Given that everything, everyone or deity ages

Re: Good Friday; I agree, Vampires are braggarts, and the ones alive for both the Crucifixion and the Tro-Clon would have probably given the events a wide bearth.

However, not my point. If a vampire shows no signs of aging, and claims to be two thousand years old, for that lie to be credible, two thousand year old vampires must not show signs of aging. I'm not entirely confident in that statement, as my guess would be that a lot of vampires exaggerate their age, and an endless number of variables. I admit, it's not good evidence, but it's worth noting.
 
The Master and the Prince of Lies look to have been the vampires that were the oldest seen on the show, and neither had a human appearance any longer. Which would suggest that for vampires, their sign of ageing is to look more monstrous. And to start calling themselves "the" something.
 
NotASlayer said:
The Immortal reminds me of Morn from Deep Space Nine, but done badly.

Morn was described by the other characters as being funny, talented, talkative, charming, a great singer, handsome - handsome enough that Jadzia considered him out of her league and for comparison this is Jadzia

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and this is Morn
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although admittedly he was regularly seen in the company of gorgeous women.

From the audience's point of view, Morn spent 90% of his time sat on a stool in Quark's and never said a word for the entire series (apparently this started out as an accident after his words were cut a few times, then became a running joke).

The Immortal is similarly inflated by the other characters, yet it just comes across as daft, rather than funny.
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Not just a running joke, but a joke that riffs on Cheers. "NORM". They also have fun telling us what a chatterbox he is, although he never says a word onscreen.
 
Kendar said:
Not just a running joke, but a joke that riffs on Cheers. "NORM". They also have fun telling us what a chatterbox he is, although he never says a word onscreen.
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Oh yes, I read that about Cheers, but I forgot because I have never seen that series!

Quark: "You know Morn, he never shuts up." 😀
 
I don't accept that any deity ages. You could say by definition, a deity cannot age because things that age do not have the unlimited power of a deity. There was a "God is dead" theology but this was never supported by any kind of fact. It was just a supposition that God was an integral part of society at one time and now that time is over. It may just be that people no longer approach God and therefore, He never shows what He can do.
 
Well, some gods do age. The Norse gods do, but that's largely a metaphor for the fragile nature of life in the North. Ra aged, but Egyptian gods were worshipped for thousands of years, their cults and status did change.

IMHO, gods aging should be like Continental drift or evolution, occuring on a time scale so vast that humans cannot perceive it to be happening at all. Especially in horror, where the sublime would include a largely indifferent universe working on a level where the rise and fall of an sapient species is so brief it cannot be said to have happened at all, barring a odd spike in radioactive atmospheric isotopes.
 
Gods in theory should get older, unless they are omnipresent in all of time, but ageing is a different thing to getting older.
 
I believe eternal is supposed to be outside of time. How that actually works, well, I am a man of unclean lips.
 
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