Current Events > $1 billion but you have to live in liminal spaces for 5 years

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You won't starve or get thirsty. You won't get sick of disease like bacteria or virus. You don't have to poop or pee.
You will wander around liminal spaces like in this video and it is just you. After 5 years you return to the real world and have 1 billion dollars.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57H8hbnqvMM

Sure

Am I in a bad situation for skipping taxes for 5 years then suddenly having $1 billion?

sabin017 posted...

Am I in a bad situation for skipping taxes for 5 years then suddenly having $1 billion?

no

That sounds boring as fuck, so no.

Do I still age?

I don't think it's worth my sanity

If i get unlimited internet and video games, sure

Actually nvm. I pick No.
It's not that i get food supply, but simply never hungry.
Eating is one of the most greatest pleasure, can't take it away for me.

I might go crazy but I'd probably give it a shot. Also, that video is over eight fucking hours long?

Fuck no. 5 years would drive anyone mad. And whats the use of all that money when you're finished your 5 years you're brain is rotted to mush.

That seems like it would cause permanent mental damage, depending on the kind of person you are. Even solitary confinement comes with an hour of "gym" and 3 meals a day. Some people lose their shit, some don't. This guy didn't,
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/feb/19/albert-woodfox-interview-solitary-confinement-44-years

and this guy has mostly recovered but still has major issues.

https://youtu.be/p1FuZVjVQ-4?si=UdBcbrNLjg9IUp9n

Guide posted...

That seems like it would cause permanent mental damage, depending on the kind of person you are. Even solitary confinement comes with an hour of "gym" and 3 meals a day. Some people lose their shit, some don't. This guy didn't,
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/feb/19/albert-woodfox-interview-solitary-confinement-44-years

and this guy has mostly recovered but still has major issues.

https://youtu.be/p1FuZVjVQ-4?si=UdBcbrNLjg9IUp9n

Damn ( O_o)

I skipped around in that video and still don't really understand what liminal spaces are.

Kradek posted...

I skipped around in that video and still don't really understand what liminal spaces are.

Like subliminal, but not sub

Ricemills posted...

Like subliminal, but not sub

So it's like super in my face and above the threshold of sensation & consciousness?

Ricemills posted...

If i get unlimited internet and video games, sure

Actually nvm. I pick No.
It's not that i get food supply, but simply never hungry.
Eating is one of the most greatest pleasure, can't take it away for me.

No internet. If you can find a console and an offline game in the liminal spaces then sure you can game. But unlimited is no.

Kradek posted...

I skipped around in that video and still don't really understand what liminal spaces are.

spaces that give a empty otherworldly feeling yet somehow familiar like you been there in a dream sorta

basically you be wondering around in creepy land with no one else around for 5 years

BUT
some liminal spaces are like abandoned bookstore or funland so you can read books or go down a slide from a creepy clown face's mouth!

So long as I don't age I think I'd do it.
I don't think it'd be anywhere near as bad as solitary confinement in one cell.

this seems like a good explanation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2T7wSwQtkts

Hell no. That would drive me insane, it would be like some Twin Peaks shit, thinking life was a dream and having flashbacks to the liminal spaces. The money isn't worth what sanity I have left.

Kradek posted...

I skipped around in that video and still don't really understand what liminal spaces are.

My understanding of it is think of an abandoned shopping mall (or similar place) but you go in and it's like it was shut down yesterday... things aren't in disrepair or covered in graffiti, the electricity all still works, etc. Everything's basically fine on the surface, but empty and eerie.

A memory that comes to my mind is when I was in high school and school had let out, but I realized I accidentally left my textbook in the basket under my chair of my last class. The teacher had noticed it there and was kind enough to leave the classroom unlocked in case I came back for it... but yeah, the part of the school I was in was basically deserted, no students, teachers, nobody.

Ricemills posted...

If i get unlimited internet and video games, sure

This. I'd go crazy being bored out of my mind for 5 years otherwise.

mercurydude posted...

Hell no. That would drive me insane, it would be like some Twin Peaks s***, thinking life was a dream and having flashbacks to the liminal spaces. The money isn't worth what sanity I have left.

What if...
I told you....
You already undergone this experiment....
5 years ago....

...
.

WingsOfGood posted...

What if...
I told you....
You already undergone this experiment....
5 years ago....

...
.

On the one hand, that sucks, and explains a lot...

On the other hand...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/0/0cebd19f.jpg

Kradek posted...

I skipped around in that video and still don't really understand what liminal spaces are.

Say you break the physics in a game and accidentally clip through a wall, into an area that isn't part of the game's map. The game's mechanics don't know how to handle this.

This is that concept applied to reality.

The concept itself comes from the weird sense of enclosure and repeating patterns in (usually) manmade areas. Say you're at a hotel, and it's just halls and doors throughout. Logically, you know there's a staircase or elevator somewhere that gets you to can exit. More immediately, though, all you can perceive is the same pattern of halls and doors that lead to other halls and doors. Merely having a pattern suggests repetition with no apparent limit.

It is probably relatable if you ever got lost in a hotel real late at night, and it turns out you were told your door was on the wrong floor. It is very disorienting.

Thanks, I appreciate all the actual answers today after getting a non-answer last night.

If I give up the money can I stay in liminal space indefinitely?

JoeDangIt posted...

If I give up the money can I stay in liminal space indefinitely?

Sure

does 5 years pass in the real world

luigi33 posted...

Fuck no. 5 years would drive anyone mad. And whats the use of all that money when you're finished your 5 years you're brain is rotted to mush.

This.

It would take a miracle of the mind for this much time basically in solitude to not have you go insane.

I want to live in liminal space so I'll gladly take a free billion dollar payment to do it for 5 years, then I'll use that billion to make my own liminal space, where I can live out the rest of my life in peace

Hell no. You're basically going to be in solitary confinement 24/7 for that time. That would really fuck most people up.

Ratchetrockon posted...

does 5 years pass in the real world

yes

DiScOrDtHeLuNaTiC posted...

Hell no. You're basically going to be in solitary confinement 24/7 for that time. That would really fuck most people up.

umm no....

solitary confinement is being stuck in an extremely small room with barely any lighting and no ability to do much of anything

in this liminal space you can wander around and if you find a bookstore it has books, if you find a restaurant it could have food, music store got music, I suppose if some nature area works as a liminal space you can see nature, kiddie playgrounds with slides etc

WingsOfGood posted...

umm no....

solitary confinement is being stuck in an extremely small room with barely any lighting and no ability to do much of anything

in this liminal space you can wander around and if you find a bookstore it has books, if you find a restaurant it could have food, music store got music, I suppose if some nature area works as a liminal space you can see nature, kiddie playgrounds with slides etc

5 years is a long time with zero human interaction.

bigblu89 posted...

5 years is a long time with zero human interaction.

sure, that is the conundrum to get the money as well as the creepiness of many liminal spaces

but this is nothing like solitary confinement

If it were to take up 5 real world years, probably not. Coming back to find everyone though I was dead and moved on wouldn't be great, even with a billion in the bank. If it just get dropped back where I was with 5 years of memories, sure, easy choice.

Nemu posted...

If it were to take up 5 real world years, probably not. Coming back to find everyone though I was dead and moved on wouldn't be great, even with a billion in the bank. If it just get dropped back where I was with 5 years of memories, sure, easy choice.

people will know you did the challenge if you want them to so they will not think you are dead unless they doubt the possibility of physics altering inter-dimensional travel I suppose

but if you let said people know this they would also know you are now a billionaire

WingsOfGood posted...

umm no....

solitary confinement is being stuck in an extremely small room with barely any lighting and no ability to do much of anything

in this liminal space you can wander around and if you find a bookstore it has books, if you find a restaurant it could have food, music store got music, I suppose if some nature area works as a liminal space you can see nature, kiddie playgrounds with slides etc

My understanding of liminal space is that it's a repeating pattern. There isn't actually anything there that's going to be different from where you start at, outside of some rare weird "glitches". Halls and doors and nasty carpeting forever, or all the dark space around a gas station leading back to the gas station.

mercurydude posted...

Hell no. That would drive me insane, it would be like some Twin Peaks shit, thinking life was a dream and having flashbacks to the liminal spaces. The money isn't worth what sanity I have left.

My understanding of it is think of an abandoned shopping mall (or similar place) but you go in and it's like it was shut down yesterday... things aren't in disrepair or covered in graffiti, the electricity all still works, etc. Everything's basically fine on the surface, but empty and eerie.

A memory that comes to my mind is when I was in high school and school had let out, but I realized I accidentally left my textbook in the basket under my chair of my last class. The teacher had noticed it there and was kind enough to leave the classroom unlocked in case I came back for it... but yeah, the part of the school I was in was basically deserted, no students, teachers, nobody.

So like the The Langoliers movie.

yeah sounds fun

JTsyo posted...

So like the The Langoliers movie.

Bronson Pinchot was fucking clutch in that. Like, you legit thought he might have gone nuts.

Kradek posted...

So it's like super in my face and above the threshold of sensation & consciousness?

Subliminal spaces are empty/abandoned.