Philosophical Question - Page 5

DBowling · #41 01-31-2005, 03:39 AM

Whats the point? once the year is over, youll be left with nothing. yet you lose 1 year of, say, 50% bliss. Ill take the memories of 50% bliss over no memories of 100% bliss.

astroglide · #42 01-31-2005, 01:16 PM

i would think that having lived in bliss would have some sort of tangible effect on your outlook even if you don't conciously remember it

elwoodblues · #43 01-31-2005, 01:28 PM

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Why wouldn't you do it?

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I have two young kids. I can't imagine choosing to miss one year with them (which is essentially what this would be.)

DMBFan23 · #44 01-31-2005, 01:47 PM

oh yes, and it's not even close. do you see why? I'll let others elaborate.

carpe diem, biatches [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

M2d · #45 01-31-2005, 02:05 PM

you watch charmed, don't you.

andyfox · #46 01-31-2005, 02:49 PM

You're setting the rules. Are we a year older after the year, or is the year just deducted from our "alloted" time? Or, if it's jut a dreamworld that happens and then disappears, perhaps it's happened to us already and we just don't know about it.

witeknite · #47 01-31-2005, 04:59 PM

I feel the point of life in general is whatever an individual wants to make of it. The major difference between life and the blissful year you mention is that of choice. I did not choice life. It was a choice that was never offered. If I was a self aware being before this life, I doubt I was offered the option if the outcome is that I don't remember any of it.

WiteKnite

NLSoldier · #48 01-31-2005, 10:24 PM

For those of you that say no...

Would your answer change if the length of time was changed? Would you do it for a day? A week? What if you had the option to have eternal bliss the rest of your life, but your memory would reset at the begining of each year?

I think anyone who has ever been really drunk (which i assume is all of you) has essentially taken this deal for a night or whatever, why does it change if you make it a year?

quadzilla · #49 01-31-2005, 10:39 PM

I didn't read all of the posts but, this is my take. If you said yes how would you deal with remembering how great things were vs how mediocre things are now? You would surely get depressed. A good example is steroid users, they get huge get off the roids and get really depressed. It's a good analogy because for meatheads being big is the greatest thing in the world. Getting off the juice and getting small is such a shock for them is highly depressing. Going from the greatest thing in your life to going to hard to deal with would be tough.

pc in NM · #50 02-01-2005, 01:56 AM

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Pretend you could, for one year out of your life (say the next year), live in perfect bliss, whatever that means to you. When that time is over, your life continues on undistrubed, but you could not recall having done it, and that year of your life was lost?

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Uh, wasn't that 1969???

I can't seem to quite recall it....

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