If you could, would you?

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As a human being, you essentially exist as a point. Or a rough approximation of a point, if viewed from a great distance. By this I mean that everything you feel is centralised - tied to physical location.

What if you could discard your body, and become an omnipresent being. Observing everything with one-hundred percent accuracy, absolute objectivity. You would have the knowledge of every particle that exists throughout the universe, and with that the combined knowledge of humanity today.

You would only have to forfeit the ability to communicate or otherwise interact with anything ever again.

IF you could, would you?

― Andrew (enneff), Saturday, 19 October 2002 07:22 (twenty-three years ago)

Give up sex and food for complete knowledge and understanding? - fuck that!

― James Blount (James Blount), Saturday, 19 October 2002 07:28 (twenty-three years ago)

does it have to be so final?
i actually think ( hope /believe ) that this is a state i might reach when this body gives up and dies. not becoming a god or anything ( i dont think they exist ) but being re-merged again into the flow.
but to answer the question? yep.

― donna (donna), Saturday, 19 October 2002 08:02 (twenty-three years ago)

Like Ray Milland in 'The Man with X-Ray Eyes'? I can achieve that state with crystal meth. To answer your question - yes. I'd do it right now if possible. ("Don't try and reach me, I'll tear up your mind/ I've seen the future and I've left it all behind...")

― dave q, Saturday, 19 October 2002 08:36 (twenty-three years ago)

Man, I'd be the Watcher! That's not cool, coz you have to watch eat Galactus eating planets.

― jel -- (jel), Saturday, 19 October 2002 08:40 (twenty-three years ago)

nope.

― webber (webber), Saturday, 19 October 2002 09:05 (twenty-three years ago)

But jel, the Watcher does nothing but interfere! The fact that he always says something that decodes to "I'm not allowed to interfere at all ever, but just this once" shouldn't fool anyone.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 19 October 2002 10:49 (twenty-three years ago)

hmm. maybe for a little while. having lived 24 years with a body could cause some major withdrawls...

― ***1979*** (***1979***), Saturday, 19 October 2002 11:22 (twenty-three years ago)

Andrew - gonna be around tonight?

*Roken is Dodelijk* in the T House if you're interested...

I would recommend attending as a mortal rather than a omnipresent super being though. I mean you'd never get served at the bar and I'm sure Dancing on the Ceiling loses its allure when you "have the knowledge of every particle that exists throughout the universe." Or does it?

New thread??!

― Dot, Saturday, 19 October 2002 11:29 (twenty-three years ago)

What what? I don't get it.

― Andrew (enneff), Saturday, 19 October 2002 12:30 (twenty-three years ago)

SPANKME!!!!!!!!!!!!!

― Mike Hanle y (mike), Saturday, 19 October 2002 12:31 (twenty-three years ago)

*Roken is Dodelijk* = night
T House = Thomas House

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 19 October 2002 12:33 (twenty-three years ago)

james is the only person to express any sense in this fucking thread so far.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 19 October 2002 12:35 (twenty-three years ago)

Don't come the innocent with me.

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 19 October 2002 12:45 (twenty-three years ago)

N, I still don't understand.

Help!

― Andrew (enneff), Saturday, 19 October 2002 12:48 (twenty-three years ago)

Wrong Andrew methinks....

― Ronan (Ronan), Saturday, 19 October 2002 12:51 (twenty-three years ago)

Damn. Damn damn damn.

― Andrew (enneff), Saturday, 19 October 2002 12:53 (twenty-three years ago)

sshhh Ronan.

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 19 October 2002 13:26 (twenty-three years ago)

no i wouldn't, i love food and i don't like smart-asses. but i would like to be a time technician like saphhire and steel. (minus ass-kickings from transient beings).

― di smith (lucylurex), Sunday, 20 October 2002 00:58 (twenty-three years ago)

Jeez, the burden of knowledge that I already have is weighty enough. Besides, it's not like you could come back to yourself after that, even if you wanted to. So the question is basically - do you want yourself, as you are now, to cease to exist? So um.. no.

― Kim (Kim), Sunday, 20 October 2002 02:36 (twenty-three years ago)

Throw in "...and forever" and you've got a deal. Knowing what the story is pretty cool, but I want to know how the story ends.

Dot: I wasn't online (= in work) yesterday. I'm at Crash this evening though. You know the time. You know the place.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Sunday, 20 October 2002 15:03 (twenty-three years ago)

... although it's an interesting question as to whether you'd get bored. Is it still gripping when the right girl falls for the wrong boy for the hundreth time?

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 21 October 2002 13:24 (twenty-three years ago)

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