>>>>>>>>the people will react in unpredictable ways
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>>>>>>>try changing that statement to 'the people will react in ways which we cannot predict'
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>>>>>>I tried. I got a sentence. The sentence doesn't contain "25 to life" and I am happy.
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>>>>>You deserve much, much more for the puns alone.
>>>>>
>>>>>I always smile when I see some felon was sentenced to multiple counts of 99 to life. Every time I think he won't serve the time.
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>>>>I wonder if I could get sentenced to live that long !
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>>>I have seen speculation that medical advances will increase life expectancy to 140 or 150. My question is will it be proportional or will people just stay 80 for 70 years?
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>>Since I just turned 70 I would settle for 80 more years.
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>Happy birthday! I think ;-)
>
>My 56th birthday is coming up in a couple of weeks. In one way I feel like that's impossible, because I still feel the way I did at 22. My thoughts and outlook seem unchanged. Yet the moving finger writes. My body sure isn't what it was at 22, playing serious basketball and running. And I recognize that 55 is on the downside of life, not the climb. My intention is to make the most of what I have left. I really wish I had your religious faith but I have not been favored with that.
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>PS --
>
> The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
> Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit
> Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
> Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it
>
>-- Omar Khayyam

I have a friend in Paynama. He was director of the Costa Rican Philharmonic Orchestra in his early 20's. Went deaf and lost that opportunity. Went to work for Billy Graham as the lead man in Central and South America. Had a huge budget to set up the crusades. Now he is our man on the ground in Panama and arranges our mission trips with a zero budget. Anyway, he paid me my favorite compliment.. he told me I am the oldest kid he knows.

I too cannot do what I did as a youngster, partly because i weigh 50 more lbs. At @# I was a platoon leader in Viet Nam and weighed 160lbs. I plan to lose half of that difference before the end of May. Three long bike rides coming up... Angel Ride across CT, Erie Canal in NY and RAGBRAI across Iowa. That keeps me young.

As for the faith thing, its never too late. You just have to want it and ask for it.