Questions You Would Rather Never Know The Answer To.

[account_inactive]

I wanna know when I would die though.

[robvalue]

But if I told you, I'd have to kill you

After telling you that you die by me killing you after telling you how you die.

I want to know if I'm ever going to shut the fuck up.

[brewer]

I wanna know when I would die though.

Curious, for what purpose?

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

I can think of several reasons:

-To see if you have time to read that book you've been meaning to get round to.

-To determine if making dinner reservation for tonight would just be a waste of time.

-To provide for people in your life that may need providing for.

-To either save money on life insurance, or to spend great walloping wads of cash on life insurance.

-To know if you're going to be subjected to the hype surrounding the release of the next installment of the 'Star Wars' franchise.

Boru

[Expired]

Did my wife's ex partners have a bigger willy than me?
Does she think about them when we are having it off?
Do the kids drink my beer or have I forgotten how many I've drunk??
Did my mother regret the day she conceived me?

) All 36 37 of 'em

) no, just her girlfriend Elaine

) kids doing meth and you're an alcoholic

) you're adopted




I've stopped talking to my sister Elaine, never could trust that bitch. 

[paulpablo]

Is there anything you would rather never know? Are there any questions you would rather never know the answer to?

In which cases is ignorance bliss to you? If ever?

I personally can't think of anything except... I probably don't want to know how I'm going to die and when it will be.

I don't want to know anything to do with the future. I think it would make life pretty boring knowing anything of the future.

The sexual fantasies of my parents or grandparents or aunties, uncles and so on.

I don't want to know anything I find boring and useless.

[c172]

I'm not sure I'd necessarily find everything boring. But I do think it would mess with my mind. I'd get really scared about certain things (like my impending death in an elevator accident), and I'd get too impatient and want to rush along certain other things (to get to some trip to Sweden I have been dreaming about).

I'd rather not know when Honey Boo Boo loses her virginity, or to whom, or how it was.

[robvalue]

I'd rather not know if time is on an endless loop or not. It could only be depressing.

[emjay]

Well, if you knew when you died that date would probably change right on the spot, so makes no sense not to wish to know that, in fact it could help to prevent it numerous times in a row.

I sometimes wish I wasn't so smart. I don't know if that's the answer you were looking for, but yeah.

Hardly smart considering that if the date would change then it would mean I didn't really know it. That makes no sense.

#If you argue back at me I'm gonna ignore your response because we're not debating this but I thought I'd just let you know that the whole point of knowledge is that it implies truth.

I'm with EP on this one... I'm a hard determinist but I can't see any way around the paradox that if you were informed of your future it would necessarily change because that incoming information would become another variable influencing your subsequent decision-making. For instance say there were two doors and some outside force informed you that you were gonna choose door B, you could always choose door A. Even if it said that after all toing and froing - i.e. after all the influence of knowing the outcome on your decision making process... after all the WIFOM - you were gonna choose door B, you could still choose door A. So as I see it, the experience of choice and knowing the future are incompatible.

[Edwardo Piet]

I just mean that if you knew something of the future then it by definition must happen so therefore if your knowing it changes that then it was incorrect to say in the first place that you knew it.

Also, I was kind of a dick to EP in that post you quoted, and to Pool that day too. I was having a bad day. It's no excuse though. I'm just not normally that much of an asshole.