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Well which one would you pick? TEN BILLION NOT MILLION!

I choose pikachu.

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Okay, I'll take the money.

Ultimate Knowledge, since the prescience it would afford me would make me pwn on the stock exchange, and make considerably more than £10,000,000

Knowledge... for with Knowledge, the money will come in.

Hey, if you guys don't want the money, I'll take it. It's no fun being much smarter than everyone else. People tend not to like you anymore :p

I'd take the money, as it is my life's quest to find the ultimate knowledge, and if I found it my life would have no meaning.

Hey, if you guys don't want the money, I'll take it. It's no fun being much smarter than everyone else. People tend not to like you anymore :p

Most people like me....:p

Hey, if you guys don't want the money, I'll take it. It's no fun being much smarter than everyone else. People tend not to like you anymore :p
but with the intelligence, one can make more.

and the not liking depends on how you use that knowledge.

just like some rich people are not well liked in society.

I'll take the money. Then hire someone who has the ultimate knowledge.

but with the intelligence, one can make more.

and the not liking depends on how you use that knowledge.

just like some rich people are not well liked in society.
I'd prefer not knowing everything. Life loses all its wonderfully mysterious mysteries and you'd have to give up believing in fate, the Easter bunny and the like. Quite frankly I'd really prefer not knowing what they put in those fish sticks... and keep the money instead to lead a very comfortable life :D

I'd take the money, as it is my life's quest to find the ultimate knowledge, and if I found it my life would have no meaning. Money is the root to other things, knowledge is the end of a journey that I still wish to cross.

In the worst case, with the ultimate knowledge, you could earn/make much more, and figure out a way to forget everything you don't want to know.

Ultimate knowledge.
So then i'll discover the secret to immortality but i won't get use it because i'll eat the brains of your children before dying an early death of kuru.

£10,000,000 isn't enough for a poll question but there are some things you don't want to know and believe me there are some things you don't want to know :eek:

or you take the ultimate knowledge and use that knowledge to make money



hmmm.... its a win win.:)

Money is the root to other thingsMoney is the root to Times Square
(because time is money)

Hey, if you guys don't want the money, I'll take it. It's no fun being much smarter than everyone else. People tend not to like you anymore :p

Not that much difference to now. And I've always been a curious person ;)

Money baby!

I'd take the money, as it is my life's quest to find the ultimate knowledge, and if I found it my life would have no meaning. Money is the root to other things, knowledge is the end of a journey that I still wish to cross.
one thing I want to point out tho. Knowledge does not equal Wisdom. thus the new journey could be finding the wisdom to use such knowledge.

one thing I want to point out tho. Knowledge does not equal Wisdom. thus the new journey could be finding the wisdom to use such knowledge.


use it to make money

one thing I want to point out tho. Knowledge does not equal Wisdom. thus the new journey could be finding the wisdom to use such knowledge.If you have the knowledge, you at least know how to attain wisdom.

Obviously knowledge- you could sell it for more than 10 000 000$

Although you'd probably be realy lonely and sad

also you could jsut buy the important knowledge if you took the money.

Its a pickle:(

Obviously knowledge- you could sell it for more than 10 000 000$

Although you'd probably be realy lonely and sad

also you could jsut buy the important knowledge if you took the money.

Its a pickle:(


with 10,000,000 bucks i'd open my own place with blackjack and hookers.

Ultimate Knowledge. Understanding life would be worth it to pass up the money. Plus I make money my way.

Once i had ultimate knowledge i would go to his place and have fun.^

I'll take ulimate knowledge over $10 million, $10 billion, or even $10 trillion...after enough money, there isn't a whole lot more I could do with it, and frankly, I enjoy having lots of knowledge. That plus I could go on Millionaire and win $1 million, plus I could go invest that in the next hot stock and turn that into about $100 million. After that I would make a killing in whatever hot market is there and turn it into about $10 billion, at which point I would become wealthier and wealthier. Soon I would become more powerful than you could possibly imagine, which means that I would buy every idiot world leader and demagogue and kick them down about 30 flights of stairs, film the ensuig carnage, and make even more money off of it. THe money would never stop rolling in.

Ultimate Knowledge, then you mke even more than 10 bill in the Stock Market or curencies.

If you have the knowledge, you at least know how to attain wisdom.but knowing How to obtain the wisdom and Obtaining the wisdom are two different things.

I picked money because of the Atlantis reference. Also, when you're that rich you can afford to be ignorant.

but knowing How to obtain the wisdom and Obtaining the wisdom are two different things.Well, yes, you still have to do it. But you know how you can do it. So there's nothing to stop you, except your motivation.
In fact you know how to do it within 15 minutes, because you know everything ;)

Man, this thread makes me wanna throw up.

Knowledge is nothing but another means to make more money?

Ever came across the idea that ultimate knowledge could mean you won't give a shit about money any more?

Pathetic.

Well, yes, you still have to do it. But you know how you can do it. So there's nothing to stop you, except your motivation.
In fact you know how to do it within 15 minutes, because you know everything ;)
how do you know it's 15 minutes. the Ultimate knowledge might tell you it takes 15 years at the shortest possible time.

Man, this thread makes me wanna throw up.

Knowledge is nothing but another means to make more money?

Ever came across the idea that ultimate knowledge could mean you won't give a shit about money any more?

Pathetic.
that has crossed my mind, but you will still need to make money for knowing how to get something doesn't mean you still won't need to BUY it. ;)

how do you know it's 15 minutes. the Ultimate knowledge might tell you it takes 15 years at the shortest possible time.Ah, but then you don't know everything. If you knew everything, you'd know how to do it in 15 minutes ;)
(But let's just say, knowing everything is impossible.)

With total absolute knowledge I could do anything. So I'd pick knowledge.

$10 billion or ultimate knowledge?

I'd take the money, put $7.5 billion into an interest gathering account, and in 50 years that'll be $18.750 billion.

How I would spend the $2.5 billion I kept for myself:

college - $240,000

house - $35,000,000

car(s) - $997,990

left: $2.463 billion

assuming I had the job of my dreams - hotel manager at a five star hotel - I'd put my $375,000/year salary away every year, retire with $15 million.

$2.463 billion + $15 million = $2.478 billion + $18.750 billion = $21.228 billion.

So I'll be 68 years old, and have $21.228 billion to my name? Hell yeah!

I dunno, I don't WANT ultimate knowledge. Knowledge is power, and with great power comes great responsibility. I'd prefer to leave God with ultimate knowledge - and thus ultimate power and ultimate responsibility and me, I can just stay human. I wouldn't know what to do with ultimate knowledge, and would probably abuse it.

As to getting $10,000,000,000 at least I could give large bits of it away to people who would use it well. Think of all those starving children that could be fed. Think of all the research you could fund. I wouldn't have to work, but could just do volunteer things, and do things I think are worthwhile without having to worry about starving. Oh, and I couild pay someone to waterproof and reinsulate my basement.

Indeed, with that much wealth I'd donate so much to charities, and other good causes.

Man, this thread makes me wanna throw up.

Knowledge is nothing but another means to make more money?Sure it is more. But since knowledge already implies you can also get the money, it is without question better, regardless of other benefits.
Either you have money, or you have knowledge plus money (plus anything else that follows from it).

I'm going with knowledge. Once I know everything, I shall play the stick market like I'm cheating at Monopoly, accruing a sizable fortune and allowing me enough free time to set to work on Phase 2, creating a cult around myself. Once the cult is fully underway, I can go into Phase 3, acquiring nuclear weapons, and round it out with Phase 4, Global Domination/Destruction (depending on how much fight the world puts up).
Even with 10,000,000,000 pounds I couldn't buy the world.

Once I know everything, I shall play the stick market like I'm cheating at MonopolyI didn't know there was much money to be made in sticks. I'd think oil would have better prospects, on the short term at least. (Once it runs out, perhaps having cornered the stick market will pay off big time, as there's no other viable fuel)

i htink it'd take a mature person to have ultimate knowledge and not abuse it.

i htink it'd take a mature person to have ultimate knowledge and not abuse it.They'd better not offer it to any of us then :p

I didn't know there was much money to be made in sticks. I'd think oil would have better prospects, on the short term at least. (Once it runs out, perhaps having cornered the stick market will pay off big time, as there's no other viable fuel)
Ah, you wouldn't try to play the stick market because you don't have ultimate knowledge.
Using my new found mental prowess, I'd be able to have a monopoly on sticks, and then where would national parks, the logging industry, and the factories that make those little things out of wood be? At my mercy, that's where.

If you have the knowledge, you at least know how to attain wisdom.
Not necessarily. Knowing how to do something and actually doing it are two different things. Consider the internet. I would say that just being connected gives one ownership of it in the sense that one can access anything they want, but that does not mean that one is automatically a great person.

To say that knowledge is power is like saying firewood is fire. Without the inclination to ignite either, both are inert and useless.

If I have ultimate knowledge (provided I don't forget it or something), I can make a hell of a lot more than $10 billion by using it to make money.

Ultimate knowledge. After all, I can use that in so many more ways than just making money.

I don't see how ultimate knowledge would pay off in terms of money, unless it includes something like prescient/clairvoyant powers enabling you to win lotteries and foresee stock rates.
So, since I think "knowledge", even ultimate knowledge, doesn't really include any psychic powers, I'll pick the money.

First of all, who needs ultimate knowledge? Everybody would just hate you for being a smartass. I can get by fine with my knowledge being the way it is, thank you very much.

Secondly, with $10 billion you could start a really good charitable foundation to fund all those causes you always thought should be funded but never had the money to do so in a significant way. Unless you're Bill Gates. Which you almost would be, then, just minus the evil computer stuff.

What an idiotic poll - unless you're testing our IQs. Hmm...

Obviously, you take the knowledge. Who cares about $10 billion? Ultimate knowledge is of the stock exchange, future economic trends, how to build a cubic-foot-sized fusion reactor, and every dirty little blackmailable secret on earth. Ultimate knowledge = ultimate wealth.

I'll take the money. That way I'll have the leisure to learn whatever I want whenever I want. Just think, all the books I want, at hand whenever I want.

$10 billion or ultimate knowledge?

I'd take the money, put $7.5 billion into an interest gathering account, and in 50 years that'll be $18.750 billion.

How I would spend the $2.5 billion I kept for myself:

college - $240,000

house - $35,000,000

car(s) - $997,990

left: $2.463 billion

assuming I had the job of my dreams - hotel manager at a five star hotel - I'd put my $375,000/year salary away every year, retire with $15 million.

$2.463 billion + $15 million = $2.478 billion + $18.750 billion = $21.228 billion.

So I'll be 68 years old, and have $21.228 billion to my name? Hell yeah!
Yeah, and then you get your price tag moved to your forehead.

Of the two, the knowledge is more valueble, but half of the fun of knowledge is learning. I would take the money, but spend my life learning.

I'd rather gain the knowledge the good old fasioned way. It's far more fun that way.

I picked the money option, becuase well what is the fun in learning if you already know all? With infinite knowledge, you would be burdened with all the worlds problems and how we cant fix them. With money I can learn only what I want in a huge British style study in a house off the Mediteranean Ocean in Greece.

knowledge, it's more important to me than money.

actually, I could think of about 10,000,000,000 things that are more important to me than money...........I will spare you the list. ;)

I picked the money option, becuase well what is the fun in learning if you already know all? With infinite knowledge, you would be burdened with all the worlds problems and how we cant fix them.
You assume that I care about the world's problems or the fact that other people are suffering. Anyway, with my knowledge I would know how to make people want to fix their problems, so that wouldn't be a problem.

You assume that I care about the world's problems or the fact that other people are suffering. Anyway, with my knowledge I would know how to make people want to fix their problems, so that wouldn't be a problem.
You found the divine loophole. However I consider myself to be a lazy man, so this is the lazy mans choice. Besides I enjoy learning new things, but only if it is in baseball or history.

You assume that I care about the world's problems or the fact that other people are suffering. Anyway, with my knowledge I would know how to make people want to fix their problems, so that wouldn't be a problem.
That's a little needlessly complex. I'd sooner take the money and leave people like you to try telling others how to fix their problems.

By the way, you do realize there's nothing people hate more than a know-it-all, don't you?

Just sayin'.

By the way, you do realize there's nothing people hate more than a know-it-all, don't you?
Actually, there is something they hate more than a know it all.
(Yes, I did that on purpose.)

Actually, there is something they hate more than a know it all.
(Yes, I did that on purpose.)
Spiders? Not many people are fans of spiders.

Spiders? Not many people are fans of spiders.
That's funny. Spiders are my animal-guardian.

I'm leaning toward the money.

Not that Ultimate Knowledge is a bad thing. It's just a bit of a hassle.

First of all, you'll have all the answers. Which means you'll know all the questions. You'd know everything that's wrong with everyone everywhere. That's some nasty pieces of information. There are things going on out there that I'd really rather stay ignorant about. Homosexual Necrophilia. Child sex slave trade. Human cannibalism. Luciano Pavarotti's hygiene regimen. Awful stuff.

Second, people will want answers. You'd be pestered all freakin' day. You'd be called to testify in every court case; 'Did OJ do it?' 'Yep.'
You'd be expected to get your own talkshow.

Finally, people really don't want omniscient people around. Especially governments and criminal organizations. And sure, knowing exactly what they're up to is a definite advantage, but it's still a hassle to avoid being shot by snipers all the time.

I think I'm better off with the money. :p

Actually, there is something they hate more than a know it all.
(Yes, I did that on purpose.)
And Wilde spins in his grave YET again. Better snag him in position quick so everyone can pay their last respects. ;)

And Wilde spins in his grave YET again. Better snag him in position quick so everyone can pay their last respects. )
If you don't turn him regularly, he might get bed sores. You don't want him to get bed sores, do you? Nazi!

If you don't turn him regularly, he might get bed sores. You don't want him to get bed sores, do you? Nazi!
Well, it's not the *bed*sores that i think we should be concerned with.
Nazi? Hmmm. Gotta think about that. No, no ... my hair's too long.
That and i know what an indo-european ACTUALLY is ... ;)