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Mind_your_head (1000+ posts) Sat Nov-21-09 01:49 AM NON-DONOROriginal message Poll question: Prospects for your future? Poll result (43 votes) Prospects for my future are stellar (8 votes, 19%) Prospects for my future are 'reasonable' (8 votes, 19%) Prospects for my future are 'questionable' (14 votes, 33%)Prospects for my future look 'grim' (6 votes, 14%) Who the h*ll knows what the future holds, I've got all these student loans to pay back though...that's a worry (2 votes, 5%) Good thing my parents "have money" (4 votes, 9%) Other (1 votes, 2%)
vadawg (1000+ posts) Sat Nov-21-09 01:57 AM NON-DONORResponse to Original message 1. stellar as always...
Mind_your_head (1000+ posts) Sat Nov-21-09 02:03 AM NON- DONORResponse to Reply #1 4. I wondered who chose 'stellar'. You "don't disappoint" vadawg. You're very consistent, I'll "give" you that.
vadawg (1000+ posts) Sat Nov-21-09 02:08 AM NON-DONORResponse to Reply #4 6. lol why, stellar is exactly how i feel my future will be... not my fault if your not feeling it mate....
Blue_In_AK (1000+ posts) Sat Nov-21-09 02:00 AMResponse to Original message 2. My future will be. Period. I make no predictions, I do not control fate.
vadawg (1000+ posts) Sat Nov-21-09 02:03 AM NON-DONORResponse to Reply #2 3. yup but you can control how you will react to it and the attituse you will take towards it personally i believe its already written so i live by my grandfathers words, that if it dosent kill me or get me pregnant then **** it.... dont worry about it...
Mind_your_head (1000+ posts) Sat Nov-21-09 02:07 AM NON-DONORResponse to Reply #3 5. You said: if it dosent kill me or get me pregnant then **** itand "how bizarre"
vadawg (1000+ posts) Sat Nov-21-09 02:09 AM NON-DONORResponse to Reply #5 7. yeah it kinda loses itself in translation but the general message is there.
Mind_your_head (1000+ posts) Sat Nov-21-09 02:14 AM NON-DONORResponse to Reply #7 8. well, first off you CLAIM you're a male ..... so I doubt you'd be 'gettin' pregnant anytime soon ~ or EVER.
vadawg (1000+ posts) Sat Nov-21-09 02:19 AM NON-DONORResponse to Reply #8 9. thats the whole point of the proverb, that you only have to worry about being killed and even then if its your time theres nothing you can do, therefore enjoy life and dont worry about stuff,Ps last time i looked im pretty sure im still a male
Mind_your_head (1000+ posts) Sat Nov-21-09 02:23 AM NON-DONORResponse to Reply #9 12. what. proverb? thats the whole point of the proverb, that you only have to worry about being killed and even then
vadawg (1000+ posts) Sat Nov-21-09 02:25 AM NON-DONORResponse to Reply #12 13. the if it cant kill you or get you pregnant one
Swamp Rat (1000+ posts) Sat Nov-21-09 02:22 AM NON-DONORResponse to Original message 10. stellarafter which a stupid cartoon by Pedro Picasso; I think it's Pedro Picasso's work
taught_me_patience (1000+ posts) Sat Nov-21-09 02:22 AM NON-DONORResponse to Original message 11. Stellar There is still unlimited opportunity in America and I plan to take advantage of it!
Mind_your_head (1000+ posts) Sat Nov-21-09 02:30 AM NON-DONORResponse to Reply #11 15. absolutely! Good for you!
Quantess (1000+ posts) Sat Nov-21-09 02:27 AM NON-DONORResponse to Original message 14. "Other" because I am moving to Europe. If I were staying here I would have voted "questionable".
MrModerate (1000+ posts) Sat Nov-21-09 04:00 AMResponse to Original message 16. Things are picking up for the company I work for, and as more baby boomers . . . Retire, the pool of expertise gets shallower and shallower. We're aggressively hiring and mentoring the folks we have hired, and they're likely to be put in positions of leadership several years earlier than they would have been when I was at the same state of career progression that they are now.Suffice it to say that in a company of 44,000 people scattered all over the globe, there are maybe 100 who can do what I do, and I do it better than most of them. I should be OK unless the other shoe drops and the economy double-tanks.
rucky (1000+ posts) Sat Nov-21-09 04:16 AMResponse to Original message 17. So much of it is out of my control. I'm doing what I can, though.
old mark (1000+ posts) Sat Nov-21-09 05:57 AM NON-DONORResponse to Reply #17 18. It's mostly out of control for everyone-most people don't realise that.
Selatius (1000+ posts) Sat Nov-21-09 06:16 AM NON-DONORResponse to Original message 19. The future does not look good. This is why it is IMPORTANT to have good friends and family. The current balance of power in the world is starting to shift away from the US. New, emerging world powers like China, India, etc. want recognition and want a reputation of their own. They will begin to exert influence and power in parts of the world that the US has traditionally exerted its own influence in. This can end either with the US accepting that it is no longer undisputed king and acquiescing to the new upstarts, or it can end in destructive trade wars and local civil wars that become proxies for world power conflicts (Viet Nam War as an example).All empires crumble. The US is not a traditional empire in that it captures land, installs a garrison on top of that land, and attempts to assimilate the captive population. This isn't the Age of Conquest or the Greco-Roman Era. Empires nowadays are built on money and nothing more. Armies are just enforcers of money politics, with corporations being the primary vehicles of the wealthy, yet the US, just like any empire of old, seeks power and dominance over others weaker than itself, typically having US corporations moving into impoverished regions of the world to exploit its labor pool and drain its resources to the detriment of the locals.I've long ago come to realize how irreversible the workings of an empire are. Once a nation becomes an empire, historically, it often kicks and screams when the power is taken away or lost, and the thrashing around typically destroys what is left. In its place, a hollowed-out state that can barely be called functional. I feel that when the end comes, the powerful who run this country will not accept that they are no longer lords of the world, and they will resist violently against a world that no longer simply bows to American wishes.If that is the case, the transition, this entire century, will be a century of warfare. In 20 or 30 years, we may very well end up in another stupid conflict in a remote corner of the world, and your friends and family will be sent to fight and die for idiotic reasons. For this reason, it is important that you find yourself a good family and good friends to be with, to pass the times that inevitably come. Maybe you will find love. For the rest who will never find love, maybe we'll find something worthy of our time, that in the end, we can all look back and still be surprised and satisfied.When the end comes, whatever form it may be, be happy that you spent all that time before in a manner worthy of being called a good life.
