I'd take any amount of pain over nonexistence.

I would fulfill this brain surgeon's wish. Make him immortal, and make it so every moment of his life is a perpetual gauntlet of the most excruciating pain ever. It would escalate exponentially for every millisecond you exist, so that you would never get used to it or grow numb to it. It would never peak--it would worsen every single day for all eternity (you would live and be fully conscious through the inevitable heat death of the universe, which would feel like a light breeze in comparison to the pain).

We'd see how much you'd want to exist then.

That would be my punishment for anyone stupid enough to say,
"I'd take any amount of pain over nonexistence."

Quote from: Saladin on August 19, 2015, 07:05:35 AM

Quote from: DAS WAIFUMEISTER x2 on August 19, 2015, 07:04:48 AM

given that all time, every age, and all lives occur simultaneously, no, there wasn't.

What.

Time is not linear
Our lives are occurring in the same moments that Napoleon's is.

Is it a big ball of timey-wimey stuff?

And I could take comfort in that fact that you're dead and I'm, y'know, not.

Except I'd be a god. So, no.

Sure, kid.

This is going better than what I expected.

Couldn't a omnipotent being just abolish suffering?

yeah but the idea is that if you WANT to suffer, you SHOULD suffer
imo

ask and you shall receive

I would try to do good, but also do some naughty things for fun.

Like poke sexy butts with my pinkie and overly moisten everybody's bread right when they were making a sandwich.

Quote from: Verbatim on August 17, 2015, 11:28:13 PM

"Let there be nothing."

Assuming I'm not that powerful... I dunno, I would probably just... put everyone in their own personal virtual reality. They can be gods of their own virtual world, and fulfill their every desire there.

Speaking on the concept of "nothing" Verb, this one's been tailing my thoughts for a little while now. I suppose this relates to beardy-weirdy-in-the-skyhood a little bit. It is, by most definitions, safe to assume that the term nothing applies to, just that.

Fuck all.

But I question, how can nothing really exist if something does exist? When you consider it like a bubble, or a sphere, that little blip of existence fills a space in the otherwise blank void. In order to get to said blank void, one has to transition between a barrier. From something, to "nothing." Otherwise it wouldn't make any sense really. But even with that, you can't actually really call nothing as being absolutely nothing.

Ramblings of mine. If I vaugely remember, in some fashion you consider nothing to be "perfection." And when I thought about it, I figured that nothing can't technically exist.

No pun intended. Thoughts?

As far as we can tell, it seems that, essentially, nothing is something, and something is nothing, as hard as that is to understand. I think that the terms need to be redefined.

Quantum mechanics are a thing.