I wanna know when I would die though.
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Questions You Would Rather Never Know The Answer To.
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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. Feel free to send me a private message.
Please visit my website here! It's got lots of information about atheism/theism and support for new atheists. Index of useful threads and discussions Index of my best videos Quickstart guide to the forum (April 24, 2016 at 2:11 am)Bella Morte Wrote: I wanna know when I would die though. Curious, for what purpose?
Being told you're delusional does not necessarily mean you're mental.
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
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax
(April 23, 2016 at 3:54 pm)vorlon13 Wrote:(April 23, 2016 at 3:13 pm)Expired Wrote: Did my wife's ex partners have a bigger willy than me? (April 22, 2016 at 8:29 pm)Evie Wrote: Is there anything you would rather never know? Are there any questions you would rather never know the answer to? 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. Are you ready for the fire? We are firemen. WE ARE FIREMEN! The heat doesn’t bother us. We live in the heat. We train in the heat. It tells us that we’re ready, we’re at home, we’re where we’re supposed to be. Flames don’t intimidate us. What do we do? We control the flame. We control them. We move the flames where we want to. And then we extinguish them. Impersonation is treason. RE: Questions You Would Rather Never Know The Answer To.
April 25, 2016 at 7:41 am
(This post was last modified: April 25, 2016 at 7:42 am by 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.
"For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring." - Carl Sagan
I'd rather not know if time is on an endless loop or not. It could only be depressing.
Feel free to send me a private message.
Please visit my website here! It's got lots of information about atheism/theism and support for new atheists. Index of useful threads and discussions Index of my best videos Quickstart guide to the forum (April 23, 2016 at 8:15 pm)Evie Wrote:(April 23, 2016 at 4:04 pm)Excited Penguin Wrote: 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'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. RE: Questions You Would Rather Never Know The Answer To.
April 25, 2016 at 11:52 am
(This post was last modified: April 25, 2016 at 11:54 am by 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. |
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