Would you rather...

Have holes put through both hands and both feet via nails and a hammer

Go for 40 days in the desert without food

You can have water in the desert.

Jesus did both!

Oct 7, 2009

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Have holes put through both hands and both feet via nails and a hammer

Nail wounds through the extremities are agonizing but survivable with medical care; the human body cannot reliably last 40 days without food
The hands and feet can be treated and healed with a clear recovery trajectory; starvation offers no such defined endpoint

Go for 40 days in the desert without food

Fasting for 40 days is physiologically achievable for humans, and plants encountered in the desert could still provide minimal nutrition along the way
Nail wounds through all four extremities risk permanent nerve damage and scarred tissue that outlasts the initial ordeal by a lifetime

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Would you rather...

Have holes put through both hands and both feet via nails and a hammer

Go for 40 days in the desert without food