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Whats the point, none of the planets currently known about can in any way sustain human life.
Why would anyone want to be a teenager again?
Wonderful 10 more years of senile demanture...

Done it.

Why do you hate Necrophiliacs?
Sold show me the money
what and remember how sh*t everything really was now that i am bereft of the wonderful colour of my memory?

It would be tough to turn down the million, but I'd take the memory.

Nexa

I want to be twelve again.

Teenager? Pfft. Some of us are old ya know. I'd love to be 20, almost 21 again knowing what I know now.

Sadly 15 years is not enough for me or I'd have done that! Say, Make me 18 all over? Yes!
A million is not what is used to be when I was a kid but its better than nothing! I took the money

One could extract from this, that you think life is less worth living without a lot of money.

...or, that millionaires have more worthwhile lives.

"Other" (A turnip of my very own)

If those last ten years are in excruciating pain as my old and decrepit figure rots away then I'd much rater take what is necessary to live in the moment, and make the best of things while I'm still spry enough to enjoy them. Ultimately, I want to be able to relax; that is perhaps the most encompassing goal for me. The penultimate stage to relaxation is having enough money upon which to live and not be indepted up to my eyeballs.

If I had a million dollars (tax free) I could

- Pay off school loans
- Pay off most of the rest of my schooling
- Buy, and fully pay for, some peice of property in the city (not much, but I neither need nor like lots of space)
- Allocate half of the rest to spending money, school, living essentials
- Relax and study (part of relaxing)
- Save the rest for a rainy day.

I abhor the economic system of the U.S. I think that capitalism glorifies work as an end in itself, whereas work should simply be viewed as an unpleasant necessary means to an end (relaxation), but I still live in it, and if I had a magical wish that would allow me to completely circumvent it, focus my energy toward academic study, and eschew working altogether, then I'd take that in a heartbeat over ten more years of probably middle class retirement.

If you are an intelligent person who will spend money wisely, then your life will certainly be more worthwhile than a simmilarly intelligent person who does not have money. You honestly think that money can't buy happiness in the United States of America? Of course it can buy happiness; money just doesn't buy happiness for people who do not value it. If someone wins the lottery and spends it on 1000 garbage cans of cocaine then that is a commentary about a fucking moron who doesn't value a practical means to an end, and it is not a commentary about the failure of money to secure inner peace or something. Of course the reverse is possible, of course money is not necessary for happiness, but neither is the absence of money. Having money can be sifficient for happiness for an individual who is responsible with it, even if it is not necessary.

It's not like I enjoy that, and given a real magic wish, I would probably just change society so that this is not the case anymore, but I'm much more likely to be able to circumvent the system with one million dollars than I am to convince people that working is a bad thing in itself and done purely for itself.

Edited, Aug 6th 2007 3:00pm by Pensive

Memo

To: Elinda & Kaolian

From: Nobby

Subject: Re. Wishes

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Dear Mr. Elinda and Little Miss Kaolian,

All your w0mbats are belong to us.

Stuff your lazer-sharks up your less flaccid orifices and give me my turnip, or I will say 'Snerrip' and 'squeeg' when you least expect it.

My imaginary lawyers (Niobia, Niobia and H R Clinton) await my instruction.

Huggles

Sincerely,
Nobby - Genie Rapist, raconteur and cnut

I can't remember

Yeah but let's say you're going to die in car wreck in october '07. Adding ten years would mean you die in '17. Becoming 15 years younger just means you'll die in '07 but you'll just die young. Both options are stupid anyways.

She said to turn *my* age time-clock back. I assume that means that I am 15yrs physically younger, not that I travel in time back to 1992.