What would you do if it was all a lie?

I've been pondering this question for awhile mainly because I'm taking a philosophy class at school and I just finished reading Deadpool Kills The Marvel Universe. 
 
"What would you do if you found out you were the character in a book or film or video game, and reality was a sham?" 
 
Seriously think about before you answer. You just wake up one morning and find out everything you ever knew was false. Free-will doesn't exist. Everybody in the world are puppets to the writer of this book about your life. Not only that, but what happens when the book or movie or video game ends? Will all of existence crumple along with it? 
 
So what would you do? Rebel against the creator? Find a way out of your trapped existence? Check yourself into a mental asylum?

@The Lobster : I am the Creator. Why would I rebel against myself o_0

@The Lobster : I am the Creator. Why would I rebel against myself o_0

@The Lobster said:

@CozyDaPrynce said:

@The Lobster : I am the Creator. Why would I rebel against myself o_0

I never said you were the creator? Where'd you get that idea? I said you were the main character in a book/film/tv show/video game that someone outside of your existence was writing.

I was just writing my own story. Sheesh >_>

It would depend on who the character was. That I really was.

If I was a real Terminator then i'd be thrilled because i'd be indestructable........... If I was Chucky it'd be great because then I could stalk a few girls and mess with em and never let anyone besides that girl know I was alive.... I'd only come to life when she was around alone.... I could sneak into her bed eveynight and play.

@The Lobster said:

@CozyDaPrynce said:

@The Lobster : I am the Creator. Why would I rebel against myself o_0

I never said you were the creator? Where'd you get that idea? I said you were the main character in a book/film/tv show/video game that someone outside of your existence was writing.

I was just writing my own story. Sheesh >_>

It would depend on who the character was. That I really was.

If I was a real Terminator then i'd be thrilled because i'd be indestructable........... If I was Chucky it'd be great because then I could stalk a few girls and mess with em and never let anyone besides that girl know I was alive.... I'd only come to life when she was around alone.... I could sneak into her bed eveynight and play.

@The Lobster said:

@goodguy24 said:

It would depend on who the character was. That I really was.

If I was a real Terminator then i'd be thrilled because i'd be indestructable........... If I was Chucky it'd be great because then I could stalk a few girls and mess with em and never let anyone besides that girl know I was alive.... I'd only come to life when she was around alone.... I could sneak into her bed eveynight and play.

It would just be regular old you, no superpowers, nothing. Just like if you woke up tomorrow and found out your existence was a sham.

Well then Nothing.

I'd accept it and move on as if nothing happened.

@The Lobster said:

@CozyDaPrynce said:

@The Lobster said:

@CozyDaPrynce said:

@The Lobster : I am the Creator. Why would I rebel against myself o_0

I never said you were the creator? Where'd you get that idea? I said you were the main character in a book/film/tv show/video game that someone outside of your existence was writing.

I was just writing my own story. Sheesh >_>

.......I don't get it.......can you elaborate?

X = 4

@The Lobster said:

@goodguy24 said:

It would depend on who the character was. That I really was.

If I was a real Terminator then i'd be thrilled because i'd be indestructable........... If I was Chucky it'd be great because then I could stalk a few girls and mess with em and never let anyone besides that girl know I was alive.... I'd only come to life when she was around alone.... I could sneak into her bed eveynight and play.

It would just be regular old you, no superpowers, nothing. Just like if you woke up tomorrow and found out your existence was a sham.

Well then Nothing.

I'd accept it and move on as if nothing happened.

@The Lobster said:

@goodguy24 said:

@The Lobster said:

@goodguy24 said:

It would depend on who the character was. That I really was.

If I was a real Terminator then i'd be thrilled because i'd be indestructable........... If I was Chucky it'd be great because then I could stalk a few girls and mess with em and never let anyone besides that girl know I was alive.... I'd only come to life when she was around alone.... I could sneak into her bed eveynight and play.

It would just be regular old you, no superpowers, nothing. Just like if you woke up tomorrow and found out your existence was a sham.

Well then Nothing.

I'd accept it and move on as if nothing happened.

You're okay with having no free-will? With everything you do and all events that happen to you being the product of a man and a keyboard? Kudos man. Thanks for the answer. I'm really curious as to how people respond to this question.

We pretty much are puppets. Gods Puppets of course.......... if free will didnt exist we couldnt do nothing about it... Comic Characters don't exist because well never see them in real life........

Everything is a lie

Everybody tells me I'm crazy and mad. Unless someone prove that all my memories wasn't made up last night by some weird reason. I'm right.

But, about the book, my reaction would be "!@#%&@ THIS $&#@! I'M OUTTA HERE!!!11"

Everything is a lie

Everybody tells me I'm crazy and mad. Unless someone prove that all my memories wasn't made up last night by some weird reason. I'm right.

But, about the book, my reaction would be "!@#%&@ THIS $&#@! I'M OUTTA HERE!!!11"

I'd kill everyone if they provided substantial proof of it. Hey, it's not reality so it doesn't matter. Kinda like when Alfonse Elrick thought he wasn't real.

Well, considering whatever I said or did would be the result of the author, nothing. If I were to find out, it'd be the author's doing. If I were to go on a murderous rampage, it'd be the author's doing again.

But assuming I got free will, I'd ruin his book by doing something crazy... or sitting in my room for the rest of my life. TRY TO GET THAT ON THE BEST-SELLERS!

Doing anything crazy or not will be written by said writter. No free will = Not responsible for one's own actions. Thus we have no moral compass to go by. So do what you want...in a manner of speaking.

@The Lobster : By the same way we escape from nightmares.

Death is useful sometimes.

@The Lobster : By the same way we escape from nightmares.

Death is useful sometimes.

@The Lobster said:

@The_Lunact_And_Manic said:

@The Lobster : By the same way we escape from nightmares.

Death is useful sometimes.

Ah, but maybe that's what the writer wants? What if he gave you the ability to see the strings so you'd go nuts and commit suicide?

Interesting, I think the worst thing that could happen is that I would follow what he wants and be happy with it.

Or, I would do everything wrong, strings go to right, I go to left...

Interesting, I think the worst thing that could happen is that I would follow what the writer wants and be happy with it.

Or, I would do everything wrong, strings go to right, I go to left...

I'll never let the story end.... and I'll make my life interesting.

@SC said:

Free will doesn't really exist anyway depending on your definition, its just a great illusion that helps us feel like we decide and thus have some control. Reality can't really be a sham, really in such a given situation it would be more accurate to say that my understanding of reality would be fundamentally changed with my prior perception being completely false. I would go on doing what I usually do if I could or if new options were presented to me based on my new understanding of reality then maybe follow those up... if I could.

This! But I would also add that everyone has a different perception of reality to begin with. And when you factor in things like mental illness, like the massive numbers of people who have some form of disassociative disorders (be they personality disorders or delusions and erroneous beliefs about the identities of friends and family), people who are autistic, schizophrenic, bipolar etc.... When you take into consideration the amount of people who for one reason or another either feel divorced from reality or experience one which is vastly different to your own, it becomes very difficult to answer the question. Which I guess is just the long way of saying that there are people whose realities crumble on a regular basis - so compared to that, having to only have your world turned upside down once isn't so bad.

Also, it is dangerous to base your identity on anything other than what you carry around inside you. No matter what my reality turned out to be, I would still be me because it isn't the events or circumstances in your life that define you: what defines you is how you deal with it.

then i won't be able to do anything,whatever they write then it will happen whether i like it or not.And of course they would write for me to break the 3rd/4rth wall or whatevs

If this were the case I would resort to my usual response to everything in life, impregnate all the cashiers in my store and retire in obscurity.

All your answers are incorrect. You would do what the writer wanted you to do.

@The Lobster said:

"What would you do if you found out you were the character in a book or film or video game, and reality was a sham?"

Seriously think about before you answer. You just wake up one morning and find out everything you ever knew was false. Free-will doesn't exist. Everybody in the world are puppets to the writer of this book about your life. Not only that, but what happens when the book or movie or video game ends? Will all of existence crumple along with it? So what would you do? Rebel against the creator? Find a way out of your trapped existence? Check yourself into a mental asylum?

Wouldn't the discovery of the reality be a kind of freedom? Your subsequent questions seem to imply the possibility of freedom. ie "Rebel against the creator" etc. If the writer was truly in control of reality and you had no free will then I don't think you would either know the difference or have the ability to react to it. Seem there is a logical contradiction at play.

I'd stop caring.

i liked stranger than fiction. doubt i freak out about my life being a script ill ponder it but no matter my decision to act or go on with life its all written down already its all planned out. i enjoy the simple things in life , like pie. :)

So by that logic that everything is a lie that statement that everything is a lie that would be a lie negating that everything is a lie butting you back right where you started.

I'd be pretty annoyed lol, but then again I haven't done much with my life at the moment so it's not like it would ruin anything. On the other hand if I had a successful, amazing life only to find out it was a lie and out of my control, then it'd be a different story.

Demand to see the writer and I'd give him a piece of my mind.