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Where do you want to be? Where do you see yourself?

Where do you want to be? Where do you see yourself?
I see myself out on the streets just like everyone else after the peak oil crash and the demise of society. Or...I dunno, perhaps in an alley somewhere curing the next big disease :p

Where do you want to be? Where do you see yourself?

In a ditch.

WHERE I Want To Be? Killing Masses Using My Scientific Powers.

Where I SEE Myself? Homeless, On The Streets, Fighting For Survival.

A few decades from now, Peak Oil will have destroyed the industrial world. The vast majority of us in the developed world will have starved to death, as well as many in the undeveloped world. Many of us will have been killed in resource wars and general violence resulting from social upheaval. Life expectancies will have been drastically reduced because of the collapse of the world’s oil dependant medical industries and government programs.

In a few decades, if I’m not dead, I will be very lucky.

A few decades from now, Peak Oil will have destroyed the industrial world. The vast majority of us in the developed world will have starved to death, as well as many in the undeveloped world. Many of us will have been killed in resource wars and general violence resulting from social upheaval. Life expectancies will have been drastically reduced because of the collapse of the world’s oil dependant medical industries and government programs.

In a few decades, if I’m not dead, I will be very lucky.
hey! you stole my post :gundge: :p

Where do you want to be? Where do you see yourself?

Let's see...assuming few decades is about 30 or 40 years...I would want to be a photographer or writer, but I'll end up doing what my parents want me to do - which is go to college, doing biomedical engineering, becoming somewhat successful. Bleh.

Ideally, I'd have published material, but chances of that is pretty slim. I'll either be in Taiwan or Germany. With a family. Yes.

hey! you stole my post :gundge: :p
Yeah, but I did it better.:D

Either the world will have ended because one of the thousand apocalypses that are impending comes true, in which case I see myself as a tyrannical warlord seeking to enforce my Absolutist Libertarian Dictatorship with a small private army, or everything will continue pretty much like it is, in which case I hope to have become a successful media whore (aka mainstream journalist).

Absolutist Libertarian Dictatorship
If that form of government was a chick, I’d do her.

I see mango trees and date palms. I can't understand the locals but they can speak good-ish English anyway.

Where do you want to be? Where do you see yourself?

Drinking the blood of martyrs from the eye sockets of George W. Bush's skull while sexy blonde midgets gently scratch my testicles.

This, of course, happens in the 8th year of my benevolent rule as the unanimously elected Caliph.

The world is at peace. My scrotum is pleased.

Drinking the blood of martyrs from the eye sockets of George W. Bush's skull while sexy blonde midgets gently scratch my testicles.

This, of course, happens in the 8th year of my benevolent rule as the unanimously elected Caliph.

The world is at peace. My scrotum is pleased.

I want to be Keruvalia's scrotum. :)


Barring that, I'm really hoping I'm on a spaceship leaving the solar system along with all the other comedic refugees rescued before the destruction of the Earth by the friendly space-aliens. Why comedy? Because it's the only decent thing we ever really did on our planet. :)

I want to be Keruvalia's scrotum. :)
I hate you now. I just punched the wall in disbelief/humor, and the knuckles on my hand are a seething mass of agony. If I broke something, I am so going to hunt you down.

Where do you want to be? Where do you see yourself?
Where do I want to be?
I want to be in the White House, being President of the United States, with the entire Congress (well at least 80%) under the same set of beliefs as me, and the vast majority (at least 90%) of the population of the USA agreeing with everything I say, and after having appointed every Supreme Court justice, all of which are in great physical health and under 50 years old. Also the term limit has been abolished. I will be converting the USA into a communist state under my own system.
Where do I see myself?
In an anti-government rally with like 11 other people.

Yeah, dreams don't often come true.

Married to both Olsen Twins, living on the moon and running the NHL.

Go ahead, try and out-crazy me.

10 years from now I will be living in a house that has been paid off, land I own, eating food I grow, and loving it.

20 years from now, my kids will be living in our house, my husband and I will have been retired for a while and will be traveling the country in our solar powered RV, working when we need to or want to, and the rest of the time annoying the tourism board at various places. ;)

Where do I WANT to be?

Commanding 1st Armored Division, United States Army, fighting against the Chinese enemy after the US and China have gone to war.

Where do I see myself?

Low paying, cubicle job for some corporation, just trying to survive in the world of the future.

Board Member of various companies, particularly Porsche. :D

Married to both Olsen Twins, living on the moon and running the NHL.

Go ahead, try and out-crazy me.
He's got me there. The likelihood of the NHL still actually existing is just too much for anyone to top :p

In 20 years? On the Moon.


No, really.

Board Member of various companies, particularly Porsche. :D
And here I thought you democratic socialists believed in anti-trust laws.:p

I want to be: Working at ATI, trying not to get fired.

I will be: On NS, because I got fired, because I was on NS.

I'd like to be covered from head to toe in coal dust, oil and grease, wearing a satisfied smile as I drive an normous steam locomotive across the Forth Bridge. Now that I could get used to. But far more likely is that I'll be doing some terminally dull job in an attempt to pay off my student debts, with an annoying, obnoxious wife and a pair of screeching brats, and cursing my every waking moment. Either that or dead.

Married to both Olsen Twins, living on the moon and running the NHL.
Oh, c'mon! This is just too unbelievable!

Surely you don't expect the NHL to last that long!

I want to be Keruvalia's scrotum. :)

A finer pursuit in life has never been imagined. I applaud you, sir. I applaud you.

I want to be: Working at ATI, trying not to get fired.

I will be: On NS, because I got fired, because I was on NS.

Ehh...that's probably going to be the story for most of us.

I see mango trees and date palms. I can't understand the locals but they can speak good-ish English anyway.

Want? In the lawn chair next to her (her being bikini-clad of course, me finally in shape but still wearing a hoodie) drinking those little umbrella drinks and....maybe a sunset splashing colors over the waves of the ocean....

Reality? In some lab working away at my own little personal nano-technology project...

Ehh...that's probably going to be the story for most of us.
Yes, but I said it before it was cool.:D

Yes, but I said it before it was cool.:D
Yeah. In 20 years, we'll be here talking about the good old days. But I'll be on the moon, laughing at all you earthites.

Yeah, but I did it better.:D
longer maybe, but not necissarily better!

But I'll be on the moon, laughing at all you earthites.

Maybe so ... but me and my wife, Jewish Media Control, will be aiming our ninja-midget cannons at you. Prepare to be boarded.

Maybe so ... but me and my wife, Jewish Media Control, will be aiming our ninja-midget cannons at you. Prepare to be boarded.

O RLY? What about Pirate-Grizzly Bear cannons? That are on fire! You'll not be haven' 'er!

Maybe so ... but me and my wife, Jewish Media Control, will be aiming our ninja-midget cannons at you. Prepare to be boarded.
Psst, just a heads up, she will be cheating on you with Dinaverg. You may want to consider a chastity belt.

O RLY? What about Pirate-Grizzly Bear cannons? That are on fire! You'll not be haven' 'er!

Thank GOD for Dinaverg. I could never live with that cretin. *Wheww!*

Psst, just a heads up, she will be cheating on you with Dinaverg. You may want to consider a chastity belt.

And if you try, she'll sic her pet lion on you! ;)

Thank GOD for Dinaverg. I could never live with that cretin. *Wheww!*

Yay me!

and just to make sure everyone knows the awesomeness that is How To Kill A Mockingbird...

http://www.stanford.edu/~scodary/tkam

Psst, just a heads up, she will be cheating on you with Dinaverg. You may want to consider a chastity belt.

No no ... by "wife", I mean in the "few decades" from now sense of the term, which will mean "global pirate conspirator".

Language changes, you know.

Dinaverg is, of course, welcome to put on the much coveted ninja uniform.

Erm...I missed something while I was sick, didn't I?

No no ... by "wife", I mean in the "few decades" from now sense of the term, which will mean "global pirate conspirator".

Language changes, you know.

Dinaverg is, of course, welcome to put on the much coveted ninja uniform.

Oh.....In that case....nevermind....pirates and ninjas could take over the world....and the solar system....except for pluto....we put the penguins there.

How To Kill A Mockingbird http://www.stanford.edu/~scodary/tkam

*Choking* ahhhhhhhhh! Burning, flying shark. OH MY GOD. That's the link of the day!! *Gold Star!!!* :D

Oh.....In that case....nevermind....pirates and ninjas could take over the world....and the solar system....except for pluto....we put the penguins there.

Good plan ... just don't send a one-eyed pilot to save them from the impending oil slick.

Erm...I missed something while I was sick, didn't I?

Nah ... just do the Dada thing. You'll catch up.

Nah ... just do the Dada thing. You'll catch up.
The who?

:confused:

http://www.stanford.edu/~scodary/tkam

ROFL! Thank you for that.

No no ... by "wife", I mean in the "few decades" from now sense of the term

Oh, yeah.. when you ditch your current wife and kiddies. By then Dinaverg will be of age, anyway. :p

Where do I want to be [in 40-50 years]?

I'd like to be living near, but not exactly on top of, the Long Island coast, driving my dream car; a 2006 Bentley Continental GT, and making my living as a hotel manager at a 5-star hotel such as the Plaza or the like, in New York City. Also I'd like to be able to make enough so I can go on various week-long vacations to a variety of European countries, and have the luxury of being able to buy almost anything I wanted without having to save up too long for said item.

Where do I see myself [in 40-50 years]?

I see myself living in a decent sized two-story contemporary home far away from the coast. I see myself driving a mid-range BMW/Mercedes/Audi/Jaguar, and I see myself working at a 3-4 star less-known hotel somewhere in New York City or on the island itself. I also see myself going on atleast one vacation a year to a distinct and nice European country, on a strict and tight budget, and saving up vigorously for anything I wanted, ready to retire in the years to come.

The who?

:confused:

Dadaism.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dadaism

I see myself in a pine box.

Oh, yeah.. when you ditch your current wife and kiddies. By then Dinaverg will be of age, anyway. :p

No no ... in the future, the current wife and kids will be called "accomplices".

Good plan ... just don't send a one-eyed pilot to save them from the impending oil slick.

Nah don't worry, by then the macaroni penguins will have developed higher intelligence, along with the Royal penguins, and there's a war to see if black chins or white chins are better...(Black chins by the way, GO MACARONI!)

Erm...I missed something while I was sick, didn't I?
Oh, yeah. I remember you were sick. What were you inhaling that you got that nasty infection?

No no ... in the future, the current wife and kids will be called "accomplices".

...You have detailed plans about this don't you?

The who?

:confused:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Who ?

Dadaism.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dadaism

Gah! It fits!

I see myself in a pine box.
Selling frozen yogurt in a mall?

Selling frozen yogurt in a mall?

That sounds good right now.

...You have detailed plans about this don't you?

'Night Dinaverg. See ya in the email world. I'm tired. Have a good night!!! ;)

To the cretin.. *silence*

I want to be standing in front of a lectern, pontificating at some students about the (stundent suggested) topic of the day.

I see myself homeless, living on the streets, addicted to crack. Or, running around with a large sword, disembowling people at random during the bloody revolution that followed the economic collapse of the USA.

...You have detailed plans about this don't you?

Well I am the future Caliph.

'
To the cretin.. *silence*

There is no cretin like an old cretin.

i think i will die lonely in bed of a cheap hotel room found by some policemen and buried unknown on a cementary of a small town, where i will be forgotten quickly by my "friends"
Only one person will remind me and send my music to a producer and I will be a dead rockstar and my music will change the world forever...

Where do you want to be? Where do you see yourself?
i'd like to see myself married, with kids, holding down a decent job and getting paid enough to get by, pay the bills and live comfortably. yeah its boring but i just don't really want to change the world - just have a family to love and live for :fluffle:


thats where i'd like to be anyhow. where i actually will be is anybody's guess

In 10 years:

I want to be continuing to write music, and I'd like it if my bands had moderate success at our craft, touring and what not and making albums. I'd also like to be living in a flat or a small house in the City (San Francisco proper) with my ladyfriend, by which time she'll actually be my wife and we'll be making love a lot and doing other fun things. Hopefully, by this time, me and my friend will have founded our music shop, where we will sell guitars basses, banjos and mandolins, as well as custom make some which will be more expensive. This is the general plan anyway.

However, I will probably actually be stuck in some dead end job or be starving and my ladyfriend will probably have given up on me and I'll have some incurable disease and hate the world.


In 20 years:

By this time, I'm not sure if I'd still want to be in actively touring bands. Hopefully my bands will have achieved enough success to go on many tours and make some albums, and at this point they'll only be doing local gigs every now and then, because really, I'll be like, almost 40. Though who knows.
If things go well, my and my friend's little instrument shop will be a decently successful if still small business, bringing in a decent amount of money while earning a reputation for quality work. Perhaps we'll have some employees, who we will pay well. Also, I hope to still be living in the City, with my future wife. Maybe we'll have kids by that point. Oh, and she and I will be having lots of sex, still.

I'll probably actually be dead, or living in a slum being habitually robbed and shot. All my friends at this point will have abandoned me in all likelyhood.


In 40 years:

The instrument shop will hopefully still be going, and will continue to be successful, and be at least well-known in the area. I'll still be writing music, though since I'll be almost 60, playing live will be like maybe a gig every few months. Any offspring will be grown and gone. At this point I'll probably be semi-retired and so will annoy the local politicians. Maybe I'll move back to Alameda. My future wife and I will hopefully continue love-making frequently. Some travelling would also be in order.

It'll amaze me if I'm still alive at that point. I'll probably be homeless or something, my friends having gone long before and most of my family being dead and all.


In 50 years:

I'll probably have fully retired, the instrument shop being handed over to someone younger, probably a former employee or an offspring. I'll still do stuff there occasionally. I'll probably travel a lot, maybe I'll be a grandparent by this point. I'll continue annoying local politicians. More sex, especially moreso to distract me from the fact that I'm getting old.

In reality, the chances that I will still be alive are probably rather slim. I probably will have starved to death or been murdered or committed suicide many years before my 69th birthday (how hold I will be in 50 years).

There's my answer.

I'd hopefully have a wife that "gets" me, and loves me. To be a teacher at a community college and my own airplane. However at night, in my basement I will be working on my MANIFESTO!

Where do you want to be? Where do you see yourself?
Where do I want to be? Geographically speaking I really don't care, I hope to get to move around a little more, I quite like the life I lead now. Not that I can't imagine settling down, but for now I'm lacking that significant other.

Pure Metal put it very nicely, so I'll just quote him :p

i'd like to see myself married, with kids, holding down a decent job and getting paid enough to get by, pay the bills and live comfortably. yeah its boring but i just don't really want to change the world - just have a family to love and live for :fluffle:
True except for the married part... I don't really care, as long as I'm with someone I love (comes with the whole non-Christian beliefs thing).

And if my man loves travelling as much as I do, hell it'd be heaven :)

First possibility: In Los Angeles working for Insomniac, trying to earn enough money to buy my dream car. Also, I am married to my beautiful girlfriend.

Second possibility: Wearing a police uniform, and lying in an alley holding an AK-74u with five bullets in my chest while the people who I wanted to give a ticket to for speeding are running from the crime-scene.

I've absolutely no idea what will be my life in 5 or 10 years... I more or less stopped even trying to guess ;)

What I would like, for my personal life, is to be with a girl I love and who loves me back, and to have kids with her... yeah, I know, very classic ;) Marriage would be fine, but that's not fundamental for me (I'm an atheist). Sadly, I don't have much hope about this, I'm probably too shy and geeky... but well, as I said, I just stopped trying to guess what my future will be.

On a more global level, I really hope the current neoliberal deconstruction of Europe would have stopped, and that the EU will become what it should always have been: a way for the people of Europe to unite together and fight against neoliberal globalisation, not a tool to impose it. Anyway, I'm glad to see hope raising again from South America, and I hope they'll be able to challenge the Washington Consensus for real. Go, South America !

Here are the main situations in which I see myself:

1. A skilled programmer, living on, for no good reason, but still, living on. Having a life that is somewhat meaningful in the moment, most of the time. I might be more "normal", but hardly like the average idiot, who is compulsively obsessed with socialising and ready to give up any aspect of their personality in order to fit in with the mindless herd, ie. those who I want to die ASAP, or change beyond recognition. (should I begin to turn into one, and fail to recover, I would have no choice but killing myself) I would still be a somewhat weird loner, living for myself, but possibly a bit less weird.

2. The same as above, but more weird instead of less. More maniacal. Possibly of highly questionable sanity, but due to my well-developed self-control, I would not be seen as a danger to myself or others, and thus no one would stop me from living on the way I would be.

3. Either of the two above, but I would have failed at becoming a successful programmer, and instead lived on as a poor, social outcast, generally despised and hated for my differences for no good reason. (the latter would likely happen in the above two as well, but my "success" would impress the average idiot and make them respect me atleast a bit for no good reason, atleast limiting it to some degree) Then, two things might happen: 1. I live on, finding something seemingly meaningful to do; 2. My hatred of human stupidity and humanity grows and becomes my main focus, and I decide to eradicate as much of humanity as I can. Either failing or succeeding, I go out with a massive bang.

4. Something weird happens the following years. Something supernatural on a massive scale; you know, some weird new age stuff, which becomes highly noticeable during in the following ten years or so. And then... well, who knows how the hell I would end up, in the end...? Probably a very bright future, with a truly meaningful existance. But it's hardly something I expect to happen. Oh well, it will automatically prove to be true or false within the relatively near future, something that, in the end, I guess doesn't really matter.

Ok, to finally answer my own question:

I don't know.
I know where I'd want to be, but I'm bound by promise not to do anything to actively try and get there.
So, somehow, I hope I'll have found a reson to live by then...

I hate you now. I just punched the wall in disbelief/humor, and the knuckles on my hand are a seething mass of agony. If I broke something, I am so going to hunt you down.

Sometimes comedy hurts. :)

i think i will die lonely in bed of a cheap hotel room found by some policemen and buried unknown on a cementary of a small town, where i will be forgotten quickly by my "friends"
Only one person will remind me and send my music to a producer and I will be a dead rockstar and my music will change the world forever...

I think you'd know who you have to blame if that ever happened....

Ok, to finally answer my own question:

I don't know.
I know where I'd want to be, but I'm bound by promise not to do anything to actively try and get there.
So, somehow, I hope I'll have found a reson to live by then...

Ooo, interesting. Could you please give more details on the thing you want to do but can't?

Ooo, interesting. Could you please give more details on the thing you want to do but can't?

Let's say, if the choice were still mine, I'd be dead then.
Morbid, I know.

zombies lots of zombies... if u cant beat them join them:D

I want to be Keruvalia's scrotum. :)


Barring that, I'm really hoping I'm on a spaceship leaving the solar system along with all the other comedic refugees rescued before the destruction of the Earth by the friendly space-aliens. Why comedy? Because it's the only decent thing we ever really did on our planet. :)

Dude, everyone wants to be Keruvalia's scrotum - beatiful midgets or not.

As for the spaceship - I might be able to help you out there. My ultimate aim in life is create, or cause to be created, a ship that can travel interstellar. I've even worked out a lot of how it would work, and after the revelation of the Heim-Doscher function engines majiggamy, it'll make the trip much faster :D Who knows? Could happen.

I see myself enjoying a bit of quiet on my own little island. And that's where I think I'll be.

On the other hand, maybe I'll just be quietly happily apathetic.

Pure Metal put it very nicely, so I'll just quote him :p

True except for the married part... I don't really care, as long as I'm with someone I love (comes with the whole non-Christian beliefs thing).

And if my man loves travelling as much as I do, hell it'd be heaven :)
well i'm not referring to a religious marriage... just a civil one *nods*
not religious/christian myself either
but the love thing really is key :fluffle:

and for the record, i love travelling ;) :p

well i'm not referring to a religious marriage... just a civil one *nods*
not religious/christian myself either
but the love thing really is key :fluffle:

and for the record, i love travelling ;) :p
Right. It's not that I couldn't imagine getting married, but it just seems... odd.
Though... it'd be worth it just to see what it's like wearing a real dress for once. It'd tape it and watch it for eternal amusement.
*nods*
And as to the love thing... you know what they say...
"all you need is love...dun-dun-dun-duuuuh* :p