Using my magic powers I am offering to reincarnate you immediately into a new life, with conditions

Using my magic powers I am offering to reincarnate you immediately into a new life, with conditions.

Your new life will be as a decently attractive teenaged white girl, from an upper-middle class American family, in a predominantly white upper-middle class American suburb. You will attend the suburb's predominantly white upper-middle class high school.
You will not be a Stacy or part of her clique, however you will not be a loser either, you'll be part of a mildly popular clique and have a small amount of good friends you can rely on.

Obviously all memories of your past life will be erased and you will only have the knowledge and memories of this teenaged white girl.
Do you accept? Think about it, the biggest problems you will ever know and have to deal with are whatever bullshit drama Stacy and her clique cooked up, and >that feel when Chad is dating stacy. On the other hand, it seems like the most boring, shallow existence possible.

1- Can I choose to be born in a different time (for example, the 60s) in this same timeline without one single deviation from the timeline as it is here?
2- Can I program myself to become a different kind of person (for example, have an interest in technology and Japan with an introverted personality and high IQ as opposed to being some generic white girl)?
I will take the deal if yes for both questions.

>1- Can I choose to be born in a different time (for example, the 60s) in this same timeline without one single deviation from the timeline as it is here?

No. You are born exactly 17 years ago from today.

>2- Can I program myself to become a different kind of person (for example, have an interest in technology and Japan with an introverted personality and high IQ as opposed to being some generic white girl)?

You could, in theory, but you are not predestined for that. This will only happen if there is a major factor that affects your life significantly, enough that you get away from the average American female lifestyle. Maybe a bad drug trip, an abusive boyfriend or an extremely good teacher. It is very unlikely though.

I'd take the offer

Life would be immeasurably easier. I can marry some rich guy from Houston and live in a nice house, drive a BMW X5 van and go have starbucks with my friends at the local mall. I'd never have to work a day in my life, I'd have a maid to clean my house twice a week and I'd spend my time playing tennis or doing some retarded artsy business while my husband brings the money home.

Sure I'd be extremely shallow and boring, but I would not be lonely and suicidal. Average girls do not realize how shallow they are, how their tastes are shit, for them this is their life and they enjoy it. Even if for me that enjoyment is fake, it's still better than nothing.

Would I eat the stake in the Matrix? Yes I would

seems like you have a pretty shallow opinion of the issues other people face in their lives

Then I refuse the deal. It wouldn't be truly myself. I think there is some kind of dignity in being a complete disaster of a person, you lose this dignity when you accept the easy life at the expense of leaving behind what you truly believe in. It's how a person betrays himself. It's suicide without death. Abandoning your memories without moving forward to what you truly want. Accepting the deal would be no different from reincarnating as a spider or a whale. It's easier to just die and leave this ride.

Is it really that bad not to be "yourself" if you'd be happy?

You are assuming that things like happiness and dignity are objective. They are not, they are 100% subjective.

Your problems are not harder or simpler than >that feel when Chad is dating Stacy; the fact that you like artsy bands from Norway and Iceland does not make you a better person than somebody who likes Katy Perry; enjoying Sartre isn't a better "level" of enjoyment than enjoying Dan Brown.

I'd rather be happy because Chad smiled at me on the bus this morning than wasting my life in this fucking shithole speaking with other social outcasts, virgins and pedophiles about extremely stupid matters on a Sunday night. No offense to you of course, but where is the dignity in that?

I don't know. I am just a pathetic loser, I know as much about how the world works as the next average dumbass. But I have a dream, it's some kind of fantasy. I posted those questions in my first reply because if the answers were yes they would allow me to let this dream come true. I know it will never come true. But I can at least try to keep integrity. I hope to never give up on this dream. When you give up on a dream, you are betraying yourself. Every time you have a dream and you give up on it, you don't have to reincarnate into another body. You already died and it's someone else. I have already killed myself many times, and I don't want it to happen again. As I already said, I don't understand nothing about life, death, anything at all. It's all so complicated and it doesn't make sense. Maybe hanging on to this dream helps me give a sense of something, I don't know. I think at least I know that none of this will ever come true, and my whole life is as worth as a piece of dirty toilet paper.

This logic goes both ways though. Having a "cool hobby" isn't better than having an "autistic hobby"; playing football or surfing isn't objectively better than browsing Veeky Forums all day or playing vidya. Subjectively it is, but objectively it really isn't.

Life itself is completely meaningless. The meaning of life is whatever meaning you give it, so if you lose part of that then as you said, part of you dies in the very literal sense of the word.

I'd love to have a different life but I don't. This is what it is, there is nothing else. The only options you have are to live or to die, there is no third option. If hanging on to whatever dream you have gives your life meaning then it's objectively just as good as any other reason people give themselves not to jump from a bridge.

I would have accepted if you had not added that you will take away my memories.

Otherwise, I would make it as a woman. I mean, I would get free gibs, people would open doors for me, and perhaps I could be the next woman getting a free fields medal now that we give a diversity fields medal now. But that last part won't happen if I don't keep my memories.

I think that if I keep my memories then even though I would be using a less powerful and perhaps sub-human brain I could still do math at a pretty high level. I already know all my logic so I don't mind having to work with a slower engine.

But having to start from 0 as a woman? Holy fuck, is it even fucking possible to learn calculus with a female brain? Fuck that.