Stipulations:
- You cannot die and are immune to disease
- You cannot alter the future such that you change the world from your point of origin. i.e. You cannot become so famous that future people recognize you as immortal.
- If you vary the timeline too much you will cease to exist.
How do you survive until modern day?
I just do … you literally said I cannot die.
There is the caveats they put in that you’ve got to make sure no one finds out you’re immortal or you’ll just cease to exist and can’t change history in any significant way or be met with the same fate
So you just get a normal job and get to live through one of the greatest economic booms of American history where you can raise a family of 5 with one singular income?
Literally just go to work for 40hrs a day 5 days a week and you could have damn near anything you want as long as you’re white?
This is a dumb “what if”.
as long as you’re white
And male, cis, straight, Christian, etc. You could fake some of those things if needed, but that’s generally a crappy way to live.
Also, assumes American.
Yeah you right. I made that assumption but the premise didn’t give you much to go on.
Plus this would be right as ww2 was ending so you’re relatively safe either way unless you’re black in the south. Again in America
Well if you want to be boring with your answer and not have fun thinking of other interesting ways to solve this problem then yeah it’s dumb,
I think having a family would be too sad
And live in America
How will I survive if I cannot die? I just will
The challenge is in not erasing yourself by the rules, by being famously immortal. Presumably, you also don’t age. So you just have to move around every decade or two.
Sit around and wait. I’m immortal.
“Hey this guy has sat here for 30 years and he hasn’t aged one bit!”
* ceases to exist *
Sleep it off in a coffin like a vampire? They didn’t say you could starve.
join the military I cant die so if I just wear a balaclava or smth whilst firebombing nazis, I wont be famous, the legend about me will
If you vary the timeline too much you will cease to exist.
But there’s a chance you will make the timeline better for those you leave behind? I’d be spending a lot of time in NYC, waiting for an opportunity…
immortal
looks inside
how do you survive?
Fuck it dude, I’d just go bowling.
What country tho.
1945 for an ethnic Chinese in America is not exactly fun… racism and all1945 in China is um… yea I’m gonna get gulag’ed/laogai’ed
I think if I was 20 I could just backpack all over, get easy cash in hand jobs and fuck around for decades. However, if I’m sent back now at 48 being twice the weight I was at 20 I’d probably struggle as this late middle-aged oddball who has come from nowhere and has no period-specific skills.
How does hunger and thirst work, if I cannot die? Do I still get hungry? What if I don’t eat? What if I just spend most of my time building a house in the woods and doing artwork for months or years at a time, since I don’t need to restock provisions?
You can eat if you want. It’s more if a question of boredom and losing your mind
I stay in my same body, at the same age I am now, keep all my teeth, etc? I am nearsighted, it’s gonna be difficult.
What happens when I pass the day I am born, though? Are there 2 of me?
I don’t think I’d change the timeline much anyway, it seems hard to. Though I’d love to become a lawyer and advise Al Gore against conceding the election he won. Even if I ceased to exist that might be worth it.
Im assuiming doctor who rules where just dont interact with yourself
I’d assume Harry Potter time turner rules, where there were always two of you when you were growing up, because future you had already gained immortality and gone back in time. But you never realized there was a second you when you were growing up, because future-you actively avoided interacting with past-you.
It also resolves a lot of the “what if you accidentally change the timeline and prevent yourself from ever being born” types of paradoxes, because you were already born which means anything your future-self does will automatically resolve with you being born.
tomato tomato
I think I’m OK with only making it to 2000.
I would have said start betting like Biff Tannen, but that probably will end up changing the timeline “too much”.
But if I can’t die and am immune to disease, I guess I exploit that. Can’t drown so I’ll hop in an ocean and go somewhere. No need for food or lodging. I’ll just wander for the next 100 years and peoplewatch.
I wonder how many people in this thread have read/seen 11.22.63 before.
Without some amount of preparation, I think I’d just end up mostly working for cash and living out of a van for most of that time, or otherwise staying off-grid. There’s a surprising amount of paperwork involved in legally existing as a person.
Also, since memorizing statistics is not one of my hobbies, I’d want/need some kind of written ledger to have an edge in back-alley sports betting.
Just for fun’s sake though, I’d try my hand at writing professionally again, as a novelist, but just ripping off the plots of movies and TV shows that haven’t been filmed yet. Self-publishing everything under pen names of course, to preserve my anonymity.
