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09-28-2007, 11:50 PM
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Location: A blue state, thank goodness.
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Hypothetical Question...
Hypothetically speaking - lets say you have an opportunity to win $1,000,000 in a contest. To win - you must choose from one of the following five options:
"Punch" option ---- You will be punched in the face, just once, by a big fat man. The punch is guaranteed not to be fatal nor to cause brain damage, but you will likely sustain a nasty injury such as a split lip, black eye or perhaps even a broken nose. After being punched - you will be given the $1,000,000! "Bomb" option ---- Nothing will happen to you. However, you will start the countdown on a huge bomb that is hidden deep inside the center of the Earth. The bomb is large enough that, when detonated, it will cause devastating earth quakes and floods all over the planet. The bomb is completely undetectable and can not be disarmed. However it will not detonate until exactly 5,000 years in the future. As soon as the countdown has started - you will be given the $1,000,000! "Insults" option ---- Twenty people will shout terrible insults and obscenities at you for one full hour. These people will not come into physical contact with you nor harm you, but they will say all sorts of horrible and upsetting things to you. After one full hour of intense verbal abuse - you will be given the $1,000,000! "Magic" option ---- Your personality and ethical convictions will be painlessly altered in some unknown way by a magic spell. The alteration will be instantaneous and will not affect your memory, cause brain damage nor result in any physical harm of any kind. After the alteration - you will be given the $1,000,000! "Nothing" option ---- None of the above. Nothing happens to you or anyone else, but you will NOT be given any money. Which option would you choose first? Second? Third? Etc...??? Please list them like so ... (with "1" listed as your first choice, "2" as your next choice, and so on...) 1 - option name 2 - option name 3 - option name 4 - option name 5 - option name
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09-29-2007, 12:50 AM
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is KING!
Location: On the path to Valhalla.
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Hmmmm.... only because I have sat among a circle of men and had them offer/share their projections onto me... i would take the "insult" option in a heartbeat! i would also take the punch in the face in a close second! flesh heals quick.
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09-29-2007, 10:25 AM
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part of the problem
Location: hic et ubique
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1 - insult - i dont' listen to what people say anyway
2- punch - i've been hit in the face, nothing new, and i probably deserve it 3- magic - my personality sucks, anything would be better than what i got now 4 - nothing - ehh, i dont' have a million now, no harm, no foul 5 -bomb - even though there might not be a planet it 5000 years, i'm not gonna take a chance...
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10-16-2007, 07:48 PM
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Minion of the scaléd ones
Location: Northeast Jesusland
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1. Bomb
2. Insult 3. Punch 4. Nothing 5. Magic Only 1 & 5 require any explanation: 5: A change of personality or ethics would very likely invalidate the reason I wanted the money in the first place. So far as I am concerned, I am my personality. I wouldn't kill me for any amount of money. 1: If we're not off this bloody rock within 5K years, we deserve to be erased.
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