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If You Could Choose Your Own Desires
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If You Could Choose Your Own Desires
If you could choose your own desires what desires would you choose?

In other words, if you could want whatever you wanted to want what would you want to want?

There are often many things we want but... they may not necessarily be addictions, sometimes they are, but they're certainly rather arbitrary. Like...

Also with likes and dislikes. Like, if you could choose to like whatever you wanted to like what would you choose to like?

If instead of liking the foods and music you happened to like you could chooset o like whatever foods and musics (for example) you wanted to like, what would you choose to like?

Soooo.... for example... I say music and food because.... with food, I think it's more obvious, we would choose to like best whatever food is healthiest for us if we could.... but music? No music is healthy or unhealthy... so what music would you choose to like if you could choose to like whatever music you wanted to like instead of just happening to like the music you like best?

But primarily, rather than likes or dislikes this is about desires.

I'm also interested in interests a lot though.

If you could choose to be more fascinated by certain things you wish you found less boring and instead more interesting... what would you choose to be interested in or fascinated by?

Thanks.

Just food for thought.
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RE: If You Could Choose Your Own Desires
If I could really choose that, I'd choose to want to enjoy things as they are. Surely, this must be the shortcut to happiness.
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RE: If You Could Choose Your Own Desires
If I could choose my own desires, I'd choose everything that would make me more normal. I guess I can't do that, so I will go on being weird.
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RE: If You Could Choose Your Own Desires
I'd like to be bi.
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RE: If You Could Choose Your Own Desires
(said to Brett Favre)

I want you to want me.


http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=chea...ORM=VRDGAR
 The granting of a pardon is an imputation of guilt, and the acceptance a confession of it. 




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RE: If You Could Choose Your Own Desires
(November 12, 2016 at 6:17 am)vorlon13 Wrote: (said to Brett Favre)

I want you to want me.


http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=chea...ORM=VRDGAR

Shame on you for using Bing...
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RE: If You Could Choose Your Own Desires
This is a great question, at first I thought none but thinking about it I can think of a few desires I'd change. 

I'd cut down my desire for unhealthy food.  I have a healthish body but I could be healthier.

Other than that I'm happy with my desires.  

Sometimes I think my desire for sex is too strong but I've had a lot of good times having sex.  I think it does cloud my judgement of women sometimes even if it's just temporary.


Are you ready for the fire? We are firemen. WE ARE FIREMEN! The heat doesn’t bother us. We live in the heat. We train in the heat. It tells us that we’re ready, we’re at home, we’re where we’re supposed to be. Flames don’t intimidate us. What do we do? We control the flame. We control them. We move the flames where we want to. And then we extinguish them.

Impersonation is treason.





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RE: If You Could Choose Your Own Desires
Paul, where's that quote from in your sig?
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RE: If You Could Choose Your Own Desires
(November 12, 2016 at 6:46 am)Bella Morte Wrote: Paul, where's that quote from in your sig?

http://atheistforums.org/thread-46209.html


Are you ready for the fire? We are firemen. WE ARE FIREMEN! The heat doesn’t bother us. We live in the heat. We train in the heat. It tells us that we’re ready, we’re at home, we’re where we’re supposed to be. Flames don’t intimidate us. What do we do? We control the flame. We control them. We move the flames where we want to. And then we extinguish them.

Impersonation is treason.





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RE: If You Could Choose Your Own Desires
(November 12, 2016 at 6:48 am)paulpablo Wrote:
(November 12, 2016 at 6:46 am)Bella Morte Wrote: Paul, where's that quote from in your sig?

http://atheistforums.org/thread-46209.html

Holy shit...

Can't say I'm surprised.

Cheers.
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