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A Beautiful Mind |
The cash. I could assuage a whole lotta guilt with $30,000,000.00 (and have a couple dolla's left over!) “The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, and intolerable...” ― H.L. Mencken -All views expressed are those of the author and do not reflect those of the author's employer- | |||
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Back in time. _______________________________ Do the interns get Glocks? | |||
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| Muzzle flash aficionado  |
Although at age 79 it would be nice to be 18 again, I wouldn't do it. I don't really need the $30M either, but I'd take it. flashguy Texan by choice, not accident of birth | |||
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| Three Generations of Service  |
I'm glad I read through all the responses first. My immediate response was "Back to 18!!" because I've made several mistakes I'd dearly love to correct, and the extent of my financial stupidity as a yute is staggering. But, as pointed out, our scars are who we are, and I'm pretty happy with who I am at the moment. With $30M, I could set my kids up, tuck a couple of million away for me and SWMBO and give about $20M away. Be careful when following the masses. Sometimes the M is silent. | |||
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Telecom Ronin |
Take the cash, sure I sometimes wonder "what if" but I am very happy how things turned out. | |||
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This, twice. | |||
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If I was younger I would take the cash, but at 64 I'll take the redo. I have no regrets and didn't make any big mistakes. At 64, there is only so much fun I can have pissing away some of the $30M and then leave the rest to my kid and grandkids, and that's it. I rather have another 40 years to do even better. | |||
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| Staring back from the abyss  |
If I could go back to 18 when I was 18, I'd do it in a second and skip the $30M. If I had to be 18 from today going forward? Not a chance. Gimme the cash. ________________________________________________________ "Great danger lies in the notion that we can reason with evil." Doug Patton. | |||
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I think I'd have to go with the cash. There's no guarantee that my attempt to fix a small mistake wouldn't lead to an even bigger one in the new version of my life. | |||
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What mistakes? You can't truly call yourself "peaceful" unless you are capable of great violence. If you're not capable of great violence, you're not peaceful, you're harmless. NRA Benefactor/Patriot Member | |||
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| I believe in the principle of Due Process  |
If it wasn't for mistakes, I would not have done anything! The one mistake I have always wished to have a Mulligan on was quitting Boy Scouts a couple of Merit Badges short of Eagle. That was before I was 18, though. Some say, well, what about that first wife? Trouble is, once you start changing things, the future goes careening off in unpredictable directions, just like the first one did. Star Trek proves that. Another trouble is that some mistakes actually worked out pretty well. You wouldn't want to mess with those, and unless you can look back, how would you know? Practically everything I did was a mistake on some level. Having the leisure of the last 5 or 6 years to think over all these numberless incidents and episodes and choices of 5 decades, I might not have the time or energy to correct them all, and might end up squandering those resources on committing new mistakes instead. After all, I've had a lifetime of experience at making mistakes. When I was 18, I imagined myself blessed with unlimited potential, intelligent, honest, responsible, industrious. It's lucky I didn't realize how wrong I was for several decades. Otherwise I would have never tried anything and never gotten anywhere. The Old Rancher explained that if your hindsight isn't better than your foresight, you've got your head up your ass. Luckily, I have enough willpower to control the driving ambition that rages within me. When you had the votes, we did things your way. Now, we have the votes and you will be doing things our way. This lesson in political reality from Lyndon B. Johnson "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." - Justice Janice Rogers Brown | |||
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I'd give $30m to go back a year. "Ninja kick the damn rabbit" | |||
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| St. Vitus Dance Instructor  |
I would go back and do a road trip and find Bill Gates  | |||
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| No double standards |
One of the other problems is that for many things in our life (not everything) much of the time we can't say for certain, had we chosen B rather than A xx years ago, our life would be better today. Had I continued in engineering rather than switch to business, had I married K instead of B, would my life have been better or worse over the past 45 years?? If there were such a mathematical/statistical model to predict such, some might find out their choice in this post would put them in a worse situation. Someone's tagline here was something like "two tragedies in life, one is to not get your dreams, one is to get your dreams" (I apologize for lack of memory, I have reached the turning point where I am no longer expected to remember details.  )"Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women. When it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it....While it lies there, it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it" - Judge Learned Hand, May 1944 | |||
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| No double standards |
I have a scientist friend, outdoorsman, who was a customer in a bicycle shop in Palo Alto CA when two kids walked in trying to sell a homemade computer to the owner, to help him better run his business. My friend was interested in the product and technology, the shop owner not so much. The two kids names were Jobs and Wozniak. "Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women. When it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it....While it lies there, it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it" - Judge Learned Hand, May 1944 | |||
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Repressed |
30 Mil. No question! -ShneaSIG Oh, by the way, which one's "Pink?" | |||
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| I believe in the principle of Due Process |
That was George Bernard Shaw. While searching for that one, I found this:
Luckily, I have enough willpower to control the driving ambition that rages within me. When you had the votes, we did things your way. Now, we have the votes and you will be doing things our way. This lesson in political reality from Lyndon B. Johnson "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." - Justice Janice Rogers Brown | |||
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Balaam's Ass |
I've made mistakes, but not 30 million dollars worth, I take the money and put a stripper through nursing school God bless America...and no one else | |||
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I'm not sure that fixing mistakes would make that much of a difference. I would like the time back though, especially if I could take a list of past winning lottery numbers, sports outcomes and stock performances. No one's life, liberty or property is safe while the legislature is in session.- Mark Twain | |||
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paradox in a box |
Completely dependent on what knowledge I can take back. If I can't take back knowledge then I'll take the cash now. Then again would I pay 30 mill for an extra 20 years of living? Maybe. These go to eleven. | |||
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