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Suppose a God suddenly appears in front of you in your home and tells you the world will end in six months when a huge meteorite impacts with our planet. Everyone and everything will perish.
...EXCEPT. You alone have the power to stop that from happening. The catch is, to do so, you will die.
It might be an easy choice, because you hate the life you live, it is a life of loneliness and despair. There's not a day that goes by you don't wish you were already dead, except you keep on anyway despite everything. Now this God tells you all this, except it gives you a choice!
You can sacrifice yourself for humanity. You will die forever, there is no afterlife and there never was. Furthermore, nobody will ever know what you did, no songs will be sung about your heroic and seemingly selfless deed.
OR, the God tells you...
...You will find your true love as soon as you step outside the door of your home. Everything emotionally that you were missing will be yours, all the wrongs will be rightened and you will be truly, thoroughly happy for the first time in your life. For six months, total bliss will be yours, and then the world will end and you will die along with everybody else when that meteorite impacts. No reincarnation. No afterlife. Nobody will know of your choice except you and the God, nobody will ever accuse you because of your actions, least of all the person who loves you should you tell anyone.
What would YOU choose, and why?
Don't try to pick the choice you think is "right". Pick the one YOU think you would make.
"But he that hath the steerage of my course,
direct my sail."
-William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act One, Scene IV
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What if?
By: lenny on Sat, 21 February 2004 17:20 |
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Re: What if?
By: mike on Sat, 21 February 2004 21:57 |
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Re: What if?
By: nick on Sat, 21 February 2004 22:44 |
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Re: What if?
By: ch.oo.lo on Sat, 21 February 2004 23:33 |
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Re: What if?
By: marc on Sun, 22 February 2004 00:21 |
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Re: What if?
By: marc on Sun, 22 February 2004 00:26 |
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Re: What if?
By: ch.oo.lo on Sun, 22 February 2004 00:44 |
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Re: What if?
By: marc on Sun, 22 February 2004 11:03 |
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Re: What if?
By: saben on Sun, 22 February 2004 13:38 |
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Re: What if?
By: saben on Sun, 22 February 2004 13:33 |
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Re: What if?
By: ch.oo.lo on Sun, 22 February 2004 00:55 |
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I'm going to be honest
By: saben on Sun, 22 February 2004 14:01 |
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