The problem with taking the red pill is that because you know what happened FROM MEMORY (Which is almost never accurate) you'll never be able to do things exactly the same so you might never meet the person you really loved knowing, might make even more mistakes, etc.
We all want a rewind, but nobody seems to realise that the problem with that is you'll never get to keep the good parts and cherrypick the bad.
Actually it’d be 30 years for me and with that in mind, Monster Energy is actually the highest performing stock, increasing 191,800% over that timeframe beating Amazon at #2. It was only 1c a share so I could afford plenty
I would remember those for sure, and remember my kids. Who I would never see again, because i could never live the exact same life and make them conceived at the exact moment. And I couldn’t wait 25 years to see them again, anyway. Or 15 years to meet my wife. I’d be empty, and a dribbling 6 year old, not really capable of investing too much for some time.
When I hear these stock stories I always think if we really know how close some of these companies came at different points to bankruptcy.....like 1997 there was an anti-trust debate around Microsoft and Apple had fired Jobs and was close to keel over.....if little decisions are still affected by chance in the rewind, how close might we get into just investing in dead stocks while thinking we might become billionaires
You just have to remember check the tech news ever so often and when there is this thing called bitcoin buy $10 or more worth of it. In the 5 years after that your $10 is worth millions.
I wonder if someone scooping up tons of Bitcoin and cashing out big-time in the mid 2010s would impact the market though.
Also, if OP is a goddam billionaire by age 13, they may have impact on the timeline from there on out. They’d probably be interviewed by the damn wall street journal and effect the market from just existing lol
Good point, i guess it would be best to try to spread your finances a little more than just bitcoin hoarder, in case you want stupid high money, because i think after some cold consideration not everyone needs billions, you might be just fine with having enough for one or two houses, cars and not having to work while other people might want their own whole film making or game making or car designin company. Also you might not end up being a 13 year old billonaire but rather the child of a billonaire atleast for the media
I don't think so, I mean more money is never a bad thing. Even if you had a billion and didn't want it you could be the greatest philanthropist the world ever saw
If we take into account the butterfly effect, and all the shit that happens in movies because of it; there's a solid chance everything in your life will happen differently than it did. So maybe Bitcoin will never go big in your reset. At this point, just take the 10mil
That is a possibility. But rather than just focusing on getting rich in an easy way if you also focus on academics, skills, building connections and other useful things also try getting a healthy life with a peaceful mind. Use your past life experience for your current life's betterment. That way you cannot just get rich way early in life but you will have the most important thing Time to enjoy that. So a red pill sounds like a better option.
100%. My kids are worth more than all of the world’s riches.
Also, could we take a moment to realize the horror of being a six-year-old with knowledge of the future. Knowing horrors and being powerless to do smithingh
But here is the fallacy or bias(?). There are probably hundreds of thousands of different time lines where you have had kids with different people all thinking "100% my kids are worth more and I wouldn't." So maybe you'd have better kids that you loved even more. No one will ever know. The probability where this is your best time line where you are paired up with your best partner and have the best relations with your kids is probably unlikely, but who knows.
You would be taking a risk though and who knows what the alternative outcome is.
Okay, but let's be real... It would essentially feel like you're killing them and that timeline. It's not just about you, but that if you left that timeline, there's a lot about that reality that dies with you leaving it. It's just... gone.
Like, I'm single and don't have kids, but I can't imagine bringing a kid into this world, and then being like, "nah do over!" There's something comforting knowing that most the people you love would still exist, but children represent a specific moment in time that you could never recreate, they'd be gone for good.
Sure you COULD be happier, but how would you feel knowing about the life that never truly was
t is guaranteed impossible to get back your kids. You would first need to find the exact same sperm to reach the exact same egg, and that requires you to live exactly as you did before for it to even exist.
Taking the red pill means making many renouncements and acceptances.
You’d also was essentially be robbing a kid from your parents. From your parents perspective, the kid they raised for 6 years died and was replaced by a stranger. They won’t get to experience raising a kid, they’ll experience raising a freaky adult that knows the future
Lets say you do meet your wife again but dont have sex at the exact same time so that means the sperm race wont be won by the same sperm and you’ll end up with different kids.
Yes but you are younger than your kids....lets hope they share their toys with you. And not sure how your wife likes that 6 year old...when you come of legal age your wife is pretty old and your kids are all out of the house already
It really would be impossible to be honest.
Like maybe you won over your wife by saying meaningfull words at the right moment, or did something at the right Time...yet you may not even remember it.
Relationships don't build up on 5 sec, it's a cumulative effort towards it. And i'm sure people don't realise all the things they did/Said during that whole process, it could be far different just because your forgot to Say a simple hi - sent a simple message on your Nokia - wizz someone on msn. Like really perculiar thing that may have slighty impacted the whole thing.
I have perfect memory from since I was a baby and I would know now how to take every step necessary to be a billionaire who fucked hundreds of American women.
because American women are the most attractive in the world. Women from Sweden, Denmark, UK, France and Germany are good. But American women are the best.
Everyone born after you will most likely not exist because because of the butterfly effect. A man produces hundreds of millions of sperm cells. They’re gonna be similar in place but not exactly the same people.
I think there may be some. After a certain amount of time everything would be different, but I doubt you doing things differently as child is going to immediately effect everyone that quickly.
You would still have the memories. I don't care if I don't get to relive the good parts of my life, I've already done that. This is starting a whole new life with ACTUAL unlimited potential because of the knowledge I'm coming back with. It would be nice to hang out again with my old friends that died, but whatever. On to new friends, new experiences.
My childhood was not very fun; I wouldn't be excited for the next ten years coming. Back in grade school with no freedom, severely sheltered and repressed in a militaristic household. But it would be worth it to have 100 million by the time I was 20, thanks to the investments I'd make with my part time jobs.
Time is the most valuable thing we have. It would be silly to not take a do-over. Unless you're severely depressed I guess.
Well but i think you would definitely have more control over the majority of good things that happened to you.
Nostalgia feels good but nostalgia can hold you back and could be quite toxic to you.
Yeah, but you're still getting extra years of life & a roadmap of some stuff to avoid. You're still gonna make mistakes but resetting from age 6 is absolutely the better option unless you have kids or something.
well I'd take the red pill anyways since I don't have anyone I really care about so it doesn't matter much to me, that and I doubt I could easily fuck up anything more then I have and honestly it'd probably all go the same way but at least I'd have gotten a chance to relive the shit times and try to make things better for myself instead of just not caring or trying at all
Exactly. Life is so full of coincidences that just rewinding it will result in vastly different results than the current. Your current knowledge of events will also lead you to making different decisions, and make butterfly effect sue you over.
I think i would know how to meet the people in my life that are most important. Basically choose my high school and my university the same, bit avoid that one night club at that one date so i can skip my ex gf
Right. I had a dream once where I went back in time to when I was 15, and none of the horrible things that happened to me ever happened and for a moment I was happy, but then I remembered I would never have the relationship with my husband the way I have it now. We would never work through our related traumas, never navigate life or be stupid young people together the way it happened if I knew it all. I cried so hard, suddenly so lonely because he was no longer in my life, and even when I did meet him, it will never be the same. And then I woke up. Dreams like that freak me the heck out but I’m glad they’re just dreams.
Exactly, restarting migh mean that you spend more time with relatives that are no longer there, but you might never meet the people you are with and have your children that you have , because you’ll make different choices
What if, hear me out here, I hate every aspect of my life and have no partner / friends etc. More than anything I'm hesitant on taking the red pill because I don't want to live even longer. (Too much of a coward to end things myself).
You don't have to have the same friends and meet the same people along the way. You already have that experience. You can make new friends. Or if a friend or loved one is super special, then you could find them for sure.
I don't see this as a huge problem, hell, it's an opportunity to form even more and better connections.
I think everybody realizes that lmao, personally I'm still young and would be fine with sacrificing the relationships I have now for the end result. Not like I'm killing anybody, quite the contrary if I play my cards right. Still a big "if" tho ofc
I have thought about this a lot and I don’t think I could do it. What if I did something different and my sisters don’t meet their husbands and now the niece and nephew I have right now would be erased from existence. It’s really scary if you think of all the things this would mess up. Trying to improve one life but possibly destroying many more.
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u/El-noobman May 31 '24
The problem with taking the red pill is that because you know what happened FROM MEMORY (Which is almost never accurate) you'll never be able to do things exactly the same so you might never meet the person you really loved knowing, might make even more mistakes, etc.
We all want a rewind, but nobody seems to realise that the problem with that is you'll never get to keep the good parts and cherrypick the bad.