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The age-old question. If you had one wish, what would it be? You may not wish for more or infinite wishes. You may not wish for something which allows you to get more wishes. You may not wish for a person which allows you to get more wishes.

Here's mine (Not very original, oh well. ): If I had one wish, it would be to have no reason to make one. (Somewhat of a motto for some optimistics)

Color me materialistic but I wouldnt mind waking up with one of these on my driveway: http://www.rsportscars.com/eng/cars/vanquish_s.asp

Color me materialistic but I wouldnt mind waking up with one of these on my driveway: http://www.rsportscars.com/eng/cars/vanquish_s.asp
HOLY S***! A v12 engine. Hot damn!

I would wish to be forced to do my essay and stop procrastinating on NS general
=S

That or muffins ... probably muffins.

Invulnerability. Duh.

Eternal youthful life. Everything else (theoretically) can be done with enough time.

HOLY S***! A v12 engine. Hot damn!
I saw one of those babies at the Dallas Auto Show. They look even better in person.

Death, actually. Immediate, painless, permanent nonexistence.

Eternal youthful life. Everything else (theoretically) can be done with enough time.

Yeah, and then you get hit by a car the next time you cross the road.

Invulnerability FTW.

Death, actually. Immediate, painless, permanent nonexistence.
Meh. What do you think I wished for? You don't need anything in death.

Here's mine (Not very original, oh well. ): If I had one wish, it would be to have no reason to make one. (Somewhat of a motto for some optimistics)
So you'd wish for death? I can get rid of my mortal desires with 10 minutes, a warm tub and a switch blade.
On the other hand, getting an army (say, an even million? Not too many, one hates to be greedy) of slave warriors willing to fight till the death based solely on my word, that is a wish.

For pie warfare to replace conventional warfare. :)

"CRUSH THE ENEMY! READY THE CHERRIES!"

*20 miles away*

"OH SHIT, CHERRY PIES INCOMING! GET OUT OF HERE!"

Death, actually. Immediate, painless, permanent nonexistence.

Mate, you don't need a wish to get that. :p

So you'd wish for death? I can get rid of my mortal desires with 10 minutes, a warm tub and a switch blade.
On the other hand, getting an army (say, an even million? Not too many, one hates to be greedy) of slave warriors willing to fight till the death based solely on my word, that is a wish.
Make it mercenaries.

i would wish for my bank accounts to be filled to an infinite amount of money

who needs more wishes when you have money:D

So you'd wish for death? I can get rid of my mortal desires with 10 minutes, a warm tub and a switch blade.
On the other hand, getting an army (say, an even million? Not too many, one hates to be greedy) of slave warriors willing to fight till the death based solely on my word, that is a wish.
No man, along that line of thought, how bout fifty billion Space Marines, WITH transport ships and Dreadnaughts! Today, Earth! Tomorrow, THE GALAXY!

Mate, you don't need a wish to get that. :p

Immediate. As in, my brain can't respond quick enough to register pain, or even what's happening. I don't want to be aware beforehand that I'm going to die, either.

i would wish for my bank accounts to be filled to an infinite amount of money

who needs more wishes when you have money:D

When the value of that currency is deemed worthless.

Pardon the emo... I wish I could be with her again.

The age-old question. If you had one wish, what would it be?

Peace on Earth and goodwill to all mankind.


Simple enough, but it still brings literal tears to my eyes.

I would wish to be a god..with infinite powers..that way i could get whatever i wanted to. :D

Peace on Earth and goodwill to all mankind.


Simple enough.

Boooooring. ;)

Pardon the emo... I wish I could be with her again.
http://img198.imageshack.us/my.php?image=persistence9di.jpg

Yeah, and then you get hit by a car the next time you cross the road.

Invulnerability FTW.

I felt that the eternal part implies immortality...

Invunerability just means shrivveling up until you become a dried prune who can't move from arthritis. Sure you live forever, but you can't do anything.

I'd wish for the ability to grant other people's wishes.

Boooooring. ;)

In the words of our Lord* 'You are forgiven'.


* Pete Townshend.

The ability to warp reality to whatever I want it to be :D

When the value of that currency is deemed worthless.

I think an infinite amount of money would bring that around quite rapidly...talk about inflation.

I'd wish for a device that turns whatever I put in to it into pure gold after 24 hours (to give me time to remove something I accidentally dropped, for example). It would not be able to fit anything larger than a conventional basketball within (to prevent people from throwing me in to it or to prevent people from falling in to it) and would, in the event it were stolen, be returned to me immediately by simply reciting a secret command phrase.

I would have everything I needed moneywise, and I wouldn't have to worry about it becoming worthless anytime soon due to inflation because it's gold.

I'd wish for a device that turns whatever I put in to it into pure gold.

What happens when you place a parcel of pure gold into this wondrous device?

Make it mercenaries.
You have to pay mercenaries, slave warriors are free (well, you have to feed them, but that's not too big a deal. the local dog and cat populations could use some slimming) and can be used to do all sorts of other degrading tasks.

The ability to warp reality to whatever I want it to be :D
An escapists dream come true!

What happens when you place a parcel of pure gold into this wondrous device?
A hole is torn in the space-time-continium, resulting in the universe exploding.

A hole is torn in the space-time-continium, resulting in the universe exploding.

Ah, that old Bag of Holding/Portable Hole chestnut once again. To tell you the truth I suspected as much.

What happens when you place a parcel of pure gold into this wondrous device?

I guess it would either stay the same or be reshaped in to an ingot...

Either that or the device would catch fire and/or explode, given my luck. Somehow, some way I would end up being responsible for destroying the universe.

An escapists dream come true!

I guess that makes me an escapist then, huh? :p

I guess it would either stay the same or be reshaped in to an ingot...

Of course, given the fact that wishes always seem to be administered by some aspect of Loki, the trickster God, each use of this wondrous device would require as fuel a quantity of pure gold just slightly larger than a conventional basketball each time it was utilised.

The ability to warp reality to whatever I want it to be :D

The underlying issue is that your mind is shaped by everything you know of this universe. All of the concepts. Reality, consciousness, existence. It is impossible to understand anything beyond that. Where nothing is the same, where there are no laws, no reality - something entirely different. I can't put this into words, the English language fails me. My mind fails me.

an infinite supply of oil

The underlying issue is that your mind is shaped by everything you know of this universe. All of the concepts. Reality, consciousness, existence. It is impossible to understand anything beyond that. Where nothing is the same, where there are no laws, no reality - something entirely different. I can't put this into words, the English language fails me. My mind fails me.
Don't worry man, I understand. I look at the big picture too much as well.

an infinite supply of oil
:eek: VERY SMART MAN! VERY VERY SMART MAN!

I guess that makes me an escapist then, huh? :p
Join the club. Its mostly fun; mostly.

The ability to permanently enthrall and bend to my will anybody who listens to me speak for 5 minutes. I simply love the idea of creating a mob of fanatical followers.

Of course, given the fact that wishes always seem to be administered by some aspect of Loki, the trickster God, each use of this wondrous device would require a quantity of pure gold just slightly larger than a conventional baseball each time it was utilised.

Damn it, good point...

I guess it would either stay the same or be reshaped in to an ingot...

Either that or the device would catch fire and/or explode, given my luck. Somehow, some way I would end up being responsible for destroying the universe.


Or maybe it will turn inside-out, and turn the entire universe into gold.

The ability to permanently enthrall and bend to my will anybody who listens to me speak for 5 minutes. I simply love the idea of creating a mob of fanatical followers.

Tell me, do you have any feelings of insufficiency in everyday life?

The ability to permanently enthrall and bend to my will anybody who listens to me speak for 5 minutes. I simply love the idea of creating a mob of fanatical followers.
No man, you want this. The ability to control the physical body of every single person on the planet. That means that you can also compel a virus to exit or enter a persons body. It means you can control the persons age and bodily features. It also means you get to control their senses. But it also means that everyone isn't brainless. So they realize what's going on. So you can be sick and cruel to your harem girls/boys. And they realize what's going on. But they can't do anything about it, because they have no control over their body! Same as everyone else in the world.

Tell me, do you have any feelings of insufficiency in everyday life?
HEY! Stop trying to be The Therapist (http://redwing.hutman.net/~mreed/warriorshtm/therapist.htm)!
I AM THE OFFICIAL NS THERAPIST!

Or maybe it will turn inside-out, and turn the entire universe into gold.

I wonder if that would be better or worse than destroying the universe; maybe the gravitational pull generated by the gold stars would be so strong that it would cause the universe to collapse in on itself in to a new Big Bang.

I could use it as a new theory of the origin of the universe...wait a minute, everyone knows gold bullion goes perfectly well as a counterpart to strippers and beer...the last part of the FSM doctrine is complete!

No man, you want this. The ability to control the physical body of every single person on the planet. That means that you can also compel a virus to exit or enter a persons body. It means you can control the persons age and bodily features. It also means you get to control their senses. But it also means that everyone isn't brainless. So they realize what's going on. So you can be sick and cruel to your harem girls/boys. And they realize what's going on. But they can't do anything about it, because they have no control over their body! Same as everyone else in the world.
So you are a puppet master?

So you are a puppet master?
No. I'm just a control freak. And I am quite nihillistic!

HEY! Stop trying to be The Therapist (http://redwing.hutman.net/~mreed/warriorshtm/therapist.htm)!
I AM THE OFFICIAL NS THERAPIST!

Come now, there are enough twisted power-trip fantasies here for the pair of us to share.

No man, you want this. The ability to control the physical body of every single person on the planet. That means that you can also compel a virus to exit or enter a persons body. It means you can control the persons age and bodily features. It also means you get to control their senses. But it also means that everyone isn't brainless. So they realize what's going on. So you can be sick and cruel to your harem girls/boys. And they realize what's going on. But they can't do anything about it, because they have no control over their body! Same as everyone else in the world.

Don't stop there, include the brain. Having that kind of power would be arousing, irresistibly so. For them to realize that you own them. Completely. Every fiber of their being. And to relinquish that control.

Come now, there are enough twisted power-trip fantasies here for the pair of us to share.
Yeah. I therapise my self quite often. I find quite a few things wrong with my psyche. Ahh well.

Come now, there are enough twisted power-trip fantasies here for the pair of us to share.

Don't stop there, include the brain. Having that kind of power would be arousing, irresistibly so. For them to realize that you own them. Completely. Every fiber of their being. And to relinquish that control.

You see, I told you so.

993 Turbo S. The last in a long & glorious line of air cooled Porshces.

http://www.sikhworld.co.uk/Porsche%20images/PH17.JPG

Don't stop there, include the brain. Having that kind of power would be arousing, irresistibly so. For them to realize that you own them. Completely. Every fiber of their being. And to relinquish that control.
No no no. Controlling the brain makes them brainless, to the point where they don't realize the torture you are putting them through. It's funner when a guy realizes your making him kill everyone he loves. It's funner when your harem girl/boy realizes the naughty S&M things your doing to him/her. If they don't realize wha'ts going on, it takes all the pleasure out of it!

993 Turbo S. The last in a long & glorious line of air cooled Porshces.

http://www.sikhworld.co.uk/Porsche%20images/PH17.JPG
It looks like a midget car.

Tell me, do you have any feelings of insufficiency in everyday life?
No, I'd just love to own the world. And as long as everybody believes what I say I'd be the greatest Dictator ever!

No man, you want this. The ability to control the physical body of every single person on the planet. That means that you can also compel a virus to exit or enter a persons body. It means you can control the persons age and bodily features. It also means you get to control their senses. But it also means that everyone isn't brainless. So they realize what's going on. So you can be sick and cruel to your harem girls/boys. And they realize what's going on. But they can't do anything about it, because they have no control over their body! Same as everyone else in the world.
That's horrible! If I have control over people I don't want them to think I'm evil...even when I am.

That's horrible! If I have control over people I don't want them to think I'm evil...even when I am.
I want them to know I'm evil. I want them to suffer. If they lose their brain, they can't suffer, since they don't realize what's going on. If they have their brain, they can suffer plenty. I have fantasies about it. The power and torture is very arousing.

Omnipotence. I'd restrain myself, I promise.

No no no. Controlling the brain makes them brainless, to the point where they don't realize the torture you are putting them through. It's funner when a guy realizes your making him kill everyone he loves. It's funner when your harem girl/boy realizes the naughty S&M things your doing to him/her. If they don't realize wha'ts going on, it takes all the pleasure out of it!

I would never take control of their brain. I would simply influence it, allow them to come to the realization that they can't prevent me from doing anything I please. To make them feel, think, act. Total powerlessness, understood after their struggle against my domination is exhausted. When they willingly give themselves to me completely, I would release them.

Omnipotence. I'd restrain myself, I promise.
Yep. You won't sneak into Simonists shower every night... Right?

I would never take control of their brain. I would simply influence it, allow them to come to the realization that they can't prevent me from doing anything I please. To make them feel, think, act. Total powerlessness, understood after their struggle against my domination is exhausted. When they willingly give themselves to me completely, I would release them.
Oh yeah man. I do definently fantasize about that. I would so love to do that.

Don't stop there, include the brain. Having that kind of power would be arousing, irresistibly so. For them to realize that you own them. Completely. Every fiber of their being. And to relinquish that control.
You know what I find arousing? Emily Perkins. The thought of being dominated by an outside force, not so much. Even if that force is Canadian, dark haired and has a nice voice, which it probably won't be because pleasant people never try to take over the world.

I would wish for everyone I care for (friends, family, crushes, myself, etc.) to have happy and successful lives. However I could not be truly happy if I knew a wish is what made me successful and not my own talent or hard work and therefore an implicit part of my wish is that any memory of my having made the wish is forgotten.

...won't be because pleasant people never try to take over the world.

Tisch and pshaw.

Counterexample: the British Empire.

Tisch and pshaw.

Counterexample: the British Empire.
No. They didn't want the world. I mean, who would want Mexico as part of their empire?

I felt that the eternal part implies immortality...

Invunerability just means shrivveling up until you become a dried prune who can't move from arthritis. Sure you live forever, but you can't do anything.

Not really, since i'd be invulnerable to all outside effects, and one would assume pain and cellular death go hand in hand with that. To put it in other words, if nothing can harm me, surely age can't either.

Hmm, as an aside, the ability to shift my consciousness into somebody else's body on point of death would be just as awesome, if not more so.

Omnipotence. I'd restrain myself, I promise.

I thought that, but in effect that gives you unlimited wishes, so it's probably a no-go.

No. They didn't want the world. I mean, who would want Mexico as part of their empire?

Within any system of Empire there is always a necessity for some group of people who can be vilified, declared to be beyond the pale and generally treated as the Other. Their supposedly barbaric ways are used to reinforce the perception that the lives within the Empire are in fact cultured and civilized.

Bizarrely enough the US seems to have picked the same scapegoats.

Not really, since i'd be invulnerable to all outside effects, and one would assume pain and cellular death go hand in hand with that. To put it in other words, if nothing can harm me, surely age can't either.

Hmm, as an aside, the ability to shift my consciousness into somebody else's body on point of death would be just as awesome, if not more so.
Techincally, my wish involving world-domination allows that, as it allows you to control every physical body in the world, including everything in that physical body, would allow you to transfer your conciousness to anyone. So techincally, along that lines, in my wish about world-domination, you could essentially go transfer yourself into the spirit world and conquer that realm as well.

Not really, since i'd be invulnerable to all outside effects, and one would assume pain and cellular death go hand in hand with that. To put it in other words, if nothing can harm me, surely age can't either.

Hmm, as an aside, the ability to shift my consciousness into somebody else's body on point of death would be just as awesome, if not more so.

Would you absorb their psyche, destroy it, or coexist? Would they have a chance, a choice, of fighting?

Tisch and pshaw.

Counterexample: the British Empire.
You just drop me a line when that White (Wo)Man's Burden gets too much for you.

If i had one wish i would want to meet my true love while traveling to any third world countries to help build shelters, hospitals and bring fresh water.

The greatest thrill comes from aiding someone, even if they dont notice you always feel good about it later :)

Would you absorb their psyche, destroy it, or coexist? Would they have a chance, a choice, of fighting?
Destroy it. And even if they did have a chance of fighting, my conciousness would be so powerful it would easily defeat and destroy theirs. And no, they don't get a choice of whether or not I'm taking over their body. And if I find a woman who's personality I love incredibly, and I want her to be my eternal Empress, I'll transfer her conciousness into the body of a woman I enjoy the most. But I'll still have my harem. :D

I'd make myself supreme ruler over humanity. Then I'd form the slightly left leaning democracy, I've always dreamed of. And use my few moments as supreme ruler to get lots of nice crap.

Would you absorb their psyche, destroy it, or coexist? Would they have a chance, a choice, of fighting?

Hmmmm. Repress it, or something, maybe. Assuming that i'd have to die to make it possible, they were probably the SOBs that killed me, anyway, so I could leave it open to my personal whim. :D

You just drop me a line when that White (Wo)Man's Burden gets too much for you.

Huh?

Are you claiming that the British Empire wasn't out to grab as much as it could hold, and that simultaneously it wasn't based on a lifestyle of genteel tea-drinking, playing cricket and having picnics with lashings of ginger beer?

Ethical judgements made I none.

Huh?

Are you claiming that the British Empire wasn't out to grab as much as it could hold, and that simultaneously it wasn't based on a lifestyle of genteel tea-drinking, playing cricket and having picnics with lashings of ginger beer?
Cricket isn't "pleasant", cricket is "inane" (like baseball, but without requiring the players to remember anything complicated, like how to turn left while running) and being inane, or enjoying the inane, denies pleasantness.
Ethical judgements made I none.
Order your word sense no makes too.

an end to abortion

Cricket isn't "pleasant", cricket is "inane" (like baseball, but without requiring the players to remember anything complicated, like how to turn left while running) and being inane, or enjoying the inane, denies pleasantness.

You have missed the point: the real reason for cricket is as an excuse to sit outside in the sunshine doing very little.

Other cultures accomplish this by just, well, going outside and sitting in the sunshine, the English, being characteristically hidebound and regimented need to overlay some kind of rationale for doing so: thus cricket.

Schrandtopia']an end to abortion

Careful. There are several methods of ending abortion floating through my mind right now. Abortion isn't the only thing ended.

Order your word sense no makes too.

Hey, if it's good enough for Thomas More, it's good enough for me.

A para-military organization spanning the globe loyal to me and me alone.

Other cultures accomplish this by just, well, going outside and sitting in the sunshine, the English, being characteristically hidebound and regimented need to overlay some kind of rationale for doing so: thus cricket.
Once again, being hidebound and regimented isn't pleasant, it is annoying.
Pleasant people are content to say "Lets go sit in the sunshine", and then that is what they do. Unpleasant (aka British) people have to invent excuses to do enjoyable things because they're mortally afraid of the concept of pleasure.
Which brings me back to the White Man's Burden: if a pleasant person were to start taking over the world, they wouldn't invent stupid ass excuses to do so, they would simply do it, and the places that they dominated would be better for the intervention.

Which brings me back to the White Man's Burden: if a pleasant person were to start taking over the world, they wouldn't invent stupid ass excuses to do so, they would simply do it, and the places that they dominated would be better for the intervention.

Ah: I'm looking at 'pleasent' as defined by the masters of the world, rather than as defined by the subjugated.

I'd wish for Ascension (ala Stargate) or its equivalent in this universe. Infinite knowledge (and thus, power) rocks, even if you choose not to use it because you respect free will. :)

Ah: I'm looking at 'pleasent' as defined by the masters of the world, rather than as defined by the subjugated.
Well of course the British would define themselves as pleasant, no one wants to admit to being a flaming twat.
That doesn't change the fact that "pleasant" includes connotations of "pleasure", and so the pleasant don't have the whole "if it feels good, it must be a sin"-mentality that Imperial Britain made its name with. Pleasant people don't make excuses, they do and things work out; Unpleasant people always have the "best possible intentions" (by which they mean they've spent a long time inventing this batch of excuses), and so they tend to fail in truely spectacular form.
Case in point: no more British Empire, and most of the places it touched are miserable hell-holes.

I would wish for what I think to be instantly transcribed into text on my computer, when I so desired.

No more slaving over my dissertation and articles etc.

Well of course the British would define themselves as pleasant, no one wants to admit to being a flaming twat.
That doesn't change the fact that "pleasant" includes connotations of "pleasure", and so the pleasant don't have the whole "if it feels good, it must be a sin"-mentality that Imperial Britain made its name with. Pleasant people don't make excuses, they do and things work out; Unpleasant people always have the "best possible intentions" (by which they mean they've spent a long time inventing this batch of excuses), and so they tend to fail in truely spectacular form.
Case in point: no more British Empire, and most of the places it touched are miserable hell-holes.


ehh.. the "no more british empire" bit comes from suddenly finding themselves fighting on too meny frounts with too few forces.. and then american idiocy with some treaty dealio afterwards that basicly would have stuffed britain forever... unless they agreed to dispand their empire.

or so i'm told.

You said one wish.. Never said "you can wish for only one thing". In which case..

I wish I had $1,000,000 in my bank account, a Range Rover and a Bently, a luxurious boat of some description and perhaps a little less killing in the world or something just to balance the conscious out heh.

believe it or not, i don't not find this all that difficult of a question. mine in some ways, or at least as i perceive those ways, even resembles the first.

the complete, perminent and absolute end, to the tyranny of the dominance of aggressiveness, under any idiology, form of government, economic theory, or system of belief. especialy the aggressiveness of gratuitous conventionality.

=^^=
.../\...

The age-old question. If you had one wish, what would it be?
that my gf was instantly transformed to be the same age as me (or visa versa, i don't mind - it'd be pretty useful to do my A levels again actually, heh), so we could be together for longer :(

or, more simply, that we can be together for... as far as i can see into the future at least


or, an alternative would be wishing to wipe the debts of my parents clean so they can actually get on with life :(


edit: that said, having a shitload of money would kinda solve both problems lol :p (the latter one is obvious, and the former would mean i didn't have to go away to uni again)

Well of course the British would define themselves as pleasant, no one wants to admit to being a flaming twat.

Although few would define themselves as flaming twats some would define themselves as mean-assed motherfuckers which is a different thing from being pleasent.

my wish would be to have super-wife capabilities and with them to be able to make my husband's life most comfortable.

Two words: World Peace

http://www.ncsu.edu/midlink/dec98/peace/world_peace.gif

For pie warfare to replace conventional warfare. :)

"CRUSH THE ENEMY! READY THE CHERRIES!"

*20 miles away*

"OH SHIT, CHERRY PIES INCOMING! GET OUT OF HERE!"
Sir! The radar sir! It appears to be... jammed!

Although few would define themselves as flaming twats some would define themselves as mean-assed motherfuckers which is a different thing from being pleasent.
Yes, but at least it would be honest, the British need to invent excuses for everything demonstrates their lack of pleasantness.
Here is the Empire of Pleasant:
"Hey, Ted, it sure is nice outside."
"Of course, Alice, lets go sit in the sun."
*some days laterlater*
"Hey, Ted, it sure is nice to have things and be places."
"Of course, Alice, lets go spread ourselves thinly across the world and rape local economies so we can have everything and be every place."
And here is the British Empire:
"Hey, Ted, it sure is nice outside."
"Yes, Alice, but we must not go outside. Instead, let's sit inside and try putting nasty things in our alcohol to piss off the Irish."
"Of course, Ted, sunshine is the Devil's work, but what if we had to go outside."
"You mean, 'what if we invented some inane sport that an idiot could master in 30 seconds, and then forced other nations to play that sport, so that we needed to go outside every weekend as a point of national pride'?"
"Well, I was going to suggest setting the house on fire, but that actually sounds even more regulated and offers greater capacity to build upper-class angst."
"Quite."
*some days later*
"Hey, Ted, it sure is nice to have things and be places."
"Indeed, Alice, but nice things are so very French."
"It won't be like that, though. We need to go out take everyone else's land and possessions. It will make them better!"
"You mean like when I beat you last week for making eye contact with that servant?"
"Exactly! We must rape them for their own good!"

The age-old question. If you had one wish, what would it be? You may not wish for more or infinite wishes. You may not wish for something which allows you to get more wishes. You may not wish for a person which allows you to get more wishes.

Here's mine (Not very original, oh well. ): If I had one wish, it would be to have no reason to make one. (Somewhat of a motto for some optimistics)
Someone to talk to.

I would wish for my philosophical views to be truth (which isn't as limiting as it sounds, since they basically boil down to belief in infinite and inevitable possibility), with the stipulation that they need not be the ONLY truth, since that'd just be selfish.

I would wish for my philosophical views to be truth (which isn't as limiting as it sounds, since they basically boil down to belief in infinite and inevitable possibility), with the stipulation that they need not be the ONLY truth, since that'd just be selfish.
Um... wouldn't that then make them just what they are? ;)

I'd wish for a robot with laser beams in its eyes that would do all my grocery shopping and housework and things. And it would fly so I'd no longer have to waste my life away on public transport.

Either that or a never ending bag of chocolate chip cookies.

Screw world peace, I'd use my wish on ME.:D

I'd wish for a robot with laser beams in its eyes that would do all my grocery shopping and housework and things. And it would fly so I'd no longer have to waste my life away on public transport.

Either that or a never ending bag of chocolate chip cookies.

Screw world peace, I'd use my wish on ME.:D
Always better to spend a wish on possibilities. ;)

Omnipotence. I'd restrain myself, I promise.

Omnipotence for me. I wouldn't restrain myself. :D

Um... wouldn't that then make them just what they are? ;)

I certainly hope so! ;)

Yes, but at least it would be honest, the British need to invent excuses for everything demonstrates their lack of pleasantness.
Here is the Empire of Pleasant:
"Hey, Ted, it sure is nice outside."
"Of course, Alice, lets go sit in the sun."
*some days laterlater*
"Hey, Ted, it sure is nice to have things and be places."
"Of course, Alice, lets go spread ourselves thinly across the world and rape local economies so we can have everything and be every place."
And here is the British Empire:
"Hey, Ted, it sure is nice outside."
"Yes, Alice, but we must not go outside. Instead, let's sit inside and try putting nasty things in our alcohol to piss off the Irish."
"Of course, Ted, sunshine is the Devil's work, but what if we had to go outside."
"You mean, 'what if we invented some inane sport that an idiot could master in 30 seconds, and then forced other nations to play that sport, so that we needed to go outside every weekend as a point of national pride'?"
"Well, I was going to suggest setting the house on fire, but that actually sounds even more regulated and offers greater capacity to build upper-class angst."
"Quite."
*some days later*
"Hey, Ted, it sure is nice to have things and be places."
"Indeed, Alice, but nice things are so very French."
"It won't be like that, though. We need to go out take everyone else's land and possessions. It will make them better!"
"You mean like when I beat you last week for making eye contact with that servant?"
"Exactly! We must rape them for their own good!"

You make me happy. :)

Omnipotence for me. I wouldn't restrain myself. :D

I was going to say "omnipotence" but I figured that fell under the more-wishes rule.

I saw one of those babies at the Dallas Auto Show. They look even better in person.
There are a couple of those that live in Belfast...also seen a few DB9s and V8s about. Beautiful cars, even better when moving and you can hear them.

Oh yeah, my wish...true happiness.

I was going to say "omnipotence" but I figured that fell under the more-wishes rule.
Limitless power vs. Unlimited Wishes. No, I don't think they quite equate. :p

I would wish for true communism, as dreamed by Paris' Commune, to become real.

No more poverty, no more wars, no more needless sufferings, people working together and not against each other, ...

But well, I doubt any djinn could do that. We have to free ourselves from capitalism as from other forms of oppression, no supreme savior will do it for us.

Screw world peace, I'd use my wish on ME.:D
Indeed. To all those wasting their wishes on World Peace and Communism, look to this man and remember: "Charity starts in the home."

Indeed. To all those wasting their wishes on World Peace and Communism, look to this man and remember: "Charity starts in the home."

Many of the things I woud do would benefit my fellow man. But that's merely a side-effect. My real goal is to entertain myself. :)

Indeed. To all those wasting their wishes on World Peace and Communism, look to this man and remember: "Charity starts in the home."
I guess your home isn't very "charitable"?

I guess your home isn't very "charitable"?
How can it not be?

The only place we do things for others uncharitably in this world is the department store.

I guess your home isn't very "charitable"?
My home is very charitable: a wonderful "start", as it were, that never needs to go anywhere else. The best way to resist the evils of human society is to form smaller, independent groups.

My home is very charitable: a wonderful "start", as it were, that never needs to go anywhere else. The best way to resist the evils of human society is to form smaller, independent groups.

Garlic helps too. *nod*

I would wish for a ceremonial life-long job out of the limelight that guarantees me a modest annual salary off the state.

I would wish for a ceremonial life-long job out of the limelight that guarantees me a modest annual salary off the state.
Have you heard of Quixtar? :)

Have you heard of Quixtar? :)

Amway Deluxe?

Have you heard of Quixtar? :)

Should I have?

To die gloriously and instantly in successful defence of my faith, friends and family.

My home is very charitable: a wonderful "start", as it were, that never needs to go anywhere else. The best way to resist the evils of human society is to form smaller, independent groups.
Perhaps if you could look outside that tiny "perfect" little box that you've constructed, and look at the "idealistic" premise of this thread, then perhaps you could be far more charitable with no cost to you and your present ideology?

I'd wish for Ascension (ala Stargate) or its equivalent in this universe. Infinite knowledge (and thus, power) rocks, even if you choose not to use it because you respect free will. :)
Infinite knowledge will drive you insane.

believe it or not, i don't not find this all that difficult of a question. mine in some ways, or at least as i perceive those ways, even resembles the first.

the complete, perminent and absolute end, to the tyranny of the dominance of aggressiveness, under any idiology, form of government, economic theory, or system of belief. especialy the aggressiveness of gratuitous conventionality.

=^^=
.../\...
Ohhhh dude. I am SO going to use that at school! It'll piss off all the retarded emo, punks, gangstas, a girly girls. And I'll just laugh as they say "What did that mean?". Then I will let them wallow in the fact that they're all RETARDED!

Someone to talk to.
:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:
EMO ALERT! EMO ALERT! EMO ALERT! EMO ALERT! EMO ALERT!

I would wish for true communism, as dreamed by Paris' Commune, to become real.

No more poverty, no more wars, no more needless sufferings, people working together and not against each other, ...

But well, I doubt any djinn could do that. We have to free ourselves from capitalism as from other forms of oppression, no supreme savior will do it for us.
Indeed.

To die gloriously and instantly in successful defence of my faith, friends and family.
Martyr's suck. They should all die. Wait...

Perhaps if you could look outside that tiny "perfect" little box that you've constructed, and look at the "idealistic" premise of this thread, then perhaps you could be far more charitable with no cost to you and your present ideology?
My box isn't "perfect" by any means, for one thing I'm still manipulating the theory behind it and trying to assemble the right sort of group, but it is "my" box. Someday it may allow me to fully escape society, and until then I have the pleasure of working on a plan of action.
And world peace would still be a terrible thing, like Utopian Communism. With no struggle to fight in, no hierarchy to battle against, and full equality, the world would be an unforgiveably boring place. Life is pain and the struggle to survive, and if you take that fight away, you might as well be dead.

my wish = http://img233.imageshack.us/img233/508/alles13mv.jpg

my wish = http://img233.imageshack.us/img233/508/alles13mv.jpg
Meh. Not my type.

Meh. Not my type.

you just dont know any better...

you just dont know any better...
No... It's just the fact that she's TOO perfect. I don't like girls that aren't real. She's probably had ten botox injections, seven plastic surgeries, and three breast implants. I want a girl that's all natural.

My box isn't "perfect" by any means, for one thing I'm still manipulating the theory behind it and trying to assemble the right sort of group, but it is "my" box. Someday it may allow me to fully escape society, and until then I have the pleasure of working on a plan of action.
And world peace would still be a terrible thing, like Utopian Communism. With no struggle to fight in, no hierarchy to battle against, and full equality, the world would be an unforgiveably boring place. Life is pain and the struggle to survive, and if you take that fight away, you might as well be dead.
Yes, to quote a very good book: Be afraid when the bombs stop falling, for then the spirit is lost.

No... It's just the fact that she's TOO perfect. I don't like girls that aren't real. She's probably had ten botox injections, seven plastic surgeries, and three breast implants. I want a girl that's all natural.

i doubt shes done that...

i doubt shes done that...
Even if she hasn't, she's still too perfect for my liking.

My box isn't "perfect" by any means, for one thing I'm still manipulating the theory behind it and trying to assemble the right sort of group, but it is "my" box. Someday it may allow me to fully escape society, and until then I have the pleasure of working on a plan of action.
And world peace would still be a terrible thing, like Utopian Communism. With no struggle to fight in, no hierarchy to battle against, and full equality, the world would be an unforgiveably boring place. Life is pain and the struggle to survive, and if you take that fight away, you might as well be dead.
Somehow, I truly believe that you have contradicted yourself, in more ways than one, with these two paragraphs.

Somehow, I truly believe that you have contradicted yourself, in more ways than one, with these two paragraphs.
No, I haven't. Life isn't fun and the world is a mess, but if everything were perfect, then it would be unforgiveably boring and purposeless. Such a utopia would have no place for humans. Like the humans plugged into the prototype Matrix from the movie of the same name, we'd all just die off.
As to my "box"? Building it would allow me the resources to be free of the manipulation of other humans (except those voluntarily entered into the group), but it would hardly make things pointless. Instead, I and my companions would be in a better position to confront the world.

Infinite knowledge will drive you insane.

But what if you're already there? Is it safe then? :)

No, I haven't. Life isn't fun and the world is a mess, but if everything were perfect, then it would be unforgiveably boring and purposeless. Such a utopia would have no place for humans. Like the humans plugged into the prototype Matrix from the movie of the same name, we'd all just die off.
As to my "box"? Building it would allow me the resources to be free of the manipulation of other humans (except those voluntarily entered into the group), but it would hardly make things pointless. Instead, I and my companions would be in a better position to confront the world.
In your previous post, you suggested that you wanted to "fully escape society", and in this post, you talk about being in a "better position to confront the world". You are making little to no sense.

who needs more wishes when you have money:D
I'd wish for a power. A power that would either allow me to manipulate and alter this reality to suit my tastes, or to slip between alternate quantum universes at leisure to find one that does.

Who'd need money then?:D

In your previous post, you suggested that you wanted to "fully escape society", and in this post, you talk about being in a "better position to confront the world". You are making little to no sense.
Should I draw you a diagram?
Right now, I am within society. I have no choice in the matter: it's were I started and I lack a viable alternative (at the moment); moreover, I have years of philosophical programming designed to keep me in. As a result, I accept societies mandates and suffer in silence.
From within, there is little or nothing one can do. The US is a big place, filled with millions who want everyone to toe the line, and I'm one person.
Should constructing a smaller society (no more than a few individuals) work, one could move out of society, (or, "escape" it). Once outside, such a group would be free to act on its own rules.
In this smaller group, one has friends to assist them, and they're no longer just another ant in the hive, thus, they've improved the "position" that they have on the world and moved a bit further up the food chain.

Totally cliche, I know, but really:
WORLD PEACE

The age-old question. If you had one wish, what would it be? You may not wish for more or infinite wishes. You may not wish for something which allows you to get more wishes. You may not wish for a person which allows you to get more wishes.

Here's mine (Not very original, oh well. ): If I had one wish, it would be to have no reason to make one. (Somewhat of a motto for some optimistics)

For me, it would depend on who was granting the wish. If it's a djinni or a leprechaun, for example, then your wish might well result in your own death.
Dead people don't need to make wishes.

If dealing with a trickster, I'd simply wish that something good would happen.

If dealing with an entity or force that doesn't screw people over with their own wishes, I'd wish for the ability to know the answer to any question.

Should I draw you a diagram?
Right now, I am within society. I have no choice in the matter: it's were I started and I lack a viable alternative (at the moment); moreover, I have years of philosophical programming designed to keep me in. As a result, I accept societies mandates and suffer in silence.
From within, there is little or nothing one can do. The US is a big place, filled with millions who want everyone to toe the line, and I'm one person.
Should constructing a smaller society (no more than a few individuals) work, one could move out of society, (or, "escape" it). Once outside, such a group would be free to act on its own rules.
In this smaller group, one has friends to assist them, and they're no longer just another ant in the hive, thus, they've improved the "position" that they have on the world and moved a bit further up the food chain.
So, what you are proposing is a small separate "society", which would have to be by your rules, totally self sufficient.

Therefore your new "society" of a few individuals would have to operate on a socialistic or communistic level to survive, and yet you seem to loathe any kind of equality. Perhaps a diagram would be helpful.

Totally cliche, I know, but really:
WORLD PEACE
Truly a noble cause:

http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=10823083&postcount=96

:D

Therefore your new "society" of a few individuals would have to operate on a socialistic or communistic level to survive, and yet you seem to loathe any kind of equality. Perhaps a diagram would be helpful.
This society would be small, immediate, and composed of completely voluntary members. Everyone would have entered it by choice for the purpose of being better able to work against the world.
What I am against is populism and the idea that I should care about and accept billions of people just because they happen to have a vaguely similar DNA-structure. International harmony is a bad idea, a few people voluntarily being in harmony for the purpose of mutual benefit is useful and allows those people to have greater security and strength in themselves.

i'd wish for a grilled cheese sandwich. Like, one of the really perfectly cooked ones. Screw peace.

But what if you're already there? Is it safe then? :)

Ding-ding-ding! We have a WINNER! :)

hmm.. so many ways to go with a wish..
Happiness, world peace, world domination, secret moon base, space empire, omniscience, omnipotence, eternal youth (or untill I get tired of it, I doubt I would want to stay around after the sun blew up or the universe faded out).
It's tempting to go for something big, although what I really want is just to be happy..

i would wish to be zoomed forward 5 or ten years to a point where i have achieved my short-/medium-term ambitions and have a happy comfortable life. i'm fairly confident i will achieve this, i just can't be arsed with all the effort that will inevitably be involved, specifically, exams, dissertation and further degrees.

The age-old question. If you had one wish, what would it be? You may not wish for more or infinite wishes. You may not wish for something which allows you to get more wishes. You may not wish for a person which allows you to get more wishes.

Here's mine (Not very original, oh well. ): If I had one wish, it would be to have no reason to make one. (Somewhat of a motto for some optimistics)If you formulate it that way, I doubt you've ever seen "Wishmaster". I'd think very hard about what I'd want and how I were going to say it, and then decide if it was worth the risk of getting that wish fulfilled.

If you formulate it that way, I doubt you've ever seen "Wishmaster". I'd think very hard about what I'd want and how I were going to say it, and then decide if it was worth the risk of getting that wish fulfilled.
I remeber watching it. And the sequel. And the third part. AND the fourth part. Dude, incase you haven't read some of posts on some of the other threads, death would be the ultimate wish for me. So techincally, in my OP, I am wishing for death. I would greatly enjoy death.

Infinite power.

Can't go wrong there.

The ability to manipulate time at will.

i would wish for my bank accounts to be filled to an infinite amount of money

who needs more wishes when you have money:D
YES! I freaking HATE being a poor college student

John Lennon said it best "All you need is love":D