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Dasquian Belargic
Jul 14th, 2008, 05:25:20 AM
Imagine you're going to be stranded on a desert island. As a castaway, you have been given the opportunity to take a small selection of items with you:
Eight pieces of music (eight individual songs, not full albums)
One book (in addition to The Bible and Complete Works of Shakespeare, which everyone will have)
One luxury item (e.g. an instrument, some special food or drink, a journal to keep your thoughts in... etc)You're going to be on this island alone, and for an unknown amount of time, so pick carefully - because this is going to be all the intellectual sustenance and entertainment that you'll have for a while :p

Nya Halcyon
Jul 14th, 2008, 05:31:18 AM
If I don't want a bible, can I ditch it and take two books? I don't think the bible should be mandatory.

Dasquian Belargic
Jul 14th, 2008, 05:36:30 AM
Sorry, only one book for you... we bought the Bibles and Shakespeares in bulk so we have to take them with us :mneh Save it, and maybe you can use it as toilet paper! (It wouldn't be my preference to take it either, but the idea is not to force people to read it but to eliminate the possibility of people making the Bible their one book... cause that would be boring!)

Crusader
Jul 14th, 2008, 11:27:45 AM
eight songs:
1. Star Wars Theme
2. Sweet Home Alabama by Lyrnard Skynard
3. No Woman No Cry by Bob Marley
4. Leaving on a Jet Plane
5. Road Tripp'n by the Red Hot Chilli Peppers
6. Lithium by Nirvana
7. Under the Bridge by the Red Hot Chilli Peppers
8. Do you Remember by Jack Johnson

A book with blueprints for generators and engines

A set of things that allows me to measure all the things that I recreate in SI units. So that I can define time inseconds, length in meter, weight in kilogramm, tempreture in Kelvin and electric current in Amper. You can keep the stuff for amount of substance and luminous intensity.

I will be building stuff while listening to my eight songs until I am ready to enjoy the luxury of a modern society while the rest on the island is reading Shakespeares. I will be the king of the island and everyone will try to trade in stuff for my electricity.

Park Kraken
Jul 14th, 2008, 09:47:00 PM
Eight Songs:

Riese Riese - Rammstein
Moskau - Rammstein
Amerika - Rammstein
Armor - Rammstein
Imperial March - Star Wars
Last of the Mohicians opening theme
Evolution - Korn
God Bless the USA - some guy

Book: Sailing for Dummies

Item: Luxury Sailboat

Cat X
Jul 14th, 2008, 10:11:19 PM
Shakesphere suck - I mena really sucks. And I have read the entire works, which lead me to ask why did I do that?. So it'll be replaced by LOTR and I dont care abut the rules :) And the Bible is ocurse a given

Otherwise....

No music. Just a good sharp axe. Castaway on a island kinda hints of no long term power and thence no method to play music! But with an axe, I can make things to survive with. And the battle to survive, eat, gain shelter.... that'll be mental stimulus enough :)

Dasquian Belargic
Jul 15th, 2008, 10:11:32 AM
Well, let's just say you have a wind-up grammaphone or something to play the music on :mneh

Ryan Pode
Jul 16th, 2008, 07:01:51 AM
Why do we keep having to end up in less than favorable situaitons where we have to leave everything behind?!? WHY!?

Lilaena De'Ville
Jul 16th, 2008, 11:38:42 AM
All I need is a Wilson volleyball. :love