Good night sky!

Top have more doctor whooves

edited 20th Feb '12 6:31:37 PM by FallenLegend

Night Sky.

I'm going to sleep too.

Also, can Celestia have friends? I mean can she really be close to anyone?

You know the whole living for millennia having most folk ya know die yadda yadda.

edited 20th Feb '12 6:30:43 PM by Chadaman99

Goodnight, Sky.

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Someone ought to do a fanfic or something where the mane 6 plus the CMC are forced to play The Nonary Game.

Good night apple

wow what you are doing is hard and yet very very admirable.

I think she could be close to someone, even knowing she would outlive them. I personally feel that any immortal/long-lived/whatever individual who's not able to move past the fact that yes, people die isn't in the best emotional state anyway. You're essentially abandoning the world because you don't want to be reminded that death is a constant. Yes, I can see why some immortals might try to sequester themselves from it, but to limit your relations because you want to avoid grief seems awfully selfish to me.

'Night Apple!

edited 20th Feb '12 6:36:18 PM by Drenius

Even without imortality you get to suffer to loose people. But I think it would hit harder an immortal

@Mio, two pages back (regarding my comments on the game industry): Well, yes. I was just using it as an example because it's what I know. But the same principle drives animation as well, is my point. They need to do what the fan want.

The thing about Celestia being so perfect and needing flaws is that I think she's supposed to be perfect and kind of distant. For her to be developed is something I'm really not sure the writers are willing to do. Make her flawed and she's on the same level as everyone else.

Of course, by the time I finished catching up two pages had been added so people already said this.

I dunno. Don't you think it would hurt less after awhile? Once you've lost five hundred friends, is losing the five hundred and first going to hurt as much as the very first?

edited 20th Feb '12 6:39:06 PM by Arha

My best loved example of immortality is the fellow who made the bet with Death in The Sandman

But wouldn't that take it's toll on someone? Could you imagine the feeling that you're going to outlive everyone you know and love for the next 1000+ years?

The hardest part is pretending to still care

@ARHA to be honest I don't know much about immortality. But It would be very sad to lose any atahcment you had with the people

Yes, it can take a toll, but eventually I think any emotionally healthy person would come to terms with that fact and actually use that knowledge to form the closest, happiest relationships you could because otherwise, as I said, it's selfish to try to sequester yourself from the pain of loss. You owe it to those who will go before you to make their relationships meaningful, in other words.

Am I making sense here, or am I just nuts?

edited 20th Feb '12 6:44:15 PM by Drenius

Over the past few months, I've fallen into a pattern of being up until 4 or 5 in the morning, then sleeping 'til late afternoon.

My sleep schedule is now hopelessly messed-up. How messed-up? I only got a couple of hours of sleep Saturday night. This didn't deter me from staying up until 6 A.M. this (Monday) morning. I woke up two hours later and couldn't get back to sleep, so I got breakfast at Mc D's. I then went back to bed, and woke up at 9 P.M. U.S. Eastern time.

I have officially turned into a z-z-z-zombie pony. No drugs of any kind are involved, here. Well, unless you count beer. I haven't had any caffeine in days, either.

@Arha: Can we not drag the immortality debate into this thread? Nothing good ever comes of it.

edited 20th Feb '12 6:44:27 PM by JapaneseTeeth

I would like to think an immortal like Celestia would be like the doctor

^^ Oh all right. Someone else mentioned it though! I didn't bring it up!

Plus Drenius said what was originally in this post before I edited it out anyway.

edited 20th Feb '12 6:46:31 PM by Arha

You hit the hammer on the nail Drenius! The bonds you form with others overcomes death. Some of here has probably experienced it, I did.

...That'd make a good episode.

@JT I didn't knew the immortality debate was controversial sorry for bringing it up

edited 20th Feb '12 6:48:48 PM by FallenLegend

I''m sorry too, had I known it was a sore spot, I wouldn't have continued arguing my point.

^^, ^ Nah, it's not that. Just that the Negima thread has had really long debates about it that didn't go anywhere. Not something you could have known. Jteeth just wants to avoid the massive derails that ensue.

edited 20th Feb '12 6:48:46 PM by Arha

Face it, Cysma. Your archive binging is never going to work unless you start reading over 1, 000 pages a day.

Was focusing more on the concept of friendship and death buuuuut ok.