The last hour of your life...

If you knew that your life would end in an hour, what would you do with that hour?...

I would be with the kids , as many would I guess, but say you had no family whatsoever, what would you do with tour final hour?..

Maybe a daft question but I always like to read the replies!...

  

Write! Whenever anything happens I write, so that would definitely be it. I think. Or paint, one last painting, get everything I feel on canvas. I think. Or write, about children, lovers, places that I would never see again. I think. Or paint. You can tell I have really made up my mind lol! I'd probably take so long dithering the hour would be over!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

An hour is not enough time to do anything meaningful so I suppose drink and smoke like a motherfucker.

Disagree, you can write a poem in an hour that would be your legacy for all time.

I think if I only had an hour left, I'd head over to this place and do some property damage. I'd rather see them defeated intellectually of course, but if I just had an hour, I could get there with a little time to spare ...

Oh Wow, I can see why!. Love the one about the sex-ed poster! Fancy actually talking to kids about real sex!!!!!!!!!!!!!   

I know, right? Here's a bit about that place's founder, David Barton:

He founded WallBuilders, a Texas-based organization which promotes the view that it is a myth that the US Constitution insists on separation of church and state.

Barton collects early American documents, and his official biography describes him as "an expert in historical and constitutional issues".[6] Barton holds no formal credentials in history or law, and scholars dispute the accuracy and integrity of his assertions about history, accusing him of practicing misleading historical revisionism, "pseudoscholarship" and spreading "outright falsehoods".

According to the New York Times, "many professional historians dismiss Mr. Barton, whose academic degree is in Christian Education from Oral Roberts University, as a biased amateur who cherry-picks quotes from history and the Bible."

ton has appeared on television and radio programs, including those of former Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee and Glenn Beck. Beck has praised Barton as "the Library of Congress in shoes".

@ben
I was thinking similar but I don't know if I could reach anywhere decent in an hour   

Sassy wrote:Write!   Whenever anything happens I write, so that would definitely be it.   I think.   Or paint, one last painting, get everything I feel on canvas.   I think.   Or write, about children, lovers, places that I would never see again.   I think.   Or paint.   You can tell I have really made up my mind lol!   I'd probably take so long dithering the hour would be over!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That made me laugh at the end Sassy! :D 

But I get that ,express yourself, your thoughts and feelings before you go eh? :D

Queen Of Hearts wrote:An hour is not enough time to do anything meaningful so I suppose drink and smoke like a motherfucker.

...and why not eh? It's not like it's gonna kill you!

Exactly JD.   I think it would have to be writing though, not all paintings work out, and if I had to chuck it away in the last few minutes that would not be good lol.

Got this off the top of my head:

Life slips from you fingers
drifts from your hands
Like mercury insubstantial

And yet

In your head it's relived
every sweet moment savoured
like ice cream on your tongue

If only

When young you knew how fast
those bright green days
full of promise, would fade.

But then

A pall would lie over them
a cloud would hide that sun
that made your youth sparkle.

Regret nothing

Not the excesses, or the joys
Nor the sorrows or the lovers
They are what made your life

You have lived

And you have lived it to the full
no half measures, never fearful
taking opportunites in both hands.

Now

The greatest mystery to be solved
Just nothing? Or part of universal energy?
Or Heaven and Hell?

Turning the final page

@sassy
it is quite interesting what thoughts of death are..
My poem would be simple and not take an hour

"time to go home"

veya_victaous wrote:@ben
I was thinking similar but I don't know if I could reach anywhere decent in an hour   

Lucky! Too much to choose from in my part of the world. I live within driving distance of Glenn Beck AND George W. Bush ...

My end of life haiku:

Just one hour to live,

But 'Kill Bill' lasts four hours.

OK, 'Scrubs' it is.

Ben_Reilly wrote: My end of life haiku:

Just one hour to live,

But 'Kill Bill' lasts four hours.

OK, 'Scrubs' it is.

 

That was quite cool and well worded Sassy, had meaning to it, especially the youth fading bit, well all of it!

I would like to think I've grabbed life with both hands , but that's not been the case with me, but I think if many were to read this, they would relate to every part of it...

Nice on Sassy!

Sassy wrote:Disagree, you can write a poem in an hour that would be your legacy for all time.  

I don't see why I would want to waste the last hour of my life writing poetry.

veya_victaous wrote:@sassy
it is quite interesting what thoughts of death are..
My poem would be simple and not take an hour

"time to go home"

I like that!

Ben_Reilly wrote:My end of life haiku:

Just one hour to live,

But 'Kill Bill' lasts four hours.

OK, 'Scrubs' it is.

Like that too, not the programmes though lol

Queen Of Hearts wrote:

Sassy wrote:Disagree, you can write a poem in an hour that would be your legacy for all time.  

I don't see why I would want to waste the last hour of my life writing poetry.

Each to his own.

Queen Of Hearts wrote:

Sassy wrote:Disagree, you can write a poem in an hour that would be your legacy for all time.  

I don't see why I would want to waste the last hour of my life writing poetry.

Yea...You'd spend it watching dodgy Japanese cartoons!

 ://?roflmao?/: ://?roflmao?/: ://?roflmao?/: 

Sassy wrote:

Queen Of Hearts wrote:

I don't see why I would want to waste the last hour of my life writing poetry.

Each to his own.

Yep.

Catman wrote:

Queen Of Hearts wrote:

I don't see why I would want to waste the last hour of my life writing poetry.

Yea...You'd spend it watching dodgy Japanese cartoons!

 ://?roflmao?/: ://?roflmao?/: ://?roflmao?/: 

And you'd spend it furiously masturbating to revenge fantasies about people who were mean to you on the Internet would you?

I think it's very funny how you claim I'm out to cause trouble when it's constantly you starting on me.

Queen Of Hearts wrote:I think it's very funny how you claim I'm out to cause trouble when it's constantly you starting on me.

Really?

Read back.

Catman wrote:

Queen Of Hearts wrote:I think it's very funny how you claim I'm out to cause trouble when it's constantly you starting on me.

Really?

Read back.

Point out where I started on anyone in this thread.

Queen Of Hearts wrote:

Catman wrote:

Really?

Read back.

Point out where I started on anyone in this thread.

You mentioned poetry and i mentioned dodgy Japanese cartoons....Problem?

Catman wrote:

Queen Of Hearts wrote:

Point out where I started on anyone in this thread.

You mentioned poetry and i mentioned dodgy Japanese cartoons....Problem?

Sassy mentioned poetry, not me.
Now, I can take a bit of banter, I'm not insecure about what I enjoy and couldn't care less if someone doesn't like what I like but you just constantly use it as shitty ammunition to try and talk shit to me so kindly fuck off.
I'm never the one who mentions anime, it's always you.

@QoH
Sorry to be off point,
r u just in to Anime or Manga too?

Princess Mononoke is one of my all-time favourite films
http://studioghibli.wikia.com/wiki/Princess_Mononoke
Like so much of Hayao Miyazaki work to dismiss it as a 'cartoon' is a massive dis-service to the arts.
and 'Grave of the fireflies' oh my god, how can anyone not tear up.

veya_victaous wrote:@QoH
Sorry to be off point,
r u just in to Anime or Manga too?

Princess Mononoke is one of my all-time favourite films
http://studioghibli.wikia.com/wiki/Princess_Mononoke
Like so much of Hayao Miyazaki work to dismiss it as a 'cartoon' is a massive dis-service to the arts.
and 'Grave of the fireflies' oh my god, how can anyone not tear up.  

I'm more into anime than manga but there's a few I read.

Anyway, Studio Ghibli always produces good stuff, I watched Spirited Away when I was about twelve or so.
My personal favourite by them is Porco Rosso.

My favourite anime though would be Serial Experiments Lain.

I hardly know anything about anime, but back when I had cable I used to watch a (now-defunct) channel called Tech TV that ran 'Boogiepop Phantom' late at night. Always thought the theme song to it was so cool, just this over-the-top disco-funk stuff:

Boogiepop Phantom was nice but VERY slow paced.
It's not something you'd want to marathon.

Apparently you need to read the Light Novels to appreciate the anime because it assumes that you have read them. The atmosphere was great though and I liked the style they went it.

I can't really remember the overall plot of it though, I do have it saved on my computer though so I might re-watch it sometime when I have the time.

I think I downloaded the first episode off Amazon and never even watched it.

So, for a newbie like me, what would you recommend?

Ben_Reilly wrote:I think I downloaded the first episode off Amazon and never even watched it.

So, for a newbie like me, what would you recommend?

Well what do you like?

I like quality, really -- stuff that's smartly written and executed. But a shortlist of my favorite shows and movies (desert-island stuff) would include Kill Bill, Battlestar Galactica, Homeland, Buffy ... I guess I do tend toward action-y programs, and spy fiction. I like a lot of comedies as well but I don't imagine there's a lot of comedy-oriented anime -- but what do I know?

Ben_Reilly wrote:I like quality, really -- stuff that's smartly written and executed. But a shortlist of my favorite shows and movies (desert-island stuff) would include Kill Bill, Battlestar Galactica, Homeland, Buffy ... I guess I do tend toward action-y programs, and spy fiction. I like a lot of comedies as well

Give ma bit to think about it.

Ben_Reilly wrote:
but I don't imagine there's a lot of comedy-oriented anime -- but what do I know?

There's absolutely loads of comedic anime.
Anime is really just animation from Japan. It's not a genre or style unto itself. You can find an anime of any genre.

Off the top of my head if you want something funny I'd say Cromartie High School although it's fairly old so most torrents won't be well seeded.

@QoH
Read the novels? that spoils the fun
I don't watch many Movies or TV because they are too slow and treats the audience like children.
IMO the Anime/Manga series are better because they are fast and don’t spend ages explaining everything, you have to concenrate to follow the story.

Wolf Reign, Berserker and Samurai X (Kenshin) are the main Series I have watched, Seen a fair bit of Dragonball and Naruto as well.   


@ben
Wolf Reign is good, defintily not for kids, Highly political/psyhcological metephorism, I think you would like it.  Personally I would recommend some movies first, some of the series can be a little long. IF you havn't seen Grave of the Fireflies you MUST. it is only animated because you could not get children to act the highly emotional scences (as opposed to the epic-gore, supertech or megaboobs that would require too many special effects to make most Manga live action).

I assume you have seen 'ninja scrolls' the movie (one of the earlier ones in the West, sometimes called '7 deadly ninja scrolls')  if not it is good and where a lot of the manga Cliches comes from. There is a series by the same name that goes into more detail, it came out almost a decade later (and the graphic novels which both are from was obviously first).

Oh there is HEAPS of Comedy Anime        you just need to watch with real subtitles as they very rarely translate the jokes (can be quite sexual) as Westerners tend to think they are meant for kids. Trigun is DEFINITLY one you should watch, Funny tales from a space cowboy.

Thanks, guys! I'll report back with my findings ... may take me a while, though ...

Av an am shank!

Great question JD!

@Ben...I was happy watching monkey magic and Spider-Man as a bairn!

BigAndy9 wrote:Great question JD!

Thanks Andy, still awaiting more answers though!,matching is,mim not really sure anyone knows for sure unless out in that situation for real!

What would yours be Andy?... A wee fell o' Cameron's b'ahhs before the lights go out? 

Joy Division wrote:If you knew that your life would end in an hour, what would you do with that hour?...

I would be with the kids , as many would  I guess, but say you had no family whatsoever, what would you do with tour final hour?..

Maybe a daft question but I always like to read the replies!...

  

No matter how hard I try I can't stop thinking about one thing.........  

.....making sure my Smiley Library is up to date

feelthelove wrote:

Joy Division wrote:If you knew that your life would end in an hour, what would you do with that hour?...

I would be with the kids , as many would  I guess, but say you had no family whatsoever, what would you do with tour final hour?..

Maybe a daft question but I always like to read the replies!...

  

No matter how hard I try I can't stop thinking about one thing.........  

.....making sure my Smiley Library is up to date

...you got it SQ!