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20 Aug 22
20 Aug 22
@divegeester saidThis is a no-brainer for me.
The BLUE door takes you back in time two thirds of your lifetime with all your current “life wisdom”, but NOT your memories. So you won’t miss anyone from these years reclaimed and you can’t milk the stock market!
The RED door gives you £20 million dollars, or the equivalent in whatever Mickey Mouse currency you want.
What will you choose and why?
Taking 2/3 of my years would place me at 15. I was still a naive little girl at this point. This was about a year before the most traumatic years of my life. Going back without memories would condemn me to repeat the mistakes leading up to that and force me to endure it all over again, with no guarantee I would come out the other end the same person I am today.
So give me the 20 million whatevers (pounds, dollars, whatever). That could be put to good use (not just for me) immediately. As I said, a no-brainer.
@suzianne saidI believe Suzianne that you would still have the wisdom you have today, just no memories. I think that was his idea.
This is a no-brainer for me.
Taking 2/3 of my years would place me at 15. I was still a naive little girl at this point. This was about a year before the most traumatic years of my life. Going back without memories would condemn me to repeat the mistakes leading up to that and force me to endure it all over again, with no guarantee I would come out the other end the sa ...[text shortened]... , whatever). That could be put to good use (not just for me) immediately. As I said, a no-brainer.
20 Aug 22
@torunn saidBut is that wisdom alone, without the memories to tell you what the alternative is, enough to help you make better decisions? Sometimes, maybe, but for example, would a decision of the heart be made with wisdom, or something else? I say experience is better than wisdom. And without memories, no experience.
I believe Suzianne that you would still have the wisdom you have today, just no memories. I think that was his idea.
20 Aug 22
@suzianne saidI agree - how can we be truly wise without making mistakes that we remember?
But is that wisdom alone, without the memories to tell you what the alternative is, enough to help you make better decisions? Sometimes, maybe, but for example, would a decision of the heart be made with wisdom, or something else? I say experience is better than wisdom. And without memories, no experience.
20 Aug 22
@suzianne saidPlease pick up your $20M at the door.
This is a no-brainer for me.
Taking 2/3 of my years would place me at 15. I was still a naive little girl at this point. This was about a year before the most traumatic years of my life. Going back without memories would condemn me to repeat the mistakes leading up to that and force me to endure it all over again, with no guarantee I would come out the other end the sa ...[text shortened]... , whatever). That could be put to good use (not just for me) immediately. As I said, a no-brainer.
Thank you.
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20 Aug 22
@divegeester saidIf we choose the blue door, do our loved ones who are now deceased become alive again as they were (in my case) 38 years ago?
The BLUE door takes you back in time two thirds of your lifetime with all your current “life wisdom”, but NOT your memories. So you won’t miss anyone from these years reclaimed and you can’t milk the stock market!
The RED door gives you £20 million dollars, or the equivalent in whatever Mickey Mouse currency you want.
What will you choose and why?
It appears from the OP that they wouldn’t but will we retain memories of them during the first third of our lives? If so, how would we deal with not knowing what happened to them?
@savedbygrace saidThe dead stay dead.
If we choose the blue door, do our loved ones who are now deceased become alive again as they were (in my case) 38 years ago?
It appears from the OP that they wouldn’t but will we retain memories of them during the first third of our lives? If so, how would we deal with not knowing what happened to them?
Just take the dang money.
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20 Aug 22
@the-gravedigger saidYeah, given the unresolved issues with taking the years, I’m inclined to take the money. Don’t know why the OP wasn’t just you get a mulligan and are your young self again - in the same family, school, etc. with memories intact. If that were the case, I’d take the years.
The dead stay dead.
Just take the dang money.