BS: What would your 'other' life be like?

Subject: RE: BS: What would your 'other' life be like?
From: GUEST,Jon
Date: 22 Nov 10 - 02:10 PM

Oh I'd like my final other life to be a place of eternal happiness. In my terms Heaven.

Subject: RE: BS: What would your 'other' life be like?
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 22 Nov 10 - 02:09 PM

In my other life, my parents were very supportive of my interest in guitar when I was a young teen. Instead of buying me the cheapest piece of crap guitar and amp they could find, they bought me a Gibson ES-335 and a nice Fender amp and paid for me to take lessons. As a result, I became an electric guitar god, played before stadiums full of adoring fans, had sex with thousands of groupies, and died from an overdose of heroin at age 28.

Subject: RE: BS: What would your 'other' life be like?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 22 Nov 10 - 01:38 PM

Yes to all if the above. ;-) In your last post, I mean.

Subject: RE: BS: What would your 'other' life be like?
From: GUEST,Jon
Date: 22 Nov 10 - 01:37 PM

No LH....

While there might have eventually been bad reaction on my part, having folkinfo hacked, dropping the rebuilding for fear of turning back to drink, having dvd drive then blow up, then having father going into irrational blazes then when taking solace in music and have a £300 pa amp blo uo on me is largely beyond my control.

Subject: RE: BS: What would your 'other' life be like?
From: Amos
Date: 22 Nov 10 - 01:24 PM

Oh LH, pray do not be so pretentious!!

There are many ways to define your life. Obviously the core is who you are, and thereafter how you create yourself to be in the world. And thence, what you do. But it is also true that if you are connected with dismal souls, your life will gravitate toward the dismal, and conversely if you are connected with positive, energetic, productive souls. You get to choose your matrix of agtreements. That's why you still come here where all the handshakes are a little firmer, and all the smiles a little brighter.

A

Subject: RE: BS: What would your 'other' life be like?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 22 Nov 10 - 01:21 PM

What you DO defines your life.

Subject: RE: BS: What would your 'other' life be like?
From: Amos
Date: 22 Nov 10 - 01:14 PM

Choose your people wisely, grasshopper. They define your life.

Subject: RE: BS: What would your 'other' life be like?
From: GUEST,Jon
Date: 22 Nov 10 - 01:09 PM

Sorry, when I had not had sex with anyone. I've only ever "known" the one with bf in prison.

Subject: RE: BS: What would your 'other' life be like?
From: GUEST,Jon
Date: 22 Nov 10 - 01:06 PM

What changed mine? In a sense Christianity although I blame a combination of me and the other one... It went from just get by to oft times sheer hell and badder blunders my me. I've been in a cell accused as a rapist when I had sex when anyone and have to carry no smoke without fire. I've picked up a wrong INO label schizophrenic, I am a chronic alcoholics. When I finally did get to "know" a woman, she had a bf in prison and things got messy, her beaten up and me followed around and so it goes on.

What I'd like is just to be given a break and be allowed for once to lead a "normal" life. And stick with the "normal" life. I do not really care wether that normal life would finally allow me a house away from parents or become a monk. I just want a break.

Subject: RE: BS: What would your 'other' life be like?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 22 Nov 10 - 12:57 PM

In my alternate life I never heard of Mudcat Cafe and never posted there. ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: What would your 'other' life be like?
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 22 Nov 10 - 12:35 PM

The film mentioned above by Donuel was Sliding Doors, with Gwyneth Paltrow [1998].

~M~

Subject: RE: BS: What would your 'other' life be like?
From: Donuel
Date: 22 Nov 10 - 12:22 PM

releasing H from water.... been there done that by acoustic vibratory cavitation. But breaking the bonds? Do you realize that the bonds in the atoms in one penny- if released- would be enough energy to toss a Super Aircraft Carrier straight up in the air?

Subject: RE: BS: What would your 'other' life be like?
From: Donuel
Date: 22 Nov 10 - 12:17 PM

What small event (tiny thing) happened to change everything from your current life to that "other" life.

I have thought of this concept for years.


A romcom movie once showed how a tiny change on a subway platform was significant. I forget the title.

Subject: RE: BS: What would your 'other' life be like?
From: Amos
Date: 22 Nov 10 - 12:12 PM

In alternate life # 1123, I stayed in San Francisco and began playing guitar with the boys who were going to become the Jefferson Airplane in the near future. I spent a short intense career making millions writing deathless acid-rock lyrics and burned out, retired to an ashram, and later became a writer of New Age spiritual guidance books.

In # 2301, I scrimped and saved at various jobs and bought a schooner, which I run up and down the East coast to tall-ship conventions, holding chanty fests and taking gawkers on overnights beyond the horizon.

In alternate life #1234, I tweaked oscillators and magnetic fields in my garage and discovered a relatively simple, low-energy method of unbonding hydrogen, recovering a lot of the energy stored in the bonds, and made billions re-energizing Western civilization.

How many do you want? :D


A

Subject: BS: What would your 'other' life be like?
From: Donuel
Date: 22 Nov 10 - 12:05 PM

Maybe it exists in a parallel time line or maybe it was just one tiny option/decision/opportunity away, but what is your other like in your imagination?

What tiny thing changed the rest of your timeline?

I played the baritone and tenor sax. The dirty riffs give me a tingly back to this day. On the science side of things I got involved in DNA computer scans and was stymied to find the red rain of India was a cellular life form that only reproduced at 260 degrees F. I fmarried an Asian lady who played piano and had 3 children. For 12 years I lived on the northern west coast of America.

The tiny thing that changed was that my grade school had a Saxophone instead of a Cello to begin my music education.