What are the pros and cons of living longer or Forever?
Pros: Imagine the things you could do! The people you could meet, the places you could go, the things you could see. Imagine everything you could get done. You could literally change the entire world if you had enough time. You could learn so much, hundreds of languages, and you would most likely know the very secrets of thew universe. You could become president, many times, governor, sentator, prime justice, police officer, scientist, actor, artist, and on and on. You could try everything. Taste everything. The possiblities are beyond imagination! Cons: Life might not be as happy any longer. It might become just another thing, and not considered as precious as it is today. We would take even more for granted. And then imagine the overcrowding issues (more immigration, less resources, billions and billions of old old old people). The world would fall into literal collapse. The farms would not be able to produce enough for all the mouths to feed (they already can't). Imagine the amount of people in the big cities. Imagine all the jerks and people you hate living forever and ever, always causing anger where ever they go. Imagine the eternity-long wars and famines. Also, people would be incredibly, incredibly ugly after so long of a time. Also, imagine president BUSH living forever and ever, destroying this country till the end of time. Imagine people like Hitler. Imagine the absolute horror. I hope that if they find it, they instantly destroy it or give it only to those who deserve it (those good people in the world who actually make other lives happy). I hope for the rest of the world to come that they never find the correct way to make it work (remember, the first people to buy the technology would be the rich, only to be richer, and the evil, to cause more terror).
College drop out? bad choice?
i'm really really considering dropping out of college. i'm taking classes at a local community college. i'm already signed up for classes in the fall and financial aid is already set up for next year, so i'm planning on taking one more year. maybe that will change my mind. idk. but my whole first year i just felt this wasn't for me. i don't even have an idea of a degree i would go after. i have been taking general ed classes and classes that i'm interested in. but i really feel like i should drop out. it's not that i'm failing, i have a 3.3 gpa. college just isn't for me. i really want to get into music, i mean as a performer. not looking for fame, but i'm looking to make a living. i don't mind having to work other jobs along with that. i have tons of experience in making music, performing, recording, promoting, stage crew. i've done everything and haven't found anything i would absolutely hate. right now i'm working a job i can't stand, with people i don't get along with. all we do is fake nice to make work bearable. i need a break, to get away, and live. i'm very depressed with my life now. i don't have anything about it that makes me happy. but then i sit down and create music or a painting and i don't know why i would ever want to end my life. that is the reason i'm alive now.
Taking a year off before college questions?
Hey, I am wondering the pros and cons of taking a year off before college, not for me, but for a friend of mine. I've been in a band for about a year. Recently we participated in a Battle of the bands, just a small local one, we won it, and really didn't know what we had fully done. Shortly afterward we started getting calls from coffee shops and bars asking us to play for them. Because we all have different things we do in school right now, we haven't been able to do a lot of them, but we're still getting offers left and right. The biggest thing we're getting right now is questions about a CD and compliments. We're starting recording for our first CD on Monday april 5th. We started seriously looking at taking a year off after high school and touring, selling our CD and playing at places around the country. The lead singer/guitarist and the lead guitarist are kind of hesitant - mostly the lead guitarist. They both have quite a bit going for them academically and have been accepted to pretty good colleges and are concerned about scholarship offers. They are concerned that if they take a year off they will lose scholarships they could get if they went straight into college. They also don't think it will be easy at all to get scholarships after taking a year off. It's not a big deal for me because my plan for further education is technical college for Diesel Mechanics. The tech school I've chosen doesn't offer any scholarships that I would have to worry about if deciding to take a year off. I was reading about "gap-year" programs, but they sounded like they we're only for people that wanted to study abroad or travel. Could someone clear this up for us? I REALLY want to take a year off and tour with the band because I think it will be a really good experience. I also have the mindset that society pushes the individual to go to grade school - high school - college - job - married - kids - retirement - die.. I want at least one year when I can say I did something for myself.
What are the pros and cons of living in Ocala, FL area?
I used to live there, I now live in Atlanta. Ocala is hot and humid in the summer, and cold and wet and dreary, with grey skies in the winter. Plus, I don't know anything about the current demographics, but Ocala used to be hicksville, which can be either a pro or con, depending upon your individual preferences. I'm also from Johnstown, PA. Believe me, as bad as I portrayed Ocala, it's better than Johnstown in the winter. Why not think about Atlanta. 4 seasons, but a mild winter. It snows once or twice during the winter, but it's usually gone the day after. I love it!
What kind of women date ex-felons or ex-convicts?
So much judgement in such a short sentence.. I admit, I used to think like this before I witnessed someone dragged through the mud of the system of “justice” overseas & started looking at what’s going on closer to home..May our system of justice, never destroy your sense of justice like it has for so many others.First of all,innocent people go to prison all the time.Guilty people get away with the most heinous crimes - all the time.Victims don’t report crime because they will be treated like a criminal themselves - all the time.You can be convicted for seemingly very minor things, especially if you are a minority - and that’s in the United States....in certain other countries, you can pay to have someone incarcerated or destroy someone’s life with the ease of ordering a pizza by making a politically motivated accusation.That said, there are women who live in a fantasy world who think that there is a gentle loving part to every serial killer or rapist. Only through their love, will this soul reveal his true self.There is a poor scared child inside every man and only she can nurture that child. Once the transformation is complete, they will live happily ever after, like in a romance novel..There are also opportunists who hope to gain fame, be on tv, write a book etc by piggybacking on the convict’s claim to fame..As to women who date EX-convicts:People who want to give others a second chance.People who may believe they were innocent or the punishment did not fit the crime.People who know they themselves could have been locked up for something similar.Women addicted to a relationship (ex-con or not)If it’s an issue of dating an abusive person (ex-con or not), then usually because she doesn’t think she can do better. Got brainwashed into thinking they deserve this kind of treatment and that the man really loves them and/or will change. The abuse in a way can become a normalized everyday state.. It’s difficult to break free.Maybe she has faults of her own and thinks that someone with this kind of a past won’t judge them like everyone else.PS. Just Mercy: A Story of Justice & Redemption by Brian Stevenson is one of the best books I’ve read on the topic.