Philosophical Question posed on Quora

You find two books, one contains all the secrets of the Universe, the other contains $1 trillion. Which would you choose?

My response:

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Even assuming that the book containing all the secrets of the universe was written in a universal language that could be understood here on earth, it still would be a better reach than the one with the hypothetical $1 trillion! First of all, that money would have to be in the form of check or money order to fit in an actual book!

Now, if you could actually decipher and understand the universe book, and good luck with that, see all the interpretations of the Bible and other holy books, who would be the author(s) of such a tome? Would the author(s) be a huge conglomeration of voices from all the planets in the cosmos, or the actual, hidden, taciturn ultra Creator? And how would we know?

And, how would you test out the theories mentioned in this book, assuming your mind doesn’t explode with this knowledge? And since, according to quantum physics, focused attention gives rise to new realities, how would you know that your focusing on the information of this book, is not that which is making its revealed solutions to you real?

Nevertheless, it is still far, far better to try to understand a bit of life in our mysterious cosmos, than always to reach for the “material” instant gratification of money, which while great and absolutely necessary for a good life on earth, does not warrant the need for such a huge sum of $1 trillion. Unless you plan to give away most of it for the good, keeping a few million for yourself! :) I am positive that this book would reveal that you can’t take all that money with you when you leave this earth.