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If you could be told the exact date you would die, but not how or why, would you want to know?
Would you want to know how much time you have left, or is ignorance of that specific date truly bliss?
If you'd explain your reasoning that'd be great too. Hopefully not just a simple yes/no answer.
In purely philosophical terms, if we knew exactly how and/or exactly when we were going to die then ultimately that information would change how we live.
If you could be told the exact date you would die, but not how or why, would you want to know?
Would you want to know how much time you have left, or is ignorance of that specific date truly bliss?
If you'd explain your reasoning that'd be great too. Hopefully not just a simple yes/no answer.
I think I would pray incessantly if I knew the time of my death.
You wouldn't have as much sex as possible???? With as many women as possible???? :doh:2wave::lamo
Priorities man.....priorities
Not if that's all taken into consideration by whatever mechanism/being/thing can determine the actual day you die.
Hit by a train, heart attack, lightning strike, murder victim, drowning, or freak accident can all be taken into consideration. Simply staying in bed the day that is your "death day" wouldn't work. Your heater could explode, or your roof caves in, or an artery in your neck bursts for no known cause.....
If you could be told the exact date you would die, but not how or why, would you want to know?
Would you want to know how much time you have left, or is ignorance of that specific date truly bliss?
If you'd explain your reasoning that'd be great too. Hopefully not just a simple yes/no answer.
Its not the quantity but the quality that counts.
There is a real point being made I am concerned that you missed. Even if you were only told when you would die but not how you would die, there are still decisions made based on that information. Odds are based on fear about the time you have left, and there is no real assumption that one method of death would be replaced with an alternate method of death to occur at the same time just because of decisions made.
The issue at hand is the assumption of destiny, that something will happen regardless. Since we have no real evidence (even thought exercise) to support the idea then we do not really know what our decisions do and do not effect. Therefor it makes more sense to answer no, any yes answer just means making a different set of decisions based on information that ultimately we do not have anyway.
You wouldn't have as much sex as possible???? With as many women as possible???? :doh:2wave::lamo
Priorities man.....priorities
#1) That might depend on how many days you'd have left....
#2) Is that really true for "most guys"?
:lamo
If you could be told the exact date you would die, but not how or why, would you want to know?
Would you want to know how much time you have left, or is ignorance of that specific date truly bliss?
If you'd explain your reasoning that'd be great too. Hopefully not just a simple yes/no answer.
I've said for years I would rather have cancer than a heart attack. Not quite the same as knowing the exact moment, but one reason for me thinking, "yeah, I'd like that," is the same. I'd like time to plan and do whatever I hadn't done yet, if feasible, make sure I've made peace with anyone important I might be feuding with, stuff like that. If I knew the exact moment, I'd know when it might be too late.If you could be told the exact date you would die, but not how or why, would you want to know? Would you want to know how much time you have left, or is ignorance of that specific date truly bliss? If you'd explain your reasoning that'd be great too. Hopefully not just a simple yes/no answer.
In purely philosophical terms, if we knew exactly how and/or exactly when we were going to die then ultimately that information would change how we live. That creates a conundrum on that information being a motivator to live differently enough to change the outcome.
Which speaks to choices becoming the determination of destiny, not necessarily a mystical force that determines outcome like a puppet master. Even if you do not buy into that notion, and side with things being a matter of chance (or randomness) then any information you are given changes all of those chances (or, impacts how randomness plays out) as the condition is different.
So, no I would not want to know this information as there is no real certainty that the information stays "true" simply because I found out somehow. All you have really changed with that information is a condition to avoid, which changes how you live. And by extension changing all those outcomes from that decision which are not all about self.
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