ricardo — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 10:15:26 +0000

what TV series?? As for getting bored in “a thousand billion years” I have to smile :O) – the very notion that we could fathom the mental state of a being of such age?!?! I just can’t imagine that anything as ‘human’ as boredom could survive such a span of time…
For a human, it seems to me that immortality is terra incognita… as for resources… that’s another immense topic… and not for now – I HAVE to get some work done *grin*