Mudcat
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Suppose you died tonight. Game over - that's it. Adios.
But immediately after your death you meet with some other-worldly being who offers you this choice: you can either
(a) live your life over again exactly. Nothing will be different and you will not be aware you are doing a rerun and you will die at the exact same point, meaning right exactly as your life is today.
(b) just go ahead and skip the replay and be dead. i.e. - you're dead and completely unconscious forever and it's over period. Dead.
Here are my thoughts on it. If I was given this choice in 1990, it would be easy and I would choose to just be dead and not bother with the replay. So much of my life to that point was struggle, struggle, struggle. Sure there were some happy times but overall the dominant theme was the struggle.
Now since 1990, it's been more like half and half. Meaning about half of it would definitely be worth doing over. But I don't think it would be worth going through all the decades of struggle just to get to those good bits.
So the bottom line is, I think if I had to make this choice today, I would just say, "Nah, let's just call it a day."
Is that horrible? I guess that's basically like saying I would be better off never having been born.
Except not really. Because if the question were altered to allow for the possible future, I would definitely gamble and say, "Yes, I think that by the time I am done, the good will outweigh the bad and it will be +ev to do it over."
Just thought I'd lay some deep philosophical whatnot upon you before I head out.
But immediately after your death you meet with some other-worldly being who offers you this choice: you can either
(a) live your life over again exactly. Nothing will be different and you will not be aware you are doing a rerun and you will die at the exact same point, meaning right exactly as your life is today.
(b) just go ahead and skip the replay and be dead. i.e. - you're dead and completely unconscious forever and it's over period. Dead.
Here are my thoughts on it. If I was given this choice in 1990, it would be easy and I would choose to just be dead and not bother with the replay. So much of my life to that point was struggle, struggle, struggle. Sure there were some happy times but overall the dominant theme was the struggle.
Now since 1990, it's been more like half and half. Meaning about half of it would definitely be worth doing over. But I don't think it would be worth going through all the decades of struggle just to get to those good bits.
So the bottom line is, I think if I had to make this choice today, I would just say, "Nah, let's just call it a day."
Is that horrible? I guess that's basically like saying I would be better off never having been born.
Except not really. Because if the question were altered to allow for the possible future, I would definitely gamble and say, "Yes, I think that by the time I am done, the good will outweigh the bad and it will be +ev to do it over."
Just thought I'd lay some deep philosophical whatnot upon you before I head out.
