Tuesday

**Gingersnap** · 04-26-2011, 11:39 AM

Originally Posted by Rockntractor

Wouldn't the future of your country be wound tightly with your future.

Not necessarily. I could have a fairly happy and pleasant life under current economic conditions but the conditions 50 years from now could be much worse or the culture could change to such a degree that I wouldn't recognize it. Toddlers today could spend their adult lives living in a kind of nanny-state slavery that is much worse than what we've seen so far.

Or things could change in the other direction. :)

**Arroyo_Doble** · 04-26-2011, 12:11 PM

Originally Posted by Gingersnap

Not necessarily. I could have a fairly happy and pleasant life under current economic conditions but the conditions 50 years from now could be much worse or the culture could change to such a degree that I wouldn't recognize it. Toddlers today could spend their adult lives living in a kind of nanny-state slavery that is much worse than what we've seen so far.

Or things could change in the other direction. :)

I figure that is a given. Think of 1961 and now.

But that may be superficial. We are fundamentally the same as we were when Alexis de Tocqueville visited way back in the early 1800's. I don't see that changing much.

**Gingersnap** · 04-26-2011, 12:21 PM

Originally Posted by Arroyo_Doble

I figure that is a given. Think of 1961 and now.

But that may be superficial. We are fundamentally the same as we were when Alexis de Tocqueville visited way back in the early 1800's. I don't see that changing much.

Human nature hasn't changed any but our view of liberty, government, and self-direction have changed.

**Arroyo_Doble** · 04-26-2011, 12:24 PM

Originally Posted by Gingersnap

Human nature hasn't changed any but our view of liberty, government, and self-direction have changed.

I disagree. It may have matured but read Democracy in America again (I assume "again"). It really hasn't changed all that much.

**Madisonian** · 04-26-2011, 07:28 PM

Originally Posted by fettpett

ah, but what is the question?

Number of dots on a pair of dice.

**malloc** · 04-26-2011, 07:32 PM

Weather: 70-something and sunny. It's going to get hot as Hades soon.

TOTD: My question for the future would be considered based on whether or not knowledge of the future could facilitate a change in the outcome of the future. If the future is 'read only', I'd have to go with the next major Powerball Jackpot numbers, however at that point, whether or not I bought a ticket with those numbers would be pre-determined wouldn't it?

**Kay** · 04-26-2011, 10:58 PM

Originally Posted by Rockntractor

TOTD: If you had a crystal ball .....what would you want to know?

Who stole my ring when I was in the 8th grade.
It was my first "real" ring that I had gotten for Christmas.
It had a big round center blue topaz (my birthstone) and
little diamonds on the sides. I took it off for gym class,
and someone stole it out of my clothes pockets while
we were outside, along with taking a few things from
other people too. This has always pissed me off. I still
want to know who out there has my ring. I'd like to
bash their face in. :mad:

Odd isn't it how you just never know what might cause
an old festering issue to resurface. :o

**Wei Wu Wei** · 04-26-2011, 11:17 PM

TOTD: despite my tendency to be philosophic and how much I like thinking about "big questions", in reality, if I could know 1 thing, it would probably be the next mega millions lotto numbers.

money money money money....moneyyy....