Important Thought Experiment

[Vitalogist]

The wallet would also have spillover effects similar to the flask, locket, and watch

[BurtReynolds]

Yeah, the wallet. $365,000 a year sounds pretty good.

But the taxes will kill you.

[wease]

Yeah, the wallet. $365,000 a year sounds pretty good.

But the taxes will kill you.

Nah

[Vitalogist]

Yeah, the wallet. $365,000 a year sounds pretty good.

But the taxes will kill you.

Nah

Yeah, it’s still quite a lot of free money.

[BurtReynolds]

I feel like the flask gives the longest and fittest life (without killing anyone) and not having to sleep will make you plenty successful, so I don't need the wallet.

[tragabigzanda]

There is a wolf in me . . . fangs pointed for tearing gashes . . . a red tongue for raw meat . . . and the hot lapping of blood—I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fox in me . . . a silver-gray fox . . . I sniff and guess . . . I pick things out of the wind and air . . . I nose in the dark night and take sleepers and eat them and hide the feathers . . . I circle and loop and double-cross.

There is a hog in me . . . a snout and a belly . . . a machinery for eating and grunting . . . a machinery for sleeping satisfied in the sun—I got this too from the wilderness and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fish in me . . . I know I came from salt-blue water-gates . . . I scurried with shoals of herring . . . I blew waterspouts with porpoises . . . before land was . . . before the water went down . . . before Noah . . . before the first chapter of Genesis.

There is a baboon in me . . . clambering-clawed . . . dog-faced . . . yawping a galoot's hunger . . . hairy under the armpits . . . here are the hawk-eyed hankering men . . . here are the blonde and blue-eyed women . . . here they hide curled asleep waiting . . . ready to snarl and kill . . . ready to sing and give milk . . . waiting—I keep the baboon because the wilderness says so.

There is an eagle in me and a mockingbird . . . and the eagle flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams and fights among the Sierra crags of what I want . . . and the mockingbird warbles in the early forenoon before the dew is gone, warbles in the underbrush of my Chattanoogas of hope, gushes over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes—And I got the eagle and the mockingbird from the wilderness.

O, I got a zoo, I got a menagerie, inside my ribs, under my bony head, under my red-valve heart—and I got something else: it is a man-child heart, a woman-child heart: it is a father and mother and lover: it came from God-Knows-Where: it is going to God-Knows-Where—For I am the keeper of the zoo: I say yes and no: I sing and kill and work: I am a pal of the world: I came from the wilderness.

[bodysnatcher]

So what we’re saying is we’re a lot of greedy gluttons

[bodysnatcher]

AMERICA!

[Vitalogist]

I feel like the flask gives the longest and fittest life (without killing anyone) and not having to sleep will make you plenty successful, so I don't need the wallet.

I don’t think there’s anything I could do, even with unlimited time, that would bring wages of more than $275k a year…assuming about that much remains after taxes. I guess I’d have to become a highly specialized surgeon or a CEO, and I’d rather avoid that stress. As if I could even begin to do those things anyway lol… I’ll take the free money

[Ms Harmless]

would you guys love me if I was a worm?

[tommy]

would you guys love me if I was a worm?

Would you be able to type? If not I would lose contact with you

[Ms Harmless]

would you guys love me if I was a worm?

Would you be able to type? If not I would lose contact with you

this thought experiment has legs... wait

[BurtReynolds]

worms are cool

[BurtReynolds]

You're in a fight to the death with another person. Your choice of weapon is a stick or a rock. Your enemy gets the other. Which you be taking?

[Ello Sailor]

Do we get to see the other person before deciding?

How big is the stick/rock?

[Jorge]

Rock all the way. I am not afraid of a stupid stick

[lennytheweedwhacker]

Yes rock.

[Ello Sailor]

What if they end up getting a bō staff and you get a shitty, chalky rock that falls apart in your hand?

Please list the weapon specifications, Burt.

[BurtReynolds]

What if they end up getting a bō staff and you get a shitty, chalky rock that falls apart in your hand?

Please list the weapon specifications, Burt.

the rock is hard enough to crush bone with effort, but light enough to throw a small distance.

The stick is long and firm, like a big hard cock.

[BurtReynolds]

Maybe you could break the stick in half and get two pointy little spears out of it. that could be dangerous. Someone might lose an eye.