if there was the option, like in "eternal sunshine of the spotless mind", to forget certain people or perhaps events in your life, absolutely completely erase the evidence of them ever having existed or happened, would you? would it be better to remember possibly painful memories or failed relationships? is it truly our memories and experiences that make us what we are?
personally, there are a lot of things i would choose to forget...
I'd choose the most random thing, like the cultural knowledge that you lower the pot to take a poop, and raise it to pee. It would be a practical joke on myself that I'd never realize....but until the memory wipe, I'd laugh my ass off.
that is a terrible idea. it may seem trivial but it isnt. your memories define who YOU ARE. the very core of you. forgetting sumthing permanently=death of the person you were. consider an extreme example, what if the same machine cud wipe out ALL your memories and expiriences. as far as conciousness is concerned, you would lose all that you were and become a newborn. in almost every psychological sense of the word. losing memories is a pretty terrible thing. its sorta like asking{in the most extreme cases} whether a person wud like to live in a painful life or kill themselves.
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There's a lot of things I'd like to forget, but the thing is, all those bad things make you stronger, it is so true.
You are the way you are for a reason, because you've gone through so many things. I'm not going to go on listing things I've been through, but without all those unfortunate things, I'd probably be some ungrateful, terrible person. I'd rather keep my bad memories.
I wouldn' t be where I am today, if it weren' t for the people I' ve met and the situations I encountered. Experiencing these things certainly built my current character. It' s the twists and turns, and the bumps and bruises that have molded me into the person I am today. I value my experiences for the life lessons they offer.
Take any of those out of the equation, and I' d be a different person. I don' t want to be another person, I like my person.
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I dont have a memory to begin with actually, and the things i remember are short and incomplete but they had at least a large enough impact to be remembered. sometimes i wish i could forget it all.
But all my experiences have made what I am today. Sometimes painful experiences make you stronger in character. You can accomplish more, become more than you were before.
there is only one experience I would forget, a certain someone. erase them from my memory.
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huh? what is so idiotic about what i said? and anyway, when did i claim that i had it all figured out? im just smart{probably} enough to understand that i DONT have it al figured out by a long shot.
I'd love to see a statistical correlation between memory and actual events, though it would be an insanely hard test to run objectively and thoroughly enough to be significant.
In any case, I'm pretty sure Bardock's referring to the utter fallibility of our memories, and how we forget and/or change many more details about our pasts than we likely realize.
...though what is an amusing anecdote here in the forums turns serious when you realize that DNA evidence is routinely dismissed in court cases because the defendant can usually create considerable confusion and doubt in the jury's minds (largely due to a lack of public information concerning such things) when it is far more accurate than personal testimony, which is held in high regard.
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I would like to forget the memories of my past love.I was deeply in love with a girl and she too.But I don't know what causes her to leave me alone in this cruel world.Though she has gone but I am still feeling the pains of my past love.
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I heard a rather interesting question a while ago.
Imagine you need surgery of sorts.
The doctor comes to you and tell you that they could do it the old fashioned way, you get an anesthesia wake up afterwards, but it is riskier then the new method. He also offers you the new method, you don't get any anesthesia, will feel the full pain of the surgery but get a pill afterwards to forget it forever.
Which would you take?
I think the second is to most people much more terrifying, though the outcome would be the same. And I don't think that is because one is afraid of the pain, but because many people believe losing your memory like that would make you a fully different person. It would kill you, so to speak. thoughts?
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If you could choose to forget....
Oct 30th, 2007 02:00 AM
