llong

History does not repeat itself, but it does rhyme.



I'm doing 29 things
 

llong's Life List

  1. 1. write my autobiography
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    589 people
  2. 2. write a book
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    31,074 people
  3. 3. write a memoir
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    349 people
  4. 4. become a millionaire
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    1,892 people
  5. 5. Bike across the United States
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    121 people
  6. 6. Spend less time fooling around on the net and more time actually working
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    5,461 people
  7. 7. open a tea room
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    17 people
  8. 8. start a band
    2 entries . 85 cheers
    1,990 people
  9. 9. take classes
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    20 people
  10. 10. do a split
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    699 people
  11. 11. run a 10k in less than 45 minutes
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    16 people
  12. 12. learn the constellations
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    885 people
  13. 13. buy another gun
    2 entries . 28 cheers
    3 people
  14. 14. learn to ride a motorcycle
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    1,960 people
  15. 15. speak British English fluently
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    146 people
  16. 16. meditate daily
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    4,732 people
  17. 17. patent an invention
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    156 people
  18. 18. master grade 1 Kanji
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    24 people
  19. 19. learn sign language
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    8,498 people
  20. 20. see the northern lights
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    19,100 people
  21. 21. climb mt. fuji
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    162 people
  22. 22. learn to play the harmonica
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    990 people
  23. 23. Memorize the Gettysburg Address
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    35 people
  24. 24. Read Modern Library's 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century
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    582 people
  25. 25. Read 13 books in 2013
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    11 people
  26. 26. Read Arthur Schopenhauer's entire catalogue
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    1 person
  27. 27. learn morse code
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    311 people
  28. 28. play rugby
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    134 people
  29. 29. go to an onsen
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    3 people

How I did it
How to donate 2 gallons of blood.
It took me
4 years
It made me
helpful


How to do 50 consecutive push-ups
It took me
1 month
It made me
sorta proud


How to read Friedrich Nietzsche's entire catalogue
It took me
5 years
It made me
smarter


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Memorize the Gettysburg Address
Entire Text

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation, so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate, we can not consecrate, we can not hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.



Read Arthur Schopenhauer's entire catalogue
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On Vision and Colors (1816) – DONE
On the Basis of Morality (1840) – DONE
Essays and Aphorisms (1970) – DONE
On the Will in Nature (1836)- DONE
The Art of Being Right (1831) – DONE

On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason (1813)
The World as Will and Representation (1818)
On the Freedom of the Will (1839)
Parerga und Paralipomena (1851)



Read 13 books in 2013
Untitled

1) The Postman Always Rings Twice
2) Irrationally Predictable
3) 1453
4) Schopenhauer: A Guide for the Perplexed
5) On Color
6) On the Basis of Morality
7) An Introduction to Philosophy
8) Essays and Aphorisms
9) A Bend in the River
10) On the Will of Nature
11) The Art of Being Right



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