Greetings from an ATS lurker,

My name is Muatti and i have been born on may in the early 90's. I'm currently a student in college and am interested in Philosophy,Neurology and Psychobiology and anything mysterious. I have specific interest in the Unidentified Flying Object Phenomena and anything paranormal you can name. my gender is male.
I am a curious person by nature and have, as some may call it, lurked among these forums for a while now and finally decided it was time to make an account to join some of the incredibly interesting discussions.

I am not born on english/american soil, so please excuse any grammar mistakes I present to you. I will do my best to proofread every single post.

When im not busy working or going to school i love to dig deep within myself and ask myself all the difficult philosophical questions a man can ask.

so tonight i stumbled upon a dilemma, which was:

what would you choose when you're ''abducted'' by extraterrestrials and get presented with 2 choices:

- you go with the E.Ts, to their (Advanced) planet, where you have to start living their life.

- you go back to your planet, but due to the distance youve already traveled, about 70 years will have past on earth.(given that the spaceship flies vast distances in short time)

Now take in mind these rules: No one knows where you went on earth, if you choose option 1, your family and anyone else for that matter will never know what happened to you. if you choose option 2, you have no idea whether or not your family is still alive, what happened in 70 years on the world and/or if it still exists.

Personally i got stuck on a dilemma. To elaborate: if i chose option 1, i would abandon my family whom i love, they would be in despair for their whole lifes. if i chose option 2, however, i would have to have some luck that some of my family is still alive so i can tell my story, if they are all gone, i would have nothing to come back to anyway, which means i literally wasted 70 years.

What would you choose?

(inb4 i have no family)

Good question. Some say the earth is advanced and yet we still have a part of the population that still live in mud huts. So who's to say the alien world doesn't have rich and poor.

Personally I'd go to their homeworld.

Welcome to ATS! Very interesting question you pose. I would choose to come back to earth though. If you lived on their planet, you would essentially be alone, perhaps even the subject of more experiments. At least if you come back to earth, you can reconnect with different generations of your family, and possibly get on with your life.

I'd go with them.
Because if 70 years had past, most of my family and friends would have died so either way they'd have wondered what had happened to me all their lives.

Originally posted by EnigmaAgent
Good question. Some say the earth is advanced and yet we still have a part of the population that still live in mud huts. So who's to say the alien world doesn't have rich and poor.

Personally I'd go to their homeworld.

edit on 7/10/12 by EnigmaAgent because: (no reason given)

i can relate to that, but how do you feel about your family?

Personally, i grew up being pretty close with them. i wouldnt want them to worry about me.
and having yourself disappear from the earth, it wouldnt be much of a closure for them, giving them a gap in their lifes.

Interesting dilemma you have brought forth. Honestly the family/friends situation is a mute point as the damage is done regardless of your feelings on it. As sad as it may be they are long gone and can not be changed. This leaves the choice of returning as a time traveler from the past or greatly advancing your personal experiences within your life.

If you chose to return you would be faced with a second decision. To tell or not to tell. If you tell, assuming that time travel has not been discovered by mankind, you would be arrested and held for questioning and or scientific research or found a "nut" and incarcerated either in a detention center or an sanitarium of some sort. The best you could hope for is that they come to believe you and they put you with a historical center to give your expertise on the historical past. If you choose not to tell you would have to remain "under the radar" and attempt to catch up on the changes without drawing attention to yourself in order to avoid the above scenario if it is even possible to do depending on the changes that have occurred. All of this is assuming that by the time you return mankind has not decimated the planet and it is even capable of sustaining life as you know it.

If you choose to go to their planet and experience life in their neck of the woods you would be taking the chance that they are not collecting you as a willing participant to slavery, scientific research, etc. It really comes down to how much trust you have in their portrayed "good will".

As for myself, knowing that all of what I previously knew was gone and buried(even if the mentality of man had not changed the people I knew would be gone and technology would be vastly different, ie either extremely advanced to what I am accustomed to or non existent to the same), I would choose to go to the "alien" planet and take my chances. I have experienced mankind and the adventurous person I am would wish to experience that life as well.

Edit to add: Welcome to the Family I look forward to your future posts.

I would need more details before deciding such as the condition of each planet, the lifestyles, foods, people etc. I mean I wouldn't want to live on a planet where they ate worms or something. LOL I wouldn't want to be the only human being on the entire planet unless the beings were human-like. There would be many questions that would need to be answered.

In any case, Hello and welcome!!

welcome to ats

easy question I would go love my wife and kids but I been dreaming of of that since I was a kid ..

edit : besides after 70 years i would of already been dead to them or a dead beat

Originally posted by Night Star
I would need more details before deciding such as the condition of each planet, the lifestyles, foods, people etc. I mean I wouldn't want to live on a planet where they ate worms or something. LOL I wouldn't want to be the only human being on the entire planet unless the beings were human-like. There would be many questions that would need to be answered.

In any case, Hello and welcome!!

Ahaa! Even though you are right in its entirety, its the trick of philosophy to leave those unanswered, as the moral values come into place first.

If i were to present you with an ice cream alien world, your ego will take over and make the easy decision. Thats what im trying to prevent. although, the curious ones in our midst most likely choose option 1.

Lets say you have no knowledge of both worlds' their condition and the E.Ts are Greys.
You dont know what they will do with you on their planet, nor do you know what earth will do to you.

Dilemma time