March 6, 2007
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Extremes
Scenario #1
You just find out that your invention has made you world famous and rich. You now have unlimited money and world renown fame. What would your next week of life be like?Scenario #2
You just came back from the Doctor and he told you that you have a incurable disease. You now have only one week to live. What would your next week of life be like?Do you have any similarities between the two scenario?
Otiose (Adjective)
Pronunciation: ['o-tee-os or 'o-dee-os (US)]
Definition: Serving no useful purpose; being at leisure or ease, idle, inactive, unemployed.
Example: I know a otiose mother, who refused to get a job and yesterday had her children taken from her.
What is in your life that is Otiose? (The word is confined to animate objects)Just so we don’t get too serious:
Things your cell phone could do that you may not of known:
Have you locked your keys in the car?
Does your car have remote keyless entry? This may come in handy someday. Good reason to own a cell phone: If you lock your keys in the car and the spare keys are at home, call someone at home on their cell phone from your cell phone. Hold your cell phone about a foot from your car door and have the person at your home press the unlock button, holding it near the mobile phone on their end.Your car will unlock. Saves someone from having to drive your keys to you. Distance is no object. You could be hundreds of miles away, and if you can reach someone who has the other ?remote? for your car, you can unlock the doors (or the trunk).
Comments (30)
If # 2 happens, #1 doesn’t matter. However, if you live your life as though the Lord just might return today, then # 2 will not bother you and # 1 is put in proper perspective.
Fast, ain’t I.
I see many similarities, the biggest one being that both scenarios involve me quitting my job.
I don’t think I can wrap my mind around those scenarios this early in the morning but I will come back if something comes to me. Have a wonderful day!
i really don’t know what i’d do….except make sure i spend plenty of time with my family.
have a great day my friend!
oh and uncle ray was otiose when he was living here
I don’t know if it was a Taco Bell monkey or not. I sort of hoped it would be a cowboy. In any case, I think Buster is annoyed.
I otiose when I just couch potatoe..lol
I would shop all the designer clothings and get all the massage and foods I desire that the first wk.
If I only have one week to live then I will want to go Paris and spend alot time with the family for sure!
Both scenarios involve “the next week” but other than that, they’re very DIFFERENT to me.
The first one might CHANGE me, might make me turn from God.
The second one, I trust, would NOT change me…..or if it DID change me it would turn me TOWARDS Him.
thanks for the info
Scenario 1)
I would initiate long term projects during that week. Such as, finding an architect to construct my new mansion, digging up charities I can help, calling up all my friends and plan for a big unification, etc.
But, during that week, I’d be doing activities that will involve some type of long term horizon.
Scenario 2)
This would definitely be short term, and to some degree, I wouldn’t care about being civil.
If I feel mean, I’d be mean. If I want to punch someone, I will. I’d even give the finger to the police in plain view. I’d definitely party…. and spend all my money making sure people have fun.
Very interesting post!!! I loved this. #1 I would feel so overwhelmed and frustrated and become otiose! I would probably just give it all away.
#2, I would be so excited about going HOME to the Lord.
I wonder how Otiose a mother can really be….I know more Otiose fathers who party and do not want to support their kids.Usually even if the moms does not have an outside job they feed the kids and do laundry and take the kids to school…I have known a few Otiose moms …usually druggies….but I know quite a lot of Otiose dads who are not even druggies ,just lazy and spoiled!!
I think both of those weeks would involve a lot of prayer. One so I can live right and the other so I can die right.
Good food for thought.
Actually mine would be kind of different. for #1 I’d spend time travelling with people I care about, I’d be talking to investors about where to put my money, etc. If #2 happened, I would still spend lots of time with family, but I’d be spending it at home.
I become idle when I have too much to do and can’t handle all of them at the same time, kind of like of a computer that just hangs when it’s overloaded… what an excuse to come up with!
I haven’t heard of tulut tulut. I’m not even sure if it’s Tagalog or not. I don’t know so many words, but perhaps it’s in another dialect. Dali dali or dali is hurry up!
Similarities: liberation from the urgent but unimportant.
they can have celrey too.
# 1 I would hide from relatives and friends coming out of the wood work pretending they adore you so they can get some of your new found fame and fortune.
#2. I would spend the week with my family and friends letting them know how much I love them.
Both scenario would have a big impact on my famly as well.
Riches would not change my life immediately – but death would, I owuld quit my job and spend time with family and friends
I loooooove Garfield! One of my all-time favorite comics! =)
Anyway, actually the scenarios wouldn’t be the same at all. The reason I say this is because if you have unlimited money, the mind would obviously be overtaken with thoughts of material happiness. In scenario #2 you would realize that money and power is nothing in comparison to you loved ones….All the money in the world could never replace that. You would realize and regret all the time you spent doing anything other than telling those close to you how much you love them. In scenario #2 I believe you would truly start ‘living’ in that final week where as in scenario #1 you stop living for what’s important. Make sense?
well the 1st i wouldnt buy a huge house i would buy a house than put money away for my kids college and maybe put some money away for them later but not let them take it out till they are 45, because i would not want them to think they dont have to work for something. I give a lot to my church and to other charitys and than share with my parents becasue they have helped me out so much. the list could go on and i would hope that it wouldnt change me because than i wouldnt want it i love my life and my family even though we are debt up to our neck it helps us to lean on each other for help and incouragement. (even though i dont have ajob that pays i wouldnt quit my job or if i did i would become a volunter)
The 2nd one is i would spend as much time with my family just sitting around talking about all the great times we have had together and tell my children that i love them, but the best part would go home to see the Lord and be in the most wonderful place and see my cousin again
That was a great post
Both “suggestions” are a matter of futuristic intrigue. To “imagine” money or death are compelling ideas….however, they remain an idea. Albeit, I might put a new roof on my home and give a great deal of the money away before I died. A new roof you might ask? That’s so as to whom the home is bequeathed can sell it more readily. Giving it away? There is no opulence upon the face of the earth that would or could replace the contentment and happiness I presently embrace now. To know I was going to die….would be the completion of my earthly life….and dying to a mortal life would only bring me to Eternal Life. We should all “ache” for that moment…I do!
Oh my gosh!! I wish I knew the cell phone thing before because then we wouldn’t have had to get a locksmith to do it with the big metal rod! That would’ve been very nice!
Scenario 1 I’d travel all around and sign people’s dinner napkins.
Scenario 2? Well we have a song about that actually!! And the chorus is……….
“I went skyyyyyyyyyyyy diiiiiiiiiving I went rocky mountain climbing I went 2.7 seconds on a bullangamoorang shoe. And I loooooved deeper and I spooooooke sweeter and I gaaave forgivness I’d been denyyyingggg….and I hope some day you get the chance….to live like you were dyyiiiiiiiing like tommorrow was a gift and you’ve got eternity to think about what you do with it…..” and ayadayadayada it’s a good song. It’s called Live LIke YYou were DYing by Tim McGraw
The End
only in the usa did the silly car lock the keys inside. i had started it to defrist and shut the door and bing it locked…and as i had a plane to catch then the sebring convertible roof developed a nasty little cut into which a coat hanger was inserted…one has to compromise buddy
Hi Randy,
Thanks for stopping by!!
Here are the wonderful lyrics.. It’s a bit long, but they are wonderful. The music is great and it is on one of their CD’s that I have. Here goes…
Sinner Saved by Grace by Bill & Gloria Gaither… I love this one.
If you could see what I once was
If you could go with me
Back to where I started from
Then I know you would see.
A miracle of love that took me
In its sweet embrace
And made me what I am today
A sinner saved by grace.
I’m just a sinner saved by grace
When I stood condemned to death
He took my place
Now I live and breathe in freedom
With each breath of life I take
Loved and forgiven; back with the living
I’m must a sinner saved by grace.
How could I boast of anythng
I’ve ever said or done
How could I dare to claim as mine
All the vict’ries God has won.
Where would I be had God not brought me
Gently to this place.
I’m here to say I’m nothing but a sinner saved by grace.
I’m just a sinner saved by grace.
When I stood condemned to death
He took my place.
Now I grow and breathe in freedom
With each breath of life I take.
Loved and forgiven; back with the living.
I’m just a sinner saved by grace.
Interesting information. Thanks for dropping by my site.
Hi Randy, RYC: I graduated from high school in Niagara Falls, but the building was torn down 10 years ago. A large number of our graduates moved to Arizona, and they have a Niagara Falls picnic there every year. Our 30th reunion is going to be in Phoenix! We have over 100 of our graduates coming to the reunion, from all over the country…one even from Germany. How cool is that? Even though I look old and fat…I figure everyone else I’m going to see it gonna be the same way…I don’t care, I guess I’m just really curious, and want to see some of my old classmates!
Nothing more otiose than my watching reruns on TV and/or playing those silly games on the web….
that is cool original phone!
[Well, I wish you the best. My older girls seem to attrack guys when they are not looking for them; when they were they guys stayed away. -just my observation.]
Well, I am not YOUR girl, so don’t thrust your observations at home to me.
Your girls are just AFRAID of you, which is why they won’t try to get a boyfriend even if boys are attracted to them.
What kind of normal human woman would ignore guys anyway? We are predisposed to BE in relationships. The people hindering us from having that are:
a) parents who are OBSESSED that all girls are sluts and that they immediately think we are having sex just because we like a boy
b) people who are OBSESSED with religion that they tell us not to have a relationship till we are 40 (geez, I cannot have kids at 40! I would be dry down there and on my way to menopause!)
c) people who try to give you advises like, “the right man will come”—oh yeah? When? When we are on our deathbeds? Wake up and smell REALITY folks! Time is NOT for us, it is against us….so that is why there is NO right time because everyday is the right time to make something right, to make something good for someone, to love someone, etc.
If we all wait for that supposedly “right time”, people may die of myocardial infraction or any other disease before they reach thatright time.
And what is wrong with looking? Does that mean ONLY MEN CAN LOOK AROUND? Hey, we have eyes, ears and other body parts just like you. Just coz society tells you that only men can court women is so stupid.
If homosexuals are even accepted, why can’t women look for boyfriends?
I’d rather they accept women courting men rather than accepting SAME SEX marriage which is totally IMMORAL, gross and a total mock to the sacredness of marriage.
I am highly skeptical about this. Maybe I will google it to learn more.