Poll of the Day > Would you do two weeks of total isolation to never be sick?

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MrMelodramatic
05/16/19 9:27:13 PM
#1:


Spend two weeks in a 20x10x8 room, no windows, fluorescent lights you can switch on and off. No books or electronics or any kind of materials. Food and water is given to you regularly, but you cant see or talk to the person giving it to you. You have a comfortable bed and pillows and its whatever temperature youd like it to be.

In return you never get sick again. If youre currently sick, youre cured. No colds, no cancer, no STDs, no heart disease, no infections, no mental illness, no anything for the rest of your life. You can still die, but itll literally be because youre old, and itll be painless. No medical explanation, since you were in perfect health.

Unless you die in a car accident or something. You can still get hurt, just not get sick.

You cant use this power to make yourself rich or famous or anything like that. Normal life, but no sickness.
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Far-Queue
05/16/19 9:29:18 PM
#2:


Dude yeah of course. This in a no-brainer. I could do two weeks standing on my head.
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Firewood18
05/16/19 9:31:42 PM
#3:


I'd do that and call it vacation.
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JOExHIGASHI
05/16/19 9:37:22 PM
#4:


nope

3 days like that causes permanent brain damage unless the no sickness prevents that
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keyblader1985
05/16/19 9:37:58 PM
#5:


Throw in minimal monetary compensation and then it's a no brainer.
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wwinterj25
05/16/19 9:39:32 PM
#6:


Yes. I see no downside to this.
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LuciusLatios
05/16/19 9:42:14 PM
#7:


Isolation is not good for a human.
And no sunlight can actually drive you to insanity
And I don't know a thing in this whole wide world that's worse than being alone
Also, I don't fear dying of sickness

To put it simply, no.
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TallTamryu
05/16/19 9:43:11 PM
#8:


2 weeks is a pretty long time...not sure most people could do it. You'd likely go completely insane by end of first week, maybe sooner.
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wwinterj25
05/16/19 9:43:43 PM
#9:


No sickness means no mental health issues too.
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TallTamryu
05/16/19 9:44:53 PM
#10:


Perhaps if you could make it w/o killing yourself before the 2 weeks are up then.
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SilentSeph
05/16/19 9:45:40 PM
#11:


Yes, I'd do a lot of yoga and calisthenics.
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LuciusLatios
05/16/19 9:45:47 PM
#12:


wwinterj25 posted...
No sickness means no mental health issues too.


You never implied when we get this power.
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wwinterj25
05/16/19 9:47:29 PM
#13:


LuciusLatios posted...
You never implied when we get this power.


I didn't make the topic nor the rules. I assume once the two weeks are up we get said power thus I see no downside.
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TallTamryu
05/16/19 9:52:59 PM
#14:


I believe you'd end up not eating and/or drinking after a while and using the food for something else to keep your mind occupied then die of dehydration/starvation.
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CaptainStrong
05/16/19 10:00:26 PM
#15:


2 weeks of insane boredom for 60+ years of not being on the verge of a panic attack when I'm in public or have to deal with people, not being depressed and anxious as shit, and never having a cold? Awesome. I could finally function in society like a normal adult.
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CTLM
05/16/19 10:03:50 PM
#16:


Yes. The isolation would probably do me some good in the long run
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Sarcasthma
05/16/19 10:07:18 PM
#17:


Time for a two week-long jo session...
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Zareth
05/16/19 10:12:14 PM
#18:


Can we at least get like some paper and pencils?
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LinkPizza
05/16/19 10:15:14 PM
#19:


Isolation is literally torture. Youd probably go crazy before the two weeks. And if you dont get the power before the two weeks are up, you might kill yourself before then. I dont think Id want to do it. The boredom would probably destroy me...

Also, what kind of food?
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sock2ii
05/16/19 10:16:36 PM
#20:


I'd do it. I have no friends anyway. XD ;-;

Only downside is no videogames. :P
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MrMelodramatic
05/16/19 10:16:37 PM
#21:


keyblader1985 posted...
Throw in minimal monetary compensation and then it's a no brainer.

No. You might lose your job if you cant get two weeks vacation.

LuciusLatios posted...
Isolation is not good for a human.
And no sunlight can actually drive you to insanity
And I don't know a thing in this whole wide world that's worse than being alone
Also, I don't fear dying of sickness

To put it simply, no.

Youd definitely go crazy in the room. But if you manage to get out....

wwinterj25 posted...
No sickness means no mental health issues too.

The isolation would just be a bad memory, but you wouldnt suffer any lasting mental issues because of it.

TallTamryu posted...
Perhaps if you could make it w/o killing yourself before the 2 weeks are up then.

I dont think I could make it.

LuciusLatios posted...
wwinterj25 posted...
No sickness means no mental health issues too.


You never implied when we get this power.

Two eeeks in the room. The power kicks in 27 minutes after release. Try not to die in that time.

Zareth posted...
Can we at least get like some paper and pencils?

Nope
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Jen0125
05/16/19 10:22:15 PM
#22:


Yes. I would just sleep the whole time.
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Bugmeat
05/16/19 10:28:18 PM
#23:


Without hesitation. Two weeks would suck but would be easy. Definitely worth it to get rid of my epilepsy.

However, two months would be significantly harder. But for the reward it would still be worth it. Even if two months would cause some sort of mental trauma that shit would be all cleared up once the two months were up since mental illness were among the things that would be cured


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PMarth2002
05/16/19 10:32:27 PM
#24:


Yep. Dunno if i'd make it the whole 2 weeks, but i'd sure as heck give it a shot.
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ReggieTheReckless
05/16/19 10:48:35 PM
#25:


sleep for two weeks in a comfy bed and never be ill again? I mean... what's the downside?

I've been in jail before, so a comfy bed is more than that bullshit ever gave
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RedPixel
05/17/19 12:07:56 AM
#26:


Sounds like an amazing chance to meditate/reflect... not even seeing a downside.
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Johnny Eagle
05/17/19 12:12:20 AM
#27:


RedPixel posted...
Sounds like an amazing chance to meditate/reflect... not even seeing a downside.


....................not sure if serious
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Revelation34
05/17/19 12:15:24 AM
#28:


MrMelodramatic posted...
Spend two weeks in a 20x10x8 room, no windows, fluorescent lights you can switch on and off. No books or electronics or any kind of materials. Food and water is given to you regularly, but you cant see or talk to the person giving it to you. You have a comfortable bed and pillows and its whatever temperature youd like it to be.

In return you never get sick again. If youre currently sick, youre cured. No colds, no cancer, no STDs, no heart disease, no infections, no mental illness, no anything for the rest of your life. You can still die, but itll literally be because youre old, and itll be painless. No medical explanation, since you were in perfect health.

Unless you die in a car accident or something. You can still get hurt, just not get sick.

You cant use this power to make yourself rich or famous or anything like that. Normal life, but no sickness.


Is there a shower in it too?
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Monopoman
05/17/19 12:16:41 AM
#29:


Two weeks is a joke, unless you are actually in a hole situation like in prison.
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LuciusLatios
05/17/19 12:18:58 AM
#30:


Wait, can we cryogenically freeze ourselves for that period of time?
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sodium-chloride
05/17/19 12:23:06 AM
#31:


You should probably add the stipulation that there is a rope or gun or something lethal in the room because there's no reason to not do this if your psychosis/paranoia/PTSD/depression/suicidality magically disappears after 2 weeks. I highly doubt anyone on this board would survive more than 5 days without killing themselves in that situation given the chance.
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Broken_Zeus
05/17/19 12:24:10 AM
#32:


Will I get a comfortable bed?!

idk, seems like an easy choice unless there's a catch.

LuciusLatios posted...
Isolation is not good for a human.
And no sunlight can actually drive you to insanity
And I don't know a thing in this whole wide world that's worse than being alone
Also, I don't fear dying of sickness

To put it simply, no.


You know what's also bad for you? Cancer. HIV/AIDS. Double pneumonia. And literally everything else you'd be avoiding by taking the deal.
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mooreandrew58
05/17/19 12:25:48 AM
#33:


I feel I could entertain myself with daydreaming. Sleep when I can. I'm fully capable of 12 hours of sleep a day if you give me the chance. Id probably also pass the time like some inmates in solitary confinement, exercise.

The only downside I see for me is readjusting to bright lights afterwards.

Recall this story in a video game about a guy imprisoned in a pitch black dungeon for many years when someone finally released them because the government had been overthrown (prisoner had been one the rebels) he ran out of thr prison and wanted to see things again only to have his retnias burned out immediately by the sun
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sodium-chloride
05/17/19 12:34:26 AM
#34:


mooreandrew58 posted...
I feel I could entertain myself with daydreaming. Sleep when I can. I'm fully capable of 12 hours of sleep a day if you give me the chance. Id probably also pass the time like some inmates in solitary confinement, exercise.


This might work for a day or two but after your circadian rhythm is gone and you have zero sense of time it won't be long before you start going crazy.

Having nothing to do is the least of your problems. You have no idea how long you have been in confinement and how much longer you have. I guess you could figure it out through when you get your meals but you would still not just be able to sleep your way through two weeks.

I actually take back what I said about adding some lethal weapon/device in the room. You're still fully capable of self mutilation with your nails and jumping head first off the bed on to the floor. So yeah, literally no one on this board would survive the two weeks (including me).
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miki_sauvester
05/17/19 12:37:48 AM
#35:


When I was depressed in high school, I dropped out and locked myself in my room for almost a year. No windows. Rarely ate, I just slept like 20 hours a day.

It was easy. Two weeks is nothing.
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sodium-chloride
05/17/19 12:40:07 AM
#36:


miki_sauvester posted...
When I was depressed in high school, I dropped out and locked myself in my room for almost a year. No windows. Rarely ate, I just slept like 20 hours a day.

It was easy. Two weeks is nothing.


Inmates with depression are more likely to self harm in solitary confinement. You'd be dead within a few days if you had depression or some debilitating mental illness going into such a room for two weeks.
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mooreandrew58
05/17/19 12:40:47 AM
#37:


sodium-chloride posted...
mooreandrew58 posted...
I feel I could entertain myself with daydreaming. Sleep when I can. I'm fully capable of 12 hours of sleep a day if you give me the chance. Id probably also pass the time like some inmates in solitary confinement, exercise.


This might work for a day or two but after your circadian rhythm is gone and you have zero sense of time it won't be long before you start going crazy.

Having nothing to do is the least of your problems. You have no idea how long you have been in confinement and how much longer you have. I guess you could figure it out through when you get your meals but you would still not just be able to sleep your way through two weeks.

I actually take back what I said about adding some lethal weapon/device in the room. You're still fully capable of self mutilation with your nails and jumping head first off the bed on to the floor. So yeah, literally no one on this board would survive the two weeks (including me).


I feel like people probably have survived worse before like similar but without the bed.

I mean some punishments in prisons of the older eras could be pretty cruel. I know solitary confinement is a thing in prisons and once upon a time we didnt give prisoners Jack shit to entertain themselves with. Only difference would be they had a crappy bed but had light and maybe just maybe they'll hear a guard say "meal time"
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sodium-chloride
05/17/19 12:42:47 AM
#38:


mooreandrew58 posted...
I mean some punishments in prisons of the older eras could be pretty cruel. I know solitary confinement is a thing in prisons and once upon a time we didnt give prisoners Jack s*** to entertain themselves with. Only difference would be they had a crappy bed but had light and maybe just maybe they'll hear a guard say "meal time"


How do you think they are doing mentally while in that solitary confinement? Especially when they are probably already deranged to begin with? Give them any simple object or tool and they'll probably use it to kill themselves.
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Revelation34
05/17/19 12:42:58 AM
#39:


So no materials means you'll be naked right?
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miki_sauvester
05/17/19 12:43:40 AM
#40:


Okay, I read through some of the posts and apparently a lot of people are under the impression this is impossible. Ill give that it could be hard for some people, maybe. But nowhere close to impossible, and Id say itd be actually easy for a lot of people. I go on week-long anti-social streaks where Id rather not talk to or see anyone. Even if you are not as extreme as me, this is no way as hard as everyone is saying it would be.
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darkknight109
05/17/19 12:45:25 AM
#41:


Far-Queue posted...
Dude yeah of course. This in a no-brainer.

This.

The "no entertainment" thing would suck, but I'd manage - I'd just run through budo drills for two weeks. Honestly, being that free of distractions would probably be a blessing in that regard. I'd be able to get a tonne of stuff fixed with two weeks of uninterrupted, undistracted practice.

I don't buy all the claims here of people saying you'd go insane after a few days of isolation. I've voluntarily secluded myself away from people for a week at a time and it didn't bother me in the slightest (granted, I had entertainment available at the time).

This wouldn't be pleasant, but it wouldn't be the mind-shattering torture some of you are making it out to be.

sodium-chloride posted...
So yeah, literally no one on this board would survive the two weeks (including me).

I see absolutely nothing backing up your claim and the fact that prisons routinely put people in solitary confinement for periods substantially longer than that and most of them are still alive at the end of it. I can only assume you're an extreme extrovert, because most introverts don't mind being away from people for extended periods of time. Even if you have no external sources of entertainment, there's things you can do to occupy yourself - meditation, yoga, martial arts... honestly, basically any physical activity you can do solo that doesn't need external aid.
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Broken_Zeus
05/17/19 12:46:49 AM
#42:


sodium-chloride posted...
So yeah, literally no one on this board would survive the two weeks (including me).


Which is a hilarious exaggeration, considering how many prisoners have survived in similar or worse situations.

miki_sauvester posted...
Okay, I read through some of the posts and apparently a lot of people are under the impression this is impossible. Ill give that it could be hard for some people, maybe. But nowhere close to impossible, and Id say itd be actually easy for a lot of people. I go on week-long anti-social streaks where Id rather not talk to or see anyone. Even if you are not as extreme as me, this is no way as hard as everyone is saying it would be.


Obviously it's nowhere near as big a deal as the naysayers make it out to be, but it's going to be rough regardless. And the issue is less a matter of socializing than it is sheer boredom and the loss of the sense of time.
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sodium-chloride
05/17/19 12:47:50 AM
#43:


miki_sauvester posted...
Okay, I read through some of the posts and apparently a lot of people are under the impression this is impossible. Ill give that it could be hard for some people, maybe. But nowhere close to impossible, and Id say itd be actually easy for a lot of people. I go on week-long anti-social streaks where Id rather not talk to or see anyone. Even if you are not as extreme as me, this is no way as hard as everyone is saying it would be.


Sure it's easy to say that when you have the comfort of knowing you can do whatever you want, whenever you want.

If you're in a room with literally no objects, no form of communication, no sense of time other than some meals being served to you, no ability to interact with anything at all,you will go insane.
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Zareth
05/17/19 12:48:42 AM
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People saying this is impossible as if Buddhist monks haven't been doing shit like this for hundreds of years.
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LinkPizza
05/17/19 12:48:59 AM
#45:


Broken_Zeus posted...
LuciusLatios posted...
Isolation is not good for a human.
And no sunlight can actually drive you to insanity
And I don't know a thing in this whole wide world that's worse than being alone
Also, I don't fear dying of sickness

To put it simply, no.


You know what's also bad for you? Cancer. HIV/AIDS. Double pneumonia. And literally everything else you'd be avoiding by taking the deal.

I thought about that. I'd rather take my chances with those things. I haven't gotten any of those. Doesn't mean I won't. But I think my chances of not getting those are good. With the two weeks, the chances of me dying before getting out are high...

mooreandrew58 posted...
I feel I could entertain myself with daydreaming. Sleep when I can. I'm fully capable of 12 hours of sleep a day if you give me the chance. Id probably also pass the time like some inmates in solitary confinement, exercise.

I thought about this, as well. I would be so bored. Even my daydreams would get boring after some time.

As for sleeping, I can usually do that. But after a couple of days, if even that long, I won't be able to sleep the day away. I did that when I had some time off of work. I slept the first couple days since I felt like I never got any sleep. When I tried to keep doing that, my body just wouldn't sleep in anymore...

I also thought about exercising, but then I remembered I hated it. Exercising would be good because it could help make me tired enough to sleep the day away. But I'd be bored within a couple of days, if it even goes on for that long.

Solitary confinement sucks. To the point where it's actually torture. Especially for long periods on time...
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sodium-chloride
05/17/19 12:50:38 AM
#46:


It's interesting how many of you think how simple it would be just because you tend to live in isolation anyway. If it were up to me I'd be a mute and live by myself in the forest with few distractions but that's a far different experience that what is being described.
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darkknight109
05/17/19 12:51:18 AM
#47:


sodium-chloride posted...
If you're in a room with literally no objects, no form of communication, no sense of time other than some meals being served to you, no ability to interact with anything at all,you will go insane.

No, you'd most likely be fine. Bored, maybe, but fine.
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sodium-chloride
05/17/19 12:51:53 AM
#48:


Zareth posted...
People saying this is impossible as if Buddhist monks haven't been doing shit like this for hundreds of years.


Buddhist monks still live together and are able to see the sun. They don't live in rooms with literally no objects for their entire lives.
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sodium-chloride
05/17/19 12:52:04 AM
#49:


darkknight109 posted...
sodium-chloride posted...
If you're in a room with literally no objects, no form of communication, no sense of time other than some meals being served to you, no ability to interact with anything at all,you will go insane.

No, you'd most likely be fine. Bored, maybe, but fine.


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mooreandrew58
05/17/19 12:55:02 AM
#50:


sodium-chloride posted...
It's interesting how many of you think how simple it would be just because you tend to live in isolation anyway. If it were up to me I'd be a mute and live by myself in the forest with few distractions but that's a far different experience that what is being described.


I dont think it would be easy by any means. But I'm fairly confident id survive it without trying to kill myself. The complete darkness would be the roughest part.
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