Put yourself in their shoes

orange · May 12, 2003, 02:48

If you could trade places with any Apolytoner for one week, who would it be and why? What would you hope to learn from the experience...what do you think they could learn from your point of view? Whose perspective could teach you the most about 'life'?

Myself...

Sirotnikov - I'd want to know how it is living in Israel. What it means to be Jewish. How it feels with the knowledge that my life is in a lot of danger which I don't have too much control over. I'd wonder if it would effect my political stances at all, or my stance towards Arab-Israeli conflict. In my own mind I doubt it would, but I think it would be nice to have that first hand perspective.

Provost Harrison - I'd like to experience first hand what he feels when he talks about women, unemployment, the hell on Earth which is Kingston-upon-Hull. What it is like to be a brit.

MtG - Four words. "Let Them Eat Cake!"

Dissident - the guy just intrigues me. I'm not sure what his life is like, or if it's as strange as he makes it out to be. I think he'd have a pretty interesting perspective.

Asher - Homosexual Canadian anti-social hermit...now that's a perspective I could use

and of course...

Albert Speer - Just to find out why his views are so god damn ****ed up, and if the 'urban conservative revolution' he talks so much about is really on the rise, or just some fascisistic wet dream. I'd want to see what it feels like living in harsher conditions and not being able to do much about it. I think he could do well to get his ass out of the city and see that being a 'suburban' doesn't mean that you're a stuck up ******* who wants to keep the black man down.

Pekka · May 12, 2003, 02:50

Slowwhand. I'd visit his 2nd cousin all the time.

Ming. I'd make you feel my wrath!

Flubber. To know what it feels like to be a proud dad of a new born child.

Sprayber. I want to be this for the most. He's still in Iraq, right?

Dis · May 12, 2003, 03:00

*honoured to be on the list*

Interesting questios.

MTG to be sure. If anything just to have the knowledge of everything

. I'm pretty close to that now, but not quite up to his level.

Not Ming- his career sounds boring. Sorry ming

Zykla- he seems to have a pretty whacked out life

Fez- curiosity how he came to those political beliefs

Sava- same as Fez- but on the opposite end of the scale

There may be more I cannot think of. Especially the Apolytoners who are abroad in other countries. I know some are in China, and S. Korea.

orange · May 12, 2003, 03:04

ah yes, Fez and Zylka...how could I forget

Though both of those perspectives might scar me for life

Master Zen · May 12, 2003, 03:51

Aro

jazz player, kick-ass cartoonist, and lives in Rio. What more can you ask for in life?

Jaguar · May 12, 2003, 03:53

I find strange, eccentric people interesting.

Speer: Just so twisted he's cool.

Sava: Ultra-lefty, but not repulsive.

Diss: Strange person.

JohnT: Wanna know what it's like to be a daddy.

orange: Strange person.

MtG: knows lots of stuff.

Spiffor: Lives in France.

Tassadar: Strange person.

connorkimbro · May 12, 2003, 05:25

anyone of our resident female posters: should be obvious

yin: cause he's married to a korean gal, and maybe i will be too someday.

ming: so i can be rich rich rich!

stefu: i like his sense of humor. also it'd be neat to see what it's like to be a girl. (lol j/k stefu)

laz: i like his sense of humor too.

orange · May 12, 2003, 13:47

Quote:

orange: Strange person.

How am I strange?

Solver · May 12, 2003, 14:57

Two persons come to mind immediately. Ming, feeling how is it to live as a rich, educated and intelligent American. And Velociryx, how the heck does he get his great ideas about anything, and... well... anyone who knows him understands

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Sava · May 12, 2003, 14:58

wow, so many people think I'm a lefty...

Flubber · May 12, 2003, 15:31

Quote:

Originally posted by Pekka

Flubber. To know what it feels like to be a proud dad of a new born child.

This week, no could ever entice me to switch . . . The feeling is beyond words

But in the spirit of the thread , if I had no child I could see wanting to switch with a number of people-- IN fact I would think there would be value in every person out there . . . . but to limit it to apolytoners

Boris G -- always wanted to have a better appreciation for classical music

Thorn/EVC , Fez/ Giancarlo -- don't know that I want to BE them, but a peek into their thought processes would be entertaining

JohnT (or some other parent)-- so I would have some experience for the stuff I am about to face

Roland ??-- I don't know that I got the name right but he was a lawyer from somewhere in Europe who seemed very intelligent and knowledgeable ( but does not seem to post any more). I would love to have the immediate and detailed knowledge of other legal systems

MTG--encyclopedic knowledge of things military

{a couple of unnamed folks}-- to see if they realize how they seem like rectums on a regular basis

Tiamat or Black Widow-- to experience things from the female prespective

{ a superstrong religious adherent}-- so I could better comprehend the faith of some people

Bereta_Eder · May 12, 2003, 15:32

Diss - Hookers and drugs.

Asher · May 12, 2003, 15:34

Quote:

Originally posted by orange
Asher - Homosexual Canadian anti-social hermit...now that's a perspective I could use

Not anti-social, avoidant. There's a big difference.

loinburger · May 12, 2003, 15:35

Are we allowed to **** up the person's life while we're living as them?

DinoDoc · May 12, 2003, 15:35

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Originally posted by connorkimbro
anyone of our resident female posters: should be obvious

Good idea.

Dis · May 12, 2003, 15:35

actually I'm not into Drugs. Zylka might be a better choice for that.

I won't comment on the other thing

And people think I'm weird- interesting. Is that weird in a good way or a bad way? I don't like being viewed as weird in a bad way

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Pekka · May 12, 2003, 15:36

I'd also like to be FemmeAdonis. I'd just get naked and watch myself from the mirror old day long..

Oerdin · May 12, 2003, 15:41

Dis · May 12, 2003, 15:59

I get naked and watch myself in the mirror all day long as a guy. so that'd be no different.

Oerdin · May 12, 2003, 16:02

Diss: I didn't think it was possible to out do Pekka's post but I think you just did.

Pekka · May 12, 2003, 16:02

But instead of crying, you could actually enjoy yourself?

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I'd do all dirty stuff, I'd pour beer on me and say dirty words, try every piece of lingerie I find in the closet, and tape it all so I could send it to myself when I have to leave after the week of fun.

Flubber · May 12, 2003, 16:17

Pekka

why not go further and as a female apolytoner go seduce yourself ?? Or are you afraid that you will be a lousy lover?

Pekka · May 12, 2003, 17:03

Flubber, wait.. you're suggesting that I'd pretend to be a woman and seduce.. myself? I want the visual side too!

Ben Kenobi · May 12, 2003, 20:25

Quote:

Are we allowed to **** up the person's life while we're living as them?

Why not?

As for my list.

Boris Godunov. I'd love to live in NY.

Slowwhand, same for Texas.

Sirotnikov's life sounds really interesting in Israel.

Chegitz, just 'cause he's a commie.

Pekka, just because he wants to be a mercernary, which seems so different.

David Floyd · May 12, 2003, 20:27

monkspider, so that I could finally convince him (well, myself, well, whatever) that socialism doesn't actually have much to do with Christianity

Dr Strangelove · May 12, 2003, 22:05

Uhhhhh........Anyone here see "Being John Malkovich"?

Zero · May 12, 2003, 22:11

I wanna be Kass and Ming and see just how they can go weeks w/o any sleep.

Bosh · May 12, 2003, 22:17

David Floyd: Way to consistent, would like trying to crack him a bit...

CivNation: Never quite understood Calvinistic Presuppositionalism with a Post-Millenial Eschatology, and that seems like a good thing to know about.

Laz: I wish I had his sense of humor

Bill3000: Anyone else remember him? Poor kid seemed like he could have used some help, (and nothing is quite as helpful as a Boshko in the brain!) and he didn't seem nasty like a lot of poly's other problem cases.

Asher: Just to find out what the hell avoidant is

monolith94 · May 12, 2003, 22:40

Zylka, Lazarus and The Gimp, and Seeker. It'd be fascinating to be a teacher of english to Koreans.

Boris Godunov · May 12, 2003, 23:31

Hobbes or Kaak, and then I'd head out to the nearest gay bars to get me some, mmm-mmmm!