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You find yourself in a large virtual world with a madman. He says you have 20minutes to live life to its fullest before he kills you. You can take anybody you know from earth, or anything. You can relive 20 minutes of any point in history, yours or anybody elses.
What do you do?
Edit: You cant kill him, he was injected with some super testosterone from Chuck Norris, who refuses to help you

In that 20 minutes I become God himself. Then I kill the madman

You find yourself in a large virtual world with a madman. He says you have 20minutes to live life to its fullest before he kills you. You can take anybody you know from earth, or anything. You can relive 20 minutes of any point in history, yours or anybody elses.
What do you do?
Oooh, ooh, I know this one. I know, I know this one. I do.

I would spend 6 minutes trying to figure out what to do. Then I'd call my best friend and after 2 minutes of joking around, I'd ask if he wanted to say goodbye before I died. I'd say it'll probably take him 2 minutes to get there, leaving us 10 minutes before I die, in which time we'd do the secret handshake, have a silly string fight, divvy up and enjoy a couple Pixie Stix, and then I'd leave myself about a minute and a half to two minutes to say goodbye and come to terms with everything gracefully.

Best of all, I'd make sure he brought his camcorder so all the rest of my friends could see that it was good up to the end.

Maybe I've misunderstood the scenario, but my answer is that I'd incapacitate the madman so that he couldn't kill me.

You find yourself in a large virtual world with a madman. He says you have 20minutes to live life to its fullest before he kills you. You can take anybody you know from earth, or anything. You can relive 20 minutes of any point in history, yours or anybody elses.
What do you do?
This is so going to be history's most glorious gay orgy ever.

No fair... 20 minutes isn't enough time for what I want to relive...:D :eek:

I would delay his murdering of me by telling him 1,000 stories about sexual experiences with a stripper named Suga Momma, thus he will be so aroused that he will not pay attention to anything else except the little head. I will later induce him to do cocaine and then immediately call the cops and claim that he is a drug-pusher. Horny as hell, the mad man will undoubtedly mention Suga Momma. I will tel the police that she is a stripper he savagely murdered and ate for brunch. He will get life in prison and I will go into the witness protection program and assume the alis of Juan Carlos Diaz and become a bartender in Northern Mexico and later repent what I did and become a priest and travel the world telling people of my tale.

Why does everyone always try to find some way around the dying part of the thought experiment? It's not even the most important part of the experiment, it's the twenty minutes (or however long) before that that's really interesting. Personally, I'd use the twenty minutes to talk to some historical figure (like Diogenes the Cynic). Of course, that's provided we can actually communicate with one another.

You find yourself in a large virtual world with a madman. He says you have 20minutes to live life to its fullest before he kills you. You can take anybody you know from earth, or anything. You can relive 20 minutes of any point in history, yours or anybody elses.
What do you do?
Edit: You cant kill him, he was injected with some super testosterone from Chuck Norris, who refuses to help you

well, I would make love to this girl[if she said yes] that was once in love with me, and I in her, but I screwed it up, and she was smart, and beautiful and all, and try to correct my errors, and bads and hope that she found it in her hearth to forgive me, and then relive the end of that school prom, but onley in a better way,since, well, since some chuch norris rip of is about to kill me:rolleyes:

And if I still had time, I would pick up Che and tell him that he is the coolest man to ever walk this earth. And that would be the end of me......

Why does everyone always try to find some way around the dying part of the thought experiment? It's not even the most important part of the experiment, it's the twenty minutes (or however long) before that that's really interesting.

Specifying how and why the person is going to die draws their attention to that part.

That's Easy. Transport To The 20 Minutes Before I Went To This Virtual World. Then I'll Find A Way To Stop Going Into The Virtual World. If I Don't Find A Way Within The 20 Minutes, I'm Just Sent Back To The Virtual World, So I Will Just Constantly Transport Back To The 20 Minutes Before Until I Find A Way To Stop My Going Into The Virtual World!

I would delay his murdering of me by telling him 1,000 stories about sexual experiences with a stripper named Suga Momma, thus he will be so aroused that he will not pay attention to anything else except the little head. I will later induce him to do cocaine and then immediately call the cops and claim that he is a drug-pusher. Horny as hell, the mad man will undoubtedly mention Suga Momma. I will tel the police that she is a stripper he savagely murdered and ate for brunch. He will get life in prison and I will go into the witness protection program and assume the alis of Juan Carlos Diaz and become a bartender in Northern Mexico and later repent what I did and become a priest and travel the world telling people of my tale.
You win, I enjoyed reading that
*gives a big cookie to South Islands, a cookie so good and perfect that it is an insult to God him self*;) :D :cool:

OOOO WAIT! Screw That. I'll Decide To Pick The Real Chuck Norris As My Buddy For The Twenty Minutes, Then Have Chuck Kill The Madman! Simple As That!

Is it within the rules to have a chat with people? In which case I'd take 5 minutes each to talk with Nietzsche, the Marquis de Sade, L. Ron Hubbard (I must know, did he believe Scientology? If he didn't, that would be a hell of a joke, but if he did believe it, then we spend 4 of those minutes smoking whatever it was he was on), and Alfred Hitchcock.

Well, seeing as you said it was a virtual universe, I hack the source code, assign myself admin priveleges, and promptly *delete* the madman. And subsequently empty the Recycle Bin for messing with me.

Is it within the rules to have a chat with people? In which case I'd take 5 minutes each to talk with Nietzsche, the Marquis de Sade, L. Ron Hubbard (I must know, did he believe Scientology? If he didn't, that would be a hell of a joke, but if he did believe it, then we spend 4 of those minutes smoking whatever it was he was on), and Alfred Hitchcock.
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A Semi-Serious answer from Fiddlebottoms?

BTK him...except the K part doesnt apply. I could lock him up in a solid steel box an weld it shut and put that in another solid steel box and weld that shut and so on.

This thread belongs in the spam forum. Dignifying it with a response only serves to encourage the spammer who created it. I know its tough not to give a sarcastic response, but we shouldn't let ourselves get sucked in by people like this.

This thread belongs in the spam forum. Dignifying it with a response only serves to encourage the spammer who created it. I know its tough not to give a sarcastic response, but we shouldn't let ourselves get sucked in by people like this.
Megh.

I would gather my family and tell them how much I loved them and apologize for every horrible thing I said, did, and would have done if I weren't dying.

Then, I'd talk to God to secure a place in Heaven. :D

This thread belongs in the spam forum. Dignifying it with a response only serves to encourage the spammer who created it. I know its tough not to give a sarcastic response, but we shouldn't let ourselves get sucked in by people like this.

Dude, Calm Down. I See Stuff Like This On The General Forums EVERYDAY! So If Your Going To Say THIS Is Spam, Might As Well Say 50% Of The Stuff On The General Forums Is Spam! Oh Wait, It Is... Never Mind...

This thread belongs in the spam forum. Dignifying it with a response only serves to encourage the spammer who created it. I know its tough not to give a sarcastic response, but we shouldn't let ourselves get sucked in by people like this.
This is NS General. We're all spammers here.

BTK him...except the K part doesnt apply. I could lock him up in a solid steel box an weld it shut and put that in another solid steel box and weld that shut and so on.

Dude, He Has Chuck Norris' DNA. No Matter How Many Steel Boxs You Put Him In, HE WILL Escape

This thread belongs in the spam forum. Dignifying it with a response only serves to encourage the spammer who created it. I know its tough not to give a sarcastic response, but we shouldn't let ourselves get sucked in by people like this.

Dude, pull the stick out of your ass and get over yourself. This is NS General, a.k.a. Home of the Spam, Assraper of Forum Servers.

Dude, pull the stick out of your ass and get over yourself. This is NS General, a.k.a. Home of the Spam, Assraper of Forum Servers.

Yeah, us with our Million plus posts.

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A Semi-Serious answer from Fiddlebottoms?
Hey, I get to discuss Philosophy with a Hammer, Justine, and Psycho with their respective authors/director, and round out the third of an hour dropping acid with the author of Battlefield Earth.

Hey, I get to discuss Philosophy with a Hammer, Justine, and Psycho with their respective authors/director, and round out the third of an hour dropping acid with the author of Battlefield Earth.
And the point of that statement (which I somehow forgot to mention) was that such opportunites shouldn't be pissed away in a fit of sarcasm.

You find yourself in a large virtual world with a madman. He says you have 20minutes to live life to its fullest before he kills you. You can take anybody you know from earth, or anything. You can relive 20 minutes of any point in history, yours or anybody elses.
What do you do?
Edit: You cant kill him, he was injected with some super testosterone from Chuck Norris, who refuses to help you
Okay, first off I have no reason to believe him that he can, or would, kill me, and second, that I can somehow have the ability to take people from any point in history.

So hit him upside the head and say, "Stupid!"

I'd promptly kill myself.

No one's taking my life but me!

I'll die and come back to haunt him.