The best thing is choice — Pfhorrest
And because dying removes choices -- you can't change your mind when you're dead — Pfhorrest
True.At the end of the day though it doesn't matter how long your life is, what you did in it or even that you existed at all, except for maybe the legacy you leave behind for everyone else (whose lives are equally meaningless). — darthbarracuda
The French term for boredom, ennui, is sometimes used in English as well, at least since 1778. The term ennui was first used "as a French word in English;" in the 1660s and it was "nativized by 1758".[7] The term ennui comes "from French ennui, from Old French enui "annoyance" (13c.), [a] back-formation from enoiier, anuier.[7] "The German word for "boredom" expresses this: Langeweile, a compound made of lange "long" and Weile "while", which is in line with the common perception that when one is bored, time passes "tortuously" slowly. — Wikipedia
What would such "transcendence" entail? What does a "god" do that's different in kind from what any 'immanent non-god' does (or must do)? — 180 Proof
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