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    Default If you could bring only 1 thing

    Here's the scenario:

    You are going to a desert island for a very long time. Food, water and shelter will not be a problem, but there is nothing else on the island but trees and sandy beaches. No power whatsoever, and no possibility of it. No other people or animals are there.

    What one thing (as much if it as you want), do you decide to bring?

    Bringing a person, a pet, or any light- or power- producing item (generators, solar panels, flashlight, candles, matches, etc., etc. ) are not allowed. No boat-building materials or tools. No flares, etc.

    Please no clever answers to get around this rule. I am essentially looking for what one item you would bring to comfort you over a very long, very lonely, time.

    Side note: What made me think of this, was a story about Hurricane Ike. People who refused to leave Galveston were interviewed. One woman said that she put a few things in a plastic baggie to protect them during the storm.

    What precious items were in that baggie? Not family pictures or batteries. Not food.

    She decided to protect some cash, her credit cards, and... her cigarettes.
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    One (1) large library that would include books on everything.
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    Books.

    I cannot live without books.
    -Thomas Jefferson
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    Would a fishing rod and tackle be against your rules?

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    I would hoestly just take a knife, I couldn't live if there was no one else around and I wouldn't wana die by drowing.

    As for the hurricain woman, that's crazy, I hope her cigarets and cash got soaked.
    If you also agree that an animals suffering should be avoided rather than encouraged, consider what steps you can take.

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    Wow. Good thread.

    First reply was going to be "Abbey"...then I kept reading...

    Food is provided? Not another living soul though?

    That'd just about equate to hell for me. I won't answer yet, but Noir's answer is compelling... :-/
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    I've changed my mind.

    I want a lifetime supply of denture adhesive.

    All that food doesn't matter if I can't keep me teeth in.
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    cigarettes.
    When I die I'm sure to go to heaven, cause I spent my time in hell.

    You get more with a kind word and a two by four, than you do with just a kind word.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Gaffer View Post
    cigarettes.
    How do ya light em?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mr. P View Post
    How do ya light em?
    By whatever means I cook the food.
    When I die I'm sure to go to heaven, cause I spent my time in hell.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Gaffer View Post
    By whatever means I cook the food.
    She said the food was provided..nothing about fire... Hummm

    ABBEY, do we have raw food or cooked?
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    wonder what those stranded men need????


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    I think the Bible, because it tells me I am not alone no matter where I am.
    I would find that very comforting.

    One of my favorite parts of the Bible, Psalm 139, in part:

    7 Where can I go from your Spirit?
    Where can I flee from your presence?

    8 If I go up to the heavens, you are there;
    if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.

    9 If I rise on the wings of the dawn,
    if I settle on the far side of the sea,

    10 even there your hand will guide me,
    your right hand will hold me fast.

    11 If I say, "Surely the darkness will hide me
    and the light become night around me,"

    12 even the darkness will not be dark to you;
    the night will shine like the day,
    for darkness is as light to you.
    Since we can bring a lot of whatever it is, I would also bring LOTR, and many other books that are great for re-reading.
    I would sneak a picture of my husband and daughter in as my bookmark.
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    Kathianne, Stephanie, Fuzzy, Gabby, Trigg, Trinity, Mundame, mrskurtsprincess, JohnDoe, Liberalnation, etc.- let's hear what the women folk would bring...
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