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Just before death you are granted one truthful, understandable answer to one question. What would you want to know? (mander.xyz)
submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Obviously a hypothetical scenario. There is no way to pass on the knowledge to anyone else. Time freezes for you only, and once you have your answer you are out of this world.

The question can allow you to see into the past, present and future and gain comprehension of any topic/issue. But it's only one question.

Edit: the point isn't "how to cheat death". You can't. Your body is frozen and there is nothing you can do with this knowledge other than knowing it, and die. So if you would rather be frozen in a limbo just thinking of numbers for eternity, be my guest.

Such a variety of replies, it's been really interesting to read them!

What would you want to know? Personally I'd want to see a timelapse or milestone glimpses of humanity's future until the end of Earth's existence (if we survive that long)

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

We are going into a what if terirory here and I don't think there is any good argument to be had there.

So I'm gonna end on this:

A copy is not an original. I am me, nothing more nothing less. There is no consent I can give prior to my existence. Going further into the analogy is pointless, life is not a surgery.

But no belief system I'm aware of that has endorsed a similar model has also endorsed an omnipotent creator,

~~Umm, Christianity? Just to name at least one major religion.~~

I misread that so ignore it.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Cannonical Christianity claims this is a copy of an original world with universal salvation and an individualized afterlife?

Ironically there is a heretical Christian sect that thought all those things, but it died out in antiquity. But those concepts are pretty much the opposite of the mainstream Christian theology.