StitchInTime Posted November 15, 2005 Share Posted November 15, 2005 If you had the opportunity to know the time and place of your death, would you want to know? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TFMF Posted November 15, 2005 Share Posted November 15, 2005 You know - you only need the first 2 options in that poll! :) but no i wouldn't like to know when or where I died - Would just be freaky knowing when you will die Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wahaha Posted November 15, 2005 Share Posted November 15, 2005 Assuming all the laws of reality apply, you would die if you tried to kill yourself earlier than that date. Therefore, if you do know the date of your death, you have the chance to change the events leading to it, and prevent it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StitchInTime Posted November 15, 2005 Author Share Posted November 15, 2005 You know - you only need the first 2 options in that poll! :) I was just trying to make sure the poll was sufficiently pointless to fit into this subforum. ;) I said yes, because I think about death all the time. It would be a great relief to me to know the details, because the suspense is 'killing' me. :cyclops: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StitchInTime Posted November 15, 2005 Author Share Posted November 15, 2005 Assuming all the laws of reality apply' date=' you would die if you tried to kill yourself earlier than that date.[/quote'] Ah, but if 'all the laws of reality apply,' you wouldn't know when or where your death would occur. :cyclops: Therefore, if you do know the date of your death, you have the chance to change the events leading to it, and prevent it. I mean your final death, as in, when your time is up, no matter what you do. Also, some would argue that it's destiny, and therefore you can't change it. (As for me, I wouldn't know.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foil Posted November 15, 2005 Share Posted November 15, 2005 No, I wouldn't. It'd be cool to think you could know it, but I know myself, I'd go crazier and crazier, until I did something stupid and got myself killed..... Of course, I could become the world's most famous daredevil in the time before my known death... can't die for X years... Interesting philosophical questions: if I won't die until such a date, could I shoot myself in the head and live? Or could I simply for some reason never pull that trigger, to keep with fate? Could I survive drinking 24M Hydrochloric Acid, or would I never get it into my mouth, no matter how I tried? Discuss... Ha ha. Daredevil reference again. Knowing when you die doesn't mean you couldn't end up in a coma. I know I'm trying to oversmart the question, but if you spent most of your tiime in a coma and then came out of it just in time to die...well, that would kinda suck. Daredevil was blind, I doubt those extrasensory abilities wouldn't work so well if you couln't move your legs :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nuages Posted November 15, 2005 Share Posted November 15, 2005 knowing would be a great experiment in determinism, you could try to do everything possible to avoid this death, it would be like a game. Move somewhere really far from that location and stay away from it at all costs. See if you somehow end up there and die still or don't!!!! you will die gaining some very interesting knowledge, oh have a recorder on you or someone with you at the time to record this info. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philly Posted November 15, 2005 Share Posted November 15, 2005 Actually i need more coffee before learning of something like that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quii Posted November 15, 2005 Share Posted November 15, 2005 The only valid date of death would be the one that takes into account your actions caused by you actually knowing it... Which means that if you try to avoid your death you will only cause it, but if you don't, you'll die anyway, because it was already forseen how would you react. A thought of killing yourself before the known date of death messes everything up... but would anyone really do this? ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StitchInTime Posted November 16, 2005 Author Share Posted November 16, 2005 Now, if only I understood what you just said. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foil Posted November 16, 2005 Share Posted November 16, 2005 I'm dying to know when I will di....urk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest c4evap Posted November 16, 2005 Share Posted November 16, 2005 I already know it since it has already happened and will happen again. String theory c4 ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StitchInTime Posted November 16, 2005 Author Share Posted November 16, 2005 I already know it since it has already happened and will happen again. String theory Ah, yes, String theory; it's one of Murphy's laws: Linear objects (such as wire, string, etc.) when left to their own devices, occupy time by twisting themselves into tangles and weaving knots.--The Official Explanations I don't see how that relates, though. ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest c4evap Posted November 17, 2005 Share Posted November 17, 2005 I already know it since it has already happened and will happen again. String theory Ah, yes, String theory; it's one of Murphy's laws: Linear objects (such as wire, string, etc.) when left to their own devices, occupy time by twisting themselves into tangles and weaving knots.--The Official Explanations I don't see how that relates, though. ;) Murphy's law? I don't get it... :thinking: The Offical String Theory Website c4 B) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StitchInTime Posted November 17, 2005 Author Share Posted November 17, 2005 Well, that's probably because you haven't yet read The Official Explanations, put out by America's "smallest and least organized think tank," The Murphy Center for the Codification of Human and Organizational Law--A.K.A., the motley crew behind Murphy's Laws. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
str82u Posted November 17, 2005 Share Posted November 17, 2005 I would hate to know because my luck would be I'd be a vegetable for ten years before someone pulled the plug, and even if I did know, I'd probably get myself killed sooner trying to get out of it or cause that vegetative state in the process. I voted for Coffee. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StitchInTime Posted November 17, 2005 Author Share Posted November 17, 2005 I voted for Coffee. How do you like it? :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest c4evap Posted November 17, 2005 Share Posted November 17, 2005 Well' date=' that's probably because you haven't yet read [i']The Official Explanations[/i], put out by America's "smallest and least organized think tank," The Murphy Center for the Codification of Human and Organizational Law--A.K.A., the motley crew behind Murphy's Laws. Well, what I do know of Murphy's law is "If anything can go wrong...it will". What that has to do with string theory is anybody's guess... c4 :thinking: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
str82u Posted November 19, 2005 Share Posted November 19, 2005 I voted for Coffee. How do you like it? :D Dark and Bitter like my women... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foil Posted November 19, 2005 Share Posted November 19, 2005 I voted for Coffee. How do you like it? :D Dark and Bitter like my women... lol...where did you get that line? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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