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What would you prefer? A happy Delusion or the brutal Reality?

What would you prefer?

  • Blue Pill i.e the Happy Delusion

  • Red Pill i.e the Brutal Reality

  • Viagra

  • Schneiderguy!

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Braznor

Braznor

Diamond Member
Chooooooooooose!

Delusion = Blue Pill
Reality = Red Pill
Neither one = Viagra!
 
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Is there a Buy 1, Get 1 option, where I choose red pill and I get a complimentary cyanide pill for you?
 
You cannot know whether anything is real.
As for a delusion to be happy there cannot be any intrusions of reality smacking you upside the head, the happy delusion is the same as a happy reality. So I'd take that.
 
Life is actually a mixture of the two. People that deal with just one or the other tend to be insane.
 
Since life is what we make it I'd pick the Happy Delusion. But, my question is... is it my happy delusion or someone else's (like the wacko ponies and unicorns guy)?
 
Had to think about this a bit. Viagra's got a lot going for it - but happy delusion can include viagra; viagra isn't always about happy delusions.
 
i prefer reality. i like knowing how it really is and i'm the type that regularly keeps people informed of how they are even though it usually pisses them off.
the more humorous reactions are those when i compare someones attitude to that of a teenager cause a lot of well aged adults are very immature about certain things and view things through delusional glasses
 
DominionSeraph said:
You cannot know whether anything is real.
As for a delusion to be happy there cannot be any intrusions of reality smacking you upside the head, the happy delusion is the same as a happy reality. So I'd take that.
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Interesting. While I'd agree with you (you'd actually have changed my answer) in a real world situation, a hypothetical tends to require you to know for fact, thus if you were told the brutal reality, you'd know it.

I'd rather know the reality, as I tend to like to know the problems I face so that I can fix them rather than pretend they don't exist.
 
GotIssues said:
Interesting. While I'd agree with you (you'd actually have changed my answer) in a real world situation, a hypothetical tends to require you to know for fact, thus if you were told the brutal reality, you'd know it.
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No such thing, though. Even if you're omniscient, there's no way to tell if your idea of the set of all sets is actually complete, so no way to tell if you're actually omniscient (and therefore encompass reality).

A mind is limited empirically by what it can sense and logically by what it can think. It cannot exceed those limits to verify if there is anything beyond. So you can never know the scope of reality.
 
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How can you be happy knowing your happiness is a lie? What is your happiness worth if it ultimatly adds up to 0. 0^infinity is still a big fat zero.

However the reality lets you build on it. You can continue adding and adding for infinity where you can truely have value. Lies by their very nature are 0's. They are nothing but a fabrication.
 
There is a real life Red Pill/Blue Pill going on right now..

Blue Pill - The media is right. Generally, they do a decent job of reporting on the issues. Our economic situation is the natural result of a free-market economy and the central bank policies should not be questioned nor should it be audited. Democrats and Republicans are the same as Left (liberal) and Right (conservative) in the political system. Ron Paul is a kook and no one should take him seriously. Polls and electability are the only thing that should matter. Barack Obama came out of nowhere to win the 2008 election with the vast support of the people. Corruption in government is minimal. Saddam's Iraq was a direct threat to the people of the United States. Iran is now a threat. We can use economic growth to pay off our national debt. The people should fear government.

Red Pill - Ron Paul is right. His predictions consistently come true. The media spreads lies about Ron Paul and attempts to 'hide' his ideas from the people. The media is owned by a few corporations that benefit from continuing the Establishment. We should always question the mainstream candidates that are presented to us. Government is largely corrupt and the more centralized it becomes, the more corrupt it will be. Civil Liberties are disappearing. We are giving away National Sovereignty. Perpetual wars such as the drug war and war against terrorism are merely excuses for continued government expansion. The drug war has failed. The TSA is useless and is there simply to get Americans used to losing their Constitutional rights. The government should fear the people.
 
Hmm. Reality isn't that brutal once you get used to it. Knowing the reality so you can act accordingly generally makes life easier anyway.
 
TakeNoPrisoners said:
How can you be happy knowing your happiness is a lie? What is your happiness worth if it ultimatly adds up to 0.
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Prove that your happiness doesn't ultimately add up to zero.

Big Crunch or heat death zero out the informational content of the universe. (A hypothetical viewer on the other side could never tell that you ever existed. No choice you make makes a damn bit of difference in the end.) But you can't even prove that the universe that you perceive actually exists. You could be a brain in a vat being fed a simulation. So everything you know may already be a zero.
 
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sdifox said:
ignorance is bliss
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Remember that captain planet episode where they were all hooked on that drug called bliss and the soviet's cousin jumps through a window and gets all cut up then he downs a bottle of bliss and dies? That was a great episode.
 
your perspective on life is fucked up if you cannot find the beauty in brutal reality or ignorant happiness.
 
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