Selling Your Soul

[BraggSurvivor]

How much would you give to know the future and your fate? How about a day earlier to death for every additional day of peering into the future?

Would you sell your soul for this ultimate knowledge????

[Jason_Montana]

No, I wouldn't sell my soul for this knowledge. I'll end up getting it for FREE soon enough, so I think I'd just keep my soul. Also, I think I CREATE my future, and my actions have nothing to do with fate. I prefer to live in the moment and focus on the here and now. For me, it seems if I take care of every minute now, and just live in the present then the future takes care of its self.

[BraggSurvivor]

If you want have success,
Be dare
Be the first
And be different.

Easy monetary gain...... could solve a lot of problems for most people.....

Greed is a powerful motivator...

[Jason_Montana]

If you want have success,
Be dare
Be the first
And be different.

Easy monetary gain...... could solve a lot of problems for most people.....


I say, if you want success be yourself, and learn to live within your means.

There is a great documentary called "The Curse of the Lottery" and it follows people that have "won" big. As the filmakers follow the lives of lottery winners it comes obvious that easy monetary gain creates more problems for most of the winners than they had previously. Call it "MC HAMMER SYNDROME" and after a few years most of the winners are worse off than they were before. The jist of the documentary is that if your life is dysfunctional and your just getting by check-to-check, all that surplus money does is amplify your dysfunction and create major problems.

[tacmedic]

McHammer, was that a burger at McDonalds that didn't catch on?

[Gray Wolf]

Thought the devil went down to Georgia, not to Alberta, to cold I hear. :D

[nell67]

A change of avatar in order???:p

[crashdive123]

How much would you give to know the future and your fate? How about a day earlier to death for every additional day of peering into the future?

Would you sell your soul for this ultimate knowledge????

I wouldn't. The exciting part of life is the advenure, journey and exploring the unknown. Wouldn't want to read the last chapter of a good book first.....no point in doing it in life.

[BraggSurvivor]

Leaving the supernatural out of the picture. What if you had a device that would, for every day you projected into the future remove the same amount of days from your current if span. Would you do it? How many people would?

My son asked me this question today, I know what my answer was, just asking here to see what the consensus is.

Be honest.

[nell67]

nope,be my luck I'd go to a time when I was laready dead,and couldn't come back:eek:

[crashdive123]

Answer is still the same Bragg. Besides - in my younger days I've been rode hard and put away wet so many times that I need all the days I can get at the end.

[BraggSurvivor]

You snuck your last answer in before I hit the post button. :D

[Catfish]

I wouldn't. The exciting part of life is the advenure, journey and exploring the unknown. Wouldn't want to read the last chapter of a good book first.....no point in doing it in life.
Bullseye crashdive. That was exactly what I was going to write (good job I read everyone else's responses first, eh? :) )

Life will bring what it will bring. Some of it I can control, some of it I can't. Either way, I have no interest in finding what's in store for me, in advance. That would take all the fun out of it.

So as and when I get around to inventing my time machine, I'm going to make it so it can only go backwards (should be cheaper that way). I would love to see some of history's most significant events for myself, and learn what really happened.

To go to Cape Canaveral and watch the rockets taking off for the moon, hear Martin Luther King give his "I have a dream" speech in person, or Lincoln's address at Gettysburg. To see what really happened with the Kennedy assassination, watch Babe Ruth hit a home run, or Mickey Mantle, or Joe DiMaggio. To get a chance to talk to Einstein, or Ben Franklin, or cross the Atlantic in an ocean liner, or a sailing ship. Even to see my hometown as it was when I was a kid, or 50 years before I was born. And on and on and on. That's the kind of stuff I day dream about.

I don't want to change the past*, just observe it. But the future? I'm happy just to wait until it gets here.

*Although sometimes, I would like to grab my 18 year old self and say "Look dumbass, that girl likes you. Stop being such a ninny and go for it!" :D

[crashdive123]

Man do I feel old now. A lot of the things you want to go back and see first hand, I did see......No.....not Lincoln.:D

[Catfish]

Man do I feel old now. A lot of the things you want to go back and see first hand, I did see......No.....not Lincoln.:D
But you did speak to Ben Franklin then? ;)

[crashdive123]

Every time I spend a hundred dollar bill - No Ben! Don't go! Don't go Ben!:D

[Catfish]

I'm impressed. I've never even seen a hundred dollar bill.

[Gray Wolf]

As far as changing my life's time, I've posted this once before:

Some people try to turn back their odometers. Not me, I want people to know "why" I look this way. I've traveled a long way and many of the roads weren't paved.

[FVR]

I would not give a rats arse to know my fate or future. I would not give up a single day of living my life for a peek into the future.

I don't want to know the future, I would not change the past. I'm a big boy, I can take it one day at a time. I will prepare for the future as any responsible father / husband should.

My belief is that you have already been given a specific amount of time in this paradise we inhabit. We are given choices, with these choices comes consequences.

[BraggSurvivor]

We are given choices, with these choices comes consequences.


Well said.

[Rick]

How much would you give to know the future and your fate?

A buck two ninety eight.