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mynxcat
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My last wish is ...
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Jun 17 14:35 UTC 2002 |
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rcurl
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response 1 of 39:
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Jun 17 14:41 UTC 2002 |
Take another breath.....
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vmskid
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response 2 of 39:
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Jun 17 14:59 UTC 2002 |
Good one Rane! Me too. Kind of like the answer to: "What would you do
if you had three wishes?". My third wish would always be for three more
wishes! But I know what you are asking. I am not sure. If threatened
with death, I am sure I would want to live longer, but I would want to
die at such a time that I would not look back on my life with regret
for having not taken advantage of any opportunities that were given me.
But I am not sure what in particular that would be.
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anderyn
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response 3 of 39:
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Jun 17 15:10 UTC 2002 |
Go to England/Wales/Scotland. Definitely.
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mynxcat
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response 4 of 39:
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Jun 17 15:24 UTC 2002 |
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rcurl
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response 5 of 39:
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Jun 17 15:58 UTC 2002 |
Re #2: I don't think any human can not have had some opportunity that
they wished they had taken, unless they are very young. You are often
faced with choosing between opportunities, so half of those are always
lost.
But taking the question the way it was meant, I have some research
projects I would like to finish and publish in my lifetime, although
circumstances indicate they will not all get completed.
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jp2
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response 6 of 39:
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Jun 17 16:03 UTC 2002 |
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mynxcat
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response 7 of 39:
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Jun 17 16:17 UTC 2002 |
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brighn
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response 8 of 39:
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Jun 17 17:18 UTC 2002 |
#0> Live another 100 years.
Hey, that's ONE thing!
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jmsaul
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response 9 of 39:
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Jun 17 23:41 UTC 2002 |
Become immortal.
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rcurl
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response 10 of 39:
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Jun 17 23:48 UTC 2002 |
So, you'd like to be a struldbrug?
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jmsaul
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response 11 of 39:
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Jun 18 00:00 UTC 2002 |
I haven't read the original source of that term, I just know it from Larry
Niven's novels. Where is ti originally from?
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jmsaul
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response 12 of 39:
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Jun 18 00:02 UTC 2002 |
(Um, "ti" should be "it".)
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buddy
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response 13 of 39:
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Jun 18 15:23 UTC 2002 |
If i could have one last wish before i died i would want it to be that i could
be surrounded by all my friends and family so i wouldn't die alone
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jazz
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response 14 of 39:
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Jun 18 18:12 UTC 2002 |
I'm with Joe on this one.
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jazz
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response 15 of 39:
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Jun 18 18:15 UTC 2002 |
Oh, and Struldbrugs are from Gulliver's travels (check out:
http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/iemls/resour/mirrors/rbear/swift/gulliver3.html
chapter X). It's traditional Swift, and a very dark and gloomy interpretation
of immortality.
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mary
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response 16 of 39:
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Jun 18 18:34 UTC 2002 |
I don't know what my last wish would be but if it's like
others I've watched die it would be for the pain to stop.
What a downer.
Sorry.
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russ
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response 17 of 39:
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Jun 19 01:27 UTC 2002 |
There are just too many possibilities, and too many things I've left
un-done, to have a single answer to this question. (I'm going to leave
most things un-done in this life, the only thing I want is to set myself
up so that I do the right things and have a pleasant trip.)
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scg
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response 18 of 39:
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Jun 19 06:32 UTC 2002 |
I think my wish is to experience six or so more decades of life. I've never
been very good at predicting what life would throw at me, but it continues
to be interesting.
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mynxcat
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response 19 of 39:
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Jun 19 15:13 UTC 2002 |
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other
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response 20 of 39:
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Jun 19 19:01 UTC 2002 |
I wish to free my mind and body from the bottlencks which impede the flow
of my creativity, especially in writing.
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orinoco
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response 21 of 39:
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Jun 20 01:03 UTC 2002 |
Ooh. I'm with Eric. Well put.
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bru
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response 22 of 39:
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Jun 20 05:41 UTC 2002 |
To remain healthy and fit until I am 144 years of age. I should be able to
do it all by then.
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vmskid
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response 23 of 39:
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Jun 20 13:06 UTC 2002 |
In 144 years? You must not have much of an imagination!
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brighn
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response 24 of 39:
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Jun 20 14:47 UTC 2002 |
I don't want to be 144 years old. That would be gross.
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