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Title: Your Favourite What If Questions!
Post by: Fluffhead on March 21, 2013, 02:04:36 PM
Post your favourite most mind blowing what if questions,here is mine.
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 :-D
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Post by: Teaspoon Shallow on March 21, 2013, 07:13:16 PM
:rollin:

I was not expecting that. =D>

Off to google.
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Post by: FrankDK on March 21, 2013, 07:15:58 PM
What if doing the Hokey Pokey really IS what it's all about?

Frank
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Post by: AllPurposeAtheist on March 21, 2013, 08:15:56 PM
What if the Charmin company really does make toilet paper from the skins of infant buttocks? :shock:
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Post by: Colanth on March 21, 2013, 08:18:18 PM
What if no one ever asked what-if questions?
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Post by: GalacticBusDriver on March 21, 2013, 09:17:56 PM
Quote from: "Colanth"What if no one ever asked what-if questions?
Then most of the world's fiction would not exist. Book, movie, theater, etc... The author's/playwright's/screenwriter's most important question is "What If...?"

We also wouldn't be chatting together on any type of interconnected, electrically powered machines because science would be, at best, at the level of the dark ages.
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Post by: aitm on March 21, 2013, 09:26:01 PM
what if...nobody wanted to be the last person to post......
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Post by: Colanth on March 21, 2013, 10:42:54 PM
Quote from: "GalacticBusDriver"We also wouldn't be chatting together on any type of interconnected, electrically powered machines because science would be, at best, at the level of the dark ages.
I think we'd still be living in the trees.  Not that I'm saying that we might not be better off.
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Post by: Brian37 on March 21, 2013, 10:46:50 PM
I hate what if questions.

What if Angelina Jolie liked the taste of my sperm? How likely would that be?

Anything sounds nice when you play "If ifs and butts were candy and nuts"
Title: Re: Your Favourite What If Questions!
Post by: FrankDK on March 22, 2013, 09:58:30 AM
What if Tuesday Weld married Frederick March the fourth?

Then she'd be Tuesday March the fourth.

Frank
Title: Re: Your Favourite What If Questions!
Post by: aitm on March 22, 2013, 10:03:41 AM
:rollin:
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Post by: WitchSabrina on March 22, 2013, 10:04:59 AM
Quote from: "Colanth"What if no one ever asked what-if questions?


No fair.  Colanth stole my response.  Dammit.

so.............I will come up with another:

What IF there is a god?
(most appropriate I tink)
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Post by: Plu on March 22, 2013, 10:08:13 AM
QuoteWhat IF there is a god?

We'd all lose.
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Post by: aitm on March 22, 2013, 10:21:02 AM
[quote="WitchSabrina]What IF there is a god?[/quote]

could be....I imagine one wandering about the universe and perhaps peering at the earth and saying, "allo" (of course it has a British accent)..."allo, whaz iss? buggies on me marble? gef da fuck off ya lil buggers" *shakes the earth violently* "gee off me marble" *flicks earth into jupiter*
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Post by: Hydra009 on March 22, 2013, 11:21:33 AM
What if Iron Man lost the Armor Wars?

(That's about as philosophical as I get.  Heh.)
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Post by: WitchSabrina on March 22, 2013, 01:45:34 PM
Quote from: "aitm"[quote="WitchSabrina]What IF there is a god?

could be....I imagine one wandering about the universe and perhaps peering at the earth and saying, "allo" (of course it has a British accent)..."allo, whaz iss? buggies on me marble? gef da fuck off ya lil buggers" *shakes the earth violently* "gee off me marble" *flicks earth into jupiter*[/quote][/quote]

Got the visual.   LMAO  Epic :rollin:
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Post by: Jason78 on March 22, 2013, 02:13:49 PM
What if the universe really does revolve around me?
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Post by: Jutter on March 22, 2013, 11:10:51 PM
What if I won the lottery Jackpot.

It's the kind of wishful thinking most of us will likely have foolishly engaged in at one point or another.
If you are to play in a lottery, the only sensible reason would be because you grant the other players a stroke of fuck-me blind stupid luck. Chances are it won't be you, but the lottery needs participants in order for the stroke of luck to exsist.
Title: Re: Your Favourite What If Questions!
Post by: Fluffhead on March 23, 2013, 10:27:47 AM
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Post by: stromboli on March 23, 2013, 04:02:58 PM
What if wishes used to come true, but then somebody wished they didn't?
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Post by: GurrenLagann on March 23, 2013, 04:16:49 PM
Quote from: "Fluffhead"[ Image (//http://sphotos-d.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/536406_353029158136283_278260614_n.jpg) ]

xD Unfortunately, Satan apparently is to go to Hell as well (he's not in charge there), as per Revelations.
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Post by: Sal1981 on March 23, 2013, 09:17:45 PM
What if we can make a magnet (or just a magnetic pulse) so strong that it'll be able to pull apart space?
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Post by: aitm on March 23, 2013, 10:16:44 PM
Quote from: "Sal1981"What if we can make a magnet (or just a magnetic pulse) so strong that it'll be able to pull apart space?

granted I am not smart enough to understand the complexities of higher science, but as someone who "thinks" he can somewhat grasp the vastness of the universe, even if our solar system was an atom bomb and we could explode it, would the universe even "feel" it? Our solar system is but a grain of sand to it. How can humans possibly do anything that could effect the universe in anyway? I mean really? Star Trek and Star Wars aside, us breaking the continuom(sp) would be somewhat like an amoeba blowing up a ant. Do we somewhat think we have some power because we think we do?
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Post by: Atheon on March 23, 2013, 11:26:24 PM
Quote from: "stromboli"What if wishes used to come true, but then somebody wished they didn't?
What if you were granted three wishes, but your third wish was to have 100 more wishes?
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Post by: LoneQuietus on March 24, 2013, 02:14:56 AM
What if my car never runs out of gas and I don't know it?

What if everyone else sees in shades of a single color?

What if everyone but me is just a bit player in my life?

What if extraterrestrial life came to Earth, but considered us aesthetically repulsive?

What if there are no civilizations in the universe more advanced than us? What if we're the current pinnacle of intellect in the universe?

What if we are practically gods compared to other life in the universe?
What if we take for granted something we're capable of that would practically be a super-power to other species?

What if our entire universe is a microcosm?

What if other life in the universe is so different from us that we wouldn't recognize one another as sentient?
Title: Re: Your Favourite What If Questions!
Post by: Shiranu on March 24, 2013, 02:33:47 AM
Quote from: "Fluffhead"Post your favourite most mind blowing what if questions,here is mine.
[ Image (//http://sphotos-b.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/45256_381285128645581_2008841155_n.jpg) ]

 :-D

You know you smoke too much when this sounds legit...
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Post by: Hydra009 on March 24, 2013, 02:54:16 AM
Quote from: "LoneQuietus"What if we take for granted something we're capable of that would practically be a super-power to other species?
Probably at generating what-if scenarios.  And storytelling.  And humor.

QuoteWhat if other life in the universe is so different from us that we wouldn't recognize one another as sentient?
That's actually pretty likely.  Especially if they're subterranean or aquatic.
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Post by: Sal1981 on March 24, 2013, 09:09:00 PM
Quote from: "aitm"
Quote from: "Sal1981"What if we can make a magnet (or just a magnetic pulse) so strong that it'll be able to pull apart space?

granted I am not smart enough to understand the complexities of higher science, but as someone who "thinks" he can somewhat grasp the vastness of the universe, even if our solar system was an atom bomb and we could explode it, would the universe even "feel" it? Our solar system is but a grain of sand to it. How can humans possibly do anything that could effect the universe in anyway? I mean really? Star Trek and Star Wars aside, us breaking the continuom(sp) would be somewhat like an amoeba blowing up a ant. Do we somewhat think we have some power because we think we do?
Uhm, space isn't, strictly speaking continuous. It's, as far as we can tell, 'digital'. When we reach Planck length in space, quantum weirdness is prevalent, but most of all, movements in space, any movement, even quarks or superstrings or what have you, become discrete warps.

IOW: movement becomes in bits where 1 Planck length of movement for anything and everything cannot be any smaller, because the discrete energy levels required for a hypothetical 0.5 Planck length in movement (or any decimal of Planck movement) would result in the smallest event horizon possible where information would be lost because of Planck energy at those levels. This is of course theoretical, there might be some force there at the 10^-35 scale, which is besides the point since we currently can't probe at such tiny scales.

I think the universe is digital, and not analog, because of how energy behaves at the Planck scale.

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Another what-if: What if the energy levels of humanity would exceed what could be produced & used for a local cluster in the distant future?
Title: Re: Your Favourite What If Questions!
Post by: AllPurposeAtheist on March 24, 2013, 09:16:05 PM
What IF all those signals we send out into space attract a race of flaming gay giants who seek a planet to freely rape, pillage and plunder? :shock:
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Post by: EntirelyOfThisWorld on March 24, 2013, 09:19:00 PM
What if Lincoln let the South go?

There's a thread in itself.
Title: Re: Your Favourite What If Questions!
Post by: AllPurposeAtheist on March 24, 2013, 09:19:55 PM
What if Warren Buffet shows up at my door tomorrow and in a Darth Vaderesque voice says: 'Marty! I am your father.' :-k What do I tell the old man I currently call dad?
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Post by: AllPurposeAtheist on March 24, 2013, 09:22:46 PM
What if Jesus had slipped and cracked his head open and died hitting a public toilet? Would christians wear little toilets on their necks?
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Post by: Sal1981 on March 24, 2013, 09:31:11 PM
What if shit tasted good?
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Post by: Plu on March 25, 2013, 03:18:01 AM
Quote from: "Sal1981"What if shit tasted good?


We'd probably eat it again, just like rabbits do.
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Post by: Sal1981 on March 25, 2013, 04:02:13 AM
What if childbirth was like having an orgasm, but sexual intercourse was the painful part?
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Post by: Farroc on June 12, 2013, 08:35:22 PM
What if Summer Glau married Bill Winter?
What if Lighting from FF XIII really did show up at my house and demand I make love to her?
What if APA is lying about being an old homeless man?
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Post by: Solitary on June 13, 2013, 02:26:23 AM
What if female humans laid eggs? Could we eat them for breakfast if we didn't want kids?  :shock:  Bill
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Post by: Hydra009 on June 13, 2013, 03:19:31 AM
What if humans were eusocial?
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Post by: PickelledEggs on June 13, 2013, 01:25:29 PM
What if... it actually IS butter!