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runningbird · 11-19-2009, 04:59 AM

For the sake of experiment let's just try to cookie cut everyone as much as possible. You know the moments when you think "what if I die/had died before I _____"? Those are the things I'm talking about. I think I'm going to lump education in here too because that is a drawn out experience, all the same. My list.

Try at least one entheogen.
Have a mystical experience.
Practice meditation.
Make love.
Perform an extreme (death defying) physical activity (i.e. skydiving).

Screw it, this list would get way too long. List 5 things, or whatever you want.

Parthon · 11-19-2009, 06:31 AM

Go on holiday to a country very different from your own.
Learn a foreign language.
Complete your destiny/Complete your one major lifegoal.
Experience unconditional love.
Find the real purpose of life.

EddieT · 11-19-2009, 07:07 AM

Visit a 3rd world country, there's a huge difference between seeing something on TV and actually being there.

Have a fist fight. (Note: If you've never been in a fist fight don't go and pick a random fight, most of the time it's better not to fight.)

Skydive.

Try an activity that is totally out of character for yourself.

Give to charity.

aelle · 11-19-2009, 07:47 AM

Open yourself to experiences and thoughts you wouldn't have considered before.

See the world, walk in someone else's shoes.

Feel true love.

Enjoy yourself.

bluedragon · 11-19-2009, 07:56 AM

1. Wake up and come to know your true nature (Source)
After that, anything else doesn't really matter, since anything you do will be perfect and a miracle, as is life itself.

....
however if I were to give other examples:
2) Have a group of good friends
3) Travel around the world
4) Be successful in living your passion and sharing it
5) Have wonderful relationship(s)

Brutha · 11-19-2009, 08:13 AM

Come into a state of mind where they don't believe in shoulding other people anymore.

PipHunn · 11-19-2009, 08:15 AM

Get into the habit of taking deliberate action.
Consciously break a law.
Encourage someone else to break a law.
Lose their attachment to comfort.
Sing karaoke - sober!
Get applauded by a thousand people.

ssandra · 11-19-2009, 02:26 PM

1. Make love for days in a row
2. Find somebody you love without any holdbacks
3. Be loved by somebody for all you are, including faults
4. Go backpacking in a foreign country
5. Tell the people that mean the most to you that you love them.

* yes I am big on the love thing

Daffy Duck · 11-19-2009, 02:29 PM

Fall in love. With another, and with yourself.

If you do that before you die, I think your life was worth living, no matter what else happened.

Quote:

Originally Posted by ssandra

1. Make love for days in a row

*TMI alert*

I did that all day once. The next two days my groin area was so sore that I could barely walk. Made me never want to do it again...

Maybe I just need more practice!

runningbird · 11-19-2009, 02:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Brutha

Come into a state of mind where they don't believe in shoulding other people anymore.

Oh, please. I didn't use it like that.

Daffy Duck · 11-19-2009, 03:03 PM

Brutha is more or less saying that we shouldn't believe in shoulding people.

Oops!

Aleksander Krstic · 11-19-2009, 03:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by EddieT

Give to charity.

Check!

openeyes · 11-19-2009, 03:57 PM

It's been covered pretty well so far:

Learn a musical instrument or sing
Learn another language
Travel
Build something
Find a way to safely do something you've been afraid to do

ssandra · 11-19-2009, 04:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Daffy Duck

.

Maybe I just need more practice!

More practice, more variation, and more lube

Brutha · 11-19-2009, 04:31 PM

Quote:

Oh, please. I didn't use it like that.

You did. You suggested that there somehow something that everyone should do. I'm perfectly fine with different people doing different things that make them happy.
Having checklists that other people have to complete to be considered to have been lived a good life is shoulding people.

Daffy Duck · 11-19-2009, 04:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Brutha

Having checklists that other people have to complete to be considered to have been lived a good life is shoulding people.

I agree. It's a good thing we haven't been doing that here!

Nobody mentioned that people aren't living a "good life" if they don't do these things. I see this as a list of worthwhile things to do, but of course we all know that people are free to live their life as they choose.

Mogget · 11-19-2009, 09:06 PM

1# Work in a call centre
2# Work as a waiter
3# Be a stay-at-home care giver to a number of small children
4# Drive a cab or a bus
5# Work as a parking officer.

(to encourage a global shift in the attitude towards and treatment of these basic service providers, and a general nice-ning up of the world vibe)

Daffy Duck · 11-19-2009, 09:23 PM

Mogget, have you worked in those professions?

Ever since I worked at Wal-Mart as a teenager, I've looked at retail workers with much more compassion than the average person does.

Angela · 11-19-2009, 09:39 PM

One thing every person should do in his lifetime is buy me a really nice present.

supertom · 11-19-2009, 09:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Angela

One thing every person should do in his lifetime is buy me a really nice present.

every time somebody asks a question like that i'm gonna respond with that

I'm sending you a mental present, tell me if you get it.

Acting Like Godot · 11-19-2009, 11:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by runningbird

Try at least one entheogen.
Have a mystical experience.
Practice meditation.
Make love.
Perform an extreme (death defying) physical activity (i.e. skydiving).

1. Not done.
2. Done!
3. Done!
4. Done!
5. I guess roller-coasters don't count.

Acting Like Godot · 11-19-2009, 11:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Parthon

Go on holiday to a country very different from your own.
Learn a foreign language.
Complete your destiny/Complete your one major lifegoal.
Experience unconditional love.
Find the real purpose of life.

1. Done!
2. Done!
3. Not sure what to do.
4. Done!
5. Working on it ...

Acting Like Godot · 11-19-2009, 11:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by EddieT

Visit a 3rd world country, there's a huge difference between seeing something on TV and actually being there.

Have a fist fight. (Note: If you've never been in a fist fight don't go and pick a random fight, most of the time it's better not to fight.)

Skydive.

Try an activity that is totally out of character for yourself.

Give to charity.

1. Done!
2. Not done.
3. Not done.
4. Done!
5. Done!

Acting Like Godot · 11-19-2009, 11:12 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by PipHunn

Sing karaoke - sober!
Get applauded by a thousand people.

Done!
Done! (Ok, I didn't count. But it was a big crowd).

Acting Like Godot · 11-19-2009, 11:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mogget

1# Work in a call centre
2# Work as a waiter
3# Be a stay-at-home care giver to a number of small children
4# Drive a cab or a bus
5# Work as a parking officer.

1. Not done.
2. Not done.
3. Not done, except for brief period of time.
4. Not done.
5. Not done.

Angela · 11-20-2009, 12:31 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by supertom

every time somebody asks a question like that i'm gonna respond with that

I'm sending you a mental present, tell me if you get it.

Got it, thanks! Did you get mine?

supertom · 11-20-2009, 01:33 AM

yep, not mental picture but soft feeling in the chest

Talkofthatown919 · 11-20-2009, 03:02 AM

Make a list of everything they want to do and then go do it. Just watch the bucket list

Ezzyta · 11-28-2009, 12:13 AM

1) experience true happyness

Mogget · 11-28-2009, 02:40 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Daffy Duck

Mogget, have you worked in those professions?

Ever since I worked at Wal-Mart as a teenager, I've looked at retail workers with much more compassion than the average person does.

call centre, hospitality...

I haven't had kids, and don't drive so I haven't done those and I never had the courage to try Parking inspector! It does totally change the way you treat people in service roles.

11-19-2009, 04:59 AM	#1 (permalink)
runningbird Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Cleveland, OH Posts: 614	What things do you think every person should do in his lifetime? For the sake of experiment let's just try to cookie cut everyone as much as possible. You know the moments when you think "what if I die/had died before I _____"? Those are the things I'm talking about. I think I'm going to lump education in here too because that is a drawn out experience, all the same. My list. Try at least one entheogen. Have a mystical experience. Practice meditation. Make love. Perform an extreme (death defying) physical activity (i.e. skydiving). Screw it, this list would get way too long. List 5 things, or whatever you want.

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PipHunn Member Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Hobart, Tasmania Posts: 93	Deliberate action Get into the habit of taking deliberate action. Consciously break a law. Encourage someone else to break a law. Lose their attachment to comfort. Sing karaoke - sober! Get applauded by a thousand people.

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