And their pinkie fingers – I collected those too! 20,000 pinkies for you to suck on!
If leprechauns or super advanced aliens had impeccable reputations for honesty and integrity – maybe. But the deal, as structured in the OP, just doesn’t cut it.
No you don’t. I mean, I’m sure you love him and all, but if your definition of love is that you’re eventually going to break up anyway so it isn’t that big a big deal if it ends now you don’t understand the “as much as anyone possibly can” part of your statement. I would not necessarily garrote 10,000 random people on the street or anything to keep my relationship the way it is but a bunch of people who are already at death’s door? They can keep on knocking. I’m not going to give up the most important thing in my life to undo what nature has already done.
I don’t think this has any relevance to wanting as much time with your one and only soul mate but there is a side of me wanting to post this cinematic bit.
So, how do those that would choose the 10,000 justify having a computer and being on the internet? Or eating out? Give these and other relative luxuries up, and you could probably save enough money to at least save one or two children from starvation each month. (Well, provided you don’t need your computer to work.) In the long term, we let hundreds of people die because we can’t be bothered to cook ourselves (to put it perhaps somewhat crassly), not because we wish to continue being with people we love.
Um, no. Not really.
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Come back when you’re 40 and you’ve invested 13 years in a marriage to your first and only spouse.
Clarification - is it the person who is the love of my life at that particular point in time. I mean, if I go for saving those lives, and they now hate me, and I then fall in love with someone else, will Mephisto then pop up and go “Ha Ha, no love for you EVER, matey”, or is it a one-time-only, one-person-only “She Hate Me” kind of deal?
Not that it changes my answer, I’m not giving up one minute with my wife to grant some 10 000 strangers some 0-60 years more life. Just wanting to know because while it would suck to lose a love, I don’t really buy the “love of your life” concept, so under some other motivation, I might consider it, with the happy belief that I can find another biggest love probably easily enough. Hell, I fall in love with someone new around once a month, on average.
In fact, if my wife hates me, I’ll still have my daughter…
If she’s a teenager, she probably hates you too…
You really shouldn’t put ideas in Mephistopheles’s head.
What don’t you buy? I’m not claiming that there are persons’ destined to be together, their coupling ordained by the Moirae. The love of your life is the person you currently love most.
Um…does your wife know you fall in love with someone new once a month? If not, don’t tell her.
On the plus side you get an AWESOME bike
Actually all this proves is that Mephi is real and that he’s aware of a belief in JC. Also if he is real he’s a prick because even though he has the power he won’t use it. He’s as culpable as Mephi or you or me.
How do you cook yourself? I imagine that gets very painful very quickly, and that if you’ve ever tried you’ve failed miserably.
I took it as a statement that all relationships end.
Love is wonderful, but it isn’t eternal. A number of people in this thread will eventually divorce or break up with or otherwise lose the loved one from their lives that they are considering so important now, and the rest will lose them through death.
I think it’s important to love, and love fully, and also to stay centered and say “There are sacrifices too big for me to make for this love.” That may include sacrifices of money or wellbeing, or it may include sacrifices of other people’s money or wellbeing. Everyone might have a different point, but everyone probably should have a point at which they say, “Hmm, this is too much.”
Slowly.
Just remember, at some point you’ll need a second cook to take over. And then, can you REALLY claim with justification that you cooked yourself? I think not.
Rarely.
Oven timer.
Florence Nightingale, Mother Teresa and you?
‘Crappy threesome pairings’, for $300.
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And I’m so very much the guy who corrects people on their misuse of your/you’re, too. :smack:
The funny thing is, my SO would forgive me for choosing him over the 10,000. Knowing him, he’d be more worried about how I was dealing with the choice.
I think the deal is (obviously) a crap deal. I have been thinking about it but don’t really have an answer. I suppose in the end I’d choose to keep my SO and let them die.