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- There is a LONG ass list of things that could wipe out the human race. At the moment it's more or less just a matter of one(s) hits us first.
As far as the planet itself, it'll either get taken out by random wandering extra-solar mass, or it'll be swallowed up by the sun when the sun exhausts enough fuel to expand into a red giant.
I guess as sort of a wild card we might make it far enough for one of our more monolithic physics experiments to take out the entire planet.
Could happen.
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- I wanted to build and fly spaceships and to build robots.
I'm going for my Masters in Electrical Engineering, so I'm getting there.
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Curvy.
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- I don't know... will you draw ME ???
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- LOL !
Funny way to ask.
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I think they were size G. Pretty sure about that one.
No, not talking about my ex. She was more like a DDD.
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- You just asked it.
...and I just answered it...
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- Lots to choose from !
Very possibly the noble pigmy marmoset. It's hard to argue against a monkey the size of your thumb.
Penguins are way up there too. Though that seems a little confusing since it's a land/sea animal that's also a bird that can't fly...
Turtles rock pretty hard too.
Still, I'd say the top of the list has been an ongoing conflict between cat and bunny girls.
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- Huh...
Some people never get past literally having a security blanket. Some people move on to other things, like clothing or objects like watches and such.
In my teens I suppose I took comfort in wearing my coat. It was something of a defining accessory.
After that I made a conscious shift away from using things for that sort of comfort, and found security in myself. Since I had myself wherever I went, it worked out pretty well.
In recent years I've shifted it further. Now rather than just being myself it's extended to everything around me, to where I feel security in my entire environment.
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- Every season is beautiful.
Since I like different things about each season, I can enjoy the one I'm in while at the same time look forward to what I like about the seasons to come.
So, I really don't have a favorite season, just favorite things about every season.
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- Well I CERTAINLY don't know any in person.
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...but IF I did...
I'd say I could see where they're coming from for the most part, and I'm sure at least some of them would make great drinking buddies.
I'd postulate that a lot of the problem people tend to have with 'The Man', whether they realize it or not, comes from not being part of 'The Man'. No one likes the idea of an uber-powerful group that they don't get to be a part of; it feels threatening no matter what the actual agenda is, and it never looks the same from the outside.
I guess if the group was a bunch of dicks it wouldn't help much either.
Know what I mean ?
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- I'm sure I'll have a better perspective of what to do with my body after I've fully ascended into a synthetic neural network and began inhabiting remotely inhabited prosthetic bodies. Probably preserve the dna for back-up clone bodies in case of emergency.
As for symbolic gestures, people will just have to take solace in my forty foot uranium statue.
It will talk.
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- Eyes, definitely.
Beautiful eyes are entrancing, and can blow away any other physical feature.
They can tell you a great deal about someone's personality, and they can express more clearly than words what they're thinking and how they feel.
Now if someone has beautiful eyes AND great breasts...
Well, that would just be confusing... I mean, where are you supposed to look ?
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- There have been things in my life that I didn't want to have change, or at least to not change in the way they did. However, I make a point to focus on what I have now and what 'can be' now, and not on what is gone.
My philosophy... when there's something in the past that I would want to go back to, I find a way to make it happen now.
When that's completely impossible, like longing to see someone who's died, the best you can do is take it as a lesson to spend time now with ones you'd miss later after it was too late.
Thank you for the question.
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- Just about always good, generally always busy.
It takes something pretty epic for me to have what I'd consider a bad day.
Not much brings me down. On the occasion that something does throw me off, it doesn't last long and it rarely hurts any of the rest of my day.
It's not because I'm an ultra-up, sunshine and rainbows type person. I'm usually more of a calm, dark, mysterious sort of figure.
So what is it ?
It's seeing and staying aware of the bigger picture, it's living in the moment but not losing sight of the past and future, it's brushing off the small stuff that doesn't matter, it's appreciating the small stuff that does matter, it's not taking things too seriously, and it's mastering the art of moving through a rolling storm as though it were a gentle breeze.
It's sort of like mastering a Kung Fu style for dealing with life.
Life Fu.
Thank you to whomever for the seemingly simple yet surprizingly interesting question !
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- Smision ?
As far as the basic five most people think of, I'm leaning heavily toward smell on this one.
The main drawbacks are the danger of dying from fumes you don't know are there, and having no idea if your place smells bad.
I'm not too worried about myself smelling bad though. I'm all good on keeping up the hygiene thing.
Another problem would be that smell is a very important part of intimacy. It would actually make it harder to feel close and connected to someone if you couldn't smell them.
If that wasn't an option I'd lose taste. That would be a really lame thing to not have though... taste is awesome. It's not as vital to survival and day-to-day living as the other senses though, and it would make it WAY easier to eat healthy if everything tasted like nothing.
Sight is the most important to me, followed by touch then hearing.
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- Well, there hasn't been just one.
I'll be skipping over a lot of things, but here's a few I can think of off the top of my head...
1) When I was a toddler I figured out that I could pull the kitchen drawers out to different distances and make stairs out of them, and even figured out how to climb from there onto things on the counter then on top of the fridge. The important part here is that on the way up I had access to the silverware.
I took a butter knife and went around the house taking things apart. This included part of the screen door, the door on the front of the dryer, and my mom's antique sewing machine. Aside from pulling at the wires from under the dashboard while in my car seat on the floor of my dad's truck as a baby (see earlier question about early childhood memories), I consider this to be the beginning of my fascination with mechanical things and technology.
2) One of the first books I ever read that was above the "see spot run" and "Dr. Sues" levels was a book about how the solar system formed.
I thought it was absolutely amazing, and I wanted to know everything I could about how the universe worked. I consider this my introduction to science.
3) Somewhere between the ages of eight and ten I became aware of the reality of death. Nothing outside happened to bring it up, I was just pondering about life and came to the realization of the possibility of non-existence.
I spent a lot of time trying to imagine the "experience" of not experiencing anything. It became the most terrifying thing I could imagine, and I had a really good imagination.
That was the point when I began building my philosophies of life and existence. Most of the basic framework was put together by time I was seventeen, and I've continued to build on it to this day.
4) I was sitting at the Sharis in Bonney Lake one night when I was eighteen... it was sometime in the week after New Years, and I was at a dark time in my life. I had just left my girlfriend, I had recently found out that my previous girlfriend had cheated on me with one of my best and most trusted friends and that the best friend has gotten her drunk and then pressured her into doing it, I had started smoking again, I had been arrested a few days earlier, I had quit my job to spend more time on college, and I had a few things going on in my life I'm not about to go into here.
The girl sitting at the table across from me kept trying to get my attention. That was about the last thing I needed right then, and politely blew her off every time she started talking to me. I would end up seeing her there several more times over the next few months.
Six months later we started dating.
The next year we got married, and were together for ten years.
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5) Going to college along with the other things I had going on in life was pretty stressful, to put it mildly. I spent a lot of time reflecting on that, and on how I approached life in general. One day in the student center at GRCC it came together for me, and I worked out a way of living intensely present in the moment without loosing sight of the past or future. I became relaxed wherever I was... and could be found doing things like walking around the student center in my socks and sleeping on tables.
This sort of thinking ended up coming in very handy later.
6) The birth of my son. I don't think this one needs much explanation.
There were more, but this has gotten way too long already, so I'll skip ahead a bit.
7) A couple years back my wife left me.
She did it on the morning of our tenth year together, and she told me about it by voicemail.
When she left, she took our son with her.
It was only a few days after finding out my grandmother had terminal pancreatic cancer. It's important to note that my grandmother was one of the most significant characters throughout my entire life.
On a "lesser" note, it was also a week before midterms.
I was faced with having to start my life over, find a new place to live, and to get my son back in a way that preferably didn't involve the police. I had no income and inherited half of our credit card debt, which was a lot.
It hit me pretty hard. I didn't eat or sleep for five days, over which time I lost eighteen pounds.
Not the best time.
HOWEVER !
The thing that ended up being even more significant to my life than the loss was how I decided to live my life afterward.
To keep it simple here, I'll say that I basically started from scratch with myself and used a lot of deep introspection and focusing on what was good and positive. I gradually merged what I was putting together with some of the best of the life philosophy I'd been building up since I was around ten.
I'm the best and strongest of myself that I've been in my life, which is really saying something.
I pretty well feel bulletproof.
It's an ongoing project, and I think that's a good thing.
Great question ! Thank you !
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- White.
That's right. Rock solid white.
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Seriously, I've given that thought for some time now.
If not that, then possibly shades of brown.
I'd be all set for the post-apocalyptic wasteland, and could put together some badass steampunk outfits.
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- Latest thing I've started listening to is Lady Gaga.
Love her work.
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- Gyreck is just fine.
( roughly: Guy-rek )
I've taken it on over the years as a real second first name, and it works just as well.
What's a name other than a way to identify someone, and something for a person to attach their own identity to ?
Thanks for asking though !
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- Gyreck Oriyss Daeklore
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