What would happen if you were omniscient?

[Nocturnal]

I'd try and search my mind to see if there was any chance of me getting to get into bed with Jessica Alba, JLo and the like.

 

[lowfatbaconboy]

Originally posted by: Moonbeam

I thought what he did later was his laundry.

I know I'm an asswipe and all, which may explain the lack of skid marks in my pants, but, just in the off chance that I might just have some minor philosophical curiosity about this question, could you please explain to me how it is that you, whom we can probably with some justification assume to be limited in your understanding, came to such didactic and definite certainty as to what the answer could be? See the thing I felt about this matter was that it was idle speculation. There is only one answer that applies. "I don't know and can't possibly imagine." Omniscience is so far from my conscious state that I can't possibly conceive what such consciousness would mean. Here's another clue. If you want to know what the Buddha experienced, experience it yourself. Your assumption that you know is a form of arrogance. With a great deal of effort and luck you may realize that you know nothing. And when you know you know nothing maybe you'll know everything.

We'll thank you for your mindless regurgitation of socrates(/plato) with the if you know nothing crap.....
and im expecting everyone's answer in this thread to be a speculation at the answer.....i don't think anyone who has posted here thinks they are 100% right with what they said

and instead of answer "I don't know and can't possibly imagine" (which you think is the only answer that applies) you had to put in a random attack at me.....why?
are you really that much of an jack@$$

also i don't see how asking this question correlates to what you stated in your first reply.....
and for your info NONE of what you described applies to me......so stop being so closed minded

 

[VTBigBear]

I'll tell you what really happened with OJ and Kobe

 

[MillionaireNextDoor]

solve all of the world's problems and begin space colonization.

 

[Evadman]

I would change my name to Q and harass the lowly human race.

 

[EyeMWing]

Originally posted by: Geekbabe
I think the weight of it all and the resultant sadness would kill anybody who had any kind of a soul.

BONUS! I'd be truly invincible, knowing everything that could possibly happen to me and being able to tell the doctors exactly how to cure me, and having no soul to be overpowered by the weight of the situation.

But yes, there would be many headaches involved due to the influx of data.

 

[Schadenfreude]

Originally posted by: Moonbeam

Originally posted by: Jehovah

Originally posted by: Moonbeam
One thing I can tell you is that the people who ask this kind of nit wit question generally need a shower, have pig pens for rooms and skid marks in their undies. Get yourself flogged and these kinds of questions will go away.

Or are philosophy professors. Or possibly both.😀 But this is enquiring about the simplest things, and in doing so brings out the greatest acheivements - this should be encouraged at all age levels, not discouraged - you, however, are just a close-minded asswipe.

Followed by:

Originally posted by: Jehovah

Originally posted by: Geekbabe

Please,I need cliff notes and a translator to follow what you just wrote,lol,knowing everything would drive me right over the edge,my brain is busy enough as it is🙂

Basically, if you were omniscent, you'd know everything there is to come and you also know that you can't do a damn thing.

And you could still feel bad, but you'd know about it in advance, so you wouldn't *really* "feel bad".

(On a sidenote, this brings up an interesting idea - in Tibetian Buddhism, you have to carve out wooden statues of Buddha [to sell as souveniers?] - the first one is of Buddha hunched over while sitting in the lotus position, weeping bitterly - when he first reached enlightenment, he instantly knew of all the suffering and pain of the world - he got over it later.)

I thought what he did later was his laundry.

I know I'm an asswipe and all, which may explain the lack of skid marks in my pants, but, just in the off chance that I might just have some minor philosophical curiosity about this question, could you please explain to me how it is that you, whom we can probably with some justification assume to be limited in your understanding, came to such didactic and definite certainty as to what the answer could be? See the thing I felt about this matter was that it was idle speculation. There is only one answer that applies. "I don't know and can't possibly imagine." Omniscience is so far from my conscious state that I can't possibly conceive what such consciousness would mean. Here's another clue. If you want to know what the Buddha experienced, experience it yourself. Your assumption that you know is a form of arrogance. With a great deal of effort and luck you may realize that you know nothing. And when you know you know nothing maybe you'll know everything.

And maybe so. I'm not saying that it's the definite answer, nor did I say it is - it's is one of many possibilities, and I just happen to believe in it. If you don't - more power to you. But what I don't understand is, however, why a person would be arrogant/conceited enough to judge another man's question that he was honestly curious about, and attack his social integrity (of which NONE of us has any clue about from this thread) of which it doesn't matter to the outcome of the question by any stretch of the imagination.

One thing I can tell you is that the people who ask this kind of nit wit question generally need a shower, have pig pens for rooms and skid marks in their undies. Get yourself flogged and these kinds of questions will go away.

And these "nit wit" type of questions have been asked by many philosophers, including Socrates - and you just called all of them as, and I quote, " generally need a shower, have pig pens for rooms and skid marks in their undies."

If you can't possibly know everything, like you said, how can you possibly generate such a broad generalization of which there's no logical link?

Care to elaborate?

Asswipe.

 

[element]

Originally posted by: Zenmervolt
I'd go nuts. Hearing everything all the time? I'd start killing people to shut their thoughts up. Not something I would ask for.

ZV

Haven't you heard? Every living thing is being killed as we speak. Slowly to us it seems, but perhaps a lifetime isn't much for an omniscient. This reminds me of a little joke I'd like to share with you all. It goes something like this:

A man is driving down the road and breaks down near a monastery. He
goes to the monastery, knocks on the door, and says, "My car broke down.
Do you think I could stay the night?" The monks graciously accept him,
feed him dinner, and even fix his car. As the man tries to fall asleep,
he hears a strange sound. The next morning, he asks the monks what the
sound was, but they say, "We can't tell you. You're not a monk."

The man is disappointed but thanks them anyway and goes about his merry
way. Some years later, the same man breaks down in front of the same
monastery. The monks again accept him, feed him, and even fix his car.
That night, he hears the same strange noise that he had heard years
earlier. The next morning, he asks what it is, but the monks reply, "We
can't tell you. You're not a monk."

The man says, "All right, all right. I'm dying to know. If the only
way I can find out what that sound was is to become a monk, how do I
become a monk?" The monks reply, "You must travel the earth and tell us
how many blades of grass there are and the exact number of sand pebbles.
When you find these numbers, you will become a monk."

The man sets about his task. Some forty-five years later, he returns
and knocks on the door of the monastery. He says, "I have traveled the
earth and have found what you have asked for. There are
145,236,284,232 blades of grass and 231,281,219,999,129,382 sand pebbles
on the earth."v The monks reply, "Congratulations. You are now a monk.
We shall now show you the way to the sound."

The monks lead the man to a wooden door, where the head monk says, "The
sound is right behind that door." The man reaches for the knob, but the
door is locked. He says, "Real funny. May I have the key?" The monks
give him the key, and he opens the door. Behind the wooden door is
another door made of stone. The man demands the key to the stone door.
The monks give him the key, and he opens it, only to find a door made of
ruby. He demands another key from the monks, who provide it. Behind
that door is another door, this one made of sapphire. So it went until
the man had gone through doors of emerald, silver, topaz, and amethyst.

Finally, the monks say, "This is the last key to the last door."

The man is relieved to no end. He unlocks the door, turns the knob, and
behind that door he is amazed to find the source of that strange sound.

But I can't tell you what it is because you're not a monk.

 

[tokamak]

i'd go to the effing horse race track. mad money, yo.