What if you knew everything?

[Deleted]

I would 'discover' things and make money off my knowledge.

 

[Brandon237]

I would hire a very skilled engineer after winning every quiz show in the world.

Said engineer would basically create the doomsday devices I have the blueprints for in my head. It would be glorious.

 

[Lord Mountbatten Reborn]

How would I actually come to KNOW that I KNOW everything?

That's reminds me of that whole "If God is all-powerful then surely he can make something more powerful?" That one's interesting.

OT: To go from what the OP said, there is this one person in my classes who overheard me helping my friend for a History presentation. History from the late 19th century onwards has always been of great interest to me, and even one of my friends, who knows a shitload about all things historical (he found some books on Vikings so he could de-construct everything said in them), tells me I know more about 20th century History.

This person heard me talking quite a lot about Vietnam, which isn't even something I'd consider myself that great at (most of what I say in these circumstances consists of musings on other events around the general time), and now believes I know a great deal. This is true, but they make it seem as though I know everything, which I don't.

It's not really a good thing that I find this person repulsive anyway, so this added attention is something I don't want.

 

[Doomsday11]

Reality jumper
or
Batman

 

[dragonslayer32]

id kill myself. it seems to be the only reasonable action to take. but before i did that, i would write thousands of books detailing EVERYTHING EVER!

 

[EightGaugeHippo]

I would build a house high in the mountains and offer eternal wisodm to any who discover my sacred sanctuary.

Or just play "Guess Who" a win every time.

 

[ReckzB]

Hang on... so I know exactly how, when, and where I'm going to die, if it's murder by whomever's hands, if disease by whatever ailment, and so on, and I know exactly how to prevent this, what happens when I use some perfect method to prevent my death? Assumedly, I'd suddenly acquire new knowledge of another instance in which I'm doomed and have to find a way to work around that.

Seems like a bit of a negative in the omniscience department.

 

[Riobux]

I probably would get depressed.

After all, it's hard to not feel depressed after knowing how absolutely horrible humanity is, the waste of time life is and the unfair afterlife which will likely screw us all (if you believe in athiesm, you rot in a black hole for eternity, you cease to exist, if you believe in classic western monotheism (Christianity, Judaism, etc) then you'll go to hell for the slightest offence and every other religion will screw you).

Straight after, I'd go make myself a lot of money.

 

[TheRightToArmBears]

I would be making shitloads of money by inventing shit. Then denounce everything I dislike publicly (people will listen to me!), make some deep statements, publish science papers, then take over the country. By the time everyone had sussed that I knew everything I would start telling random people things that weren't actually true and watch them do stupid things. Like that they would see health benefits from eating their own feces or something.

 

[joshuaayt]

I'd ditch school, accidentally(onpurpose) kill my friend to cure both AIDS and cancer, marry a cute Japanese girl, become president, attempt to change the world into a utopia via genocide, then get killed by aformentioned cute japanese girl when she purposefully explodes.
Wait, no, that's not me at all!

 

[TheRightToArmBears]

I would be making shitloads of money by inventing shit. Then denounce everything I dislike publicly (people will listen to me!), make some deep statements, publish science papers, then take over the country. By the time everyone had sussed that I knew everything I would start telling random people things that weren't actually true and watch them do stupid things. Like that they would see health benefits from eating their own feces or something.

You sir should run for world leader... I would vote.

I will do, as soon as I know everything.

So that should be around Thursday teatime. MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

 

[tombman888]

i would reveal the question to the answer of 42.

 

[Wardnath]

Well, I'd kill myself out of depression.

Why? Because some of that "everything" would include such atrocities as the Holocaust and the Crusades. I'd know exactly how much those victims suffered, and it'd simply be too much to handle, really.

 

[Rakkana]

Use the knowledge to find a way to make myself forget it. I would be really bored without surprises in life.

 

[joshuaayt]

I'd ditch school, accidentally(onpurpose) kill my friend to cure both AIDS and cancer, marry a cute Japanese girl, become president, attempt to change the world into a utopia via genocide, then get killed by aformentioned cute japanese girl when she purposefully explodes.
Wait, no, that's not me at all!

Who is that then because that sounds intersting. Hhaha

That, my good man, is Prodigy (David Alleyne) from New X-men, Academy X. David, who absorbs knowledge from people temporarily, gains the ability to keep that knowledge with him. Much chaos results.