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Mon Sep-21-09 02:18 PM
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If, by your death, you could bring about any event/condition/whatever - what would it be? In other |
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words, what would you be willing to die for? Since this is a political board, do not list "saving my child's life" (that is a given) or other similar things. I am specifically looking to see what changes in our society people here are actually willing to give their lives for. Universal health care? Worldwide disarmament? Environmental enforcement? Marriage equality? or, taking a different tact... Removal of all republicons from public life (or further)? Jailing of * administration officials and office-holders? Expulsion from the US of "red" states? An extremely progressive income tax structure? Granted - this is an exercise in fantasy. Thus, do not limit your choices to what is probable or even possible.
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Mon Sep-21-09 02:23 PM
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1. Complete & utter truth about everything & everybody involved in the JFK assassination. |
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Mon Sep-21-09 02:24 PM
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2. Space travel to other galaxies.... |
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Mon Sep-21-09 02:24 PM
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3. Truly sustainable human civilization, ie an end to war, an end to fossil fuel |
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dependence, an end to destructive agricultural practices, etc etc
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Mon Sep-21-09 02:27 PM
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4. Can't think of anything. |
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Mon Sep-21-09 02:28 PM
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5. "What is, immortality, Alex." |
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"For $1,200 Alex, I'll take Things For Which You Would Give Your Life."
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Mon Sep-21-09 02:29 PM
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Tue Sep-22-09 09:27 AM
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38. Me too, only if it means all the xians are gone and peace is left on the earth for everyone else. nt |
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Mon Sep-21-09 02:37 PM
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8. Nothing. By dying, I wouldn't be here to experience the "event" |
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I'm selfish that way.
I want some OTHER bastard to die so *I* get to experience those things.
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Mon Sep-21-09 02:37 PM
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9. Congressional Term limits and election reform to make lobbyists illegal, or |
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The end of Corporate Personhood.
I'd take either.
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Mon Sep-21-09 02:38 PM
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I'd be willing to die for my own immortality.
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Mon Sep-21-09 03:52 PM
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26. Ding, we have a winner |
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That was my first thought as I read the subject.... :fistbump:
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Mon Sep-21-09 05:04 PM
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28. Sorry, there can be only one. |
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Mon Sep-21-09 02:42 PM
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11. The annihilation of the entire human species. |
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Apologies, my misanthropy is showing. x(
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Mon Sep-21-09 02:43 PM
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Mon Sep-21-09 02:49 PM
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15. Arrggh you beat me to it. |
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Tue Sep-22-09 07:38 AM
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your world must be horrible to live in.
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Mon Sep-21-09 02:44 PM
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13. The Constitiution and its founding principles |
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that includes so much of your list it ain't even funny. And no, the RWers don't get that...
Human rights respected world wide... wait I sort of almost did.
Things like that.
A sustainable human civilization too.
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Mon Sep-21-09 02:48 PM
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14. The utter destruction of all mankind |
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If I have to go I'm taking you f*&^ers with me.
BWWWWAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHAHHHHHAAHHHHHAAA
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Mon Sep-21-09 02:52 PM
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16. That my death from lung cancer would cause people to wake |
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up and realize that lung cancer is NOT just a smoker's disease, and that nothing is being paid for research on it compared to other cancer's (breast) and it kills more people than all the others combined.
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Mon Sep-21-09 02:57 PM
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17. but it's easier to just blame it on smoking.... somehow it is your own fault because |
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you smoked, were near smoke or thought about smoke.
and i am being sarcastic here. sorry.
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Mon Sep-21-09 03:47 PM
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24. A very dear friend contracted lung cancer while in college. . . |
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he never smoked, was too young to have been impacted by other people's smoke, and no one in his family or their close friends smoked either. He just got lung cancer. He withdrew from college and entered radiation therapy. The cancer was eventually driven into remission and he lived disease free for the next 20+ years. He got his degree in his late 30s and decided to pursue a PhD. Unfortunately, the radiation therapy eventually caught up to him, only this time it manifested as cancer in his liver. He accepted it stoically, reasoned he couldn't be bitter because he'd had 20-some years of wonderful life, years he'd never have had without the treatment (which was the best option at the time he received it). He passed away some 10 years ago.
When my Mother died, of lung cancer caused by smoking (though she'd quit more than a decade before she got ill), this friend patiently hounded me to quit smoking as well. It was always mañana, however, and I kept him pushed aside. One day though he handed me a piece of paper and said he'd made an appointment for me at the Schick Center for Smoking Cessation. I was astounded but went. This January, I'll celebrate 24 years smoke free. His act of kindness remains the nicest thing anyone has ever done for me with their clothes on.
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Tue Sep-22-09 05:57 AM
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30. That is very nice. You are lucky to have such friends. |
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But your mother's lung cancer might not have been caused by her smoking.
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Tue Sep-22-09 06:20 AM
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33. When my husband would ask me what I wanted for my birthday or any holiday I always answered that |
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I wanted him to quit smoking. The best gift he could give me is to be around for a long time. I never badgered him about it though, knowing that would not help him to stop doing it. He quit once for a year and then started again... ooh did i want to strangle him!! but he finally made up his mind to do it and went to the doctor. He took Chantix and has been smoke free for 20 weeks now. He is very proud of himself... it's a tough thing to kick. But I tell him how proud I am of him. And I am more than happy to have him buy a pack of gum a day if it will help him. He chews a lot of gum... LOL!
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Tue Sep-22-09 12:42 PM
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39. There is an 8 year old girl on our cancer board with lung |
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cancer. And no, her parents don't smoke. There are also several teens. Wake up folks. If all smoking was gone tomorrow lung cancer would still be in the top five to seven cancer killers. Lung cancer victims are victims just like breast cancer victims are. No difference.
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Tue Sep-22-09 02:02 PM
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42. the only difference is the way lung cancer patients seem to be treated. like they did it to |
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themselves or something. It's a sorry state....
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Tue Sep-22-09 08:07 PM
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46. No one deserves cancer. We don't ask breast cancer |
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victims or pancreatic cancer victims "did you smoke?"
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Mon Sep-21-09 03:03 PM
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18. Quality universal healthcare for all |
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with only 2 caveats:
1 - You have to wait 4 years til I get my kid raised & out the door
2 - I get to choose the time & method of death
Other than that I'm good to go. Where do I sign up?
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Mon Sep-21-09 03:13 PM
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19. I'm curious what method you would choose. --nt |
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Mon Sep-21-09 03:40 PM
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23. Hadn't thought about it |
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I guess the easiest on me would be a massive morphine hit, go to sleep & step out of this body. But, that involves someone to administer the injection, or at least to set it up for me to do. Without involving anyone else? Bullet to the brain. Messy, but no one else need be involved in administering it. So no recrimminations fall on anyone else.
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Tue Sep-22-09 05:58 AM
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32. I'll take the "lethal injection" the murderers get. |
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Mon Sep-21-09 03:14 PM
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20. Sorry, but I would be selfish here. I'd die for a cure for type-1 diabetes. |
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Both my children have it.
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Mon Sep-21-09 03:16 PM
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21. the end of corporate person hood. |
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Mon Sep-21-09 03:18 PM
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22. Justice for homeless people. Something that's not on ANYONE'S list. |
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Mon Sep-21-09 03:50 PM
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25. Campaign Finance Reform |
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Take away the money problem in politics, the other problems will slowly right themselves.
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Mon Sep-21-09 03:55 PM
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27. Indisputably authentic video of Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and Bill O'Reilly ... |
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Edited on Mon Sep-21-09 03:55 PM by 11 Bravo
fucking a goat; while Ann Coulter, Michelle Malkin, Sarah Palin, and Michelle Bachmann hold the poor animal down.
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Tue Sep-22-09 05:58 AM
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31. A health insurance exchange. |
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Tue Sep-22-09 06:31 AM
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34. In a lost heartbeat I would like to see mine be |
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to stop the WAR on anything anytime. Drugs and terror at the top of the list.
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Tue Sep-22-09 07:58 AM
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36. just and lasting peace in the Middle East |
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The diffusion of tension between the West and the Arab and Islamic world could prevent several worst case scenarios from becoming reality.
This is not about a utopian dream about ancient foes loving each other. It is about preventing the unthinkable from happening.
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Tue Sep-22-09 08:18 AM
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37. Permanently low human birth rates. nt |
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Tue Sep-22-09 01:28 PM
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40. All humans incapable of killing animals for any reason |
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Tue Sep-22-09 02:04 PM
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43. Enlightenment for the masses. |
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Tue Sep-22-09 02:06 PM
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44. If someone would pick up the canceled "My Name Is Earl" |
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Tue Sep-22-09 02:07 PM
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45. The power of resurrection |
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Tue Sep-22-09 08:21 PM
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47. Universal health care. |
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I often feel this will happen to me - I would just like my death to really mean something, to make a difference - not just be another faceless statistic.
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