Thread: My Journey of Transcendence and how it has changed me

Originally Posted by stonedape

The movie or the motion comic??? I've been watching the motion comic over and over. I really should go out and buy the comic. Dr Manhattan was such a great character. He had absolute power and yet he was powerless to change the future. So brilliant.

I'm wanna transform into Dr Manhattan in a dream now.

Comic is god tier. But I'd never want to be Dr Manhattan.

i would, it's a role in this existence i would take up with fervor.

Originally Posted by MementoMori

i would, it's a role in this existence i would take up with fervor.

Enjoy not being human, and not being "you" anymore. I'm quite fond of me.

it would be an experience i would lik to partake in. i can almost guess what it'll be like to be me, and live my life, but it would truly be amazingly different and unique to experience that. I don't believe i wouldn't be me, i believe it would be like being born again, but i would know what i was like as a human so i think i would remember myself and my personality, it may be a dull reflection of that person i once was but i would explore the universe, i would do so much... so much.

Naturally as i'm choosing this i would want to first get my book published

Originally Posted by MementoMori

it would be an experience i would lik to partake in. i can almost guess what it'll be like to be me, and live my life, but it would truly be amazingly different and unique to experience that. I don't believe i wouldn't be me, i believe it would be like being born again, but i would know what i was like as a human so i think i would remember myself and my personality, it may be a dull reflection of that person i once was but i would explore the universe, i would do so much... so much.

The wonder and awe you're imagining of that knowledge and of exploring the universe is something exclusive to humanity. You are imagining how wonderful it would be from your current viewpoint. If you now could have all this knowledge, and be able to explore anywhere, that's how you're imagining it.

The truth is alot more sombre I'm afraid. There's a reason Dr Manhattan never shows emotion. With absolute knowledge and power the sense of wonder and mystery I KNOW you find in the universe now, would be gone. I'd never sacrifice that.

Basically: The beautiful and mysterious things you are imagining being able to do and know, are only so beautiful and mysterious from the limited viewpoint of a human. If you were like him, you wouldn't feel that anymore.

You'd lose that, and for me, that would be self defeating.

Originally Posted by Carôusoul

But I'd never want to be Dr Manhattan.

This^

Carou's got the right idea about Manhattan.

Carou, you got me there, i was looking from my point
of view instead of Dr. Manhattan's.
You my friend are a most luminous intellectual.
I believe i'll take the contents of this conversation and meditate on them.

Originally Posted by MementoMori

Carou, you got me there, i was looking from my point
of view instead of Dr. Manhattan's.
You my friend are a most luminous intellectual.

Yeah I'm pretty fuckin rad.

Originally Posted by MementoMori

I believe i'll take the contents of this conversation and meditate on them.

You might want to watch the movie again, I think you might see things quite differently this time around.

I believe i am, and i'll post my thoughts on omnipotence. Thanks Carou and Nina

well, i take back my stance on willingness to become Doc Manhattan.
There's a beauty in discovery that i would be barred from for eternity. Screw that, plus i would want a relationship where the other person surprises me...

Here's a pic i made for Jeff's Admin position lol:

Ah I knew you'd see things differently.

Very cool graphic btw.