What Would YOU Do? (788 hits)
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Submitted by TaK (View user info) at 2008-08-25 21:24:00 EDT
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(a.) Let me ask a silly question:
If a being were to come to you right now, and offer to take you away on it's space ship, provide all the answers to life and end your curiosity about all things universal, and the only stipulation was that you leave right now without informing anyone or saying any goodbyes, would you decide to go or stay?
(b.)Furthermore:
If this being offered to erase your memory of life, so that you retained all of your physical knowledge about the universe and the way things worked, but lost all of your emotional and mental ties with your personal life (for example: forgetting what it was to have a mother but retaining the ability to conceive and understand the mother-offspring relationship), would you choose to erase or retain?
2.
Let me ask a serious question:
Do you believe that time exists without the presence of an observer, or do you believe that time exists specifically because of the presence of an observer?
3.
Let me ask one more silly question:
Does it bother you that you spend every day of your life concentrating on things like groceries and laundry and bills and paper we call money and relationships and conversations and tv shows and headlines and new socks and socks with holes, rather than the laws that make everything you do possible/impossible?
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Submitted by Doodles (user info) at 2008-08-26 21:35:45 EDT (#)
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Let me ask a serious question:
Do you believe that time exists without the presence of an observer, or do you believe that time exists specifically because of the presence of an observer?
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That isn't really a serious question, as time exists for non-living things as well as living.
To try and clarify that time is a fourth dimension of sorts. You can move laterally, horizontally or vertically, but to do any of that you move through time. If you go fast enough, time actually passes quicker.
The only thing I would wonder about is if a body stopped moving (at an atomic level) as in there is NO energy left in the body and the atoms simply stop moving.
I would think, for that body, time would stop. I have no real reason to believe this, but I do.
Submitted by Anansie (user info) at 2008-08-26 20:38:44 EDT (#)
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1.
(a.) Let me ask a silly question:
If a being were to come to you right now, and offer to take you away on it's space ship, provide all the answers to life and end your curiosity about all things universal, and the only stipulation was that you leave right now without informing anyone or saying any goodbyes, would you decide to go or stay?
Go.
(b.)Furthermore:
If this being offered to erase your memory of life, so that you retained all of your physical knowledge about the universe and the way things worked, but lost all of your emotional and mental ties with your personal life (for example: forgetting what it was to have a mother but retaining the ability to conceive and understand the mother-offspring relationship), would you choose to erase or retain?
I'm not sure. I would probably like to be released of the guilt of leaving everyone behind. Then again, maybe guilt would be what I deserved for my selfishness.
2.
Let me ask a serious question:
Do you believe that time exists without the presence of an observer, or do you believe that time exists specifically because of the presence of an observer?
Our reality is nothing more than our perception, but if our perception is correct, then time does exist. Er, that is probably BS.
3.
Let me ask one more silly question:
Does it bother you that you spend every day of your life concentrating on things like groceries and laundry and bills and paper we call money and relationships and conversations and tv shows and headlines and new socks and socks with holes, rather than the laws that make everything you do possible/impossible?
YES.
Submitted by Quint (user info) at 2008-08-26 15:02:02 EDT (#)
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Here are my answers:
1. (a) Fuck Method's Mom
(b) Try not to touch my dick against that of one of the other 4 guys when I pull out
2. Blow my load on her face
3. While we may seem to spend a large quantity of time concentrating on the more mundane aspects of our lives, such as groceries and bills, I think we spend more quality time concentrating on important things such as relationships, personal goals and the pursuit of knowledge.
As far as spending time concentrating on the laws that allow us to do these things, do you mean the laws of nature, physics, etc or actual laws written by man. If it is the former, then I belive that concentrating on them is a watse of time for the everyday person. There is nothing that he or she can do about those laws. There is no point in curing gravity for preventing you from being able to jump over tall buldings. Gravity is not going to change. You are better to concentrate on aspects of your life that you can change, such as relationships and you career.
However if you refer to the laws of man, such as the US Constitution and various acts passed by governing bodies, then I agree that there is very little concentration by the populace on these laws and thus very little meaningful debate in society. People are blinded by the day to day activities and would rather find ways to work around dumb laws than they would find ways to change them. Only when a law is so invasive do we bother to come together and stand up against it (as was done to allow women and blacks to vote, allow abortion, etc).
Submitted by ubetidid (user info) at 2008-08-26 13:09:14 EDT (#)
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I never ever think about socks, and I don't
think you're going to ever graduate from high school.
maybe some type of vocational career would be best for you.
Submitted by BLITZKREIG_BOB (user info) at 2008-08-26 11:51:21 EDT (#)
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I'd go with the aliens, discover their secrets, use their secrets to kick their asses, then come back.
Submitted by Yozz (user info) at 2008-08-26 09:50:51 EDT (#)
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1.a. Shut
1.b. The
2. Fuck
3. Up
Submitted by creep_firebombing (user info) at 2008-08-26 09:33:58 EDT (#)
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Hello my name is Simon
and I like to do draw-rings
haggity boogity haggity boogity haggity boogity
Submitted by TaK (user info) at 2008-08-26 09:03:57 EDT (#)
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So I'm really surprised by all the content-relative answers, and REALLY surprised to see that most of you would stay because of either a romantic attachment to your human lives, or for ethereal and spiritual reasons that are bound to faith in an eventual answer either way.
I'm also very pleasantly surprised by how aware most of you seem to be with the problem of time and its definition, or lack thereof.
Was hoping I would get some different view points from this post, and for once Ubersite has provided what I came for. Wow.
Submitted by i_can_get_you_a_toe (user info) at 2008-08-26 07:10:12 EDT (#)
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oh to be so enlightend.
I have had a crap year, but would I want to forget the rare good moments? No.
Darryl Kent must die.
Submitted by kgbpasha (user info) at 2008-08-26 04:39:37 EDT (#)
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Yeah sure, why not
to all the silly and serious questions.
What would you do?
Who gives a fuck?
Is this happening to you?
Not bloody likely.
So then, the answers are all the same.
Does not fucking matter.
The end.
Submitted by bob (user info) at 2008-08-26 04:29:29 EDT (#)
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1.
(a.) Yes
(b.) Yes
2. Depends on your definition of time. If your definition of time is our subjective quantification of an objective principle, then yes. If not, then no.
3. No for relationships and headlines, yes for everything else. As I have said countless times, if I was good enough at math, I'd be an astrophysicist. Since I am not, I am a neuroscientist. I like the largest and smallest of the universe.
Submitted by SilentRenegade (user info) at 2008-08-26 04:22:14 EDT (#)
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meh...
http://www.ihateyoujulia.com/?id=13ed3e9433e720cca1e240002a7c669a
Submitted by Chroniclysm (user info) at 2008-08-26 03:52:31 EDT (#)
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taKular
Submitted by ChristPuncher (user info) at 2008-08-26 03:26:44 EDT (#)
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Whoa, this was Deep..
Ok...
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1a- Yes, as long as I was able to watch Bears games
1b-Um... I want to remember DA BEARSSSSS.
That is all
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2- BRATWURST
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3-What???
DITKA SAWSAGE BEER
GO BEARS N SOX WOO!!!
Submitted by Phallic_Cymbals (user info) at 2008-08-26 02:53:59 EDT (#)
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WTF retarded stoner question is this?
Stay and keep memory. Life is about procreation. The Universe is fascinating but a human is just an animal, omniscience is a worthless characteristic for our type of animal.
2.
Again, retarded. Time has to exist to allow the processes to occur that can eventuate in an observer.
3.
No. Those things are generally incomprehensible and the human animal is supposed to pass on its genes (and, arguably, memes), not spend all day in an existential funk. WTF kind of useless animal would do that?
-1 for freshman stoner bullshit.
Submitted by rob_berg (user info) at 2008-08-26 02:41:09 EDT (#)
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1.
(a.) I'd stay.
(b.) Retain.
2.
I think time is constant and linear - but when them smart fellers start talking about all that crazy science shit I'm convinced I don't know shit - so I stick with my gut.
3.
Yup...but I get over it quickly cuz I can.
I like where yer head is at.
Submitted by Circe (user info) at 2008-08-26 01:53:53 EDT (#)
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1 - Stay. Finding things out, questioning, reading, thinking, debating... those things are too much fun, and too worthwhile, to give up in return for easy answers. Also, I like it here.
2 - Remember. We're born a blank slate, with nothing written, and everything that happens to us from then on is what designs us. I LIKE me, I like who I am and what I am, and I'd like to keep it.
3 - Time exists independently of an observer. Things happen, one after another, and they stay happened. Whether we're watching or not.
4 - No, I think it's magnificent. On a rock spinning through a vacuum, a life form that spontaneously evolved from nothing has convinced itself that its existence is commonplace enough that it can now focus on important things, like socks. How incredibly, beautifully surreal is that?
Submitted by X54 (user info) at 2008-08-26 00:56:57 EDT (#)
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First of all, I'd want to know how much and what kind of beer this alien had aboard its (without the apostrophe ha ha I'm a grammar nazi and you're going to the showers) space ship. But seriously, what would I be doing after learning the secrets of the universe? Or would that take a really long time, so that I'd spend the rest of my life doing it? There's not enough information here to make an intelligent decision. If what you're really asking is, would it be worth sacrificing everything to learn the secrets of the universe, then I'd say no. Isn't that what happens when you die? Your curiosity about all things universal ends. Don't you think it might be boring to know everything?
The next question implies that emotional baggage is inescapable, an implication with which I disagree. The alien offers nothing we don't already have within our power to do for ourselves.
I think time is relative to the observer, but not dependent on him.
Not everyone spends every day concentrating on those things you mentioned. Do you? If so, does it bother you? And if so, why do you keep doing it?
Submitted by Bubba2341 (user info) at 2008-08-26 00:34:34 EDT (#)
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Everything you present here defines what it means to be human. I would stay, retain my memories, and still believe that time exists without an observer. Time passed before life showed up on this planet.
Submitted by kaos-king (user info) at 2008-08-25 23:15:09 EDT (#)
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a) - Yes. Better to be an unhappy wiseman than a happy fool.
b) - No. To erase emotive context for any reason would invalidate A
2. I do NOT believe that time is relative. However, we are relative to time. There is no such thing as a paradox.
3. Constantly...
Submitted by lungfish (user info) at 2008-08-25 23:08:08 EDT (#)
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If you drink enough, these and similar questions might come to mind, but you won't remember them in the morning and, hence, will not feel too much like a douchebag, unless you did something really stupid like hang a bratwurst-stuffed condom from your ear and try to hold a serious conversation with the girl you would really like to date.
Submitted by PukingDog (user info) at 2008-08-25 22:54:34 EDT (#)
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Wow it's TaK. Hello again.
Submitted by TaK (user info) at 2008-08-25 22:37:39 EDT (#)
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Ah, some worthwhile responses. Thank you Ubersite-God.
Good to hear that some people are happy with their lives, while others align with me and would be willing to give it all to get it all. Although, to the mentions of physics vs. belief I would direct this way:
http://www.iep.utm.edu/t/time.htm
WTF! If you can read all that, I salute you.
Submitted by apollo88 (user info) at 2008-08-25 22:21:16 EDT (#)
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actually erase was only if I was beamed up.
I misread that, I thought it was an addendum to the first question.
if i stayed i'd keep the memories, family and chums thanks.
Submitted by HateMudkips (user info) at 2008-08-25 22:20:59 EDT (#)
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(a.)
I would go.
(b.)
Retain. Wouldn't want to be Stranger in a Strange Land in that respect.
2.
I think the observer constructs measurements of time to assist their comprehension of the world around them. I am not sure if it is actual.
3.
Yes. I'd like to think there's something more important than day-to-day existence. I just haven't found it, so I'm scraping by in the meantime.
Submitted by apollo88 (user info) at 2008-08-25 22:19:24 EDT (#)
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1.
(a.) Let me ask a silly question:
If a being were to come to you right now, and offer to take you away on it's space ship, provide all the answers to life and end your curiosity about all things universal, and the only stipulation was that you leave right now without informing anyone or saying any goodbyes, would you decide to go or stay?
Beam me up.
(b.)Furthermore:
If this being offered to erase your memory of life, so that you retained all of your physical knowledge about the universe and the way things worked, but lost all of your emotional and mental ties with your personal life (for example: forgetting what it was to have a mother but retaining the ability to conceive and understand the mother-offspring relationship), would you choose to erase or retain?
Erase.
2.
Let me ask a serious question:
Do you believe that time exists without the presence of an observer, or do you believe that time exists specifically because of the presence of an observer?
It's not a question of belief its a question of physics.
3.
Let me ask one more silly question:
Does it bother you that you spend every day of your life concentrating on things like groceries and laundry and bills and paper we call money and relationships and conversations and tv shows and headlines and new socks and socks with holes, rather than the laws that make everything you do possible/impossible?
Yes, it really does.
But I get drunk, get high and buy pointless cars.
it helps, not all the way, but a long way.
great post.
Submitted by Sacrilicious (user info) at 2008-08-25 21:57:36 EDT (#)
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1.(a.) Let me ask a silly question:
Without question, I would stay. Aside from the obvious issue of the questionable identity of this 'being,' all the answers in the world aren't worth the love I have for the people I'd leave behind.
(b.)Furthermore:
Why would I ever want to erase my life? Despite all the fucked-upedness I've lived through, I can't imagine feeling so pathetic as to want to erase my entire emotional existence.
2.Let me ask a serious question:
I don't know.
3.Let me ask one more silly question:
Sometimes.
Submitted by skrapmetal (user info) at 2008-08-25 21:50:04 EDT (#)
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1(a) and (b).
Learn the truth? I can't handle the truth. I'd stay and retain - my life doesn't suck now and I like how it's going. Why fuck it up?
2. Time exists whether ot not anyone notices. When old Moshe left the jewelry store tonight, the Rolexes all read 8:30 on the dot. Tomorrow morning at 10:00 when he's supposed to be opening the store but can't because he's been dead of a heart attack since 3:12, the Rolexes will all say 10:00.
3. Laws do not make anything possible - they only make things illegal. The universe makes things possible.
Submitted by Jeanneee (user info) at 2008-08-25 21:44:12 EDT (#)
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Submitted by TaK (user info) at 2008-08-25 21:35:44 EDT (#)
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Ok. Great. Cool.
Just what I expected so far, two responses that have little connection to the post and no comedic value aside from two ass cheeks making a farting noise when air is passed through them.
You guys rock.
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Um, welcome to Ubersite.
OK. Great. Cool. Yeah.
Submitted by TaK (user info) at 2008-08-25 21:35:44 EDT (#)
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Ok. Great. Cool.
Just what I expected so far, two responses that have little connection to the post and no comedic value aside from two ass cheeks making a farting noise when air is passed through them.
You guys rock.
Submitted by TaK (user info) at 2008-08-25 21:34:28 EDT (#)
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Right. Ok. Cool.
You scored a 23 on the TeeNews Magazine's "Are You Hot Or Not 3-Step Quiz"!
Congratulations!
Submitted by Jeanneee (user info) at 2008-08-25 21:33:14 EDT (#)
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"...And this is never going to happen. She's just having a 'green smoke' moment. You know, when you're sitting around with your friends, passing the bong and telling them how you plan to climb Mount Everest one day. You don't mean it. It's just the good shit talking."
--Michael K. (dlisted.com)
Submitted by SullyThePirate (user info) at 2008-08-25 21:28:06 EDT (#)
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1a: Ehhh, I guess chocolate.
1b: Monkeys since they're hilarious.
2: Probably the day I met my girlfriend.
3: Jeff Goldblum