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06-15-2008, 02:22 AM
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i'd say failure, in the sense of "if i did this, it would work out successfully and how i want it."
what would i do? lots of things. some as simple as jump into a pool off a diving board (im really scared of heights, and really being suspended in air) and other things like open a restaurant, drag race, diet, become a motivational speaker, build my own house, invent the cure for AIDS...
its endless possibilities at 2am.
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06-15-2008, 03:38 AM
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Buy a lottery ticket <grin>
Seriously though.. there are also several things I would do. I would write a book. I would sky dive. I would start my own business, probably a cookie shop. I would find a cure for Crohn's Disease. Yes, endless possibilities!
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06-15-2008, 09:19 AM
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I would be with him again.
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06-16-2008, 12:55 AM
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i'd say failure, in the sense of "if i did this, it would work out successfully and how i want it."
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I have to be honest--I have never failed at anything I felt strongly about doing... Things that I have put all my mind and energy into, I have succeeded...
The things I have not done well on are things that have not interested me. If I could pick them back up, oneday and say--I want to do it--would I fail? Well, the way I see it now is my life path is to go in a direction of greater harmony for my own inner peace so that I can be an asset to this world... So, say I want to be a "nuclear physicist"--my reasons for wanting to be that are less than honorable and are diametrically opposed to that self-determination that my life is destined to go. Why try to separate things, than fusing them together?
The other things I do not like to do are things related to economy and business--I don't like those things, I hate learning them and I would fail if given a test for them. I admire folks who do pursue these things, there are some discussions we have and if a child I knew wanted to pursue this area, I would help them get there. But as for me--no...
Plus, I think the ONLY failure folks have in life, in general, is when they fail to act on their dreams...
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06-16-2008, 02:11 AM
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This always makes me laugh when people don't specify things. First off, what cancer? Rat cancer? Dog cancer? Human cancer? Once you specify species, you need to specify which type: melanomas? pancreatic? lung? brain? myomas? lymphomas? cervical? What if you cured one that already had a cure? Second, what if you found a cure that caused something else, or a cure with a high death rate?
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well cancer, and clearly this is me oversimplifying, is caused by the abnormalities and transformations of cells, growing/duplicating faster, or in a way than they should. someone who is medically versed can answer this better, but i would think while there may not be a one-cure-fits-all fix, different types of cancer have common traits so their cures would be related.
and why specify? if icelandicelf had said "find a cure for breast cancer," one could easily argue, "well why not lung cancer? or skincancer?" what determines which cancer one would want to find a cure for? who ranks which is worth finding a cure for more?
(see how im nitpicking? yeah, thats kinda what youre doing.)
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06-16-2008, 06:35 PM
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well cancer, and clearly this is me oversimplifying, is caused by the abnormalities and transformations of cells, growing/duplicating faster, or in a way than they should. someone who is medically versed can answer this better, but i would think while there may not be a one-cure-fits-all fix, different types of cancer have common traits so their cures would be related.
and why specify? if icelandicelf had said "find a cure for breast cancer," one could easily argue, "well why not lung cancer? or skincancer?" what determines which cancer one would want to find a cure for? who ranks which is worth finding a cure for more?
(see how im nitpicking? yeah, thats kinda what youre doing.)
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Good try...but nope! Unfortunately all cancers are different, and even cancers of the same type behave differently so no one cure works for everyone. But, since we are being hypothetical, I think leaving it to a cure for all cancers is fine! No need to specify when it's make believe anyway! 
As for me, I'd move to Europe for a few years and live off of telerad. I'd come back in a couple years and get a real job in the states again.
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