Poll: Does it matter to you?

[DudeistBelieve]

Death.

If you're a good person you got to a better place, whatever it is, where you get to exist and contenue to create. And you are STRONGLY urged to create, regardless how much you know about the universe.

OR

You just evaporate into nothingness. More then likely you aren't aware you're fading off into nothing. You still find peace, but you aren't capable of still be able to create anything like you were before. again, I strongly remind you your still at peace you just cease to create.

Which, if given the choice, do you chose to be your death?

 

[Klitch]

So my choices are complete possession of the powers of creation and not just the opportunity but the near demand that I do whatever I want with them or ethereal nothingness?

Well the obvious answer (assuming you're a good person) is #1.

 

[Akytalusia]

absolutely the second one. i'm really really hoping that's the case.

 

[vxicepickxv]

So my choices are complete possession of the powers of creation and not just the opportunity but the near demand that I do whatever I want with them or ethereal nothingness?

Well the obvious answer (assuming you're a good person) is #1.

Is it now? Is creation for the sake of creation a good thing?

 

[Dags90]

So my choices are complete possession of the powers of creation and not just the opportunity but the near demand that I do whatever I want with them or ethereal nothingness?

Well the obvious answer (assuming you're a good person) is #1.

Don't forget the "If you're a good person" hedge though. With no clues as to whom is making that decision, what their standards may be, or what the consequences are of being someone who isn't a good person. What if people who aren't good are tortured endlessly. Not just "bad" people, but "average" people as well.

#2 is the safe bet, I don't particularly want to evaporate though. That sounds painful.

 

[NeutralDrow]

...I'm confused as to your implication that creation is a bad thing. If my choices are between creating things or oblivion, why exactly would I choose oblivion?

 

[CM156_v1legacy]

Not really understanding the question here...

Is 1 saying I could become a God of sorts? Then yes, I would create my own species and have them bow down to my might!

Kidding. Kidding.

 

[Saelune]

2. Mostly because I doubt I agree with what defines "good" here.

 

[Soviet Steve]

Well good is a bendy thing that can be discussed so just about anyone can bullshit their way out of an argument about it, so I'd chose that one if I could, but I am certain that the second is what'll actually happen.

 

[Klitch]

So my choices are complete possession of the powers of creation and not just the opportunity but the near demand that I do whatever I want with them or ethereal nothingness?

Well the obvious answer (assuming you're a good person) is #1.

Is it now? Is creation for the sake of creation a good thing?

"I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it."
~Niccolò Machiavelli

Granted, I probably should not have assumed the question would be so easy to answer for everyone, but I've always assumed that everyone, deep down, believes that, if given the power, they could build a better world than that which currently exists. Everyone's perception of a "better" world is obviously different and some might be horrifying to others, but to be given the opportunity to create things as I imagine them would be astounding. To answer your question, in my opinion of course, creation for the sake of creation, change for the sake of change, new for the sake of new, is always a good thing. The risks inherent in stagnation (most importantly abject boredom) are too great.

I don't understand why anyone would prefer to simply vanish when the amount of things to be seen, learned, and imagined in this universe are limitless. The prospect of voluntarily removing myself from any sensation, thought, or emotion ever again is horrifying.

On a side note, there are ads in my captcha...not cool.

 

[Lionsfan]

What defines good? What if I'm all set for option 1 only to find out that I'm considered a "bad person" by this judge's standards? I choose option 2, mostly because of that.....


HOWEVA....if I was guaranteed to be considered "good" then I would go Option 1 all the way

 

[Akytalusia]

I don't understand why anyone would prefer to simply vanish when the amount of things to be seen, learned, and imagined in this universe are limitless.

If an eternety in an afterlife meant that you would become an incorporeal being with an unlimited capability to continue observing things in this universe, then sure, that sounds great. but this question, and most theories about it are that you would be removed from this universe to live forever in -some other, better(or worse), universe-. that prospect horrifies me. i don't see how anyone would actually -want- to jump into an unknown universe where you can't die...

The prospect of voluntarily removing myself from any sensation, thought, or emotion ever again is horrifying.

on this point, i was talking with my friend earlier and they said the same thing... it boggles my mind. that would be my personal version of heaven. o.o

 

[TheLoneBeet]

Two. Simply because I'm lazy.

 

[OmniscientOstrich]

No. 1 is the quixotic choice that I would like to have, while No. 2 is the inevitable reality and the reason that I fear death above all things. But as long as were talking hypotheticals I'll go with cashier number 1.

Captcha: Trafer phantom. Awesome.

 

[Biosophilogical]

So my choices are complete possession of the powers of creation and not just the opportunity but the near demand that I do whatever I want with them or ethereal nothingness?

Well the obvious answer (assuming you're a good person) is #1.

Is it now? Is creation for the sake of creation a good thing?

But, you see, what you do is you create a 'shell' for yourself that draws you in and blocks your creation powers/urges. And by shell I mean a body, so you live your life in your creation (and you can create it with whatever goodies you wish), don't have to go with that whole 'endless creation' crap, and essentially have immortality, as you are 'released' when your designed shell dies, meaning you can go off and create stuff, or do what you just did, except change things to keep it interesting.

OT: The options are weird, do you mean that we either become some creation-addict deity thing, or just float peacefully through nothingness for all eternity? Because frankly, I'd rather create for eternity (if you want to do something else, I imagine you could just create a limitless dimension and just absent mindedly create a stream of electrons or something. It is technically creating something, but it doesn't require ingenuity, and leaves you free to do whatever you want with your creation powers/remaining eternity.

 

[Torrasque]

I'll go with option 3:
Be reborn and do it all over again.

 

[loc978]

I get a choice?

...what if I'm not a good person, though? I mean, that really is debatable. If I get the godlike powers, I guess I'd go with that. My self-preservation instinct tells me that would be better than total oblivion.

 

[Hamish Durie]

coud i choose one then after a couple years choose the othere

 

[funguy2121]

Death.

If you're a good person you got to a better place, whatever it is, where you get to exist and contenue to create. And you are STRONGLY urged to create, regardless how much you know about the universe.

OR

You just evaporate into nothingness. More then likely you aren't aware you're fading off into nothing. You still find peace, but you aren't capable of still be able to create anything like you were before. again, I strongly remind you your still at peace you just cease to create.

Which, if given the choice, do you chose to be your death?

Nope, doesn't matter, 'cos how much I care won't change the fact that the fairy tale is just a fairy tale, that there is no future and the relevance of the past is evaporating fast, Heaven and Hell are here on Earth and all we have is now.

Now, take some of these mushrooms and squeegie your third fukkin' eye.

 

[Jordi]

I'm a little confused about the first option. Everybody here seems to think that it grants you superpowers, but it says "continue to create", which leads me to believe that I would be about as good as creating as I am now (hence the "continue"), which is not all that impressive.

Either way, I think I would choose the second option, because the first sounds an awful lot like eternal "life". I think that that will get boring no matter what, and that after a while (maybe centuries) I would basically be begging for the sweet sweet release of death. But of course, I'm already dead, so it seems I will be stuck.