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If I started being immortal in the Middle Ages - I'd be set for life right now.

Woulda done things like go on Crusades, travel the spice roads... Get things from faraway places and set up my own little trade empire. When science became a thing - Would've started getting involved in that.

Endgame: Use my wealth to screen for the brightest minds to put through school and eventually work in R and D... Then sell technology to military, healthcare, etc... to perpetuate my own little self-sustaining system. Invest in more things like gold, diamonds, antiques (the more ancient, the better) artwork, etc... to decorate all my residences around the world.

Would also make sure to find a way to scramble film/digital cameras so I wouldn't show up in pictures decades apart.

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If I haven't learned at least 20 languages in that time - I'd be surprised.

I think that would be a dangerous path. You'd need to live without calling attention to yourself-there's this uber wealthy person who's been alive for as long as anyone can remember, and never seems to age-somebody would get suspicious, and that leads to trouble. Even if they couldn't kill you, they could arrest you and "study" you, or just keep you in confinement because they think you're dangerous. I think the only way you could get away with it is live a normal lifespan as a relatively anonymous person, then drop out of sight and assume a new identity somewhere else.

There have been any number of sci fi plots about this

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Posted by yurintroubl

Dallas, Tx.

Member since Apr 2008

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Posted on 3/23/15 at 4:02 pm to Jim Rockford

Nah.... by the time we are here in the modern era - I have my system funneling my money into offshore accounts and they don't even realize Johnson and Johnson, Merck, BASF and such are just my ginormous shell corporations.

I never stay at one residence more than a few years at a time... and make sure at least 50 years passes between stays.

I got this.

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Posted by Scireverum

Member since Mar 2015

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Posted on 3/23/15 at 7:30 pm to Jim Rockford

I would still go for something along these lines as well, but it would be harder if it started today. Being invincible/immortal means I could partake in high risk high payout operations like drug cartels without worry and with secrecy being of the utmost importance in that sort of buisiness I could stay relatively obscure. The biggest issue would be creating multiple prominent false identities to interact with the mainstream world. After I have that worked out I could use the money I gather to fund research projects for space flight and hopefully speed up the development of a hyperdrive so I don't have to wait so long for one to develop. Once we accomplish that, explore the universe and other alien civilizations and start working on becoming an interdimensional being.

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