The Immortal Snail
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The Immortal Snail
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What does the million dollars have to do with immortality?WanderingGaze22 wrote: ↑October 23rd, 2021, 3:02 am The Immortal Snail is a hypothetical thought meme that started gaining popularity in October 2021. The idea is you receive a million dollars and become immortal, unable to die or age. The catch is a mere snail also gets a million dollars and not only is it intelligent and immortal as you, but it will pursue you and it and it alone can end your immortal life by touching you. Should you choose to become immortal, how would to choose to live this life, unable to destroy the one force that can kill you? Would you want this cycle to end or try to outlast the universe itself? View the link below to get a better idea of what you may face?
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I think a million £s would mean I was able to buy a pretty good snail cage.WanderingGaze22 wrote: ↑October 23rd, 2021, 3:02 am The Immortal Snail is a hypothetical thought meme that started gaining popularity in October 2021. The idea is you receive a million dollars and become immortal, unable to die or age. The catch is a mere snail also gets a million dollars and not only is it intelligent and immortal as you, but it will pursue you and it and it alone can end your immortal life by touching you. Should you choose to become immortal, how would to choose to live this life, unable to destroy the one force that can kill you? Would you want this cycle to end or try to outlast the universe itself? View the link below to get a better idea of what you may face?
Even an intelligent snail has no limbs, and no legal rights.
If I was really paranoid I could surround my sleeping quarters with poweders glass and salt.
INside the ring of protection I would have several beer traps. No snail can resist them.
And whenever I wanted to end life I'd just eat the snail.
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That is how the experiment goes and the way I see it, a million dollars is more than enough to either live to decades off the grid or invest for more money eventually.LuckyR wrote: ↑October 23rd, 2021, 3:14 amWhat does the million dollars have to do with immortality?WanderingGaze22 wrote: ↑October 23rd, 2021, 3:02 am The Immortal Snail is a hypothetical thought meme that started gaining popularity in October 2021. The idea is you receive a million dollars and become immortal, unable to die or age. The catch is a mere snail also gets a million dollars and not only is it intelligent and immortal as you, but it will pursue you and it and it alone can end your immortal life by touching you. Should you choose to become immortal, how would to choose to live this life, unable to destroy the one force that can kill you? Would you want this cycle to end or try to outlast the universe itself? View the link below to get a better idea of what you may face?
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Interesting tactic, what would you wish to leave behind.Sculptor1 wrote: ↑October 23rd, 2021, 1:30 pmI think a million £s would mean I was able to buy a pretty good snail cage.WanderingGaze22 wrote: ↑October 23rd, 2021, 3:02 am The Immortal Snail is a hypothetical thought meme that started gaining popularity in October 2021. The idea is you receive a million dollars and become immortal, unable to die or age. The catch is a mere snail also gets a million dollars and not only is it intelligent and immortal as you, but it will pursue you and it and it alone can end your immortal life by touching you. Should you choose to become immortal, how would to choose to live this life, unable to destroy the one force that can kill you? Would you want this cycle to end or try to outlast the universe itself? View the link below to get a better idea of what you may face?
Even an intelligent snail has no limbs, and no legal rights.
If I was really paranoid I could surround my sleeping quarters with poweders glass and salt.
INside the ring of protection I would have several beer traps. No snail can resist them.
And whenever I wanted to end life I'd just eat the snail.
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Sounds like soon enough, that cycle will prove to be less the fruitful within ten years.
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I would see the logic and understand the speedy futility, but all the marks you leave behind could end up being meaningful if you stuck around long enough.Tegularius wrote: ↑October 23rd, 2021, 7:26 pm Being immortal with only a million bucks would cause me to be homeless long before the snail catches me which would probably be the better option just prior to having spent a million.
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Because the snail is time, eh?Sy Borg wrote:In time, the snail will get us all.
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What do you mean "leave behind"?WanderingGaze22 wrote: ↑October 24th, 2021, 3:25 amInteresting tactic, what would you wish to leave behind.Sculptor1 wrote: ↑October 23rd, 2021, 1:30 pmI think a million £s would mean I was able to buy a pretty good snail cage.WanderingGaze22 wrote: ↑October 23rd, 2021, 3:02 am The Immortal Snail is a hypothetical thought meme that started gaining popularity in October 2021. The idea is you receive a million dollars and become immortal, unable to die or age. The catch is a mere snail also gets a million dollars and not only is it intelligent and immortal as you, but it will pursue you and it and it alone can end your immortal life by touching you. Should you choose to become immortal, how would to choose to live this life, unable to destroy the one force that can kill you? Would you want this cycle to end or try to outlast the universe itself? View the link below to get a better idea of what you may face?
Even an intelligent snail has no limbs, and no legal rights.
If I was really paranoid I could surround my sleeping quarters with poweders glass and salt.
INside the ring of protection I would have several beer traps. No snail can resist them.
And whenever I wanted to end life I'd just eat the snail.
I'd not swallow the shell. Is that what you mean?
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