Halanna

In an alternate universe, if you could wake up Monday morning with all the knowlege of your greatest passion, have a job to go to in that field and your family, house or whatever you want to take with you would be there, what would it be?

For me I would be an Archeologist. I'd head out every day while my family happily played in some little roadside shack while I dug and used little paint brushes to find antiquity. I'm much more fascinated with where we came from then where we are going.

Or, I'd be in cosomology. Either sitting around for hours on end looking at faint star patterns or in some grand think tank pondering all that is.

What would you insta-learn?

noodle

coping skills.

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squeeeb

i would be a super talented writer. i'd write like tom robbins, steve martin, tom stoppard, mark leyner, and a few others all in one.

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onward to mayhem!

wooÐs

I really don't know. I just want to be happy. Not sweat the small shit. etc. etc.
that too

Plan9

US Army Field Manuals. All of them.

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Whatever you can carry.

"You should not drink... and bake."

FelixP

Social skills.

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Free will lies not in the ability to craft your own fate, but in not knowing what your fate is. --Me

"I have just returned from visting the Marines at the front, and there is not a finer fighting organization in the world." --Douglas MacArthur

wooÐs

ooh, cooking would be a good one.

Right now I don't have enough patience for a microwave dinner.

noodle

how to play the guitar, piano, and cello.

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Fremen

All languages, past, present and future.

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Google

squeeeb

YES!!!!!!!!!!

cooking. me too on that one.

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onward to mayhem!

inBOIL

+1

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And you believe Bush and the liberals and divorced parents and gays and blacks and the Christian right and fossil fuels and Xbox are all to blame, meanwhile you yourselves create an ad where your kid hits you in the head with a baseball and you don't understand the message that the problem is you.

ShaniFaye

I also wanted to be an Archeologist, it was my dream as a kid...I used to make my own dig sites in the yard...one day Im going to have the money to go on an Earthwatch expidition to participate in a real one

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I want the diabetic plan that comes with rollover carbs. I dont like the unused one expiring at midnite!!

Martian

I think my Expected Answer is music related, but I don't think I'd want to take a shortcut that way. The joy is in the journey as much as the destination.

I'm actually at a loss to think of something I would like to learn instantly. How to draw, perhaps.

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I wake up in the morning more tired than before I slept
I get through cryin' and I'm sadder than before I wept
I get through thinkin' now, and the thoughts have left my head
I get through speakin' and I can't remember, not a word that I said

- Ben Harper, Show Me A Little Shame

Punk.of.Ages

How to play drums.

I'm really awful at them...

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"The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion..." - Henry Steel Commager

"Punk rock music is great music played by really bad, drunk musicians." -Fat Mike

Fotzlid

Veterinarian
Wanted to be one when I was much younger.

Xerxys

Mathematics.

Baraka_Guru

Ooh, good one.

Ditto.

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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön

Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot

Reese

I want to learn the art of learning

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“It is better to be rich and healthy than poor and sick” - Dave Barry

squeeeb

whatever you do, don't waste your time on the josh waitzkin book art of learning cause it wont teach you a damn thing

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onward to mayhem!

LordEden

Engineering.

Always wanted to know how to build things from scratch.

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mrklixx

Kung-Fu

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I hate animated avatars.

Shauk

Social Engineering.

blahblah454

I was going to say a few specific languages, but then I read that and think that its a better idea.

Mathematics is also awesome. I love math, and to understand it even better would be like a permanent wet dream.

wooÐs

CinnamonGirl

Another one for languages. I won't be greedy, though-- just give me Spanish, French, and Italian.

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"...for though she was ordinary, she possessed health, wit, courage, charm, and cheerfulness. But because she was not beautiful, no one ever seemed to notice these other qualities, which is so often the way of the world."


"Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?"

Crack

kung foo

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Crack, you and I are long overdue for a vicious bout of mansex.

~Halx

LoganSnake

Jeet Kune Do.

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Maturity is knowing you were an idiot in the past. Wisdom is knowing that you'll be an idiot in the future. Common sense is knowing that you should try not to be an idiot now. - J. Jacques

phathom

They're actually having us go through a social engineering class at work.
Agreed, that would be awesome. Very awesome. I would travel all over then.

I think my #1 would be either A) All the shit they loaded into Neo in the Matrix for that entire day. or B) Whatever the hell they taught Matt Damon in the Bourne Identity before he got amnesia.

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-snooch to the nooch

LoganSnake

Can I change my choice to that?

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Maturity is knowing you were an idiot in the past. Wisdom is knowing that you'll be an idiot in the future. Common sense is knowing that you should try not to be an idiot now. - J. Jacques

guy44

The skills required to be a major league-caliber catcher.


...That, or the ability to be the greatest pickup artist of all time.

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Zeraph

The library of congress.

Then do whatever the heck I wanted after being properly informed about nearly everything that's been put to writing.

This brings up the interesting question, could our brains actually handle so much information? Do we have a cap? And if they can, would we go insane because we'd constantly be triggering endless lines of information?

Rekna

Woman logic... cause right now it just don't make sense!

Daniel_

Charisma.

If people like you and it's effortless you can succeed at whatever you set out to do.

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Overhead, the Albatross hangs motionless upon the air,
And deep beneath the rolling waves,
In labyrinths of Coral Caves,
The Echo of a distant time
Comes willowing across the sand;
And everthing is Green and Submarine
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Halanna

Wow some of you are ambitious.

I don't think I'd like to learn all the languages, but Latin and Italian are intriguing. But I wouldn't want to be a translator or anything.

Oh and I'd like to play the guitar like Eddie Van Halen but I don't have any showmanship in me, so a career as a rock star is out.

Slims

Languages. As many as possible. In particular:

Latin and Aramaic
Arabic
Chinese
French
Spanish/Portuguese
German
Japanese

That should make me at least conversant in 95% of the world.

As complete and detailed an understanding of history as possible.

Intimate familiarity with all the great philosophers.


And less fun but equally important: science in general and physics in particular. Medicine (instant Dr. for career progression would be nice). etc.

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"Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery." - Winston Churchill

"All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act out their dream with open eyes, to make it possible." Seven Pillars of Wisdom, T.E. Lawrence

snowy

Languages, especially Latin, and those based off of it. I'm fascinated by the less-well-known Romance languages of Catalan and Occitan, and would love to wake up knowing those alongside the more obvious French, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese.

I'd also love to know Japanese, Mandarin, German, and Dutch instantly.

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If I am not better, at least I am different. --Jean-Jacques Rousseau

telekinetic

How to spot and correct inefficiency in any system or process.

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twisted no more

ametc

All the languages in the world.. that has EVER existed. O__________________O!!!!!

phathom

Your brain would explode trying to comprehend that. You'd have better luck learning the entire library of congress verbatim and all the languages that ever existed before wrapping your brain around a woman's logic. A woman's mind is like a quantum computer, we just can't fathom it or what it does.

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-snooch to the nooch

Skettios

How to play guitar and piano I'm thinking. It'd certainly be nice for parties!

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Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.

Frederich Nietzsche