Poll: Wealth or Understanding?

[LostTimeLady]

So image, if you will, this situation:

After dinner one evening you hear a knock at your door. Opening it you find a man dressed in white holding two envolopes. The man gives you a choice. Inside one evolope is a cheque for a very large sum of money, enough to live comfortably and never having to work for the rest of your life. In the other is a thing-bob (you decide what it looks like) that will grant you great wisdom and understanding. Not vast inteligence, not the powers of telepathy or precognision, simply wisdom and understanding, i.e. what you know you understand, and you make wise choices in life et cetera.

(This isn't one of those 'who is that guy? Can we trust him?' type threads I was just trying to spice up the question with a story.)

So I ask you, given the choice, which would you take?

According to the book of Proverbs we should desire understanding over wealth but what do you think?

Discuss!

Personally I'd be very tempted by the money, but, if you're wise maybe you'll be able to make good decisions and so you won't need lots of money to be happy?

 

[No_Remainders]

Surely if having vast wisdom and understanding, you will be able to make wise decisions in later life, leading to you being able to... Make money yourself?

Fuck effort. Gimme the cash.

 

[manythings]

Surely if having vast wisdom and understanding, you will be able to make wise decisions in later life, leading to you being able to... Make money yourself?

Fuck effort. Gimme the cash.

It's been proved that retardation runs the global economies so I imagine wisdom and understanding would be severe handicaps.

OT: Wisdom and understanding, I'm a very spartan person when it comes to wants.

 

[Super Toast]

I'm gonna have to take the greedy bastard option.

 

[DEAD34345]

If you chose wisdom and understanding, the first thing you would do is realise you should have chosen the other option.

All the wisdom in the world isn't going to make you any happier, and it isn't going to do all that much good for others either. Wealth doesn't make you happier as such, but it would certainly enable you to do whatever does make you happy, and it would enable you to help others too.

 

[artanis_neravar]

Money definitely the money, because money buy stuff and stuff makes me happy. Also with money I can pay people to be wise and understanding for me

 

[rokkolpo]

MONEY.

Because that is less likely to depress the fuck out of me.

 

[Ham_authority95]

I would question him and tell him to fuck off, since the contents of both envelopes are obviously fake.

But if this wasn't a huge scam of any sort, I would pick money. You get wisdom and understanding with age and experience, anyway.

 

[Jamboxdotcom]

MONEY.

Because that is less likely to depress the fuck out of me.

exactly. i wish i could remember how Vonnegut said it. something along the lines of "stupidity/ignorance is/are vital for happiness."

 

[JacobyPAX]

With great wealth comes great amounts of hookers and blow. I would have to go with the money.

 

[SomeLameStuff]

I'll take the money, because all the wisdom and understanding in the world isn't going to help when I'm out on the street starving due to lack of money.

 

[BreakfastMan]

Get wisdom, then use my new-found wisdom to acquire wealth. Simply really. Who says I can't have my cake and eat it too?

 

[Custard_Angel]

Wisdom and understanding can be applied to attain wealth fairly easily.

Money cannot really be used to attain wealth and understanding.

 

[Neonit]

wisdom. i know i know, ignorance is bliss.... but i like being the guy that (rightfully) says "i told you so....." every f*** time to annoy people.

 

[ZombieGenesis]

Wealth. Wisdom and understanding are good, but they don't lead to money or success.
Wise and understanding people can make good choices, but things can still go bad. Promising ventures can collapse. The universe is never certain, so you can never really 'understand' anything. That's why "psychic telepathy" would be the only mind related option I would take.

Other than that, wealth. Lots of it.

 

[CG NUTS]

wisdom is something you should learn yourself, so i would chose the money because i can help allot more with that. because history shows it doesn't matter how wise you are most people wont listen.

 

[FarleShadow]

Wisdom and Understanding.

Because with it, you could manipulate the fuck out of everyone to get whatever you want without ever needing the cash to buy it. Also, Whorship as a wise man..

And yes, that's intentional.

 

[Catchy Slogan]

I could use wisdom and understanding to gain more money in the stock markets.