Bittersweet Candy Bowl

You have been severely injured during a car crash, your legs have been crushed, your arm has a slash through to the bone, and you have lost a lot of blood! However, in the car with you was a doctor who manages to get you through to the operating theatre. He then operates on you for 8 hours straight to stop the bleeding, he stops the bleeding and manages to help you regain use of your legs, but realises that your heart has been cut from a shard of bone that managed to richochet of your ribs. To heal your heart you are given either 1 of 2 pills, however these pills are experimental and are expected to have the following side effects:

Red pill:
The red pill makes you live a rather happy life, upon digestion, the pill automatically alters your memories, giving off the impression that you have fulfilled all of your lifes ambitions, you automatically gain a lot of confidence when talking to the opposite gender and your features become somewhat enhanced. However, your life expectancy is halfed and any sudden shock is likely to cause massive consequences to both your heart and brain. And if anyone says something that proves you have not fulfilled your lifes ambitions, your heart may suddenly stop from a malfunction of the brain!

Blue pill:
The blue pill is currently known as the vampire pill, upon digestion, the pill sends a sudden craving to your brain, a craving for blood, and it becomes torturous! however, the brain is stimulated to keep any blood inside the body and the heart seals itself up. After about 2 hours, the craving subsides, but by this time, your insides have been altered so much that food no longer satisfies you, you need blood to live! However, you cannot complete any of your lifes ambitions due to the fact that your face becomes pale. People will not talk to you in fear of being attacked. You will live a very reclusive life and will never get intimate with a “soul mate”, but with your new found need for blood, you have gained immortallity, and have gained enhanced strength and intelligence. You can also jump much higer and run faster.

In order to save your life, you must ingest 1 of the pills, this will only be offered to you once, and you cannot crush them together to mix or anything similar.


So red pill or blue pill and why?

I want to have both of them, they’re the best, I collect pills.. I’m a pill collecter

Blue pill, just so I can right the wrongs done to vampires by Twilight and all it’s ripoffs. Also, I’ve always wondered what immortality would be like.

the doctor will only give you 1 of the pills

A very interesting question but with a simple answer.

The blue pill is the obvious answer. With your new found Intelligence, immortality and the steady advance of science you can make an antidote or made an improved version of the pill.All you need is time and patience.

Red pill. I don’t need the confidence boost, but I’m not interested in living that long anyway.

i would probably choose the blue pill, as immortality is too appealing to pass up

Despite all the good from immortality I wouldn’t be able to stand the lonlieness.
The Red pill sounds so awesome cos we’re all gonna die one day so if the whole time you feel 24/7 awesome then it doesn’t matter if I’ll die really quick.

worry may fill you, but the state of euphoria from the red pill would make you quickly banish such thoughts

Why do you think I chose the blue pill? At least I wouldn’t die of negativity.

I’d probably do something stupid though, end up getting caught in the heart of a sun for all eternity or something.

Or stuck with Lady Gaga on repeat in a confined space for eternity.

And does anyone know what the deal is with Skype?

i got skype but dont know what the hell it is

Nah, it’s just the BCB group thing Taesh started is being funny.

If I had to make a choice, the blue pill but I’d commit suicide at some point as immortality would most likely be too much to bear.

The whole “YOU CAN’T LIVE A NORMAL LIFE” thing is bollocks anyways. If they give me an experimental pill they’re going to want to map the results and it’d dawn to them sooner or later that I’d need blood to survive and then try their best to make my life as normal as possible. Now unless the pill would make me be in a constant blood frenzy I could live off blood packs and such and live a relatively normal life. Besides, being pale makes it impossible to fulfil your ambitions? That’s just racism you know. Unless I openly started attacking people and the media capitalised on it people shouldn’t really have any reason to fear me on sight. Plus I could ruin the stereotypical vampire image by not being emotional and brooding.

TL;DR version: Screw the rules, I have money.

i didn’t mean it like that pixel, i meant like people would constantly think somethings wrong with you, like being constantly sick. and yeah, it may be bollocks, but it was meant to seem like a complete last resort. either that or die anyway, you could always commit suicide, but that would be the easy way out…

Death is just another adventure, blaze, and in the end everyone has to take it, even immortals.

true, so true

Blaze, if you’re immortal then suicide is pretty much the only way out assuming you still can die in some specific way.

true, but still you may as well make the most of your immortality before suiciding

Wouldn’t a vampire hunter eventually just go to your house and stake your ass?
I think if people are tat scared of you they’d try to do something.

Due to the bizarre cast in the next Predator movie, we’ve decided Laurence Fishburne (Morpheus) is just giving everyone the red and blue pills…..

take the BLUE PILL, and the RED PILL
combine them, and inhale them
what would happend then?

“Bitch be trippin balls”: One insane drug induced trip, before you die from heart failure or a seizure…

Predator: starring Chris Hansen.

Chris: “Why don’t you have a seat?”
(Plasma blast blows him apart.)
That series didn’t survive long.

Yeah. That kid can scream all he wants, it’s just going to happen. =/

Uhm blue pill?

On the condition that the doctor would supply me with blood of course, he wouldn’t want his experiment to…fail… would he?

Also, make up covers paleness and there’s alot of people who have the hots for vampires. Have you never watched True Blood? Pffff.

Red, red pill, I don’t like being alone…

first instinct says red pill, and not just because I read it first. (phonetic pun, har)

obligatory “gosh, both certainly do suck!”

anyway, docking life expectancy in hypothetical questions seem like cop-out penalties. no one knows when you’re going to die. dying due to JUST halving my life span would still seem like nothing out of the ordinary, as far as deaths go.. unless I’m perfectly healthy with no signs of an accident (car crash) or deterioration (illness).

also Blaze, “worry may fill you, but the state of euphoria from the red pill would make you quickly banish such thoughts” <—- wouldn’t the state of euphoria negate someone trying to prove I haven’t lived up to fulfilling anything? why would I care about being proved wrong if I’m so confident?

Fffftttt. I’d rather die.


If I had to really pick then I’d take the red pill and get over it. What’s the point of taking the blue pill? You’ll live forever, but everyone will fear you, and you might end up killing people along the way. I don’t know about you guys but in that situation I would kill myself. Nobody will love you, simply because they’re afraid you’ll attack them… I’d kinda get suicidal that way

I’d rather not take either, to tell you the truth. The red pill is compelling, but strangely I quite fear the “positive” effects - the negative ones almost seem like a boon. ^_^ The blue pill isn’t even in question. I couldn’t have stood the craving for blood, and besides, I wouldn’t want to live here forever. Oh, and the lack of social contact would have been the death of me, anyway.

Yeah, the blue pill is sweet, and really, its side effects are not very bad at all. Pale faces are just not that big a deal, and requiring blood to live is hardly tragic - its not difficult to acquire.

I’d take a page from XKCD: mash up both of the pills into powder, mix ‘em, then snort up the solution. I’m sure something awesome would happen. Otherwise…blue pill. I’d find a way to make it work.

blue pill:
I’m already fairly anti-social (which sucks), and immortality would be epic. With the newfound intelligence, it would be easy to become a doctor, get a job at a hospital, giving me access to blood packs.

Blue Pill.
I’d try my best to be nice and helpful to the local populace in exchange for a sufficient amount of blood to sustain my existence… Of course if I was about to die from the starvation because they were all being asses then I’d start going around and knocking out people for half a pint o’ blood (per person, likely multiple people per night), and if at the end of a year people were still being jackasses about it then I’d go up to city hall or whatever to declare: “I am sick and tired of the way you people act, if you thought I was some sort of monster before, then you’ll be quick to see that was me trying to be nice and honorable. Now? There shall be no mercy, I shall live up to and exceed the title you have bestowed upon me; monster.” and well… After that I’d ensure all hell broke loose.
Oh, and you bet I’d use a motorcycle to get to dangerous situations A.S.A.P. and I’d also use all that time immortality gives me and those physical boosts to become a master of parkour.

So… Yeah, I’d try and use my immortality to be a hero, and if that didn’t work then I’d kill thousands and manipulate events merely to get a World War III.

Neither.

Because I just want to die on the spot and forever get rid of life’s suffering.
Inequality and racism.

Not meaning to sound selfish, but…

Blue pill FTW!
And the first thing I’m gonna do is fucking eat Stephanie Meyer. Alive.

This ended up being longer than expected.
TL;DR: Blue pill


If at the moment of this hypothetical decision I think the same way I think now, the red pill would be a terrible choice: being forever happy means never fighting to make my life better, cause in no way it could be better, and never fighting for everyone else cause no matter how much they suffer, I would never feel empaty for them, and I wouldn’t feel the need to help them. Having an eternal feeling of fullfilment would mean no dreams and no reason to expect the next day, which would make it a really empty life. You mention having more confidence talking with the oposite gender (what if someone is homosexual?), but what for? If it is for friendship, what do you need friends for if you’re always happy and don’t have troubles? If you have troubles with something, that could fall in the “shock” cathegory, and a friend wouldn’t be able to save your life then. If you talk with the oposite sex to have a romantic relationship, would it be fair for your mate that at any moment you could be flirting with another person (easy to talk with the opposite gender and cheating on your mate wouldn’t make you feel bad)? And what happens when your mate is feeling down and you lack the empathy to understand him/her, cause it wouldn’t affect you, thus making him/her feel worse?.
Also, you can receive a shock any day, at any moment. Life is full of moments that make your heart jump out of your chest. What is the point of fixing your heart if it could break at any moment? Besides you mention that one of those shocks could also damage your brain, which is where your happiness originates. If your brain is damaged, you risk losing that which makes you happy, which by the rules of the red pill, could mean an instant death. In the best case scenario, you become a really happy psychopath.

Regarding the blue pill, from what I understand you must consume blood to live. If you only eat food you’ll starve, so blood isn’t just for feeling food, it is for surviving. If this is correct, and you can’t be part of society, then you’d be forced to use your strength and abilities to hunt for food. You become inmortal at the cost of only living to mantain that inmortality. And intelligence isn’t too useful if you can’t use it in society, unless it is for thinking new ways for getting blood, or creating artifacts for the same purpose. One could say that he’ll live as an outcast, but use his powers to help people in secrecy and get blood in non violent ways (blood bank). Getting blood in this way means that probably someone who needs a transfusion will die, cause the very same day someone entered the bank and stole many bags of blood, and there is none left that has his exact type. If you’re figthing for people, would you like that someone dies to keep you alive? It wouldn’t be much different than killing him yourself. If you directly kill a person or an animal, would it be ok for you to end a life to preserve your own? If that is so, your moral code (if it wasn’t that way in the beggining) would have to change in order to justify your actions. Killing is now acceptable in order to keep yourself alive. After that, killing becomes acceptable to save other peoples lives, then it becomes acceptable to kill if MAYBE someone’s life was in danger. Unless you have a strong will and clear limits to your behavior, it won’t be much time till you start killing (with or without feeding) for small stuff, becoming a monster and enemy of the people you were trying to protect.
If you end in this situation cause of this transformation or cause since the beggining murder was ok for you, people will hunt you, and at some point catch you and kill you. And dying isn’t a good way to spend the gift of inmortality.

After thinking about these two options in the bed of the hospital, and arriving at the conclusions mentioned above I’d ask if it would be posible to, instead of taking a pill, to have an artificial heart implanted. If there is a chance of dying, I’d probably take that chance, cause one way or the other I’ll die.
If an implant is impossible and I have to choose a pill, I’d pick the blue one, cause if I have to choose between being a slave of pleasure or a slave of suffering, I prefer the slaver from whom I will be glad to escape.

Holy shitwall of text

Sweet buttery Jesus that’s alot of words.

That wasn’t the original intention, but I tend to have a lot to say… and words are kinda small so I have to use a lot of them, or risk poor explanations.
And I’m doing it again…

TL;DR: sorry

What’s with the titles, Julian? I’d go into a psychological evaluation, but I don’t want any more text walls for now.

Neither pill.

Red would have you living a lie.

Blue would have you living without meaning.

I’d make sure i wasnt driving or in a car that day

@Hannibal
What titles?

Julian the ________.

Oh

I started with this name, and saw other people changing theirs depending on the situation, and I thought that this name had potential to be changed without losing information about the original name, and before I noticed I couldn’t stop changing it.

Also, I was bored.

Wait. You felt bored, or you used the name “bored” when posting? THIS IS VITAL TO MY SANITY.

I was feeling bored, but I don’t know if i wanted to be bored or I really thought I was him.



But to end this and hastily return to the rails, I felt bored, and my name was Julian the Third