Choice

lookout123 · 06-10-2004, 11:22 AM

imagine you are told you have to make a choice: 1) you can live 50 more years, but will never achieve the goals you set, and will only find mediocre levels of success in all areas of your life. 2) you have 18 months to live but you will be granted everything you desire during that 18 months.

Which would you choose?

Clodfobble · 06-10-2004, 11:28 AM

50 years. Most people are lucky to get mediocre success across the board.

lumberjim · 06-10-2004, 11:29 AM

yeah, what she said.

moderate success beats being dead.

Pi · 06-10-2004, 11:45 AM

Depends on your age... I'm 24, I wouldn't like to die in 18 months, but maybe in 50 years ore more I would be glad only living 18 months but having succes with my last few plans.

lumberjim · 06-10-2004, 11:49 AM

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Originally posted by lookout123
imagine you are told you have to make a choice: 1) you can live 50 more years, but will never achieve the goals you set, and will only find mediocre levels of success in all areas of your life. 2) you have 18 months to live but you will be granted everything you desire during that 18 months.

Which would you choose?

wait a minute. what if one of the things i want is to live to be 100, and i'm only 33 now?

wolf · 06-10-2004, 11:53 AM

I'll take the 50.

I find my goals are frequently subject to change without notice.

lookout123 · 06-10-2004, 12:13 PM

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Originally posted by lumberjim

wait a minute. what if one of the things i want is to live to be 100, and i'm only 33 now?

i thought you were already in your 70's???

lookout123 · 06-10-2004, 12:14 PM

i'm going to take the 50, i've found that its usually when i fall short of a goal that i find something that really improves my life anyway.

the being dead in 18 months doesn't bother me, but i think i would get bored if i was guaranteed everything i wanted i would get.

lumberjim · 06-10-2004, 12:17 PM

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Originally posted by lookout123

i thought you were already in your 70's???

well, my soul is over 900 years old, but this body is a sprightly 33 years, 9 months, 13 days, 11hours, 55minutes old

lookout123 · 06-10-2004, 12:18 PM

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Originally posted by lumberjim
11hours, 55minutes old

no it's not. it has been more than a minute since you posted this.

Carbonated_Brains · 06-10-2004, 12:19 PM

Isn't life itself an alloted amount of time to achieve your goals?

I mean, racking up years isn't like collecting bags of money, there's no point in hoarding time if you've lived a full life, right?

18 months, and I achieve all my goals? No matter how lofty my goals are?

I'll take it.

I see the 50 years as an extended limbo, a purgatory in which you can never diverge from the middle of the road.

Give me 18 months and the assurance that my goals to make the world and those around me infinitely better, and I'll die satisfied and comfortably.

lookout123 · 06-10-2004, 12:24 PM

pffffffffffffftt - who said anything about improving the world. i'm thinking, like, a 3-some with alyssa milano and charlize theron....

LOL

lumberjim · 06-10-2004, 12:24 PM

the thing you overlook is that the fulfillment of your goals is only satisfying because of the uncertainty of acheiving them. If you know going in that you will acheive them all, how is your life any better than someone who hits it half the time?

lookout123 · 06-10-2004, 12:25 PM

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Originally posted by lumberjim
the thing you overlook is that the fulfillment of your goals is only satisfying because of the uncertainty of acheiving them. If you know going in that you will acheive them all, how is your life any better than someone who hits it half the time?

*bows with respect to the master*

you are ready for the next phase in you journey.

wolf · 06-10-2004, 12:27 PM

Depends on your viewpoint.

Achieving a goal is not an endpoint, it is a beginning.

Grasshopper, when you can snatch the pebble from my hand, it will be time for you to leave the monastery.

06-10-2004, 11:22 AM	#1
lookout123 changed his status to single Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Right behind you. No, the other side. Posts: 10,308	Choice imagine you are told you have to make a choice: 1) you can live 50 more years, but will never achieve the goals you set, and will only find mediocre levels of success in all areas of your life. 2) you have 18 months to live but you will be granted everything you desire during that 18 months. Which would you choose? __________________ Getting knocked down is no sin, it's not getting back up that's the sin

06-10-2004, 11:29 AM	#3
lumberjim I can hear my ears Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 25,571	yeah, what she said. moderate success beats being dead. __________________ This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality Embrace this moment, remember We are eternal, all this pain is an illusion ~MJKeenan

06-10-2004, 11:45 AM	#4
Pi desperate finder Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Luxembourg Posts: 437	Depends on your age... I'm 24, I wouldn't like to die in 18 months, but maybe in 50 years ore more I would be glad only living 18 months but having succes with my last few plans. __________________ Complex simplex

06-10-2004, 11:53 AM	#6
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	I'll take the 50. I find my goals are frequently subject to change without notice. __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

06-10-2004, 12:14 PM	#8
lookout123 changed his status to single Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Right behind you. No, the other side. Posts: 10,308	i'm going to take the 50, i've found that its usually when i fall short of a goal that i find something that really improves my life anyway. the being dead in 18 months doesn't bother me, but i think i would get bored if i was guaranteed everything i wanted i would get. __________________ Getting knocked down is no sin, it's not getting back up that's the sin

06-10-2004, 11:28 AM	#2
Clodfobble UNDER CONDITIONAL MITIGATION Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Austin, TX Posts: 20,012	50 years. Most people are lucky to get mediocre success across the board.

06-10-2004, 12:19 PM	#11
Carbonated_Brains Does it show up here when I type? Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Between the smoky layers of a prosciutto sandwich! Posts: 355	Isn't life itself an alloted amount of time to achieve your goals? I mean, racking up years isn't like collecting bags of money, there's no point in hoarding time if you've lived a full life, right? 18 months, and I achieve all my goals? No matter how lofty my goals are? I'll take it. I see the 50 years as an extended limbo, a purgatory in which you can never diverge from the middle of the road. Give me 18 months and the assurance that my goals to make the world and those around me infinitely better, and I'll die satisfied and comfortably.

06-10-2004, 12:24 PM	#12
lookout123 changed his status to single Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Right behind you. No, the other side. Posts: 10,308	pffffffffffffftt - who said anything about improving the world. i'm thinking, like, a 3-some with alyssa milano and charlize theron.... LOL __________________ Getting knocked down is no sin, it's not getting back up that's the sin

06-10-2004, 12:27 PM	#15
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	Depends on your viewpoint. Achieving a goal is not an endpoint, it is a beginning. Grasshopper, when you can snatch the pebble from my hand, it will be time for you to leave the monastery. __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

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