by Centurii-chan

  • Croquette@sh.itjust.works
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    9 hours ago

    Drag is right that we don’t love a million individuals at the same.time, but over the course of immortality, it is not that much people.

    Does Drag thinks that after 10-12 60 worlds dying, Drag would probably change how relationships are perceived? And this is what I am trying to clumsily convey. All of our thoughts are framed with urgency. But if the urgency isn’t there, is it far fetched to think that the frame is bound to change?

    I want to say that I understand what Drag is saying, but I am offering a differing point of view. And to be honest, 10 years ago I would have chosen immortality in a heartbeat. Not so much now that I’ve (mostly) came to term with my mortality and I am much more afraid of immortality than of mortality.

    • Dragon Rider (drag)@lemmy.nz
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      9 hours ago

      The relationship is still framed with urgency, because you know that one day your partner is going to die. Drag thinks that would make an immortal being love hard and fast.

      • Croquette@sh.itjust.works
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        9 hours ago

        I get what Drag is saying and I agree with that, but my nuance is that over time, that urgency would disappear. After a thousand heart break, eventually it becomes normality.

        • Dragon Rider (drag)@lemmy.nz
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          Drag thinks that’s like saying after eating a thousand meals, food would stop tasting good. Drag has had many thousands of meals throughout drag’s life. They’re far apart enough that drag is usually hungry by the time the next one comes along. Drag’s sense of hunger keeps on returning, day after day, because hunger is a biological function that’s designed to work that way. Drag thinks love would keep coming back, again and again, for the same reason.