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I find people who say that living for millennia would be agonizingly boring to be a bit pathetic.
On some occasions I've told acquaintances that I'd like to have the lifespan and patience to subtly sculpt landscapes with nothing more than hand tools and patience - carve the start of a river, plant trees or cut them down *just so* to adjust wind patterns, and then sit back for a bit and let these subtle microclimate adjustments sculpt a mountain.
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@CoronaCoreanici The more I think about this, the more solidly convinced I am that the people who believe that either can't or won't see things outside of the context of contemporary society.
I mean if the apex of your life goals are like "Sightsee in Japan", that's not gonna carry indefinitely, but listen, I want to know the songs and the language of the universe. Like, _actually_ the universe.
It's not a exactly a small or a limited place. :3
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@Kyresti I can't blame them too much - just pity them. If you all you know is all you've personally physically seen, then your desires are very much circumscribed.
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@Kyresti @CoronaCoreanici Reminds me of a quote from the second Ringworld book: "That very moment, [Louis Wu] had sworn to live forever. How else could he see all the wonders of the Universe?"
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@CoronaCoreanici With a finite body and finite time I found great joy walking myself from New York City down to Raleigh. I would quite enjoy the time to walk anywhere, and back again.
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I mean, any idiot can do it with dynamite and backhoes, but it takes a lot of knowledge and patience to do it with a trowel and a watering can without doing it the hard way!
And that's just one thing one person without any experience can come up with!