Zherical wrote:
How can we say elves are truly immortal? They have to germinate, grow, be born, grow, puberty sets in, grow a little more, and then adulthood.
Just because no elf we've seen is old yet, doesn't mean it can't happen to them. Any creature that grows from a single cell into something more complex *obviously* is affected by time, in one form or another.
For all we know it might take an elf 20,000 years to get a wrinkle, but as far as we know, the world they live in only appears to be half that age.
Affected by time is different than growing. Basically, the detrimental effects humans experience because of aging are brought on by wear and tear. Eventually, your body just gets tired of moving your lazy ass around.
Elves don't have to die from old age if their machinery develops to a certain point and then never fails. And saying that just because it has to develop means that it has to fail is ignorant. We assume that because that is how we work. FYI, human being are far from perfect, which is what elves seem to be, at least physically. Now, elves do have all kinds of flaws, but susceptibility to things that ruin our day doesn't seem to be included in that list.
And, beings are not affected by time. Time does not exist. Time is a measurement we created to mark the passage of our miserably short lives to make us feel better about how long we've been around and what we've done. Don't go claiming something is obvious unless you can take statements that Poe has made about his world that give you a direct If A is B, and B is C, then A is C correlation, or the P,Q,&R example Killjoy gave. And even then, be aware that factors outside of your knowledge may affect that statement.
See, an obvious statement is that something like these discussions will eventually kill Bellofthedamned, because A)God kills a catgirl every time we discuss such matters in relation to Errant Story, B) Bell is a catgirl, and C) There are only so many catgirls. Therefore, eventually, if we continue this foolish, foolish train of thought, Bell is condemned to an untimely fate. How could you do that to her?!?!?! She's a catgirl who reads fantasy webcomics
AND puts out on the first date man! The first date! In the grass no less! What's wrong with you?
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Labrat wrote:
You are lucky I'm not trying to type with my genitals. Yet.
onion wrote:
Yup, round here we call this 'fishing for whores'...