1 moment or 100 years?

Î©RÃ´ghÃªnÎ© · Apr 18, 2006

I found this in a psychology book i picked up:

Heres the question:

Would you rather:

A)Spend 100 years in total hapiness but afterwards be returned to your normal life and not remember anything

B)Spend 1 moment in total hapiness and remember it for the rest of your life

Mike182 · Apr 18, 2006

B

i would rather have one moment of pure happiness, and keep that moment sacred and with me, than spend many years but then loose the memory, it renders (in my mind) the years of happiness as meaningless.

Buttercup · Apr 18, 2006

A....because there is the chance for more moments of happiness. And perhaps the years of happiness influenced me enough to carry on with good things in my normal life.

standing_alone · Apr 18, 2006

B

I agree with Mike.

anders · Apr 18, 2006

Easy. Who'd want to spend 100 years under any circumstances?

Shadow Wolf · Apr 18, 2006

I don't get a lot of happy moments, so one of pure bliss I could remember, I would rather have that.

CaptainXeroid · Apr 18, 2006

I picked 'B'. Whether it's 1 year or 100 years, if I can't remember it, did it really even happen?

Todd · Apr 18, 2006

~Lord Roghen~ said:
I found this in a psychology book i picked up:

Heres the question:

Would you rather:

A)Spend 100 years in total hapiness but afterwards be returned to your normal life and not remember anything

B)Spend 1 moment in total hapiness and remember it for the rest of your life

I chose B. Like the Captain eluded to, if you can't remember the happiness, then the happiness might as well not have happened.

Although, I just thought about this a little more. If you only have 1 moment of happiness with option A, then is the rest of the time miserable or happiless (if that's a word)? If that's the case, then I'd choose A.

BucephalusBB · Apr 19, 2006

I choose A for sure!!!
With the avarage lifespan of humans nowadays, 100 years means im going to be totally happy my entire life.
Besides, everytime Im drunk, I don't remember the fun I had the next morning either, still it's worth it

Buttercup · Apr 19, 2006

Bouncing Ball said:
I choose A for sure!!!
With the avarage lifespan of humans nowadays, 100 years means im going to be totally happy my entire life.
Besides, everytime Im drunk, I don't remember the fun I had the next morning either, still it's worth it

Yay! A fellow A picker. Let's go have a drink to celebrate!

It's just the two of us so far!

BucephalusBB · Apr 19, 2006

Buttercup said:
Yay! A fellow A picker. Let's go have a drink to celebrate! It's just the two of us so far!

YAY, and we can even celebrate it for years and still have years of hapiness left :highfive:

Î©RÃ´ghÃªnÎ© · Apr 22, 2006

ChrisP · Apr 22, 2006

CaptainXeroid said:
I picked 'B'. Whether it's 1 year or 100 years, if I can't remember it, did it really even happen?

If you remember it, did it ever really happen?

I'm going with A cos that's what ButterCup picked

that and it looks like she's got all the liquor. Save me some whiskey yeah?

finalfrogo · Apr 22, 2006

~Lord Roghen~ said:
I found this in a psychology book i picked up:

Heres the question:

Would you rather:

A)Spend 100 years in total hapiness but afterwards be returned to your normal life and not remember anything

B)Spend 1 moment in total hapiness and remember it for the rest of your life

If I would not remember option "A," then I would rather have "B."

"A" would be like a dream you don't remember. It would be completely meaningless.

martha · Apr 22, 2006

I have experienced that 1 moment of total bliss and I wouldn't trade it for a million happy years! Praise God.

Buttercup · Apr 22, 2006

~Lord Roghen~ said:
I found this in a psychology book i picked up:

Heres the question:

Would you rather:

A)Spend 100 years in total hapiness but afterwards be returned to your normal life and not remember anything

B)Spend 1 moment in total hapiness and remember it for the rest of your life

Remember....we get to return to our normal life. I know for myself that I have already had many moments of total happiness. The OP doesn't say we never get any happiness in our normal life...only that we are returned to our normal life, remembering nothing.

Guess I'm a happiness hog cuz I would hope my subconscious is affected by all those mega years of happiness. The OP says you don't remember the happiness, it doesn't say you aren't affected by it.

I should have been an attorney cuz here I am trying to figure out all the angles to have it all!

Buttons* · Apr 22, 2006

I said A because it was in the minority!

I WANNA BE THE MINORITY!
DOWN WITH THE MORAL MAJORITY!

(did you know there are baton twirlers in that music vid?)

dawny0826 · Apr 22, 2006

One moment can truly be enough to carry you through a lifetime and to make you strive to become a better person.

Fluffy · Apr 22, 2006

My expected life span is shorter than 100 years. If I had 100 years of happiness and then a potentially happy life afterwards, this seems much better than a potentially happy life with but a single moment of happiness. If I forget that I had 100 years of happiness, that does not nullify those years of happiness... I would have still had 100 years of pure bliss. Okay I would no longer be able to enjoy the memory but perhaps that would be a good thing? After 100 years of such happiness, my life afterwards would seem utterly miserable by comparison. By forgetting, I wouldn't be wishing for greener pastures all the time.

ÃsahÃ¦ttr · Apr 22, 2006

A. If I had a moment of pure happiness, I don't think that remembering it for the whole of my life would really make much difference. If anything, I would get upset sometimes that I had experiences such happiness and then it had gone... and I see just as I'm writing this that Fluffy has just said exactly the same thing, but I promise I thought of it as well before Fluffy posted! Anway yes, experience has taught me that your mood tends to dictates how you remember your memories, not the other way around.

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