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20 Aug 22
21 Aug 22
@divegeester saidForget the money.
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?
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21 Aug 22
@kevin-eleven saidI sometimes swear but taking the Lord’s Name in vain, especially in a flippant and cavalier manner, is not something I would expect a Christian to do. It offends God so much that a prohibition on it was in the Ten Commandments (unless my memory’s wrong.)
So much for your pose as a Christian.
Are you brave enough to do the same regarding other religions?
I wouldn't think so.
@kevin-eleven saidWho gives a crap what you think.
So much for your pose as a Christian.
Are you brave enough to do the same regarding other religions?
I wouldn't think so.
@suzianne saidThe scenario is that you would retain all your life wisdom, so you would be able to apply that and make whatever changes were necessary to avoid unpleasant event.
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.
@suzianne saidSurely that is nonsense. What you are proposing is that a negative life event is unavoidable with either hindsight or foresight.
Yeah, I find this problematic as well.
Knowing what you should do, without always knowing why you should do it, which is what memories tell you, isn't wisdom. It's conscience.
Wisdom is the cognitive substance which helps us make good decisions in life.
21 Aug 22
@suzianne saidYes wisdom is enough.
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.
“Experience” isn’t wisdom, it is simply learning by mistake and while experiences might add to wisdom’s foresight, they are in fact hindsight.
21 Aug 22
@savedbygrace saidFor the purposes of this thought exercise let’s say that everyone who was alive two thirds of your life ago are once again alive and in the same state of physical and mental health they were then.
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?
So… blue door or red door @SavedByGrace ?
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21 Aug 22
@divegeester saidBlue door - not even a debate. Money doesn’t mean that much to me and I would get saved and come to know God much earlier. Better life decisions would obviously result and lead to avoiding mistakes and a higher quality of living earlier on.
For the purposes of this thought exercise let’s say that everyone who was alive two thirds of your life ago are once again alive and in the same state of physical and mental health they were then.
So… blue door or red door @SavedByGrace ?
21 Aug 22
@savedbygrace saidIf you go back to being younger its going to take you longer to meet up with God.
Blue door - not even a debate. Money doesn’t mean that much to me and I would get saved and come to know God much earlier.
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21 Aug 22
@the-gravedigger saidHow so?
If you go back to being younger its going to take you longer to meet up with God.