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I know i have posted this before but choose one-hundred-billion-dollars or ULTIMATE KNOWLAGE...TO KNOW EVERYTHING! Choose. Oh, and by-the-by (I KNOW It's off-topic) please check-out "The Hunted" RP in "International Incidents."

I know i have posted this before but choose one-hundred-billion-dollars or ULTIMATE KNOWLAGE...TO KNOW EVERYTHING! Choose.

Well surely if you knew everything that would enable you to make loads of cash anyway?

With ultimate knowledge, money would be meaningless.

I'll take the money. There are certain things I'd rather not know. :p

I'd pay that much money not to know everything. Imagine how completely pointless life would be, if you knew everything.

Liasia']Well surely if you knew everything that would enable you to make loads of cash anyway?
Yes, of course but would YOU want to bother?

ultamate knowledge.

I'd take ultimate knowledge; then I could make all of the money I could ever want and would also have knowledge of everything so I could really enjoy the money I make.

I'll take the money. There are certain things I'd rather not know. :p
is the fact that bush did 119 one of them?

The money. Access to the super library should be free anyways, and I've got Wiki right now, so screw the knowledge.

Yes, of course but would YOU want to bother?

I don't know, because i don't have ultimate knowledge. It's possible if i did that i would know that much money could make me happy or whatever, in which case i would want it.

I'll take the money. There are certain things I'd rather not know. :p

Yes, but do you know of all the things you'd rather not know?

Besides, with ultimate knowledge, one would know how to selectively forget what one would rather not know, ya know?

I'd take the money, because life would be kinda boring if I knew everything, whats the point in life? It'd get boring. At least with the money I could do some good with it.

I wouldn't want ultimate knowledge...there are some things I'd rather just not know.

I also wouldn't want $100,000,000,000. I'd probably take £100,000,000 for myself, and give the other $999,000,000,000 to various charities and random people in the street and stuff.

if you have the knowledge you can just invent new stuff that gets you 100,000,000,000 so... then u get both in the end.

I'd take the money, because life would be kinda boring if I knew everything, whats the point in life? It'd get boring. At least with the money I could do some good with it.

Yes, but if you knew everything, you'd know how to make life interesting.

Sheesh, you people have no imagination.

What fun would life be without the challenge?

For me, both options will end in boredom.

Yes, but do you know of all the things you'd rather not know?

Besides, with ultimate knowledge, one would know how to selectively forget what one would rather not know, ya know?

But then you wouldn't know everything anymore. :p

And I imagine that I don't know everything that I don't want to know. But I further imagine that knowing what I didn't know I'd rather not know is even worse than what I knew I didn't want to know. You know?

But then you wouldn't know everything anymore. :p

And I imagine that I don't know everything that I don't want to know. But I further imagine that knowing what I didn't know I'd rather not know is even worse than what I knew I didn't want to know. You know?

No.

I would choose ultimate knowledge. I would set up a world-wide pyramid scheme and bath in my profits.

What fun would life be without the challenge?

For me, both options will end in boredom.

If you knew everything, you'd know how to relieve boredom.

I wouldn't want ultimate knowledge...there are some things I'd rather just not know.

I also wouldn't want $100,000,000,000. I'd probably take £100,000,000 for myself, and give the other $999,000,000,000 to various charities and random people in the street and stuff.

wait...What's 100 million pounds out of 100 billion dollars? Also:

"If I was a Rich Girl
Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na
See, I'd have all the money in the world, if I was a wealthy girl
No man could test me, impress me, my cash flow would never ever end
Cause I'd have all the money in the world, if I was a wealthy girl

Think what that money could bring
I'd buy everything
Clean out Vivienne Westwood
In my Galliano gown
No, wouldn't just have one hood
A Hollywood mansion if I could
Please book me first class to my fancy house in London town"

Well, 100 billion dollars can only last for so long...Ultimate knowledge lasts forever :p

I would choose ultimate knowledge. I would set up a world-wide pyramid scheme and bath in my profits.

Sort of reminds you of the Bush Administration, amirite?

That was a bad joke...

If you knew everything, you'd know how to relieve boredom.

If I knew everything, I would have no reason to want to relieve my boredom. I would just sit there not wanting to do anything.

wait...What's 100 million pounds out of 100 billion dollars? Also:

Yeah, I suck at maths. Deal with it :p

It's $99,900,000,000 :)

Although, it's in dollars. So I might take $200,000,000. That's what...£120,000,000 or something?

With ultimate knowledge, money would be meaningless.

Yes that is true, a person with ultimate knowledge would probably be able to end the meaning of money and everything else that mankind relies on today. 100 billion dollars would only bring a tiny fraction of such great stuff. Thats enough to probably fund several more dollars in Iraq. I know its what Bush and other Republicans would do with it.

If I knew everything, I would have no reason to want to relieve my boredom. I would just sit there not wanting to do anything.

you dont know that. Infinate knowledge might reveal a reason to get busy.

Liasia']you dont know that. Infinate knowledge might reveal a reason to get busy.

It would make him want to blow himself up.

If I knew everything, I would have no reason to want to relieve my boredom. I would just sit there not wanting to do anything.

Oh really? Knowing everything isn't the same as experiencing everything. With ultimate knowledge, one would know how to experience the ultimate pleasure. One would know how to travel to the stars. Knowing an alien species exists still isn't the same as meeting them.

Knowing how to make love isn't the same as making love.

Liasia']you dont know that. Infinate knowledge might reveal a reason to get busy.

It might, it might not. I'd rather keep living the way I am and not take the chance that I would be depressed beyond belief at ultimate knowledge. I'm patient, I would rather keep learning day by day than know everything now.

Plus, think about this: if you learn something new everyday, but you know everything, then you can't go on to a new day. So either you die, or you stay frozen in time. Yup.

Course, if I had Ultimate Knowledge then I would be taking a "road trip" around the universe...not stuck on some forum arguing whether to be a "know it all" or an ignorant rich prick! My 2 cents for the day :p

One would know how to travel to the stars. Knowing an alien species exists still isn't the same as meeting them.
Why bother? You would already KNOW what they would say.

Why bother? You would already KNOW what they would say.

Knowing isn't the same as experiencing. Try to keep up.

Knowing isn't the same as experiencing. Try to keep up.

You know with perfect detail what it would be like to experience.

You know with perfect detail what it would be like to experience.

Yeah, but you'd also know how to make the perfect drugs to make you feel great and forget exactly what you want to forget.

See, you'd know everything, so the really wouldn't be anything you couldn't do. If you don't like something, you'll know how to change it. Want things to go back the way they were? You'll know how to do that too.

Ultimate knowledge. One hundred billion dollars would ruin me.

Yeah, but you'd also know how to make the perfect drugs to make you feel great and forget exactly what you want to forget.

See, you'd know everything, so the really wouldn't be anything you couldn't do. If you don't like something, you'll know how to change it. Want things to go back the way they were? You'll know how to do that too.

Or...you could buy a giant pool of jello with the money, and have bikini wrestling matches.

I dont want either

Id be dead within weeks with 100 mill and sometimes my head hurts with what I already know.

I'll take the money. There are certain things I'd rather not know. :p

Like what goes on in your mind. I swear, there's probably enough in there to create a 100 horror/pyschadelic theme parks.

Besides, with ultimate knowledge, life becomes kinda pointless since there's nothing left to experience.

Ooltimet nolej. I'd use it to take over the world and make everyone pay attention to me. I'm so lonely....

Neither because I have both already. Ultimate knowledge? I'm sitting in front of a computer and can find out anything I want to know. $100B? I've got it scattered all over the world but I haven't had ambition enough to claim it.

The only real wealth in the world is happiness and wisdom, and nobody can give you either. They are both attainable just as you are now, but it's a matter of making the necessary efforts to realize that you have them already.

I would take the money, then I could spend the rest of my life seein if it is possible to buy happiness.

Ultimate Knowledge is only a short step away from my current state. ;)

Ultimate Knowledge is only a short step away from my current state. ;)

California?

Okay, I'm kind of taking from other people and mixing them: I would take the ultimate knowledge, make even more than a billion dollars, leave it with my prother who is Co-President of Remotstad, pay to get my brain wiped (so I wouldn't have to know the things I didn't want to know anymore, then use the money to fund our police force and other sub-sects of Remotstad's government which is currently underfunded. I would then kill Bush because I would have enough money to get away with it.

With a $100,000,000,000, I could make my own knowledge.

Besides, there are things I'd rather not know about. It's nice to have some mystique in life.

I chose the money, because with that much you could actually end world hunger (provided you go for building infrastructures (such as graneries)). As for knowledge, while one could really do some wonderful things with it (ie: inventions that would revolutionize the world), there are some things that I would rather not know. Infinite knowledge would take the fun out of life.

you say "ooh, ultimate knowledge would get you the money" but in how much time? I want it now!

I could buy all of fucking congress with that money. I'd be the ultimate sper-lobbyist.

I'd have the sickest super-yachth ever, a size that would give most major cruise ships penis envy, and call it the ego trip.

I'd have every woman at my feet. you know it. I'd surround myself with beautiful amazonian redheaded Keynes-lovers (Im a smithian myself, but as far as political positions for women go, keynes is definitely sexiest).
I would buy out Sony ad cancel the launch of the PS3, then buy majority stoc in Ea, and most other third-party developers and make them Nintendo's bitches.
I would have a gaming PC that would make the beefiest superprocessors feel their floppy drives are inadequate and unworthy.

I would have my own metal-fest. it would make ozzfest look pathetic in comparison. It'd be broadcasted over VH1 because I want it to and would have appearances by maddox, tucker Max, P.J O'rourke, Al franken and anyone else I dam please.

speaking of Tucker Max ad Maddox, I would give them the damn radio AND tv show. I would buy suscriptions to every porn site ever.

And thats not even half of the full hundred...(sigh)

Okay, I'm kind of taking from other people and mixing them: I would take the ultimate knowledge, make even more than a billion dollars, leave it with my prother who is Co-President of Remotstad, pay to get my brain wiped (so I wouldn't have to know the things I didn't want to know anymore, then use the money to fund our police force and other sub-sects of Remotstad's government which is currently underfunded. I would then kill Bush because I would have enough money to get away with it.


I like your political policies.

I would have a gaming PC that would make the beefiest superprocessors feel their floppy drives are inadequate and unworthy.

Are you saying that computers with floopy drives have floppy drives? I think I sould be offended by that.

i'd take the cash.

Like what goes on in your mind. I swear, there's probably enough in there to create a 100 horror/pyschadelic theme parks.

My themepark motto would be: "Leave No Psyche Unmarked." :)

I would take the money. Then I could do whatever I want! :D

My themepark motto would be: "Leave No Psyche Unmarked." :)

You run a CIA black site don't you? *shifty eyes*

I'd take the money & run. I don't think I'd want to know absolutely everything.

No.

You choose the money, didn't you?

It would make him want to blow himself up.

Since when are suicide bombers all-knowing? :p

Then I will but the omnipresent mind on my payroll.

the money. Life wouldn't be fun if there were no mysteries left to explore.

Well,If I had ultimate knowledge,I would probably be God.At least,here on Earth,anyways.I could never be assassinated(I'd see it coming and prevent it),I'd predict things that would prove my divinity and I'd basically be omnipotent.I dunno how I'd live forever though.Probably invent or 'discover' something or another.

Why would I need money?Probably invent a machine that could counterfeit copes of money,if I really wanted that.

With ultimate money, ultimate knowledge is meaningless.

I don't need to know everything to chill on the beach.

I'd take the money in a heartbeat.

If i knew everything every social interaction would be useless - life would be so boring i'd probably jump off a cliff.

So show me the money...:p

I'd take the money fa shizz, then burn some of it, so it didn't cause massive inflation.
I don't want infinite knowledge, what's the point if you already know everything? Depressing thought. :(

With tanto dinero, I'll buy the knowldege I can use.

Ultimate knowledge seems to lead to the problem of the librarian... too busy to manage to read actually.

I'd take the money fa shizz, then burn some of it, so it didn't cause massive inflation.
I don't want infinite knowledge, what's the point if you already know everything? Depressing thought. :(

Knowledge doesn't buy chocolates.

You run a CIA black site don't you? *shifty eyes*

I used to. But they don't appreciate art. :(

Knowledge doesn't buy chocolates.

Or anything else for that matter without a bit of work...

Mmm, chocolate, how did you know? :D

Liasia']Well surely if you knew everything that would enable you to make loads of cash anyway?

If one knew everything, one would rule the universe. Then U got lotsa cash (all of it).

I'll take the money. There are certain things I'd rather not know. :p
I could be quite happy as a dumb, rich, suddenly retired world traveller. :cool:

Ultimate knowledge - for what? To steal from myself every surprise moment in life?

On the other hand, money is good.

simple choice.

I could be quite happy as a dumb, rich, suddenly retired world traveller. :cool:

I could always take college courses or hire tutors if there's anything I really want to know. Or sages. I can hire a team of experts in their field to be my personal sages. :)

The money. I'd turn it into pennies, melt it down into a huge pancake, then drop it on France.

if you have the knowledge you can just invent new stuff that gets you 100,000,000,000 so... then u get both in the end.

and get shot by people who do not like intrusion in their market areas.

I'd pay that much money not to know everything. Imagine how completely pointless life would be, if you knew everything.

Yes, But You Would know the Meaning of Life so then it wouldnt

Yes, But You Would know the Meaning of Life so then it wouldnt

Unless there is no meaning of life.

The money. I'd turn it into pennies, melt it down into a huge pancake, then drop it on France.

Don't you mean, a huge croissant?

....

The knowledge. Attaining ultimate knowledge would be the closest a mortal man could be in becoming a god.

I wouldn't want ultimate knowledge...there are some things I'd rather just not know.

I also wouldn't want $100,000,000,000. I'd probably take £100,000,000 for myself, and give the other $999,000,000,000 to various charities and random people in the street and stuff.
You should take the knowledge because then you would realise that doing that would depreciate the value of money and send us into the next depression

Well duh, ultimate knowledge. You can use it to get $100,000,000,000 using the stock market and your ultimate knowledge of that.

If, for instance, I wanted to have sex with Alan Ritchson (see "Who's the Hottest Superhero" :) ) all that money might be enough to pay him to do it... but it might not. Ultimate knowledge, however, must surely include some worthy blackmail material.

"Well well, Mr. Ritchson, I suggest you remove your pants, lest the precise co-ordinates of the site where you bury your-- shall we say-- 'expended professional female companions' find their want into the hands of the authorities-- muahahahahaha!"

who needs to even have a kindergarden education with that much money.

if you have money your thinking is done for you

or you could hire the person that chose ultimate knowledge

One question... do i get to keep either in my subsequent lives?

Several trillion aeons ago, I was offered that choice. Being young and naïve, I picked knowledge.

Now that I'm immortal for all intents and purposes, can predict the future to a T, and know the secrets of the multiverse and everything about it (and why you should not trust the pigeons!), I can safely say I'll pick the money. Because $100B can't hurt. :P

I'll take the money. Ignorance is bliss and ignorance plus a hundred million dollars is ecstasy. For all those fools who think that money can't buy happiness, think again.
1) Too much information can disturb one's peace of mind. Freedom from want can only bring you peace of mind.

2) Knowing everything there is to know about exotic vacation destinations won't buy you first class plane tickets to go there or five star hotel accommodations when you arrive. Money will, thus releasing you from boredom by allowing you to travel and experience new things.

3) Nobody likes a know-it-all. Everybody likes the person who throws the cool parties. Money means you don't have to be alone unless you want to be.

4) Knowledge means awareness of ugly realities. Money means the ability to surround yourself with beautiful things.

Give a person peace of mind, excitement, companionship, and a beautiful environment and that person is very likely to be happy.

The problem with ultimate knowledge is that it doesn't make the impossible possible. You might have the knowledge of how to make the perpetual motion machine that could power everybody on the earth forever. You might have the knowledge of exactly where the materials for that machine can be found on a planet several million light years away. You might have the knowledge to blackmail heads of state and CEO's into building you a rocket so you could send a team there to get it. You would also have the knowledge that it'll be several million years before they get back. Crap. Knowledge of the ultimate disappointment isn't something I'd like to be carrying around in my head.

Some people are saying they'd have the knowledge to create a drug that would erase selected portions of their memory, so they wouldn't have to deal with the ultimate knowledge of suffering and pain felt around the world. They are of course assuming that such a drug can actually exist. What if it can't?

No, I'd go with the money. I don't have the capacity to handle ultimate knowledge, and knowing more isn't going to give me that.

I'd go for the money. Ultimate knowledge would just ruin my curiosity of life and that whole deal. Wouldn't be much fun if I knew everything now would it? Of course if it could have helped me do well in math this year....

I'd go with the money. I enjoy the pursuit of knowledge, wheras making money is such a menial chore.

I'm not sure what Knowlage is, but I'll take the know everything deal. Then maybe I could finally figure men out.

And make billions on a male to english translator.

I'm not sure what Knowlage is, but I'll take the know everything deal. Then maybe I could finally figure men out.

And make billions on a male to english translator.

Feh, we're really not that complex. Ask any male comedian worth his price of admission...

Hmm probably the knowledge on this one, although ultimate happiness would probably better. I wouldn't really want all of that money, I wouldn't know what do do with it and would probably just damage myself with drugs etc.

I'd take Chuck Norris.

Knowledge, because i could control the universe and be a GOD!:D

With Ultimate Knowledge, I can make $100,000,000,000 as fast as I want

Ultimate knowledge dies wih you but $100 billion don't last just with you. :)

Ultimate knowledge dies wih you but $100 billion don't last just with you. :)
hmmm... i dunno... 100 billion in one lifetime... sounds like a challenge... :cool:

Hmm probably the knowledge on this one, although ultimate happiness would probably better. I wouldn't really want all of that money, I wouldn't know what do do with it and would probably just damage myself with drugs etc.

It just occurred to me that the knowledge would not necessarily come with the ability to recall any particular piece of knowledge at will. What if you had all this knowledge, but whenever you tried to remember something to apply it to a situation, instead you got a random bit of information that may or may not be related to what you are trying to do? That would suck, although you would have the knowledge you wouldn't be able to use it well.

instant, complete and absolute knowledge of how everthing works, even things no one has yet immagined the existence of is extremely tempting, even more so then wealth beyond my wildest dreams of avarice. either of which i could put to good use creating beauty and would love to be doing so.

there is however, one thing that is worth more to me then either of them, and that is simply the kind of world i would rather be living in.

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I'll take the money. Fun, for me, is learning new things. If I had ultimate knowledge that would pretty much take a lot of the fun out of life. Besides, that much money would give me the wherewithal to pursue all of my hobbies (like learning) without worry.

I had interesting thought. Many have said that with Ultimate Knowledge they could make the 100 billion dollars. But what if with the Ultimate Knowledge they suddenly knew that they could not make 100 billion dollars within their lifetime. Ha, beat that!

Knowledge. Truth is the highest ideal.

I would take the money. Buy an island somewhere in the Pacific and live a nice happy life. Mmm.

I'll take the money. There are certain things I'd rather not know. :p
Me too.

This was a MUCH mre sucessful thread then I thought it would be.

This was a MUCH mre sucessful thread then I thought it would be.

well its one hell of a good question my friend,

i accidentally clicked on teh money though, i'd take the knowledge honestly.

That's too easy a question. The money.

After setting myself and my loved ones up for life so that none of us would have to work at an income-producing job for sustenance, and setting up endowments for various (and/or favorite) charities, nonprofits, universities, colleges, public schools, underpaid or volunteer civil servants like firemen and policemen, zero interest loans for anyone going into teaching, and like sentiments, I would have the time to get to know everything I wanted to know.

Why?

To be given knowledge -- that is, to have not worked for it (and perhaps this is the teacher in me coming out) -- is to not know the pure satisfaction of having "discovered" the knowledge for yourself. I'd go out and get about a dozen bachelor's degrees, teach music without fear of academic or scholastic politics (such a relief that would be!), travel anywhere I wanted to go...you name it. If knowledge brings depression (and ignorance is bliss), ultimate knowledge brings ultimate depression (look at Marvin the Paranoid Android from Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's series). Think about it -- YOU and ONLY YOU would know everything. Think of how frustrating it would be when you interacted with other people and some didn't believe that you really knew that what they were doing was pointless, or even dangerous! You'd go mad, like Cassandra from Greek myth, with anyone who didn't follow your advice.

No thanks. I'll take the cash!

Having ultimate knowledge would completely remove the role of faith in your life. Faith makes you stronger.

Plus 100 billion is a lot of cash. I might be able to buy a decent house with that. I'd take the money.

I would've taken the knowledge had it been an option, but you know. I have no idea what "Knowlage" is, so with that in mind, I feel that the money would be the better option because at least i know what i'm getting.

Knowledge! Now to find out who really killed JFK and settle the religious debates once and for all!