Super sibling can be really nice, and give you half his earnings!
Super sibling can be really nice, and give you half his earnings!
I'm trying to qualify a hypothetical situation so people can better answer the question, not write your autobiography, though I would like to know more. Though, judging from your reaction, I might have hit a nerve with this line of questioning.Originally Posted by Sapphire
Nah, this super sibling would look down on you unless you were his/her toady. Meanwhile, the mentally handicapped sibling would look up to you and love you as best his reduced mental capacity will allow (think Arnie from What's Eating Gilbert Grape?).
Last edited by Animeniax; Mon, 10-20-2008 at 02:05 PM.
For God will not permit that we shall know what is to come... those who by some sorcery or by some dream might come to pierce the veil that lies so darkly over all that is before them may serve by just that vision to cause that God should wrench the world from its heading and set it upon another course altogether and then where stands the sorcerer? Where the dreamer and his dream?
Mhm, fallacies = pet peeve. I'll give a high five to anyone who can pose/answer a hypothetical question without over generalizing the results.
Feel free to PM me if you need something though. (Since IMs are too unanonymous?)
"Leaving hell is not the same as entering it." - Tierce Japhrimel
I'll have to go with having superman as my brother. That way, the problem's with me, which I can hopefully deal with myself. If it's my brother, then it's really limited as to how I can help him from the outside. Also, the fact about people not wishing their brother to be mentally disabled is an interesting idea. I've never thought about it that way.
Would you rather live an immortal life (you age very slowly, and will never appear as if you're in your mid 50s), or live an extremely short life? (You suffer from accelerated aging, and will live for a maximum of 30 Earth years)?
If it's not Isuzu-chan Mii~
If I'm truly immortal (meaning I can't die), then I would choose that. If I just aged slowly, I would take the short life, given I don't grow old and feeble in that short span. If it's rapid aging over a short span, then I would take the long life.
I would choose the mentally challenged sibling because I would be like Gilbert Grape and I would take care of my sibling. I've actually lived the other scenario with a brother who's a successful doctor but it never bothered me living in his shadow. I saw growing up how hard it was on him to have so many expectations put on him and all the hard work he had to do to get where he is.
Funny thing is, now that we're older, our parents like me better because I keep in touch and they miss me and they realize there's more to success than a prestigious job making lots of money.
For God will not permit that we shall know what is to come... those who by some sorcery or by some dream might come to pierce the veil that lies so darkly over all that is before them may serve by just that vision to cause that God should wrench the world from its heading and set it upon another course altogether and then where stands the sorcerer? Where the dreamer and his dream?
I feel for the super older brother type. It's a bit like that in my family. My brother also has it a bit hard as well. People keep asking him if he'll be as good (academically) as myself. I'm not sure if he just shrugged it off though. After a while, people see who he is, and they stop comparing him to me, since he has his own personality and virtues too. Just for some reason, he's very likable, and rather popular too.
And the expectations/talk that accompanies the scholar performance is something I'd rather do away with. It's good and all when you first taste it, but afterwards it's more a burden than anything. Times like these, you'd just wish you were a bit "normal".
If it's not Isuzu-chan Mii~
Immortalness! Is this normal immortalness where you can be killed, or Claire from Heroes immortalness where if teh world explodes you'll still be floating around in space?
"Leaving hell is not the same as entering it." - Tierce Japhrimel
Well, let's go with "You can't be killed", just to make the argument more balanced. You simply can't die.
And the short life suffers from accelerated aging. Normal human changes crammed into 30 years.
I'm not sure, but I'll go with the immortal one. Being around for a long time can make you sad, but it can also make you into something great. A living history book, or even learn everything there is about everything. Orochimaru-style.
If it's not Isuzu-chan Mii~
Okay, perhaps a more relevant one:
Would you rather be dumb (unable to talk), or be paraplegic (confined to wheelchair)?
Both are an inconvenience, yet both have ways around them. I'm really half-half right now.
If it's not Isuzu-chan Mii~
Well I would rather be immortal. Assuming that I can never die, surely there are others like me who can acompany me. But then of course whenever I read a novel where people are immortal, the immortal people have three great fears.... loneliness, boredom, and inevitably, insanity. I read a solution to this though. Use your centuries of knowledge to create a forget serum and take it every 100 thousand years or so before the insanity kicks in. Then most of your memories will be gone and it's like you're reborn. I would also use my centuries of skill to find a new place to live when the world eventually explodes.
I think I would rather be unable to talk. If I can run and stuff like that, and still hear and taste and dance then I'm okay. I could always get one of those type-and-talks like Stephen Hawking. I'd miss singing though.
"Leaving hell is not the same as entering it." - Tierce Japhrimel
Umm, that's 4 things dearie. And if there were others like you, you'd have to dual and eliminate each other until there was only one of you, since there can be only one! Then you fall back into the 4 great fears dilemma.
For God will not permit that we shall know what is to come... those who by some sorcery or by some dream might come to pierce the veil that lies so darkly over all that is before them may serve by just that vision to cause that God should wrench the world from its heading and set it upon another course altogether and then where stands the sorcerer? Where the dreamer and his dream?
Looks like three things to me.
Dreaming impossible dreams.
Sapphire is awesome!
Inevitability is something to fear, if you live a long time, making it four.
For God will not permit that we shall know what is to come... those who by some sorcery or by some dream might come to pierce the veil that lies so darkly over all that is before them may serve by just that vision to cause that God should wrench the world from its heading and set it upon another course altogether and then where stands the sorcerer? Where the dreamer and his dream?
If you stopped being a smartass, you would die right.
Dreaming impossible dreams.
Sapphire is awesome!
Sapphire's cool with it, so I'm cool.
Would you rather live in a world without cars or without internet?
For God will not permit that we shall know what is to come... those who by some sorcery or by some dream might come to pierce the veil that lies so darkly over all that is before them may serve by just that vision to cause that God should wrench the world from its heading and set it upon another course altogether and then where stands the sorcerer? Where the dreamer and his dream?
I don't really care for either but I would go for a world without cars. Its better for the planet and I just wouldn't be the same if we couldn't have the wonderful interaction we do.
Dreaming impossible dreams.
Sapphire is awesome!
Alright, so that's too easy an answer for a bunch of net-dwellers like us, so let's toughen it up a bit: no cars or no TV?
For God will not permit that we shall know what is to come... those who by some sorcery or by some dream might come to pierce the veil that lies so darkly over all that is before them may serve by just that vision to cause that God should wrench the world from its heading and set it upon another course altogether and then where stands the sorcerer? Where the dreamer and his dream?
I'd go with no tv (even if it includes comedy and anime series)..
if we'd go for no-cars, then I'll be stuck home watching T.V, and that's hell.
sig made by Itachi-y2k5, thanks, dude!
Currently Watching: probably a show directed at 9 years old girls, lets be honest.
You know the important distinction between Batman and me? Batman is fictional. In real life, there isn't always an alternative.
Thats a deliciously hilarious answer.
Dreaming impossible dreams.
Sapphire is awesome!
Id go no TV, since I dont really watch TV that much.
Posting Permissions
Reply With Quote
