The Saturday 6-Pack

SGR · 09-05-2020, 01:27 PM

Time for your weekly probing.

1. What was the worst physical sickness you've ever had? How long did it take to recover? What was it like?

2. Do you believe in any kind of life after death?

3. A supervillain has developed a terrible new weapon and is planning to eradicate all philosophers and intellectuals from history, entirely reshaping our current world. The supervillain has given you the choice of one philosopher/intellectual for him not to eradicate, thus our entire current world, practices, beliefs, and understandings will derive from the ideas and teachings of this one person - who do you choose?

4. What is the worst possible death you can possibly imagine/describe?

5. Is there a time in history you'd rather have been born in than our modern times? If so, why?

6. Do you believe that we humans will successfully colonize space? If so, do you think that our technological capabilities will advance quickly enough that we humans will be able to distance ourselves enough from the Milky Way galaxy that we will avoid extinction when the sun explodes in 5-7 billion years (this assumes we won't be dead before this happens and there's no other ELE)?

**Marie Monday** · 09-05-2020, 02:11 PM

1. What was the worst physical sickness you've ever had? How long did it take to recover? What was it like?
I've never had anything serious fortunately. I think the worst was the sinus infection I had when I was 14, it was bad enough that I had to undergo light surgery
2. Do you believe in any kind of life after death?
No
3. A supervillain has developed a terrible new weapon and is planning to eradicate all philosophers and intellectuals from history, entirely reshaping our current world. The supervillain has given you the choice of one philosopher/intellectual for him not to eradicate, thus our entire current world, practices, beliefs, and understandings will derive from the ideas and teachings of this one person - who do you choose?
damn that's a difficult question, Bertrand Russell I guess?
4. What is the worst possible death you can possibly imagine/describe?
death by torture with everyone you know having to watch
5. Is there a time in history you'd rather have been born in than our modern times? If so, why?
hell no
6. Do you believe that we humans will successfully colonize space? If so, do you think that our technological capabilities will advance quickly enough that we humans will be able to distance ourselves enough from the Milky Way galaxy that we will avoid extinction when the sun explodes in 5-7 billion years (this assumes we won't be dead before this happens and there's no other ELE)?
I think it's more likely that humankind destroys itself before that happens

OccultHawk · 09-05-2020, 02:33 PM

Time for your weekly probing.

Cool

1. What was the worst physical sickness you've ever had? How long did it take to recover? What was it like?

Pneumonia around 3 weeks.

2. Do you believe in any kind of life after death?

Derp.

3. A supervillain has developed a terrible new weapon and is planning to eradicate all philosophers and intellectuals from history, entirely reshaping our current world. The supervillain has given you the choice of one philosopher/intellectual for him not to eradicate, thus our entire current world, practices, beliefs, and understandings will derive from the ideas and teachings of this one person - who do you choose?

Proudhon

4. What is the worst possible death you can possibly imagine/describe?

idk the imagination is endless

Castration by chimp just to give one

5. Is there a time in history you'd rather have been born in than our modern times? If so, why?

Hunter gatherer times - higher quality of life

6. Do you believe that we humans will successfully colonize space? If so, do you think that our technological capabilities will advance quickly enough that we humans will be able to distance ourselves enough from the Milky Way galaxy that we will avoid extinction when the sun explodes in 5-7 billion years (this assumes we won't be dead before this happens and there's no other ELE)?

We wouldn’t have to be distanced outside the galaxy to avoid the sun expanding in the death of the star. We wouldn’t even have to be outside our solar system to avoid the expansion itself.

But anyway if humanity survives there could be a way to transport our consciousnesses at light speed. If we were able to develop that technology in a million years we could be 5 billion light years from here which is a good chunk of the known universe. So yes.

OccultHawk · 09-05-2020, 02:34 PM

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I think it's more likely that humankind destroys itself before that happens

ELE is extinction level event, Daddy.

grindy · 09-05-2020, 02:56 PM

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk

Time for your weekly probing.

Cool

1. What was the worst physical sickness you've ever had? How long did it take to recover? What was it like?

Pneumonia around 3 weeks.

2. Do you believe in any kind of life after death?

Derp.

3. A supervillain has developed a terrible new weapon and is planning to eradicate all philosophers and intellectuals from history, entirely reshaping our current world. The supervillain has given you the choice of one philosopher/intellectual for him not to eradicate, thus our entire current world, practices, beliefs, and understandings will derive from the ideas and teachings of this one person - who do you choose?

Proudhon

4. What is the worst possible death you can possibly imagine/describe?

idk the imagination is endless

Castration by chimp just to give one

5. Is there a time in history you'd rather have been born in than our modern times? If so, why?

Hunter gatherer times - higher quality of life

6. Do you believe that we humans will successfully colonize space? If so, do you think that our technological capabilities will advance quickly enough that we humans will be able to distance ourselves enough from the Milky Way galaxy that we will avoid extinction when the sun explodes in 5-7 billion years (this assumes we won't be dead before this happens and there's no other ELE)?

We wouldn’t have to be distanced outside the galaxy to avoid the sun expanding in the death of the star. We wouldn’t even have to be outside our solar system to avoid the expansion itself.

But anyway if humanity survives there could be a way to transport our consciousnesses at light speed. If we were able to develop that technology in a million years we could be 5 billion light years from here which is a good chunk of the known universe. So yes.

Consciousness arises from interaction between neurons or something similar. How the **** is it supposed to be magically sent through space by itself, not to mention at the speed of light? Drop the dumb esoteric bull****. Might as well believe in souls and god and free will and whatnot at this point.

**Frownland** · 09-05-2020, 03:08 PM

Dogmatism is whack.

1. What was the worst physical sickness you've ever had? How long did it take to recover? What was it like?

I had a flu with a fever that reached 104 iirc and sparked nightmarish hallucinations when I was 6. I was taken to the hospital and given speed. It sucked, they were concerned about brain damage but i r aight now.

2. Do you believe in any kind of life after death?

Eh, in a very abstract sense that what happens to my body after death fuels life. Otherwise, no.

3. A supervillain has developed a terrible new weapon and is planning to eradicate all philosophers and intellectuals from history, entirely reshaping our current world. The supervillain has given you the choice of one philosopher/intellectual for him not to eradicate, thus our entire current world, practices, beliefs, and understandings will derive from the ideas and teachings of this one person - who do you choose?

Bob Ross.

4. What is the worst possible death you can possibly imagine/describe?

Having a brain aneurysm right as you catch on fire and burn to death while Jimmy Buffet plays loudly on ****ty speakers.

5. Is there a time in history you'd rather have been born in than our modern times? If so, why?

Not really, the music and dope is pretty good here.

6. Do you believe that we humans will successfully colonize space? If so, do you think that our technological capabilities will advance quickly enough that we humans will be able to distance ourselves enough from the Milky Way galaxy that we will avoid extinction when the sun explodes in 5-7 billion years (this assumes we won't be dead before this happens and there's no other ELE)?

No. I don't really want them to either.

~~Cuthbert~~ · 09-05-2020, 03:10 PM

1. What was the worst physical sickness you've ever had? How long did it take to recover? What was it like?

Probably some sort of flu and just a few weeks.

2. Do you believe in any kind of life after death?

Absolutely none whatsoever.

3. A supervillain has developed a terrible new weapon and is planning to eradicate all philosophers and intellectuals from history, entirely reshaping our current world. The supervillain has given you the choice of one philosopher/intellectual for him not to eradicate, thus our entire current world, practices, beliefs, and understandings will derive from the ideas and teachings of this one person - who do you choose?

Couldn't care less tbh.

4. What is the worst possible death you can possibly imagine/describe?

That bronze bull torture method. There was a guy who got locked in an industrial oven a few years ago and I read about it in the news. One of his workmates accidently shut the oven and turned it on. Makes me feel sick when I think about that.

5. Is there a time in history you'd rather have been born in than our modern times? If so, why?

I dunno, either really far back thousands of years or about twenty years before I was actually born.

6. Do you believe that we humans will successfully colonize space? If so, do you think that our technological capabilities will advance quickly enough that we humans will be able to distance ourselves enough from the Milky Way galaxy that we will avoid extinction when the sun explodes in 5-7 billion years (this assumes we won't be dead before this happens and there's no other ELE)?

We'll be colonising.

Cheers for the questions SGR.

OccultHawk · 09-05-2020, 03:12 PM

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Originally Posted by grindy

Consciousness arises from interaction between neurons or something similar. How the **** is it supposed to be magically sent through space by itself, not to mention at the speed of light? Drop the dumb esoteric bull****. Might as well believe in souls and god and free will and whatnot at this point.

I gave it a million years to work out the kinks dillweed

I maintain that consciousness is information and information can be stored in light

~~jwb~~ · 09-05-2020, 03:43 PM

1. What was the worst physical sickness you've ever had? How long did it take to recover? What was it like?I overdosed on caffeine pills. No bull****. I was up all night and with my friend and young and dumb and thought on a whim I'd like to stay up the next 3-4 days straight. It was about 5am at a ghetto circle K. I bought 3 packs of pills with pictures of bees on them. Downed them all. Later felt a headache. Went home and got sick. Then got sicker. All day throwing up from that 5am to around 9pm the next night. Had to try to drink water or Gatorade to stay hydrated. Couldn't keep it down. Kept throwing up. My throat burned from the acid in my bile. Tried drinking white milky Maalox to calm my stomach and ease my throat. Threw that up too

2. Do you believe in any kind of life after death?
No

3. A supervillain has developed a terrible new weapon and is planning to eradicate all philosophers and intellectuals from history, entirely reshaping our current world. The supervillain has given you the choice of one philosopher/intellectual for him not to eradicate, thus our entire current world, practices, beliefs, and understandings will derive from the ideas and teachings of this one person - who do you choose?
Hmmm..... Imma say Henry Ford

4. What is the worst possible death you can possibly imagine/describe?
Death by being a little bitch

5. Is there a time in history you'd rather have been born in than our modern times? If so, why?
No, cause all that **** already happened

6. Do you believe that we humans will successfully colonize space? If so, do you think that our technological capabilities will advance quickly enough that we humans will be able to distance ourselves enough from the Milky Way galaxy that we will avoid extinction when the sun explodes in 5-7 billion years (this assumes we won't be dead before this happens and there's no other ELE)?
I think yes, if we don't have any other obstacles, we will solve the problem of how to fly thru space and sperm on other planets.

SGR · 09-05-2020, 04:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Frownland

1. What was the worst physical sickness you've ever had? How long did it take to recover? What was it like?

I had a flu with a fever that reached 104 iirc and sparked nightmarish hallucinations when I was 6. I was taken to the hospital and given speed. It sucked, they were concerned about brain damage but i r aight now.

6. Do you believe that we humans will successfully colonize space? If so, do you think that our technological capabilities will advance quickly enough that we humans will be able to distance ourselves enough from the Milky Way galaxy that we will avoid extinction when the sun explodes in 5-7 billion years (this assumes we won't be dead before this happens and there's no other ELE)?

No. I don't really want them to either.

Yikes - what kind of hallucinations are we talking about? What did you see? I've done drugs where I've seen inside-out hippopotamuses (hippopotami?) and the devil.

Why don't you want humans to colonize space?

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Originally Posted by Cuthbert

Cheers for the questions SGR.

For sure! I'll try to continue to throw out 6 questions every Saturday if others don't. I think it's good fun.

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Originally Posted by Cuthbert

5. Is there a time in history you'd rather have been born in than our modern times? If so, why?

I dunno, either really far back thousands of years or about twenty years before I was actually born.

That's a big disparity. Why would you want to have been born 20 years earlier? And what would be attractive to you about being born thousands of years ago?

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Originally Posted by jwb

3. A supervillain has developed a terrible new weapon and is planning to eradicate all philosophers and intellectuals from history, entirely reshaping our current world. The supervillain has given you the choice of one philosopher/intellectual for him not to eradicate, thus our entire current world, practices, beliefs, and understandings will derive from the ideas and teachings of this one person - who do you choose?
Hmmm..... Imma say Henry Ford

Does that include his views on Jews?

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk

ELE is extinction level event, Daddy.

Marie is obviously not a Busta Rhymes fan.

09-05-2020, 02:33 PM	#9433 (permalink)
OccultHawk one-balled nipple jockey Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Dirty Souf Biatch Posts: 22,006	Time for your weekly probing. Cool 1. What was the worst physical sickness you've ever had? How long did it take to recover? What was it like? Pneumonia around 3 weeks. 2. Do you believe in any kind of life after death? Derp. 3. A supervillain has developed a terrible new weapon and is planning to eradicate all philosophers and intellectuals from history, entirely reshaping our current world. The supervillain has given you the choice of one philosopher/intellectual for him not to eradicate, thus our entire current world, practices, beliefs, and understandings will derive from the ideas and teachings of this one person - who do you choose? Proudhon 4. What is the worst possible death you can possibly imagine/describe? idk the imagination is endless Castration by chimp just to give one 5. Is there a time in history you'd rather have been born in than our modern times? If so, why? Hunter gatherer times - higher quality of life 6. Do you believe that we humans will successfully colonize space? If so, do you think that our technological capabilities will advance quickly enough that we humans will be able to distance ourselves enough from the Milky Way galaxy that we will avoid extinction when the sun explodes in 5-7 billion years (this assumes we won't be dead before this happens and there's no other ELE)? We wouldn’t have to be distanced outside the galaxy to avoid the sun expanding in the death of the star. We wouldn’t even have to be outside our solar system to avoid the expansion itself. But anyway if humanity survives there could be a way to transport our consciousnesses at light speed. If we were able to develop that technology in a million years we could be 5 billion light years from here which is a good chunk of the known universe. So yes. __________________ 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 Member of the Year & Journal of the Year Champion Behold the Writing of THE LEGEND: https://www.musicbanter.com/members-...p-lighter.html

09-05-2020, 03:08 PM	#9436 (permalink)
Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,541	Dogmatism is whack. 1. What was the worst physical sickness you've ever had? How long did it take to recover? What was it like? I had a flu with a fever that reached 104 iirc and sparked nightmarish hallucinations when I was 6. I was taken to the hospital and given speed. It sucked, they were concerned about brain damage but i r aight now. 2. Do you believe in any kind of life after death? Eh, in a very abstract sense that what happens to my body after death fuels life. Otherwise, no. 3. A supervillain has developed a terrible new weapon and is planning to eradicate all philosophers and intellectuals from history, entirely reshaping our current world. The supervillain has given you the choice of one philosopher/intellectual for him not to eradicate, thus our entire current world, practices, beliefs, and understandings will derive from the ideas and teachings of this one person - who do you choose? Bob Ross. 4. What is the worst possible death you can possibly imagine/describe? Having a brain aneurysm right as you catch on fire and burn to death while Jimmy Buffet plays loudly on **ty speakers. 5. Is there a time in history you'd rather have been born in than our modern times? If so, why?** Not really, the music and dope is pretty good here. 6. Do you believe that we humans will successfully colonize space? If so, do you think that our technological capabilities will advance quickly enough that we humans will be able to distance ourselves enough from the Milky Way galaxy that we will avoid extinction when the sun explodes in 5-7 billion years (this assumes we won't be dead before this happens and there's no other ELE)? No. I don't really want them to either. __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x

09-05-2020, 01:27 PM	#9431 (permalink)
SGR No Ice In My Bourbon Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: /dev/null Posts: 4,327	Time for your weekly probing. 1. What was the worst physical sickness you've ever had? How long did it take to recover? What was it like? 2. Do you believe in any kind of life after death? 3. A supervillain has developed a terrible new weapon and is planning to eradicate all philosophers and intellectuals from history, entirely reshaping our current world. The supervillain has given you the choice of one philosopher/intellectual for him not to eradicate, thus our entire current world, practices, beliefs, and understandings will derive from the ideas and teachings of this one person - who do you choose? 4. What is the worst possible death you can possibly imagine/describe? 5. Is there a time in history you'd rather have been born in than our modern times? If so, why? 6. Do you believe that we humans will successfully colonize space? If so, do you think that our technological capabilities will advance quickly enough that we humans will be able to distance ourselves enough from the Milky Way galaxy that we will avoid extinction when the sun explodes in 5-7 billion years (this assumes we won't be dead before this happens and there's no other ELE)?

09-05-2020, 03:10 PM	#9437 (permalink)
~~Cuthbert~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Nov 2012 Location: The Black Country Posts: 8,827	1. What was the worst physical sickness you've ever had? How long did it take to recover? What was it like? Probably some sort of flu and just a few weeks. 2. Do you believe in any kind of life after death? Absolutely none whatsoever. 3. A supervillain has developed a terrible new weapon and is planning to eradicate all philosophers and intellectuals from history, entirely reshaping our current world. The supervillain has given you the choice of one philosopher/intellectual for him not to eradicate, thus our entire current world, practices, beliefs, and understandings will derive from the ideas and teachings of this one person - who do you choose? Couldn't care less tbh. 4. What is the worst possible death you can possibly imagine/describe? That bronze bull torture method. There was a guy who got locked in an industrial oven a few years ago and I read about it in the news. One of his workmates accidently shut the oven and turned it on. Makes me feel sick when I think about that. 5. Is there a time in history you'd rather have been born in than our modern times? If so, why? I dunno, either really far back thousands of years or about twenty years before I was actually born. 6. Do you believe that we humans will successfully colonize space? If so, do you think that our technological capabilities will advance quickly enough that we humans will be able to distance ourselves enough from the Milky Way galaxy that we will avoid extinction when the sun explodes in 5-7 billion years (this assumes we won't be dead before this happens and there's no other ELE)? We'll be colonising. Cheers for the questions SGR.

09-05-2020, 03:43 PM	#9439 (permalink)
~~jwb~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Jul 2019 Posts: 4,403	1. What was the worst physical sickness you've ever had? How long did it take to recover? What was it like?I overdosed on caffeine pills. No bull**. I was up all night and with my friend and young and dumb and thought on a whim I'd like to stay up the next 3-4 days straight. It was about 5am at a ghetto circle K. I bought 3 packs of pills with pictures of bees on them. Downed them all. Later felt a headache. Went home and got sick. Then got sicker. All day throwing up from that 5am to around 9pm the next night. Had to try to drink water or Gatorade to stay hydrated. Couldn't keep it down. Kept throwing up. My throat burned from the acid in my bile. Tried drinking white milky Maalox to calm my stomach and ease my throat. Threw that up too 2. Do you believe in any kind of life after death? No 3. A supervillain has developed a terrible new weapon and is planning to eradicate all philosophers and intellectuals from history, entirely reshaping our current world. The supervillain has given you the choice of one philosopher/intellectual for him not to eradicate, thus our entire current world, practices, beliefs, and understandings will derive from the ideas and teachings of this one person - who do you choose? Hmmm..... Imma say Henry Ford 4. What is the worst possible death you can possibly imagine/describe? Death by being a little bitch 5. Is there a time in history you'd rather have been born in than our modern times? If so, why? No, cause all that ** already happened 6. Do you believe that we humans will successfully colonize space? If so, do you think that our technological capabilities will advance quickly enough that we humans will be able to distance ourselves enough from the Milky Way galaxy that we will avoid extinction when the sun explodes in 5-7 billion years (this assumes we won't be dead before this happens and there's no other ELE)? I think yes, if we don't have any other obstacles, we will solve the problem of how to fly thru space and sperm on other planets.