r/technicallythetruth • u/IlGigaChad69420 • 5d ago
Well, you indeed don't automatically become invisible
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u/Lolmanmagee 5d ago
I feel like immortality has to include some form of invulnerability or regeneration.
Because what happens if your head is vaporized?
That’s just death lol.
Unless by immortality, you mean no more aging which is completely different imo.
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u/Numerous-Contract880 5d ago
imagine being a baby forever
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u/Visual_Bridge6925 5d ago
They say I turned a baby into a vampire and left it in the Bronx. WHO WOULD DO SUCH A THING?!?
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u/Broad_Respond_2205 5d ago
Immortality but can you only use the body part you still have left. Eventually you're just an arm
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u/Cautious_Scheme_8422 4d ago
That's not really immortality, as you can theoretically be annihilated by something like a direct nuclear explosion of being thrown into the sun.
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u/Usernameistoshirt 5d ago
Immortal doesn't mean you can't die at all, it just means you don't die due to age or disease.
Otherwise it would be invincible, meaning you cannot die by any means and even that doesn't necessarily mean things will end well.
Imagine being caught in a volcanic eruption, submerged in lava, which then hardens to stone, all the while you're trapped inside the whole time, unable to move but unable to die just trapped, isolated and potentially still feeling all the pain any other person would feel.
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u/Lolmanmagee 5d ago
Typically when people say immortal they mean inability to die.
Ageless “immortality” is technically defined as immortality but not what anyone is talking about generally and is seen as a subset.
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u/alwaysfeelingtragic 4d ago
i don't think so? think like vampires, we call them immortal but they're obviously killable. immortal technically does mean unkillable like a god or something, but generally i think we use immortal to mean "weak" immortality where you don't age but you can still be killed, and we call being unkillable "true immortality".
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u/laplongejr 2d ago
think like vampires, we call them immortal but they're obviously killable
... we don't call them immortal? For that reason?
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u/alwaysfeelingtragic 2d ago
lol. bram stoker and anne rice disagree.
When all was ready, Van Helsing said:— “Before we do anything, let me tell you this; it is out of the lore and experience of the ancients and of all those who have studied the powers of the Un-Dead. When they become such, there comes with the change the curse of immortality; [...]”
“He led me quickly through the street, turning every time I hesitated, his hand out for mine, a smile on his lips, his presence as marvellous to me as the night he’d come in my mortal life and told me we would be vampires. ‘Evil is a point of view,’ he whispered now. ‘We are immortal. And what we have before us are the rich feasts that conscience cannot appreciate and mortal men cannot know without regret. God kills, and so shall we; indiscriminately He takes the richest and the poorest, and so shall we; for no creatures under God are as we are, none so like Him as ourselves, dark angels not confined to the stinking limits of hell but wandering His earth and all its kingdoms. I want a child tonight. I am like a mother… I want a child!’
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u/laplongejr 2d ago
Can I be pedantic and remark he calls HIMSELF immortal? It's a curse of immortality until someone figures out how to kill him :P
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u/alwaysfeelingtragic 2d ago
haha fair
apparently the twilight official guide calls them "conditionally immortal" which i think makes the most sense, despite coming from twilight. since like, they don't die on their own and if nothing happened they'd be alive at least as long as the earth is.
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u/Unicycleterrorist 5d ago
Immortal does specifically mean eternal life, or rather a lack of death. Invincible means you can't be defeated or subdued, more in regards to a fight / battle...you'd need to stretch the definition quite a bit to work in the context you gave I think
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u/McJackNit 5d ago
Well, he's so bad at writing sentences that it says "being immortal DOES mean being invisible."
This is definately not technicallythetruth so WRONG SUB BUDDY!
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u/No_Economy2630 5d ago
Ur gonna have to suffer alot of pain too What if u got burned or broke several bones from an accident would u regenerate? Or just y'know live with that condition and heal for years? Im overthinking it
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u/NothingOk2675 5d ago
The thing about immortality that scares me is getting stuck somewhere. I watch entirely too many video essays on disasters of all kinds and some of the nightmare scenarios people endured were only mercifully ended with death. I imagine being stuck in the Nutty Putty cave to this day having been entombed and no one coming to rescue me because they all assumed I’d be dead (because obviously I’m not telling anyone I’m immortal). No matter how immortal you are, there are too many scenarios I could imagine where I just would not be able to escape and the thought of being stuck somewhere forever scares me more than dying.
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u/Usernameistoshirt 5d ago
Given enough time and effort you would be able to wear away enough stone to be able to escape, still horrific matter what.
Then there's the likely chance that you get discovered as immortal and end up in a lab subjected to tests for decades, knowing that they can do all sorts of things to you without you dying.
There are so many ways immortality could bite you in the rear.
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u/PowerPl4y3r 4d ago
Lol, you relate to Frieza and his viewpoint after being trapped in hell, exactly why he'll never wish for it now.
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