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One thing to do before you die

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Jub

08:11 / 24.02.05

If you could do anything in the world: time, money and distance not a problem, what would it be?

I really can't think of anything that's not incredibly glib, and because it's meant to be the one thing you really want to do I don't want to write anything.

I'm looking for some inspiration here fellow 'Lithers, so please no swimming with dolphins or climbing Everest (unless of course that is want you *really* want to do! - but if so, why?) This is all part and parcel of a general apathy which I am trying to dispel - so think hard.

sleazenation

08:16 / 24.02.05

C'mon - is there anyone out there who wouldn't want to travel to the moon? Its got the added bonus of including travelling through space as part of the deal...

Spaniel

10:23 / 24.02.05

Um, I love the idea in principle but in reality I think I'd be spazzing out the whole time - I'm terrified of heights.

Before you say space isn't high up, in my head it is - you can fall forever in every direction.

diz

11:54 / 24.02.05

it's not the heights that freak me out about space travel, it's the claustrophobia aspect. you're in your little space box, and that's pretty much your entire world as far you're concerned. i would go bonkers.

still like to go to space, though. i would find a way to deal.

Olulabelle

12:31 / 24.02.05

I would like to find inner peace and enlightenment. Seriously. If I had that I wouldn't fret about all the things I had yet still to do.

This Western way of living sometimes makes death seem like the ultimate deadline in that we are continuously rushing around trying to cram all the 'living' into our lives, without much contemplation on the 'how' of the living we are doing.

lonely as a cloud...

13:01 / 24.02.05

olulabelle - yeah, inner peace'd beat a trip to the moon anyday. Especially if you went on to get reincarnated as an astronaut later...

sleazenation

13:13 / 24.02.05

olulabelle - yeah, inner peace'd beat a trip to the moon anyday.

Ah but which is more achieveable?

Papess

13:28 / 24.02.05

Ah but which is more achieveable?

That all depends on fast Virgin can get commercial flights available.

How impossible/improbable can this be?

Psi-L is working in hell

13:30 / 24.02.05

Fuck the moon. I want to go to Mars.

Papess

13:30 / 24.02.05

I am refering to the topic,of course, not whether Virgin can can get commercial flights to the moon.

Bear

13:39 / 24.02.05

I want to create a colony of of Moon Virgins.
I'd like to visit every country for at least a few days.
I'd like to teach the world to sing...

Spaniel

13:45 / 24.02.05

I'd like to give the world a Coke.

Papess

13:48 / 24.02.05

I'd like to give the world a Coke.

What a line.

14:01 / 24.02.05

I'd like to get into Stourhead Garden at night and swim in the lake.
It's not so much money, time or distance that are problems, but the risk of prosecution. I'm not young enough to be ticked off for scrumping and sent home any more.

Olulabelle

14:09 / 24.02.05

Ex, I really don't think anyone would notice. I live really near to Stourhead and all you'd have to do is climb over the wall. Plus, even if the police were called they'd have to come from Mere, or Wincanton and you'd have been able to leg it by then. Do it! Do it!

Spaniel

14:44 / 24.02.05

Okay, seriously now.

If I'm being realistic, I'd like to shoot lasers out of my eyes... and my mouth.

I'll have to train very hard - and probably meditate a bit - but it *can* be done.

Tryphena Absent

15:09 / 24.02.05

I want to go to Japan. I would especially like to go to Kyoto because... actually I don't really know why. Years of Japanese literature and movies, a real interest in the culture, a love of the Japanese room in the British museum. I'd like to see the history and the architecture up close, I find it's real fuel for my imagination. I want to see cherry blossoms and the temples and the golden pavillion. That's what I'd like to do before I die.

Alex's Grandma

15:32 / 24.02.05

But which is more achievable ?

I suppose you could always find inner peace and enlightenment and then travel to the moon astrally - granted, you wouldn't have any photos to show round the office when you got back, but on the other hand, you'd save a fortune on air fares.

lekvar

20:00 / 24.02.05

I'd like to get the chance to spend 24 hours at the Parthanon. Not outside the gates, but inside, to get to sit on the stones, watch the moon- and sunrise, think about History.
Mark Twain wrote about getting to spend some time at the Parthanon, in The Innocents Abroad I think it was. It sounded beautiful and I'd love to get the chance myself.

Sean the frumious Bandersnatch

20:45 / 24.02.05

When I'm on my death bed and about to pass away, I'd like to kill someone.

Whisky Priestess

20:49 / 24.02.05

I think you must choose your victim very carefully, in that case. After all, you're only a dying murderer once ...

Saint Keggers

21:22 / 24.02.05

I'd like to make a dolphin climb mount everest.

If I cant do that... I'd like to be on a stamp. Nothing could be better than knowing you'll be travelling the world and licked by millions of people.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

21:46 / 24.02.05

Another vote for space.

I blame Tomorrow's World and similar false prophets for my yearning in this direction. If I hadn't fallen for all their "we'll all be living on the moon by the year 2000" schtick then maybe I'd have spent my life doing exercise, keeping fit and doing hard sums so I could have become an astronaut. Instead I figured I'd be getting there one day anyway, so why bother putting the effort in?

Stupid Tomorrow's World.

Shrug

22:04 / 24.02.05

Peform a medical operation you know the one where you get to hold beating human hearts in your hand. Falls in the completely unrealistic but pretty cool category.

Alex's Grandma

22:24 / 24.02.05

I b;ame Tomorrow's World...

Well there you go. Never listen to a man named Michael Rodd. Or indeed, Maggie Philbin.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

22:25 / 24.02.05

Yes. I am considering calling my band "Judith Hann Buggered Stoatie's Chances Of Ever Getting To The Moon".

Alex's Grandma

00:36 / 25.02.05

'Judith Understands Dangers In That Hiatus, Hates Any Needless Negativity, Judith Understands Solar Travel, Flightwise - Exceptionally Complicated Kinetically, Obviously Fairly Freeform. Surely, However, Exploration Is Arguably Necessary.

Or Not... Can't Explain.'

It is a bit wordy, but reduced to it's essentials it could be ok as a name for a band, I'm guessing.

gotham island fae

00:38 / 25.02.05

Cultivate and manifest a communal family of maybe... thirty. I don't expect to be related by direct genes to more than two or three tops. That's lots of adopted family. I don't start that in honest intention until I'm fifty in 2024 though.

astrojax69

03:11 / 25.02.05

go swimming above the mariana's trench.

i'll prob'ly not stand on everest's peak, so swimming above the biggest hole sounds cool. imagine what is down there...

Lilly Nowhere Late

05:45 / 25.02.05

I'd just like to have one guilt free day off. In Paris. Maybe relive the first time I went to New Orleans. In fact I can think of many things I've already done that would be worth re-living before dying.
But I truly would settle for the guilt free day off.

iamus

12:08 / 25.02.05

i'll prob'ly not stand on everest's peak, so swimming above the biggest hole sounds cool.

Oh, if Freud could hear us now.....

I'd like to create something that everybody can enjoy.
Simple in concept. Rather more difficult in execution.

Sekhmet

13:09 / 25.02.05

Win the Yukon Quest.

Theoretically achievable, but never gonna happen. Very hard to practice dog sledding when you live somewhere it never snows.

Haus of Mystery

13:28 / 25.02.05

I would like to train a seagull to attack and shit on my friends. They wouldn't know I'd trained it, and would put their continual aerial assaults down to sheer bad luck. After I died my seagull would continue it's course of sustained harassment until it too karked it, whereupon it would make it's weary way, Jonathan-like, to my burial place.

XXII:X:II = XXX

19:57 / 28.02.05

I'd like to take a good dump in Dubya's mouth, then have it stitched up afterwards. Actually, if it could be that final voiding of my bowels, that'd be perfect.

Maybe also having the R. Crumb treatment on my sketchbooks would be immensely satisfying, I'd think. There's a lot to work with there.

Beyond those, most of what else springs to mind involves exotic sexings. An orgasm days in the making at the penultimate moment would be a helluva way to slingshot me back into the loving arms of the universe.

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unheimlich manoeuvre

22:14 / 28.02.05

I'd find religion. Just to hedge my bets, mind.

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