What do you think would cure you?

No no, scratch cards are different because the winning cards are already pre-set if you get me(?). Regarding the lottery thing again, just yesterday was the biggest jackpot in Ireland (around 18 million Euro) - it had rolled-over for many weeks and generated huge interest. I'm sure - again - that the lottery officials are licking their lips with the amount of money they've actually made from all of this.

Kevin

Another_Shinji wrote:

Chucky wrote:No no, scratch cards are different because the winning cards are already pre-set if you get me(?). Regarding the lottery thing again, just yesterday was the biggest jackpot in Ireland (around 18 million Euro) - it had rolled-over for many weeks and generated huge interest. I'm sure - again - that the lottery officials are licking their lips with the amount of money they've actually made from all of this.

Kevin

I only did the Lotto twice in my life. I would never do the euromillions, more chance of being struck by lightning.

Getting electrocuted doesn't hurt that bad.

CriminallyVulgar, it all depends on the Potential Difference (Voltage) of the electricity that strikes you! Mains electricity is typically 230 volts, which most people can survive. Lightning, however, can be 100s of millions of volts. If you get struck by lightning, chances are you will die. Strangely enough though, if you were freefalling through the sky and got struck by lightning, you would suffer no ill-effect. You have to be 'grounded' in order for electricity to pass through you and cause damage.

There are plenty of people that have survived lightning strikes.

I've been tazed before and I stuck my finger in a light bulb socket and touched the metal prongs coming out of an outlet before, none of it really hurt.

I know that people can and have survived lightning strikes. It's rare enough to get struck, but even rarer to survive it! I have been eletrocuted from mains electricity before too (230 Volts) and - yes - it doesn't necessarily hurt. However, pain is not a factor in how it can mess up your other systems. The main problem is that a shot of electricity through your body can make your heart stop beating.

Kevin

One of my old science teachers got struck by lightning and survived, he's a little messed up in the head from it though.

I used to stick paper clips in outlets (120 Volts where i live) because it felt cool.

Chucky wrote:No no, scratch cards are different because the winning cards are already pre-set if you get me(?). Regarding the lottery thing again, just yesterday was the biggest jackpot in Ireland (around 18 million Euro) - it had rolled-over for many weeks and generated huge interest. I'm sure - again - that the lottery officials are licking their lips with the amount of money they've actually made from all of this.

Kevin

Cool, i play them for fun pretty much and cause i have a less chance of winning if i dont play. Oh well.

The lottery odds are pretty ridiculous. But ya know, SOMEBODY has to win it. And it's not gonna be you unless you play.

In pennsylvania I think the powerball lottery starts at 1 million and rolls over every week that nobody wins the jackpot. It's not uncommon for it to get over 100 million bucks.

Hatake wrote:I used to stick paper clips in outlets (120 Volts where i live) because it felt cool.

Ok, that's much more dangerous than what I used to do. I used to press my tongue against the anode (-) and cathode (+) of batteries simultaneously in order to get a mild shock sent through my tongue. It was more like an itch really.

CriminallyVulgar wrote:In pennsylvania I think the powerball lottery starts at 1 million and rolls over every week that nobody wins the jackpot. It's not uncommon for it to get over 100 million bucks.

That sort of money is unreal to think of. If it was in your bank account, you could survive off the interest generated by it. The recent 19 million Euro jackpot here was won by 16 people amazingly, so, each gets just over 1 million Euro.

Kevin

I don't know. My main problems are traumas, fears, negative thinking...

I've thought about something that would make me Amnesiac, so I could "start over". I can't get past what happened in my early years.

So, ECT would be nice, imagine if it cured my depression AND made me lose my memory. That would be great, but it's a dream.

Therapy is a must for me. Without it I'm utterly lost.

And if all else fails, I'm dedicating my life to being a psychonaut, since I'm not killing myself anytime soon. Maybe I'll have a divine revelation or some breakthrough. Even elves would be cool. My life is already a pretty bad trip.

Drugs are "bad". Says who... The so-called society? The people who fit in? What about sugar, nicotine, alcohol, aspirin to name a few?

The ideals of capitalism do not interest me. Possessions and money, neither. I value art, compassion, imagination and creativity. I dream of moving to the country and enjoying my loneliness with intellectual activities. Einstein said:

"I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves - this critical basis I call the ideal of a pigsty. The ideals that have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth."

"The trite objects of human efforts -- possessions, outward success, luxury -- have always seemed to me contemptible.

I couldn't agree more.

And hell, if I'm going to die anyway I might as well have some fun here.