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06-19-2009, 04:54 PM
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Insane
Location: Over the rainbow . .
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What would you insta-learn?
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? |
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06-19-2009, 05:03 PM
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Une petite chou
Location: With All Your Base
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coping skills.
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Here's how life works: you either get to ask for an apology or you get to shoot people. Not both. House Quote:
The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me. Ayn Rand
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06-19-2009, 05:52 PM
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Insane
Location: I'm up they see me I'm down.
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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 |
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06-19-2009, 06:04 PM
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Une petite chou
Location: With All Your Base
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how to play the guitar, piano, and cello.
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Here's how life works: you either get to ask for an apology or you get to shoot people. Not both. House Quote:
The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me. Ayn Rand
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06-19-2009, 06:17 PM
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I have eaten the slaw
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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. |
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06-19-2009, 06:17 PM
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Submit to me, you know you want to
Location: Lilburn, Ga
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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!! |
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06-19-2009, 06:25 PM
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Young Crumudgeon
Location: Canada
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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 |
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06-19-2009, 06:29 PM
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Forming
Location: ....a state of pure inebriation.
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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 |
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06-19-2009, 06:43 PM
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warrior bodhisattva
Super Moderator
Location: East-central Canada
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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 |
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06-19-2009, 07:22 PM
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part of the problem
Location: hic et ubique
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onward to mayhem! |
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06-19-2009, 08:38 PM
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Paladin of the Palate
Location: Redneckville, NC
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Engineering.
Always wanted to know how to build things from scratch.
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06-19-2009, 11:16 PM
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Let's put a smile on that face
Location: On the road...
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Mathematics is also awesome. I love math, and to understand it even better would be like a permanent wet dream. |
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06-20-2009, 12:12 AM
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She's Actual Size
Location: Central Republic of Where-in-the-Hell
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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?" |
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06-20-2009, 08:16 AM
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Crazy
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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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06-20-2009, 08:32 AM
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We work alone
Location: Cake Town
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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 |
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06-20-2009, 08:40 AM
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Somnabulist
Location: corner of No and Where
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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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"You have reached Ritual Sacrifice. For goats press one, or say 'goats.'" |
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06-20-2009, 08:41 AM
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Banned
Location: The Cosmos
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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? |
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06-20-2009, 09:06 AM
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Evil Priest: The Devil Made Me Do It!
Location: Southern England
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Charisma.
If people like you and it's effortless you can succeed at whatever you set out to do.
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06-20-2009, 10:32 AM
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Insane
Location: Over the rainbow . .
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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. |
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06-20-2009, 10:57 AM
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Eccentric insomniac
Location: North Carolina
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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 |
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06-20-2009, 11:06 AM
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Kick Ass Kunoichi
Location: Oregon
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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 |
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06-20-2009, 10:30 PM
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Crazy
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