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The 'Would You Rather' thread. — Page 2

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RicOlie_2 said:

Would you rather forget everything that happened more than 24 hours ago but otherwise live your dream life, or have a normal memory but experience suffering often in your life? You’d retain all the memories you have up to this point, either way, but if you chose to have a short memory, you’d forget anything that happened from hereon.

The latter.

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Would you rather forget everything that happened more than 24 hours ago but otherwise live your dream life, or have a normal memory but experience suffering often in your life? You’d retain all the memories you have up to this point, either way, but if you chose to have a short memory, you’d forget anything that happened from hereon.

Shit, that’s a hard one, since your memories define you so much. What kind of suffering are we talking about?

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For the rest of your life every time you fall asleep someone smashes a book on your testicals.

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Jeebus said:

Would you rather forget everything that happened more than 24 hours ago but otherwise live your dream life, or have a normal memory but experience suffering often in your life? You’d retain all the memories you have up to this point, either way, but if you chose to have a short memory, you’d forget anything that happened from hereon.

Shit, that’s a hard one, since your memories define you so much. What kind of suffering are we talking about?

From poverty to losing loved ones to more minor problems. Maybe illness of some kind too (though nothing too debilitating). You’d have all your basic needs met, though–you wouldn’t be homeless and rummaging through garbage bins, for instance.

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So basically would you rather live a normal life or be Dory?

I’ll take the normal life, please. A dream life is worthless if you can’t remember it. I am lucky to not live in poverty but otherwise I’ve dealt with plenty of crap and I’d still rather that than forgetting everything good that happened.

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Normal and suffering is pretty much how life is, so I’m fine with that.

Keep Circulating the Tapes.

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TV’s Frink said:

So basically would you rather live a normal life or be Dory?

I’ll take the normal life, please. A dream life is worthless if you can’t remember it. I am lucky to not live in poverty but otherwise I’ve dealt with plenty of crap and I’d still rather that than forgetting everything good that happened.

Some people’s normal lives, I guess. I meant (significantly) more than average suffering (for a first world country) though.

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What good is something if you can’t remember it?

EDIT: My main problem with this is that I’d never be able to finish a book, unless I read the whole thing in 24 hours.

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You’d never be able to start any new relationships either.

On the other hand, if you choose the other option, almost all your relationships would end prematurely…

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Damned if I do, damned if I don’t. Both choices ultimately cancel themselves out.

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I’d only take the forget-everything option if I lived in a North Korean concentration camp or something along those lines. Life would have to be pretty bad for me to choose that.

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I definitely need to hear the reasoning behind that pick.

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TV’s Frink said:

I definitely need to hear the reasoning behind that pick.

Well I heard if you flip a turtle over on its back it can’t right itself. That’s what I’m talkin’ about.

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I almost wrote “I never pegged you to be a turtle rapist” but then I realized your account hadn’t been hacked after all.

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Stinky-Dinkins said:

F, Marry, Kill:

A duck, a tortoise, a gay dolphin.

I have heard that dolphins are a really good lay, but they’re also the most intelligent of the animals there, so I think I’d marry a gay dolphin.

I would fuck the duck, only because it rhymes.

And kill the tortoise.

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Jeebus said:
I think I’d marry a gay dolphin.

Hear that? It’s the sound of the entire forum being simultaneously unsurprised.

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