Would you do this sacrifice?

[Losty]

I'd take it twice if "heaven" is a euphemism for "Losty's bedroom."

You can come in my bedroom anytime. As many times as you like

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Alternate Plan:

People get up off the parliamentary side of their collective arse and start seriously working on what's wrong with the world. Effort by our entire species applies human resources and ingenuity to solving - or at least ameliorating - the problems we face. It won't produce a Utopia, but we'll clearly have a better world and no one need be tortured eternally.

Ta-da. A better world, brought to you without magic.

Boru

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I'd take it twice if "heaven" is a euphemism for "Losty's bedroom."

You can come in my bedroom anytime. As many times as you like

Sounds a sticky situation....

Boru

[robvalue]

I would die in an instant to solve all the worlds problems. I wouldn't need long life or heaven into the bargain or anything else. I'd trade my life even just for suffering to stop (if that was possible).

But I would never agree to be tortured forever, so if that is part of any deal I would have to decline. If it was a finite amount of torture, I would consider it, depending on how long.

If heaven is just worshipping God forever, I'd rather not go there anyway. I'd rather just die when my time is up, thanks very much.

As a heavily depressed person, dying sounds like heaven to me anyway. I choose not to go there yet because of how it would affect my loved ones, and in the hope my mental state will eventually improve to the point where I want to live for life's sake. I'm sick to death of this "perfect" world and depression makes it harder to overlook the sick and evil things going on.

Don't worry this isn't a cry for help, I have no plans to end my life. It's a far cry from feeling like it and actually doing something. Just sharing

Do not tell me I need God, that will be an instant block.

[Violet]

Would you live on normally or would you do the sacrifice for the knowledge, powers, and lifespan and solve the world's problems?

Be honest.

I already do both. More likely that I'd reject the 'choice', and take my power for myself, after all: I am the potential, and it is my power to be taken. Not that I'd ever die, since I'd be "going to heaven" and all. Woooooo. Heaven. Yi-pee.

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I'd take it twice if "heaven" is a euphemism for "Losty's bedroom."

You can come in my bedroom anytime. As many times as you like

Just once would be fine with me. Give it a bug bomb, or use Raid on every corner, wall, and general access. Probably both.

Helps keep goons out of a friend's bedroom. Hope she can ventilate the building after I'm finished.

[Angrboda]

The world doesn't need a hero.

[Cyberman]

Let's see.

Live a normal, everyday life and be rewarded by kowtowing to the insane idiot that concocted the system in the first place (no, not you, Mystic)

or

Live an unnaturally extended span in which I get to solve all humanity's problems, at the end of which I get to be tortured forever. You don't specify "hell" but it's reasonable to assume that's what you're aiming for.

Option A would seem the least painful, fear of pain being the stick of choice for any self-respecting religion. But could I rest in peace knowing that the world still had problems which I had the chance of solving, had I not chosen the selfish route? Probably.

Option B, then, is touted as the more honourable avenue, sweetened further with inducements such as being hailed forever as a hero. Yet I sense that I am being railroaded into opting for this less self-serving fate. I don't like being manipulated like this very much. Of course, it depends on who's doing the manipulating and what part of me is getting the manipulation.

So: I get to solve all humanity's problems, yes? Well, one of the biggest problems that has plagued humanity since forever is death. So, I could make that my life's work, then I wouldn't have to face getting tortured. Concordant with that, I would solve the problem of the "heaven" and "hell" apartheid once and for all. Organise a mass jailbreak and resurrection, shut the institutions down forever. Just think how much of a hero I'd be then!

I might even get an invite to the true heaven of Losty's bedroom.

[Cato]

The world doesn't need a hero.

Thanks rasetsu. I must now concentrate all my efforts in extirpating a Tina Turner earworm.

[The Grand Nudger]

You can solve the worlds problems without superpowers or 30k years. What you were daydreaming about was a magical way to cheat out of work. Try daydreaming about work.

But, 30k years to poof everything "right"? Wouldn't it only take a half second if you had that kind of power and knowledge? If you're talking about doing work...the work of 30k years - I'll do 30 or 40 of it, then I'll hand the baton to the next guy, we've been doing a great job to this point, we'll get there - wherever that is
(long as we do work......daydreamer lol).

[Thumpalumpacus]

Suppose you were given a choice.

Continue living as a normal person, die, don't come back, and when you die, you enter heaven provided you weren't super evil.

The other choice is that you are given powers and so much knowledge and given ability to live for a very long time (like 30 000 years) and you would be able to solve all the world's problems with your powers and knowledge but the downside to it, is that once you die, you will be tortured for eternity. The torture will be severe as the severest description of hell possible.

Would you live on normally or would you do the sacrifice for the knowledge, powers, and lifespan and solve the world's problems?

Be honest.

If a balrog was climbing up out of a deep chasm in order to kill your friends, would you stand at the bridge with your staff and order your friends to flee, knowing that the chains of the balrog's flail will surely drag you to your doom?

Yeah, it really is about that silly.

[Surgenator]

I'll take the 2nd option. In my 30,000 years of life, I just have to become a masocist at the very end of it.