Would you stop time if you could?

[madoka]

- Pro: You have the ability to stop time once.

- Con: When you do it, time will stop for 20 years.

- Pro: You will not age during those years.

- Con: You will not have any human interaction and all electronics will also be nonfunctional for those 20 years. You will be the only one not frozen in time.

Would you still do it?

 

[lxskllr]

In a second. But it would have been better 30 years ago.

 

[thebestMAX]

You betcha but define "electonics". Lights? cars?

Better 30 or 40 years ago as stated above.

In any case at the end of those 20 years Id be set for the rest of my life financially.

 

[zinfamous]

So if electronics aren't working, I could steal all of the money from all of the banks....well, this assumes I can still drive a car, or are those electronics shut down, too?

hmmm...

anyway, I would try to steal all of the money that I could and store it some giant hole somewhere.

 

[Pick2]

I would not Stop Time , but If I could put Time in a Bottle ...

 

[tynopik]

would i have assured access to ice cream?

 

[DietDrThunder]

With your statement of "You will be the only one not frozen in time", then if you stop time, I believe you would continue to age, therefore you would be 20 years older when time resumed.

I think I would rather be put in a time bubble where time stops only for me, then I'd be the same age in 20 years. Then consider the time value of money on an investment making only 7% a year, I'd have all the money I'd need.

 

[IronWing]

Twenty years would be enough time to steal all the spoons.

 

[madoka]

Yes, no lights, no cars, no video games, no electronics of any kind. You still have physical books and bicycles though.

It's like the scenario from the Twilight Zone episode:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Kind_of_a_Stopwatch

The underlying question being, could you live in a solitary life for 20 years without going insane. The reward being that you would gain 20 years of life and steal to your heart's content during that time.

Me I would and I would end up with the cleanest, most organized houses around.

 

[clamum]

No that would be kinda shit wouldn't it. Everyone freezes but you're stuck not having any human interaction, and not using any electronics (certainly the worst part), for twenty years? SIGN ME RIGHT UP DAWG WOOT.

I'm assuming the people are aging while frozen? Or no?

 

[tynopik]

it's more like living in a post-apocalyptic world

there's no food except what you can loot from stores and you have to heat/cook it over a fire
which means you're going to have to procure a source of firewood
there's no cars so you have to transport all your loot on bike
there's no running water so you're going to end up with a giant mountain of poo
on the plus side, there's no decay once it leaves your body so no smell
on the down side, YOU HAVE A GIANT MOUNTAIN OF POO
sounds like too much effort

maybe if you had some huge goal like 'reading these 10,000 paper books', but otherwise, pass

 

[DrunkenSano]

I would do it. Since there is no aging, I would be willing to endure 20 years of solitude to be set for multiple life-times. So much you can learn and build in 20 years, even without electronics. This is also assuming you can't be injured or become sick.

 

[snoopy7548]

Aren't most bank vaults controlled by electronics? Cash registers, too. It might be difficult to get money unless you steal cash from everybody's wallets, and you'd probably feel bad about doing that unless you're an asshole.

I don't know if I would. I feel like the novelty would wear off after a few months, though I guess there would always be something to do.

 

[s0me0nesmind1]

No.. but...

 

[Exterous]

it's more like living in a post-apocalyptic world

there's no food except what you can loot from stores and you have to heat/cook it over a fire
which means you're going to have to procure a source of firewood
there's no cars so you have to transport all your loot on bike

Yeah continuance of bodily functions would be a concern. If time stopped and everything is frozen that includes no air movement right? So that would mean if you kept breathing while time was frozen you would deplete all the oxygen in your immediate vicinity so you'd have to keep moving to stay alive?

 

[DietDrThunder]

Yeah continuance of bodily functions would be a concern. If time stopped and everything is frozen that includes no air movement right? So that would mean if you kept breathing while time was frozen you would deplete all the oxygen in your immediate vicinity so you'd have to keep moving to stay alive?

Would you even be able to breath in or out if time is stopped?

 

[Kaido]

would i have assured access to ice cream?

Asking the real questions here

 

[Thebobo]

No need life saving prescriptions

 

[tynopik]

Would you even be able to breath in or out if time is stopped?

or see for that matter. if everything outside your 'bubble' is frozen, then light isn't moving either

 

[tynopik]

would i have assured access to ice cream?

Asking the real questions here

ice cream insecurity is a serious issue facing many people in the world today

 

[BudAshes]

So could you potentially impregnate every woman in the world at the instant time restarted? Suddenly you have 4 billion babies. Better hope you stole a lot of money for child support.

*edit* looks like you would need to sleep with 500k + woman a day to accomplish this. I think only a couple members here could pull that off.

 

[lxskllr]

So could you potentially impregnate every woman in the world at the instant time restarted? Suddenly you have 4 billion babies. Better hope you stole a lot of money for child support.

You took my idea^10. I was just thinking you make some elaborate trolls with people as they came to. Have old ladies in banks with a pistol in their hand, and pantyhose on their head. Put mice in people's pockets, rearrange houses... Your's would be the biggest troll of all time :^D

 

[Carson Dyle]

Twenty years with nobody to talk to but yourself? If you relish that, you're a bigger misfit than most of the misfits in this forum.

That would be the worst of it, but not the only thing. The sun would never set (or never come up) where you are. The temperature would never change. The only form of entertainment, besides f*cking with people and things that are frozen (which would get old REAL fast) would be reading. Your only forms of transportation would be what you can power with your legs. There would be no breeze. You couldn't even lie in the grass and watch the clouds roll by. If you went on a hike, you'd see no wildlife that wasn't frozen like a statue.

Honestly, I'd much rather be dead.

 

[madoka]

Aren't most bank vaults controlled by electronics? Cash registers, too. It might be difficult to get money unless you steal cash from everybody's wallets, and you'd probably feel bad about doing that unless you're an asshole.

I'd spend the first few years finding and robbing drug houses.

I feel like the novelty would wear off after a few months, though I guess there would always be something to do.

I'd spend my remaining years reading, mastering a musical instrument, writing a book, exercising, learning new skills, etc.

 

[madoka]

You took my idea^10. I was just thinking you make some elaborate trolls with people as they came to. Have old ladies in banks with a pistol in their hand, and pantyhose on their head. Put mice in people's pockets, rearrange houses... Your's would be the biggest troll of all time :^D

There was a book with a similar time stopping premise, and the main character ended up doing a lot of practical jokes with it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Girl,_the_Gold_Watch_&_Everything

Kirby and his newly found girlfriend only use this awesome power for relatively innocuous practical jokes such as completely undressing women who "tease men by wearing very small bikinis" and laughing to see them escape in panic.

He can quite easily use the watch's power to kill her, but decides that using it to kill anybody - even those who deserve it - would "take away the fun"; he settles instead for stripping her and putting her in a truckload of Navy sailors