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You have a shot at either omniscience or immortality.

Started by Syncopathic, January 28, 2009, 03:02:49 PM

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Syncopathic

But you must give up something, and you can only pick one.
And by precious, I mean something extremely close to you.
Would you rather know everything there is to know?
Or would you rather be immortal, and see what the future holds?
But remember, if you choose immortality, and you find someone you love, he/she will die, thus making you lonely.
The problem with omniscience...
You will know things that people are better off not knowing, which will probably make you extremely depressed, maybe suicidal.



You must pick one and give something precious up.
Choose wisely.

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_GanonMetroid_

How about I don't want either, even if it would be free? Honestly I think that decision was easy enough.

britneymahboy

Easy.  Omniscient. I would know the way to make myself immortal. And I guess, I would give up one of my nuts.
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SkyMyl

I've already gone insane. You can't make it any worse.

Doodle

I'd rather have none.
But out of those, I guess omniscience. Where is a 120 year old guy going to get friends?
YEAH

ThePowerOfOne

Omniscient. So I can kill myself.


Really, you are screwed either way.

Titus Andronicus

Omniscient for sure. I wouldn't want to live forever, but telling everyone the world's secrets would be a hilarious thing to do before I got mobbed.
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Rayquarian

If I were immortal, I'd grow older and older but I'd never die.

I think I'd prefer Omniscience.  Besides, if I know everything, I'll know what the future will be like.

Beatnik

That's sutpid Rayquarian. Nobody can ever know what the future will be like. It hasn't happened yet, so there just isn't a way of knowing it.

I'd choose Omniscience, as most of you have. I don't want to live forever. I'm not afraid of death. Ove the course of my life, I have always actively tried to absorb all of the information around me. And I've done a pretty decent job so far. I know it's impossible, but I would love to know everything. I could completely change the way the world works with that kind of power. I don't want to sound like a megalomaniac, because I'm not, but you could just do so many amazing things if you knew everything there is to know.
"I like cigarettes, Mrs. Taggart. I like to think of fire held in a man's hand. Fire, a dangerous force, tamed at his fingertips. I often wonder about the hours when a man sits alone, watching the smoke of a cigarette, thinking. I wonder what great things have come from such hours. When a man thinks, there is a spot of fire alive in his mind-and it is proper that he should have the burning point of a cigarette as his one expression..."

Zovistograt

Omniscience is like eating a gigantic bucket of slurpee or something all at once.  You're not going to enjoy it and you're going to get brain freeze.  Immortality is like eating that same gigantic bucket at your infinite (almost literally) leisure.  I'd pick immortality.

However, about the killing off someone close to me...if it's assured with no strings attached, I'd consider it >_<
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