before I die...

[RobertScorpio]

What would be the one thing, with in reason, you would like to do before you die???

One thing, for me, would be to visit the antarctica. I have been to every other continent, but the closest I came to the antarctic was when I visited Hobart Austrailia.

By the way, if I had to live any where else in the world than in heaven (San Diego) I would pick Hobart. I really loved it there..nice people!!!

So...what is one thing YOU would like to do before Q takes you where ever it is we go when we 'die'. (unless of course we go nowhere..)

Rob

 

[Deranged Nasat]

Ideally, I'd like a son. Successfully raising him to adulthood and seeing him happy and productive is all I really care about. If I can die seeing my son, as an adult, making up for the loss of myself, I'll die happy.

 

[trampledamage]

I would really like to have lived in space or on another planet.

 

[RobertScorpio]

Ideally, I'd like a son. Successfully raising him to adulthood and seeing him happy and productive is all I really care about. If I can die seeing my son, as an adult, making up for the loss of myself, I'll die happy.

Well, Nasat, not knowing you I still can't believe your life is a 'loss'. No way..

But as for having a son? When my wife gave birth to my son it was, without any doubt, the greatest moment in my life. And now he is six, into comic books, loving star trek (at times) and we sit and watch LOST/HUMAN TARGET together and..man...there isn't anything funner than that.

The fact he looks like a little me is really trippy too. I didn't have the greatest relationship with my own father, so I am making doubly sure I make up for that with my son.

I hope you have that chance too.

Rob

 

[Deranged Nasat]

Ideally, I'd like a son. Successfully raising him to adulthood and seeing him happy and productive is all I really care about. If I can die seeing my son, as an adult, making up for the loss of myself, I'll die happy.

Well, Nasat, not knowing you I still can't believe your life is a 'loss'. No way..

But as for having a son? When my wife gave birth to my son it was, without any doubt, the greatest moment in my life. And now he is six, into comic books, loving star trek (at times) and we sit and watch LOST/HUMAN TARGET together and..man...there isn't anything funner than that.

The fact he looks like a little me is really trippy too. I didn't have the greatest relationship with my own father, so I am making doubly sure I make up for that with my son.

I hope you have that chance too.

Rob

Thank you, my friend. That means a lot to me. Sorry to be a misery again!

 

[RobertScorpio]

Ideally, I'd like a son. Successfully raising him to adulthood and seeing him happy and productive is all I really care about. If I can die seeing my son, as an adult, making up for the loss of myself, I'll die happy.

Well, Nasat, not knowing you I still can't believe your life is a 'loss'. No way..

But as for having a son? When my wife gave birth to my son it was, without any doubt, the greatest moment in my life. And now he is six, into comic books, loving star trek (at times) and we sit and watch LOST/HUMAN TARGET together and..man...there isn't anything funner than that.

The fact he looks like a little me is really trippy too. I didn't have the greatest relationship with my own father, so I am making doubly sure I make up for that with my son.

I hope you have that chance too.

Rob

Thank you, my friend. That means a lot to me. Sorry to be a misery again!

No problem...now..finding a 'sane' woman (harder to do than you might think) was the hardest part of the equation!!! But barring that, there is always adoption. My best friend Bill, who is single, adopted his son five years ago, a year after I had mine. He had to jump through hoops to do it, but it worked out and now his son and my son are best of friends.

Now..his son is only five, and is well on his way to being a Star Wars fan, so it just goes to show that no parent is perfect!!!

Rob

 

[scotpens]

I don't use tobacco, alcohol or illegal substances, but before I die I'd like to try a hallucinogen like LSD, peyote or mushrooms. I just want to know what the effects are like.

One thing, for me, would be to visit the antarctica. I have been to every other continent, but the closest I came to the antarctic was when I visited Hobart Austrailia.

I respect everyone's choices, but frankly I can't understand why anyone would want to visit Antarctica except to say that they'd been there. It's nothing but snow and ice, it's 50 below zero F. and your only neighbors are penguins and a few stir-crazy scientists.

Ideally, I'd like a son.

Maybe you have one that you don't know about!

I would really like to have lived in space or on another planet.

I believe the OP specified "within reason"!

 

[RobertScorpio]

I don't use tobacco, alcohol or illegal substances, but before I die I'd like to try a hallucinogen like LSD, peyote or mushrooms. I just want to know what the effects are like.

One thing, for me, would be to visit the antarctica. I have been to every other continent, but the closest I came to the antarctic was when I visited Hobart Austrailia.

I respect everyone's choices, but frankly I can't understand why anyone would want to visit Antarctica except to say that they'd been there. It's nothing but snow and ice, it's 50 below zero F. and your only neighbors are penguins and a few stir-crazy scientists.

Ideally, I'd like a son.

Maybe you have one that you don't know about!

I would really like to have lived in space or on another planet.

I believe the OP specified "within reason"!

Yeah, I did..but I'll let this one slide. Who knows, maybe they could have been stranded up on the international space station, gotten pregnant, and had a kid...sounds like a TV pilot!!!

Rob

 

[bigdaddy]

I really don't know...

i have always wanted to live on a Moon base, but I think the trip would kill me.

 

[Jadzia]

Listen...

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZODMaH7R3Es[/yt]

 

[Deranged Nasat]

Ideally, I'd like a son.

Maybe you have one that you don't know about!

Well, I'm a virgin, so it's quite impressive if I have .

What's up with the rolly?

 

[RoJoHen]

Nasat, I would also love to have a son. I don't even necessarily need him to have a mother (though it would be awesome, of course). If I could make a baby boy materialize out of thin air, I would totally do it.

 

[T'Baio]

Ideally, I'd like a son. Successfully raising him to adulthood and seeing him happy and productive is all I really care about. If I can die seeing my son, as an adult, making up for the loss of myself, I'll die happy.

I think you should make yourself not a loss before you have a son. I think you should discard that attitude about yourself before you have a son. People who want to atone for their sins by having children as a goodwill immortality project are not doing the world, or their children, any favours.

 

[scotpens]

What's up with the rolly?

I don't know, for some reason it just seemed appropriate at the moment.

BTW, about those hallucinogens: Anyone know where I can score some?

 

[Deranged Nasat]

Ideally, I'd like a son. Successfully raising him to adulthood and seeing him happy and productive is all I really care about. If I can die seeing my son, as an adult, making up for the loss of myself, I'll die happy.

I think you should make yourself not a loss before you have a son. I think you should discard that attitude about yourself before you have a son. People who want to atone for their sins by having children as a goodwill immortality project are not doing the world, or their children, any favours.

You make a good point. Believe me, I'm well aware that it won't be good for any child of mine if I approach them as some sort of replacement or atonement. But the attitude is there, and intimately intwined with my desire for a son, so it's something I think I'll have to work around, rather than discard. It's probably also why I wouldn't be comfortable raising a child alone- I need to work out a lot of problems myself, with a wife's help, if I'm to actually make the good father I hope to be.

 

[T'Baio]

I'm sorry, I'm not familiar with your issues Deranged Nasat, but I feel like you shouldn't rely on a wife, either. Would you want to enter a lifelong relationship knowing that you were partly a tool for unguided therapy? You probably need to work on your issues on your own and with the people who are around you who love you now. A loving relationship that stands the test of time should be entered into selflessly, not wondering how that person can help you.

But like I said, I'm not familiar with your issues, so forgive me if I've stepped over a line or am speaking of things completely unrelated or impossible due to my ignorance.

 

[auntiehill]

Oh, there are so many things I would like to do before I die, and all of them are fairly silly. Will I ever get to do ANY of them? Probably not.

I would REALLY like to go up in a hot air balloon. I don't know why. I've never been terribly fond of heights, but I love rollercoasters and flying. I have just always thought it would be the greatest thing to do.

I would LOVE to go to Wales, Scotland and Ireland. Scotland and Ireland, because of my heritage, and Wales, to stay at the resort where The Prisoner was filmed. I knew a couple who went there for their honeymoon, and I was so jealous of them, it just killed me.

I would LOVE to go to Hawaii, to see the estate where Magnum was filmed. I know it's stupid, but it was such a big part of my childhood that it would mean a lot to me. I also would like to see the volcano, take a helicopter tour of the islands and see some of the LOST locations.

And...some day, I want to take a kid to Disneyland (or Disneyworld), just to let them enjoy it the way that I did---and still do. I don't have any kids, but we're hoping to adopt. I have already informed my cheap-ass husband that the first thing we'll do is take that kid to Disneyland for a long weekend---cost be damned.

 

[Deranged Nasat]

I'm sorry, I'm not familiar with your issues Deranged Nasat, but I feel like you shouldn't rely on a wife, either. Would you want to enter a lifelong relationship knowing that you were partly a tool for unguided therapy? You probably need to work on your issues on your own and with the people who are around you who love you now. A loving relationship that stands the test of time should be entered into selflessly, not wondering how that person can help you.

But like I said, I'm not familiar with your issues, so forgive me if I've stepped over a line or am speaking of things completely unrelated or impossible due to my ignorance.

No offense is taken .

And I can assure you there's a lot more to my musing on a wife than "free therapy!". Don't think I have a one-sided relationship in mind. Of course, part of the problem is that the whole thing is very complicated, and I don't always explain my thinking very well. But I think "this person can help me" is an entirely valid reason to pursue a life-long relationship...so long as both parties are thinking it. I'm sure what I offer my future wife will be different in many ways than what she offers me, but it will be equally required, or else the relationship doesn't work. It needs to be a symbiosis.

Anyway, sorry to further derail this thread!

 

[SeerSGB]

The big one: Get published. Don't care if it leads to a career, or a lot of money, or fame, I just would like to get a fiction novel published.

 

[RandyS]

I'd like to be President for one week.