Which one would you pick?

[ChristianCenturion]

Which special ability would you pick?:

The ability to become invisible?

OR

The ability to reset a whole day and do it over again (like resetting a video game and starting over)?

 

[Spinrad]

Reset. Invisibility is only valuable if a want to do something I shouldn't.

 

[butterfoot]

Which special ability would you pick?:

The ability to become invisible?

OR

The ability to reset a whole day and do it over again (like resetting a video game and starting over)?

Probably about 8 years ago I would have said Invisible. But now I would probably say reset a whole day and do it over again as long as it didn't start looping like Groundhog day.


-cw

 

[TuxThePenguin]

A strange question. If you could 'reset' the day then you could pretty much do anything you could when invisible. and reset the day if you got "caught". also invisible isn't that much use if you're not inaudible or possibly non-corporeal.

just my £0.02

 

[Eudaimonist]

The ability to reset a whole day and do it over again (like resetting a video game and starting over)?

This one is better by far!

We all make mistakes, and reseting a day would allow me to undo one or more of them. I'm assuming here that I would not be erasing my memory of the undone day.

 

[ChristianCenturion]

Both good answers IMO.

OK, I'll table that question unless there is the one that wants invisibility and has a reason that is unique...


How about this~

Which one would you pick when you do something wrong against someone else?:

To have a body part cut off i.e. finger, ear, etc.

OR

To have a weight permanently attached like a length of chain.

 

[Spinrad]

Probably a weight. Having body parts is relatively important to me.

 

[Eudaimonist]

Yeah, I think I'd go for the weight too. Having a weight attached might be annoying, but being disfigured goes beyond annoying.

 

[NothingButTheBlood]

I think they are both selfish. If you start the day over imagine all the people who have to relive a day of suffering just so you can get your day right. Being invisible only serves to seek around listening to people without their knowledge.

With that said I would pick invisible. I could at least work for a paper or police or something.

 

[ChristianCenturion]

I think they are both selfish. If you start the day over imagine all the people who have to relive a day of suffering just so you can get your day right. Being invisible only serves to seek around listening to people without their knowledge.

With that said I would pick invisible. I could at least work for a paper or police or something.

Interesting... I didn't even think of the possibility that the reset would include making everyone else also relive the day.

 

[Cerberus~]

Invisibility. Things would be so easy. Hope a plane to Africa, steal some conflict diamonds to fund my empire, easy breezy.

 

[LienShen]

Both good answers IMO.

OK, I'll table that question unless there is the one that wants invisibility and has a reason that is unique...

I would choose invisibility so that I could try to understand people better. People are mostly guarded and dishonest, and it would be nice to able to hear what they are really saying when they are out of earshot. It would also be nice to be able to go into different religious institutions to learn more about their services and philosophies first hand without having to explain why you are there or get turned away.

As for the body part/permanent weight question;

I would rather have a piece of my body cut off so that it would not hamper my movement but be a constant reminder of what I have done wrong. This is an interesting question because it parodies the problems with lying. When you lie, you can choose to tell the truth later and suffer having lost a bit of that persons trust and possibly the thing you gained by lying to begin with, but when you choose to hide the lie and never tell, it becomes a guilt weight on your shoulders. While you don't lose anything, it most certainly drags you down.

 

[sparklecat]

Would I get the option at the end of the day to reset it again? If so, would I be aging during this process? Would I keep my memories of the previous day(s)?

 

[Garnet2727]

Which special ability would you pick?:

The ability to become invisible?

OR

The ability to reset a whole day and do it over again (like resetting a video game and starting over)?

Invisible, definitely. I have a hard enough time making through a day just once.

 

[ChristianCenturion]

Would I get the option at the end of the day to reset it again?

Sure

If so, would I be aging during this process?

Sure, we should keep at least SOME consequence in the hypothetical.

Would I keep my memories of the previous day(s)?

Yes. I would think that would have to be foundational... otherwise there wouldn't be much purpose in indiscriminately re-living a day.

I didn't mind if liberties were taken in the assumptions, but I do appreciate your detail focused questions.

 

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I would choose the ability to become invisible. It's not that I would desire to become invisible, but I wouldn't desire to go back and change a day. I thought about that, and there is definitely a day that I would wish to go back to. I would have the one I loved so much, if I could. That would be very selfish of me though, because I would be taking him away from the most glorious place he could ever be. Why? Purely selfish, albeit heartfelt, reasons.

Another reason I would not choose to go back and change something, is because all of the things that have occurred in my life have brought me to where I am now. Where I am now is a very good place. I am very close to my Heavenly Father, and I know my Jesus in a very personal, spiritual, way. I wouldn't go back to a time where I was without this.

Now... what could I do with being invisible? So many things come to mind. I could hang out in D.C. and tell all of you who's for real, who's not. That would be cool. I don't think I'd use it to be in the midst of others while they spoke of me though, because I wouldn't want to know what they said. Be it good or bad, I wouldn't want to know. It would change the relationships that I have with them now, and I like those relationships.

 

[levi501]

Invisibility... I look forward to caving into the power it would give me... plus I'm a voyeur.

Weight... I like my parts. I'd just hit the weights harder so I could handle the extra burden.

 

[beechy]

I'd pick reverse the day, except that I'm not sure how it would play out given that I'm still aging and that everyone else would have to relive the day as well. So in your hypothetical everyone knows they've lived they day before and that they're being made to live it again? Because if that's the case, I'm not sure what good it would do me ... So I guess I'd pick invisibility. That seems more straightforward!

The weight. I want to keep my parts.

 

[ChristianCenturion]

I'd pick reverse the day, except that I'm not sure how it would play out given that I'm still aging and that everyone else would have to relive the day as well. So in your hypothetical everyone knows they've lived they day before and that they're being made to live it again?

If desired, it would be more of the Sci-fi version in which only you age and remember.

Because if that's the case, I'm not sure what good it would do me ... So I guess I'd pick invisibility. That seems more straightforward!

The weight. I want to keep my parts.

 

[beechy]

If desired, it would be more of the Sci-fi version in which only you age and remember.

Cool. Ok, then I pick reverse the day.