ouch!!!Ophiolite said:Damn, I've lost the key.
ouch!!!Ophiolite said:Damn, I've lost the key.
How often in books of fiction and film do we see where the quest for power and knowledge becomes self destructive because wisdom has been lacking not only in the quest but in the use.
A crazy Jim Carrey film "Bruce Almighty" is but one fictional example of how a man achieves ultimate power but stuffs up big time because of a lack of wisdom.
An interesting question came to mind:
If you had absolute power over an assumed millions of different cultures would you aspire to democracy...a sort of autocratic democracy, not unlike the UK's monachy?
or would you rule in a totalitarian style?
I would open it. I'm too curious not too.Quantum Quack said:You have dug down 100 feet from the floor of an ancient Aztec temple. You find a small box. On the lid of this box is an inscription that reads:
"with in this box is the knowledge of creation, whom ever shall have this knowledge shall rule the universe but beware there is a small chance that opening the box will immediately destroy all of creation."
Next to the box is the key that opens the lid.
There is no other information, however you have every reason to believe what is said on the lid.
Question:
Do you open the box?
What are the reasons for your decision what ever they may be?
*smoking a fatty*Roman said:I'd go way public with it, and all the anthropologists would be drooling all over it. Maybe I'd score something wth Discovery Channel. Then, in front of all the TV cameras, and the press conference and everything, I'd set it on fire. Then piss on the ashes.
I'd probably get so stiff, I'd end up whipping out my huge erection and jacking off right there. And it'd all be caught on film.
I'd be an instant porn star.
Fame, fortune, and cocaine would be short to follow.
Let's hear it for mystic Aztec boxes!
If opening the box would make you omniscient, the "ruling" bit would not be really an issue.Avatar said:Yes, but I see more danger in the "ruling" bit, not the knowledge.
Knowledge by itself does not give the power to rule.
What do yoiu think? No human, no matter how moralistic, can refuse the allure of absolute power, except a chosen few. One of them would be George Washington, another would be just about any monarch who abdicated willingly, such as Charles V.Quantum Quack said:If you had absolute power over an assumed millions of different cultures would you aspire to democracy...a sort of autocratic democracy, not unlike the UK's monachy?
or would you rule in a totalitarian style?
What is Yaba!?!? What is Yaba!?!?Avatar said:"daba" in latvian means "nature"
I'm drunk so I can offtopic :m:
Who knows..Well... unless you are a maniac...
gnasher said:The question is interesting.
If we consider the initial condition, the chooser is outside the box with free will, and presumably outside the 'universe' described within the box. Kind of like a god.
Given the opportunity, I'd take the chance of using the key to get myself into this universe. I'd use my status to acquire a Lamborghini. Anything extra would be playing dice, and we know that god doesn't do such things.
(However, as I'vd been given ALL knowledge, I'd postulate a 'Certainty Principle' and work out everything, meddle with things from the discomfort of my Lamborghini, then get bored and set about creating beings to ask questions like this one.)
PS How certain can I be that the key fits the lock? After all, there may be quite a few boxes and keys.
1 - By forceSo how do you get to the treasure inside?
Yes, unless you mean something different by "fit" than the obvious meaning.The key may fit the box but does this guarrantee that the box will fit the key?