If you could relive your life (no changes) would you?

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If you could relive your life, experience everything again (as if you never had before), not allowed to have anything changed, would you want to?
 
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[quote name='zionoverfire']No, if you can't change anything than it's no better than watching the same movie on repeat again and again and again.[/QUOTE]

I should've clarified. You're reliving it but it's still all new.
 
[quote name='Cerebral_One']If you could relive your life, experience everything again (as if you never had before), not allowed to have anything changed, would you want to?[/QUOTE]

No, it's been shitty the first time why again. Now I thought you were saying I could change my choices, then the answer would be maybe.
 
[quote name='RedvsBlue']So essentially what you're asking is; do you wish your memories were vivid and life-like?[/QUOTE]

Not really, just relive the same life without having any recollection of it. Whether that be now, i.e. replacing your current life or happening after you die. Got the idea from the 80's Twilight Zone movie.
 
[quote name='Cerebral_One']I should've clarified. You're reliving it but it's still all new.[/QUOTE]

Well then how do you know you currently aren't reliving your life? In fact the universe could simply be a DVD in infinate repeat.:shock:
 
I don't see the point.
If I relive it and I don't know anything of what I've been through, I don't know I'm reliving it.
If I relive it and I recall for the first time, I would learn from mistakes and try some different choices, take some more opportunities.
Probably the biggest change would be not let credit cards affect my life as much as they did. I would also have said "yes" and tried things more often.

(Check out the book Replay by Ken Grimwood, a great book on this topic. One of a few books I've voluntarily read more than once.)
 
[quote name='dtcarson']I don't see the point.
If I relive it and I don't know anything of what I've been through, I don't know I'm reliving it.
If I relive it and I recall for the first time, I would learn from mistakes and try some different choices, take some more opportunities.
Probably the biggest change would be not let credit cards affect my life as much as they did. I would also have said "yes" and tried things more often.

(Check out the book Replay by Ken Grimwood, a great book on this topic. One of a few books I've voluntarily read more than once.)[/QUOTE]

I guess the point is to see whether or not people believe their life was worth living in the first place. To be able to say yes or no if someone gave you the option to live it again, all new again.
 
[quote name='dmaul1114']It's really just a silly, roundabout way of asking people whether they have major regrets/bad times or not.[/QUOTE]

Well you could have those but still want to relive it so it's also how much can people deal with what they went through and view whether or not it was worth it.
 
fuck no. My dad made me eat feces when I was a kid. He;d smoosh in into my mouth and jam it in there then scrape it off on my teeth. This is one of my better memories. If I could erase this life I would.
 
While I have no regrets, I wouldn't want to go through school again. I've always had a problem with authority, so I was constantly getting in trouble. Also, my mom was a real witch during that time so I wouldn't want to relive the whippings for the smallest things.
 
[quote name='HeSaveDave']fuck no. My dad made me eat feces when I was a kid. He;d smoosh in into my mouth and jam it in there then scrape it off on my teeth. This is one of my better memories. If I could erase this life I would.[/QUOTE]
"I'm going to get my scat fetish off my chest, non-literally, by joking about it." - HeSaveDave's subconscious mind
 
While I feel like the good has far outweighed the bad in my life, I don't see any point in going back and not being able to apply any additional experience to it. There's been some things that have downright sucked and I have some regrets but I'm happy with who I am and how I approach the present/future for it. I wouldn't feel like going back unless I felt I was permanently regressing in some aspect of it all.

I am also 28 and God willing, I assume I have plenty of life to lead yet.
 
[quote name='cindersphere']Would I relive my life the same way? Yes, to not do so is to admit your life is pointless.[/QUOTE]

I can't agree with that. It's simply that most everyone has at least some minor regrets/things they wish they'd done differently. Others have major regrets, or had terrible things happen to them.

That doesn't mean their life was pointless. It just means they don't want to live it again if they couldn't do things differently the 2nd time around.

Even if one had a perfect life, why relieve it a 2nd time if nothing could be changed?
 
The idea is that you'd, without a doubt, live forever - the question is: Would it even matter if you had no idea you were living forever?
 
[quote name='dmaul1114']I can't agree with that. It's simply that most everyone has at least some minor regrets/things they wish they'd done differently. Others have major regrets, or had terrible things happen to them.

That doesn't mean their life was pointless. It just means they don't want to live it again if they couldn't do things differently the 2nd time around.

Even if one had a perfect life, why relieve it a 2nd time if nothing could be changed?[/QUOTE]

My point of view isn't for everyone. That being said I really think it does to change those mistakes, you change the lessons learned. I don't know I have had an enormous amount of bad shit happen to me and been caused by me and in the end I accepted that both as something to regret and something if taken away would alter who I am as a person. This is where I am coming from as it would invalidate one's life. Idk I have always thought you own your mistakes and pain not tread the rest of one's life musing or wishing for the opposite to have happened. But I can see where people with your sensibilities would see it differently.

BTW apologies if this is hard to read or rambly, i have a massive headache right now.
 
[quote name='camoor']I'd like to put one day on repeat "Groundhog Day" style.[/QUOTE]

Only if we could pick the day, then it would be really cool. If it's picked for us, would you want to take the chance you'd have to live some crappy day in your life over and over?
 
I would, right before I die. Just like hitting the restart button.

[quote name='camoor']I'd like to put one day on repeat "Groundhog Day" style.[/QUOTE]

The director (Harlod Ramis) said he envisioned something like 10 years of repeating the same day. But someone did an interesting article about how many days Bill Murray could learn all the stuff he knew by the end. They calculated it at something like 12,000 days which is around 33 years.
 
[quote name='cindersphere']I have always thought you own your mistakes and pain not tread the rest of one's life musing or wishing for the opposite to have happened. But I can see where people with your sensibilities would see it differently.
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I was simply saying I don't see the point of living life again really, even if it was perfect, if you couldn't change anything the 2nd go around.

Then again, I'm not one to re-play games, re-read books etc. very often :D

I prefer new experiences.
 
[quote name='dmaul1114']I was simply saying I don't see the point of living life again really, even if it was perfect, if you couldn't change anything the 2nd go around.

Then again, I'm not one to re-play games, re-read books etc. very often :D

I prefer new experiences.[/QUOTE]

But it would still be all new is what I'm proposing. It's like on your death bed you sign a contract, live it again or die and wonder if there's anything after death.
 
Then it's still just a pointless exercise as you wouldn't know you were reliving it anyway. I'd rather take my chances and find out what lies after life.

Just a silly question really. You'll have to do much better than this to live up to your user name.
 
[quote name='dmaul1114']Then it's still just a pointless exercise as you wouldn't know you were reliving it anyway. I'd rather take my chances and find out what lies after life.

Just a silly question really. You'll have to do much better than this to live up to your user name.[/QUOTE]

Say you're reincarnated, you don't know you're reliving it. Same thing here.
 
Again, pointless. If you don't get to keep any of your old memories, and have no knowledge having lived before etc., then it's no different than death with no afterlife. Your current self simply ceases to exist.
 
It's not pointless, it's a choice you get to make during your current life. If it were pointless there would have to be no choice given. Same as say, giving the choice of choosing if you want an afterlife or "eternal sleep", i.e. there is a choice available.
 
[quote name='Cerebral_One']. Same as say, giving the choice of choosing if you want an afterlife or "eternal sleep", i.e. there is a choice available.[/QUOTE]

It's not the same as that as all. The presumption of an afterlife is that one's soul/consciousness lives on. It's a way to continue your existence.

You're saying here that you'd agree to totally wipe out your consciousness to live the same life again from scratch, with no knowledge of your prior life.

That's pretty much the same as "eternal sleep" as your current self gets wiped out as your reincarnation has none of your knowledge, memories etc. To your current self your memory-less reincarnation idea is the same as eternal sleep. Either way your current self ceases to exist.
 
[quote name='dmaul1114']It's not the same as that as all. The presumption of an afterlife is that one's soul/consciousness lives on. It's a way to continue your existence.

You're saying here that you'd agree to totally wipe out your consciousness to live the same life again from scratch, with no knowledge of your prior life.

That's pretty much the same as "eternal sleep" as your current self gets wiped out as your reincarnation has none of your knowledge, memories etc. To your current self your memory-less reincarnation idea is the same as eternal sleep. Either way your current self ceases to exist.[/QUOTE]

I wasn't making a comparison between afterlife and reliving the same life again. The point I was making is that both of those scenarios gives you a choice. If there's a choice in your current life, then the question is not pointless. You're claiming the question itself is pointless, when the only thing that could be deemed pointless, through a person's opinion, is whether or not reliving the same life means anything as an experience.

Even then I would say the experience itself not pointless either, as it means the same thing as your current life since you don't remember anything, i.e. same as reincarnation. But what we're questioning as pointless through our previous dialogue, was the question itself. At least, that's how I interpret your "pointless exercise" comment, unless you were referring to life itself as an "exercise".

Now if it is pointless to relive your same life, without having any recollection of it, is it not pointless to live it the first time?
 
Just have to agree to disagree. It's a choice to stop existing as your current self, period, since you're saying you can't keep any memories etc.

A choice to relive the same life is meaningless if you don't get to keep your memories and are unaware that you are reliving it.

And no, my current life has not been pointless at all. It's just pointless to relive it with no knowledge that I'm reliving it and no ability to do things differently etc. I lose my current consciousness, so what's the point of doing it again? It's just making a decision to wipe out myself, but rather than dying and going to "eternal sleep," or going on to some afterlife, my spirit or whatever is reincarnated to go through the same experience with no knowledge of my past life. That's the same as eternal sleep to my current consciousness as it ceases to exist in both cases--eternal sleep it's just gone, your scenario it's wiped back to a clean slate so it can build itself to the exact same point in 32 years.

Pointless to me as it's not really a choice as in either case you're choosing to wipe out your current consciousness and I can see no point of the reincarnation scenario if you lose all your current consciousness and can't do anything differently. Even if you don't want to do anything differently, what's the point of doing it over? It's not "reliving" your life if you don't have any memories from the first time.

So basically it's just a choice to wipe out your consciousness, memories etc. The person you are ceases to exist. I just don't see that decision as any different from choosing eternal sleep as the consciousness making the decisions ceases to exist in either case. And neither are a decision I'd make vs. taking the chance that our consciousness may live on and continue to evolve in some form after death. I'd honestly probably take that chance over a chance to relive my past life and change things or immortality etc. Earthly existence is "been there, done that", I'd rather see what comes next. If it's nothing, so be it. I won't know the difference anyway! Just like I wouldn't if I took your choice of a memory-less reliving of my exact life! :D
 
I wouldn't change anything since every event in my life has led up to me typing this post and this post is AWESOME.
 
[quote name='dmaul1114']Just have to agree to disagree. It's a choice to stop existing as your current self, period, since you're saying you can't keep any memories etc.

A choice to relive the same life is meaningless if you don't get to keep your memories and are unaware that you are reliving it.

And no, my current life has not been pointless at all. It's just pointless to relive it with no knowledge that I'm reliving it and no ability to do things differently etc. I lose my current consciousness, so what's the point of doing it again? It's just making a decision to wipe out myself, but rather than dying and going to "eternal sleep," or going on to some afterlife, my spirit or whatever is reincarnated to go through the same experience with no knowledge of my past life. That's the same as eternal sleep to my current consciousness as it ceases to exist in both cases--eternal sleep it's just gone, your scenario it's wiped back to a clean slate so it can build itself to the exact same point in 32 years.

Pointless to me as it's not really a choice as in either case you're choosing to wipe out your current consciousness and I can see no point of the reincarnation scenario if you lose all your current consciousness and can't do anything differently. Even if you don't want to do anything differently, what's the point of doing it over? It's not "reliving" your life if you don't have any memories from the first time.

So basically it's just a choice to wipe out your consciousness, memories etc. The person you are ceases to exist. I just don't see that decision as any different from choosing eternal sleep as the consciousness making the decisions ceases to exist in either case. And neither are a decision I'd make vs. taking the chance that our consciousness may live on and continue to evolve in some form after death. I'd honestly probably take that chance over a chance to relive my past life and change things or immortality etc. Earthly existence is "been there, done that", I'd rather see what comes next. If it's nothing, so be it. I won't know the difference anyway! Just like I wouldn't if I took your choice of a memory-less reliving of my exact life! :D[/QUOTE]

I agree to disagree, and will leave it at that.
 
The problem I have comes from that damned concept of time. Say, at this moment, I choose to start over. My life begins again, following the exact same path as it did the previous time. I come to that same moment where I have the choice to start over, and I do. Because, under the topic's conditions, I have to. The universe is stuck in a loop.

Anything that could or would happen after that "moment of choosing" ceases to exist. I'll pass.
 
But if you did do it all over again, would the people that have had a affect on your life make the same decisions, and if not then your life would not be the same.
 
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