Let’s say if we were to meat someone from a different universe where things never die, how would you explain death to them?

  • Areldyb@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    I’m having trouble imagining a real universe “where nothing ever dies”. What counts as a thing? What counts as dying? If nothing ever changes then nothing dies, but if nothing changes then I can’t explain anything at all to this person.

    Alternately, they’re from a toy universe, like a game with no death condition, but even those depend on outside things to continue existing. Eventually the game stops and everything in the universe “dies”, but otherwise there’s nothing in their world that ever dies. Maybe that’s close enough.

    Anyway:

    “You know how right now I’m talking, but eventually I’m going to stop? Imagine being like that.”

    • jobbies@lemmy.zip
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      2 days ago

      Its a world where your car or washing machine never breaks down and goes on forever. I can get on board with that.