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Title: If you had one year to live....
Post by: Tesla on December 01, 2007, 09:18:45 PM
what would you do?
Title: Re: If you had one year to live....
Post by: richard on December 01, 2007, 09:20:12 PM
probably nothing :laugh:
Title: Re: If you had one year to live....
Post by: Soph on December 01, 2007, 09:22:19 PM
i made a list the other day of things i want to do before i die actually.
it wasn't very interesting though, just watch certain movies and things like that. i wanted to make it things i knew i could do so i can tick them off on the way lol

i know i want to read 'white oleander' first. if i could do anything though, i'd go to california for a while, and pompeii again. and go to alderly edge where my dad used to take me when i was a kid. i want to get motivated with my history stuff again as well, and research things more. and draw and write more again.
Title: Re: If you had one year to live....
Post by: SovaNu on December 01, 2007, 09:23:33 PM
i'd get an apartment, or some quiet place, and get loads of DVDs. all the stuff i want to see. and watch them all. oh and lose weight and become 72 pounds. 8)

oh and smoke a lot. 8) and do drugs.
Title: Re: If you had one year to live....
Post by: richard on December 01, 2007, 09:33:46 PM
i take that back. i'd probably go out with moony
Title: Re: If you had one year to live....
Post by: Tesla on December 01, 2007, 09:37:20 PM
i take that back. i'd probably go out with moony
:plus: :laugh:
Title: Re: If you had one year to live....
Post by: SovaNu on December 01, 2007, 09:39:24 PM
i take that back. i'd probably go out with moony

WTF? :laugh:
Title: Re: If you had one year to live....
Post by: GalileoAce on December 01, 2007, 09:41:25 PM
The same thing I do all the time...Try to take over the World!   Just more vigorously.
Title: Re: If you had one year to live....
Post by: richard on December 01, 2007, 09:45:45 PM
i take that back. i'd probably go out with moony
WTF? :laugh:
obviously im intrested in you. but please dont feel obligated or commited :laugh:
Title: Re: If you had one year to live....
Post by: SovaNu on December 01, 2007, 09:49:06 PM
you just want in on the drug action. :laugh:
Title: Re: If you had one year to live....
Post by: richard on December 01, 2007, 09:57:30 PM
nah :pizza:
Title: Re: If you had one year to live....
Post by: Parts on December 01, 2007, 09:58:51 PM
I'd move out in the country with no neighbors and do lots of acid
Title: Re: If you had one year to live....
Post by: SovaNu on December 01, 2007, 09:59:46 PM
 :laugh:
Title: Re: If you had one year to live....
Post by: Alex179 on December 01, 2007, 11:52:01 PM
I would get a shitload of drugs and make a list of people I want to kill (probably just child molesters since they are easy to find here online).   First thing to do is go online and see where all the child molesters live near my house.   Next step is to systematically murder them.   In between the murdering and body disposal (plenty of places to do that around here) I would abuse the shitload of drugs I managed to get my hands on.   Then finally I would play video games with whatever time I had left from all the drug abuse, murder, and clean up of murder.
Title: Re: If you had one year to live....
Post by: GalileoAce on December 01, 2007, 11:56:07 PM
I noticed alot of people said that do drugs or other abused recreational substances...Why is that? Is not life fun enough without them?
Title: Re: If you had one year to live....
Post by: El on December 01, 2007, 11:57:42 PM
who would you do?

fixed.
Title: Re: If you had one year to live....
Post by: SovaNu on December 01, 2007, 11:59:10 PM
GA, obviously you can do a shitload of them cuz you're not worried about fucking up your life. :P and yeah, i dunno about life sober but life on drugs is fuuuuun. i would get all the valium i could get my hands on omg. i could take more risks trying to get them. hell i'd do valium with or without dying, it's just hard to get them and other shit. i'd also grow opium and weed. and i'd speedball. :laugh:

plus life without drugs is a life filled with alcohol and anxiety.

Alex, make sure you don't murder any statutory rapists. they are on the same list. :-\

edit: i should proofread my posts. i said drying. lol.
Title: Re: If you had one year to live....
Post by: El on December 02, 2007, 12:03:51 AM
...and to actually anser the question, if I actually 100% knew that I had one year to live, I'd probably try to write a novel that didn't suck (or a memior, but that would kinda kill the fun of my last year alive).

The bigger question would be how to break it to my family; it would be awful no matter what.  The same with any potential "last-year-of-life-sex" partner I might have.  I mean, yes, I'd want to go out with a bang (well, many), but how the hell do you do that without messing up the partner?  Do you watch Sweet November (or the movie with Mandy Moore with the identical plot) with them, then at the end be like, "While we're on that topic..."?

I'm taking this too seriously, though, I'm sure.   :laugh:
Title: Re: If you had one year to live....
Post by: Alex179 on December 02, 2007, 12:05:50 AM
Alex, make sure you don't murder any statutory rapists. they are on the same list. :-\
They would all be molestors.  You can see on the site the age of the victim and if it is under 13 (took a look at it once).   Plenty of those around to kill unfortunately. 
Title: Re: If you had one year to live....
Post by: GalileoAce on December 02, 2007, 12:08:15 AM
GA, obviously you can do a shitload of them cuz you're not worried about fucking up your life. :P and yeah, i dunno about life sober but life on drugs is fuuuuun. i would get all the valium i could get my hands on omg. i could take more risks trying to get them. hell i'd do valium with or without dying, it's just hard to get them and other shit. i'd also grow opium and weed. and i'd speedball. :laugh:

Doesn't explain why though :)
Title: Re: If you had one year to live....
Post by: Alex179 on December 02, 2007, 12:09:01 AM
I noticed alot of people said that do drugs or other abused recreational substances...Why is that? Is not life fun enough without them?

Life is mundane without drugs.  At least it is to me.    I love video games, but playing them while high is 100 times better for me.   Same goes for guitar or anything haha.   I tend to enjoy it more.   I even write papers and take tests while high.   If I didn't have As in all but one of my classes then I would feel bad about it.

If I only had a year to live, I would get completely obliterated as much as possible though.
Title: Re: If you had one year to live....
Post by: GalileoAce on December 02, 2007, 12:12:42 AM
I fear loss of mind, I couldn't get high or drunk.
Title: Re: If you had one year to live....
Post by: SovaNu on December 02, 2007, 12:14:19 AM
exactly, life is more enjoyable on drugs. :laugh:
Title: Re: If you had one year to live....
Post by: GalileoAce on December 02, 2007, 12:16:23 AM
exactly, life is more enjoyable on drugs. :laugh:

But don't drugs distort your experiences and therefore sully them in your memories as inaccurate and wrong?
Title: Re: If you had one year to live....
Post by: Alex179 on December 02, 2007, 12:18:27 AM
...and to actually anser the question, if I actually 100% knew that I had one year to live, I'd probably try to write a novel that didn't suck (or a memior, but that would kinda kill the fun of my last year alive).

The bigger question would be how to break it to my family; it would be awful no matter what.  The same with any potential "last-year-of-life-sex" partner I might have.  I mean, yes, I'd want to go out with a bang (well, many), but how the hell do you do that without messing up the partner?  Do you watch Sweet November (or the movie with Mandy Moore with the identical plot) with them, then at the end be like, "While we're on that topic..."?

I'm taking this too seriously, though, I'm sure.   :laugh:

Depends on if the illness that makes you have one year left to live is something transmittable sexually.

I would probably try to fuck as many women as possible knowing that I am going to die and that I won't give what is going to kill me to anyone else.   Getting in any serious relationship when I have a year left to live is a big mistake.    Probably better off fucking hookers if you are a guy and not up to your neck in pussy already.
Title: Re: If you had one year to live....
Post by: SovaNu on December 02, 2007, 12:26:18 AM
exactly, life is more enjoyable on drugs. :laugh:

But don't drugs distort your experiences and therefore sully them in your memories as inaccurate and wrong?

i don't remember anything anyway. :laugh: sides, it depends on the drug. if you take stimulants you may remember well. i do remember stuff i did on valium too though. i'd like to forget. :laugh:
Title: Re: If you had one year to live....
Post by: GalileoAce on December 02, 2007, 12:33:09 AM
exactly, life is more enjoyable on drugs. :laugh:

But don't drugs distort your experiences and therefore sully them in your memories as inaccurate and wrong?

i don't remember anything anyway. :laugh: sides, it depends on the drug. if you take stimulants you may remember well. i do remember stuff i did on valium too though. i'd like to forget. :laugh:

Exactly.
Title: Re: If you had one year to live....
Post by: SovaNu on December 02, 2007, 12:34:48 AM
 :laugh:
Title: Re: If you had one year to live....
Post by: Calandale on December 02, 2007, 02:29:12 AM
Move back home, and play one last big wargame.
Title: Re: If you had one year to live....
Post by: SovaNu on December 02, 2007, 02:34:09 AM
no dancing?
Title: Re: If you had one year to live....
Post by: Calandale on December 02, 2007, 02:35:27 AM
I've had a couple years of it.
I can do without. I miss my games.
Title: Re: If you had one year to live....
Post by: SovaNu on December 02, 2007, 02:37:50 AM
why wait til you're a dying bastard?
Title: Re: If you had one year to live....
Post by: Calandale on December 02, 2007, 02:52:40 AM
Nothing else would matter.
I might as well enjoy.
As it stands, I have some
hopes for the future, even
if they're unlikely.
Title: Re: If you had one year to live....
Post by: SovaNu on December 02, 2007, 03:07:20 AM
ain't that the truth. me too. i'm waiting for the aliens.
Title: Re: If you had one year to live....
Post by: DirtDawg on December 02, 2007, 03:20:58 AM
I doubt that this game will work this time either.

My attempt to have people think outside the box (http://www.intensitysquared.com/index.php?topic=3372.0)
Title: Re: If you had one year to live....
Post by: Calandale on December 02, 2007, 03:26:25 AM
One day is VERY different from a year.
Title: Re: If you had one year to live....
Post by: DirtDawg on December 02, 2007, 03:39:26 AM
One day is VERY different from a year.

meh, I never said "TODAY" would be the day I die. I guess I should have made it more open ended - which was my intention.

I was thinking of a medical death sentence
Title: Re: If you had one year to live....
Post by: GalileoAce on December 02, 2007, 03:42:25 AM
"You have inoperable brain cancer"

"Crap..."
Title: Re: If you had one year to live....
Post by: Calandale on December 02, 2007, 04:02:40 AM
There is always the point that I think you
were trying to make, which is that obviously,
we don't live life that way - doing what we
most want. We hock our souls, for some imagined
future. Hell, I'd probably still be with my wife, if
I had lived as though life was going to end.

Likewise, I think I could try and be happy, if
I knew I only had a short while left. But, concerns
about reality prevent this.
Title: Re: If you had one year to live....
Post by: odeon on December 02, 2007, 07:25:37 AM
I'd do a lot of things, of which most aren't anything I'd share here.
Title: Re: If you had one year to live....
Post by: Kosmonaut on December 02, 2007, 07:27:58 AM
Probably do what i am doing now.
Title: Re: If you had one year to live....
Post by: Calandale on December 02, 2007, 08:34:38 AM
Or, maybe I'd just kill myself.  :laugh:
Title: Re: If you had one year to live....
Post by: El on December 02, 2007, 09:56:13 AM
no dancing?

I dance every day; that's a given.

...and to actually anser the question, if I actually 100% knew that I had one year to live, I'd probably try to write a novel that didn't suck (or a memior, but that would kinda kill the fun of my last year alive).

The bigger question would be how to break it to my family; it would be awful no matter what.  The same with any potential "last-year-of-life-sex" partner I might have.  I mean, yes, I'd want to go out with a bang (well, many), but how the hell do you do that without messing up the partner?  Do you watch Sweet November (or the movie with Mandy Moore with the identical plot) with them, then at the end be like, "While we're on that topic..."?

I'm taking this too seriously, though, I'm sure.   :laugh:

Depends on if the illness that makes you have one year left to live is something transmittable sexually.

I would probably try to fuck as many women as possible knowing that I am going to die and that I won't give what is going to kill me to anyone else.   Getting in any serious relationship when I have a year left to live is a big mistake.    Probably better off fucking hookers if you are a guy and not up to your neck in pussy already.
Well, I was assuming that since I knew it was a year exactly, it was more like a mob hit than a disease, let alone a contageous one.
Title: Re: If you had one year to live....
Post by: SovaNu on December 02, 2007, 09:58:31 AM
i do a lot that i would if i were dying, which is be in the moment. i may seem like a selfish bastard because i take every second as a valuable thing. but i save my DVDs for the future. :-\
Title: Re: If you had one year to live....
Post by: Fritz the Cat on December 02, 2007, 01:04:12 PM
If I had one year more to live I'd just quit job, quit school quit everything like that and take my savings and just have a blast.
Title: Re: If you had one year to live....
Post by: Parts on December 02, 2007, 06:31:00 PM
If I had one year more to live I'd just quit job, quit school quit everything like that and take my savings and just have a blast.

And if you don't have saving rob a bank :laugh:
Title: Re: If you had one year to live....
Post by: Calandale on December 02, 2007, 10:54:12 PM
Or just max out a lot of credit cards.
Hell, I'd be afraid that I'd end up
surviving to face the damages.
Title: Re: If you had one year to live....
Post by: maldoror on December 02, 2007, 11:15:10 PM
I
Would kill
A few people probably
And then brood about it and write a novel
That maybe gets adapted
As a moviefilm
That sucks
Badly
Title: Re: If you had one year to live....
Post by: SovaNu on December 02, 2007, 11:51:00 PM
like that Stephen King book.
Title: Re: If you had one year to live....
Post by: Alex179 on December 03, 2007, 09:27:29 AM
Well, I was assuming that since I knew it was a year exactly, it was more like a mob hit than a disease, let alone a contageous one.
Tesla didn't specify what kind of death, you could have found out about the illness late.   Doesn't have to be a disease necessarily, I am just saying it depends on the situation.   In the case of a mob hit, I would find a way out of it if possible.   I would at least go down fighting in that scenario.   I would of course probably know who ordered the hit as well.   I was more thinking of a illness or some health failure that was completely unavoidable.
Title: Re: If you had one year to live....
Post by: Parts on December 03, 2007, 10:56:37 AM
GA, obviously you can do a shitload of them cuz you're not worried about fucking up your life. :P and yeah, i dunno about life sober but life on drugs is fuuuuun. i would get all the valium i could get my hands on omg. i could take more risks trying to get them. hell i'd do valium with or without dying, it's just hard to get them and other shit. i'd also grow opium and weed. and i'd speedball. :laugh:

Doesn't explain why though :)

Tripping is very enjoyable those hours can seem like days at times and it's always an adventure. 
Title: Re: If you had one year to live....
Post by: Calandale on June 23, 2014, 10:39:31 PM
Move back home, and play one last big wargame.


Moved the wargames here. Been going strong with them for the past 4 years or so.
Title: Re: If you had one year to live....
Post by: El on June 25, 2014, 06:12:44 PM
My answer is different now than it was in 2007.  I'd care about different things.  The hedonism wouldn't really be an issue.  It would depend what I was dying of, but if it didn't involve too much pain or disability, it would be something of a relief, though not being the one making the decision is an unsettling thought.  Not a lot of people to live for, right now; nobody I can think of who'd care for me at the end.  Kind of a lonely thought.  I suppose I'd try to spend more time with people- maybe cut back hours at work- but, really, there's nothing especially meaningful I'd probably do, or feel the need to do.
Title: Re: If you had one year to live....
Post by: "couldbecousin" on June 25, 2014, 10:29:51 PM
I
Would kill
A few people probably
And then brood about it and write a novel
That maybe gets adapted
As a moviefilm
That sucks
Badly

      Haiku!  :oranna:
Title: Re: If you had one year to live....
Post by: renaeden on June 26, 2014, 07:30:52 AM
My answer is different now than it was in 2007.  I'd care about different things.  The hedonism wouldn't really be an issue.  It would depend what I was dying of, but if it didn't involve too much pain or disability, it would be something of a relief, though not being the one making the decision is an unsettling thought.  Not a lot of people to live for, right now; nobody I can think of who'd care for me at the end.  Kind of a lonely thought.  I suppose I'd try to spend more time with people- maybe cut back hours at work- but, really, there's nothing especially meaningful I'd probably do, or feel the need to do.
Me neither, except finish uni. Then I could say that I actually finished something.
Title: Re: If you had one year to live....
Post by: postpaleo on July 11, 2014, 05:30:12 PM
sounds morbid.
Title: Re: If you had one year to live....
Post by: Jack on July 11, 2014, 05:50:04 PM
sounds morbid.
Welcome.
Title: Re: If you had one year to live....
Post by: postpaleo on July 11, 2014, 06:03:55 PM
sounds morbid.
Welcome.

Thank you.

In seriousness, I think a lot about this topic, but not always in present terms and there are outside circumstances, on why I might do something, even given a year.
Title: Re: If you had one year to live....
Post by: postpaleo on July 11, 2014, 10:51:09 PM
what would you do?

what would you do, with only a year and...your girlfriend, boyfriend, said they want a baby? would you do it?
Title: Re: If you had one year to live....
Post by: "couldbecousin" on January 23, 2016, 04:57:04 PM
  I'd definitely go to Ripon and Telluride.  I'd spend up my retirement fund from work.  8)
Title: Re: If you had one year to live....
Post by: "couldbecousin" on January 23, 2016, 04:58:26 PM
  I'd probably play the dying card and try to meet some famous people too.  :fuckyeahdance:
Title: Re: If you had one year to live....
Post by: "couldbecousin" on January 23, 2016, 05:20:50 PM
  Also, I think I'd go all out to have a reality show.  Why the hell not?  :roses:
Title: Re: If you had one year to live....
Post by: "couldbecousin" on January 23, 2016, 05:22:25 PM
  I might also become just a little bit of a dick, Walter White style. 
  Nothing terrible, just some little acts of revenge.  Just toward people who richly deserved it.  :trollface:
Title: Re: If you had one year to live....
Post by: renaeden on January 23, 2016, 10:26:44 PM
My answer is different now than it was in 2007.  I'd care about different things.  The hedonism wouldn't really be an issue.  It would depend what I was dying of, but if it didn't involve too much pain or disability, it would be something of a relief, though not being the one making the decision is an unsettling thought.  Not a lot of people to live for, right now; nobody I can think of who'd care for me at the end.  Kind of a lonely thought.  I suppose I'd try to spend more time with people- maybe cut back hours at work- but, really, there's nothing especially meaningful I'd probably do, or feel the need to do.
Me neither, except finish uni. Then I could say that I actually finished something.
Hey, I actually did it. I finished something! Now what?
Title: Re: If you had one year to live....
Post by: 'andersom' on January 24, 2016, 04:09:30 AM
My answer is different now than it was in 2007.  I'd care about different things.  The hedonism wouldn't really be an issue.  It would depend what I was dying of, but if it didn't involve too much pain or disability, it would be something of a relief, though not being the one making the decision is an unsettling thought.  Not a lot of people to live for, right now; nobody I can think of who'd care for me at the end.  Kind of a lonely thought.  I suppose I'd try to spend more time with people- maybe cut back hours at work- but, really, there's nothing especially meaningful I'd probably do, or feel the need to do.
Me neither, except finish uni. Then I could say that I actually finished something.
Hey, I actually did it. I finished something! Now what?

Time to make a new plan, for the next year?
Title: Re: If you had one year to live....
Post by: renaeden on January 24, 2016, 04:44:21 AM
Yep. Going to Tafe, which is like college, to study IT. Unlike uni, I have to pay for the courses I study. So I am going to be broke for the next 8 fortnights.
Title: Re: If you had one year to live....
Post by: WolFish on February 06, 2016, 01:12:33 PM
I wonder if I could get my hands on my retirement? One of them, I can.

I would get a job teaching college. I would go back to Hawaii. (done these)
I would go to Japan.
I would write 365 stories for Py to read when I am gone.
I would write a bucket list and do one or two things on it.
Title: Re: If you had one year to live....
Post by: 'andersom' on February 06, 2016, 05:03:14 PM
I wonder if I could get my hands on my retirement? One of them, I can.

I would get a job teaching college. I would go back to Hawaii. (done these)
I would go to Japan.
I would write 365 stories for Py to read when I am gone.
I would write a bucket list and do one or two things on it.

That's a sweet list.
Title: Re: If you had one year to live....
Post by: postpaleo on August 29, 2016, 06:49:33 AM
Caught me, true, that was me wondering.  :LOL: