Three wishes

[water]

Three wishes


If anything could come true -- which three wishes would you have?

(Note that the fulfillment of a certain wish could have serious consequences for the order of things!)

My wishes are:
1. No tooth-fillings in my teeth.
2. (Something for a special someone -- I can't say it because I don't want to jinx it.)
3. Three more wishes.


What are yours?

[fahrenheit 451]

my first would be that no changes to anyone or anything that would not happen naturally or any harm to me or any living creature no deaths or murders due to any wish i make
and my second would be to have wish'es infinitely

[Enigma'07]

I would only have one wish, and that would be to know everything there is to know about every possible subject that facinates me. That would be awsome!

[StarOfEight]

1) A hockey team. Minor league'd be fine.

2) A house in Sydney, Dublin or Vancouver.

3) Fred Durst's brutal murder.

[cosmictraveler]

1. That all the children of the world could have loving, caring and kind parents.

2. That all the parents of the world could give their children all the love and kindness they can give.

3. That any unwanted children would find loving, caring foster parents that would treat them as their own with love and kindness.

[Closet Philosopher]

my first would be that no changes to anyone or anything that would not happen naturally or any harm to me or any living creature no deaths or murders due to any wish i make
and my second would be to have wish'es infinitely

I agree. That is exactly what I would wish for.

After my infinite wishes, I would go on to own the Maple Leafs, get to meet some of my favourite authors and musicians, get a job I like, get a lot of money, but I would wish to keep it secret, so that I can live a "normal" life, but go home to a huge underground mansion with roller coasters.

I would also help the poor, world peace... all that good stuff too.

[Dreamwalker]

1. Knowledge of everything
2. Depending on the first one and the resulting increase in my knowledge
- meeting god (or whatever else there is to be found)
- If god nonexistent I would perhaps wish something like world peace, happyness for everyone, no more misery and so on.
3. Also dependend on the first one, and not possible to say yet.

[DCLXVI]

Immortality, Invulnerability, and eternal youth.

[EvilSquirrel]

1.To be anywhere but here
2.Ultimate knowledge
3.3 more wishes

4.Money
5.Telekentic powers
6.Immortality...or rather extended youth..It'd suck to comit suicide then wake up in pain because you can't die.

Yes I'm selfish but atlest I'm telling the truth. These are things I really want. Things I'm most likely never going to be able to get. Maybe in realife I would say something less selfish but on here I might as well say I am.

[SkippingStones]

1. To never relenquish my desire to learn more, about myself and the world.
2. To at some point in my life, love the woman who will become of my dreams.
3. To be able to fly.

[EvilSquirrel]

Wouldn't it be kind a scary being able to fly without wings or anything? Hmm. I like my feet on the ground...Although it might be cool. I'm all for bungee jumping....Skydiving at the least but flying?

[pavlosmarcos]

my first to eleviate world hunger and disease
my second to destroy abnormal genes that cause blindness, deafness, muteness, (I dont like the word dumb) downs syndrome etc and to make human's immune to any germ's or virus'es
my third to make sure no child was abused or women abused/raped and that nobody ever lived in poverty again so that every living person had a good healthy happy life.

[Jenyar]

1. Wisdom for everyone
2. Immortality for all loving, moral people (wouldn't want to be stuck alone with everybody else dead, neither with the world as it is.)
3. A significant other

[Alpha]

I'll presume there's no wishing for more wishes, else what's the point of saying 3 wishes?
1 - For everyone to realise they have the right to do what they want so long as they don't infringe on the rights of others, and always act on that understanding.
2 - To win the lottery on the next lottery ticket I buy (maximum amount).
3 - If possible, I'd save my 3rd wish until I was sure I wanted to use it, and what I wanted to use it for. If not... Probably an enhanced mind/brain for superior memory and reasoning skills.

[OverTheStars]

1. answers to all my questions.
2. love to be immortal; to die knowing that i will meet my loved ones on the other side.
3. for me and my significant other to die together, so we will never be left alone heartbroken.

[greywolf]

1.to use 100% of my brain with complete control.
2.to have complete control of and to manipulate every cell in my body.
3.the ability to travel through time at will.
-now those are some wishes- :D

[Communist Hamster]

1. End to world hunger
2. World peace
3. NASA to get unlimited funding (and I'll get a job there)

[The Singularity]

Fantasy wishes,
1) Supernatural powers of any kind (preferably the power to control the elements of nature and telekinesis/telepathy)
2) Winning the ultimate lottery draw
3) Immortality / eternal youth

Realistic but will not happen in my lifetime wishes:
1) World Peace (not the 70's kind of World Peace ... I mean the end of global conflicts)
2) The cure for AIDS
3) End of world hunger

Realistic and should happen within my lifetime wishes
1) For television networks to come up with better quality programs instead of reality TV
2) The resurgence of the Star Trek franchise
3) To have a successful life (health, financially, and family wise)

Honourable mention:
For the world to actually care about the environment and actually do something to help preserve it
The end of oil usage as primary energy source
The discovery of a better means of interstellar travel

[water]

Why did this thread get into the Cesspool?!

[Dreamwalker]

Perhaps you should have wished that it stays in free thoughts?

Naw, I don´t really understand, I thought it was good...but perhaps there were similar ones already in existence? :(

[water]

No, there were no similar ones.
Maybe the mods thought this thread to be TOO IDEALISTIC.

Ah, it was too much of a challenge. Real life always seems to be so.

[Dreamwalker]

No preexistent threads? Then I think it should have stayed in Free Thoughts. :(

Anyway, I have some more wishes:

1. Being dumb, just a plain idiot
2. Staying naive for all my life
3. live a simple, happy life and die at an old age


great wishes, are they not? I think it is the most comfortable way of living...from a certain perspective.

[poposhisho]

1.to live a comfortable, happy life- one that i can say that i either made a difference or that i will be remembered for-
2.to die an honorable death
3.for everyone who is living and will live to be without immoral pain and sufferring

[water]

Dreamwalker,

1. Being dumb, just a plain idiot
2. Staying naive for all my life
3. live a simple, happy life and die at an old age

No go, won't do. Too late.
Unless, of course, one sets out to tell oneself every moment of the day that one is really naive and happy. Which usually lands you in a mental institution.

[Dreamwalker]

Hey, life in a mental institution might be happy and simple :p
And all the drugs....

[spuriousmonkey]

Maybe a moderator could move it to 'about members'?


Pretty please with sugar on top!?!

[jadedflower]

1. That all the children of the world could have loving, caring and kind parents.

2. That all the parents of the world could give their children all the love and kindness they can give.

3. That any unwanted children would find loving, caring foster parents that would treat them as their own with love and kindness.

Cosmic, once you first wish came true then all children would have parents that loved them and the other 2 wishes wouldn't be needed.

Yay! You get two more wishes...

How about; World Peace and no Hunger? ;)

[jadedflower]

1. For Everything to be perfect (in my eyes)

there. I don't need anymore wishes, that covers pretty much everything, no?

[Logically Unsound]

i think youd soon get tired of everything perfect... im sure someone wrote a book about that or something. of course, unless you dont mind having your entire life, personality, and being changed to become perfect.... :eek:

1. Being dumb, just a plain idiot
2. Staying naive for all my life
3. live a simple, happy life and die at an old age


me like these ones, yet i think ill go with:
1. omniscience
2. omnipotentcy
3. ability to spell everything (except thatd come under omnipotency, as would.... anything else....)

[jadedflower]

i think youd soon get tired of everything perfect...

No, because perfection is relative. I wouldn't get tired because that wouldn't be perfect.

[Logically Unsound]

'lol' good point
something about it just seems somewhat disturbing though.
but, as no doubt youd point out if i didnt, that wouldnt be perfect. dammit, you cant win... (except you could if everything was perfect) argarggg....:(
now things are not perfect. i blame perfection....

[water]

Yes, moderator, please reconsider moving this thread into About the Members.

This thread is about wishes, and wishes are essential if one wants to achieve something in life.

You, moderator, are trying to take this away from people. You could be called to responsibility if we end up being a bunch of losers.

Butterfly effect, don't forget.

[invert_nexus]

1. I wish a moderator would move this thread to About the Members... :D

Kidding. Don't want to waste a wish. I do agree though. The mods seem to be heavy handed sometimes on what ends up down here. And with the threatened purging of the cesspool drawing near it becomes even more poignant.

1. I wish to have time to learn everything.
2. I wish to have capacity to learn everything.
3. I wish that I should have the initiative to use what I have learned in a positive manner.

Lame wishes, huh? Screw it, I'm a lame guy. It's the simple things that are beautiful in this world.

Notice I didn't wish to know everything. Half the fun is in acquiring knowledge. Having it given to you is a waste and would make it seem... tawdry. Tarnished somehow. And wishing for the initiative to use it is also key. It's easy to sit on knowledge and bask in the warm glowing warming glow of self-fulfillment. There's got to be more than that or it's pointless. Isn't it?


Edit: Oh Rosa, tricky wishing for more wishes like that, but you're apt to get stuck in a loop if you do so. First rule of wishing. You can't wish for more wishes. Continuity must be maintained. You threaten the balance of the cosmos. ;)

[spike_k]

Three wishes


If anything could come true -- which three wishes would you have?



All kind of selfish, I guess. A lot of money, to have a movie made before I die....and to have my family back alive.

[antifreeze]

since megalomania kicks ass,
1. omniscience
2. omnipotence
[well played, unsound]
3. ...since i don't really need a third wish, "I wish a moderator would move this thread to About the Members... :D"

by the way, immortality blows. don't wish for it.

[Logically Unsound]

i do, you all just are peseants :p

[water]

Smooth Operator,

Edit: Oh Rosa, tricky wishing for more wishes like that, but you're apt to get stuck in a loop if you do so. First rule of wishing. You can't wish for more wishes. Continuity must be maintained. You threaten the balance of the cosmos.

Point taken.
But I also said in the opening post that before wishing for someting, one should think that the fulfillment of certain wishes could change the order of things on a grand scale. Including wishing for wishing.
Heh, a tricky loop this is. :)

[water]

Okay, people: let's be MOVERS and SHAKERS!!


***
Dear Porfiry,

The thread "Three Wishes" has been moved to the Cesspool, but no explanation has been given. Members there think that this thread should be in the About the Members section of the forum, as it is a place for wishes -- and wishes are important.

I therefore ask you to give an explanation why this thread is to be in the Cesspool, and if it is to stay there, why so.

But I do kindly ask you to move it to the About the Members section.


With kind regards,

R.

[James R]

I've moved it to "About the Members". If any other mods have a problem with that, I'm happy to discuss it.

[spuriousmonkey]

Hoorah!!!! James is our saviour! Praise James!


anyhoo...my 3 wishes:

1. I wish things has gone different with the love of my life.
2. I wish that scienced once more becomes the domain of those people who are interested and fascinated by nature.
3. I wish that no man can ever again assume power over others.

[water]

Thank you for moving it, James!
:)

[invert_nexus]

James is the man!! I wonder why he didn't post his wishes. Is he so logical and scientific that he has no hopes and aspirations? No fanciful wishes? Or is that they're too personal to share with the common folk? ;)

[jadedflower]

since megalomania kicks ass,
1. omniscience
2. omnipotence
[well played, unsound]


I don't think I'd want to know everything. Make that optional omniscience, or you'll never have a surprise or a conversation again.

[Jenyar]

Omniscience is fine while other people don't have it. Knowing everything there is to know at a particular point in time might impress the girl next door, but knowledge isn't everything. Knowing how to play the game isn't the same as playing it. Think "John Doe" (the TV series).

The real problem is omnipotence. Can one omnipotent being move another? And if you're the only omnipotent being, the local "can-do guy", does that mean other people have no freedom? If they do, does that mean you can't control them?

[invert_nexus]

I don't think I'd want to know everything. Make that optional omniscience, or you'll never have a surprise or a conversation again.

That's why I wished not for omniscience but rather for the time and capacity to learn everything. Not only does omniscience make life boring, it would make the knowledge cheap and tawdry. One must earn knowledge not be handed it.

Omnipotence is another issue. Why bother wishing for omnipotence when near infinite knowledge will grant the same effect?

[curioucity]

1) I wish my wishes could come true
2) I wish I could take control on which wishes of mine may come true and which ones should just go in my dreams
3) I wish everyone would feel misfortune anytime I got it

[Arditezza]

I wish that there were no more starving children, ever.
I wish that there was a cure for cancer.
I wish that people weren't so ignorant.

[genteel]

1. A loving caring world.
2. No more poverty.
3. Unlimited resources.

[water]

Okay, to everyone dizzying about omniscience:

How on earth can you make claims about it -- you don't know what it would be like to be omniscient!!
Or do you?


***

Jenyar,

Omniscience is fine while other people don't have it. Knowing everything there is to know at a particular point in time might impress the girl next door, but knowledge isn't everything.

Ah, male god-complexes over god-complexes ...


Knowing how to play the game isn't the same as playing it.

Being omniscient includes playing the game too.


The real problem is omnipotence. Can one omnipotent being move another?

Yes. It is called PLAYING.

[cosmictraveler]

Hey, life in a mental institution might be happy and simple :p
And all the drugs....


It isn't a happy place at all inside and the drugs they give you make your mind like putty and never get you high like you want to believe.

[Dreamwalker]

When did I say "high"? How about a lobotomy? I did not say that it would be a great feeling, but you would be encased in your own private universe. Not that I like that so much, but for some, it might be a happier experience than life.
Furthermore, that post was a joke. :D

[cosmictraveler]

I know that you were joking but others might not have realized that hence I gave the way it really is on the inside. We all already live in our own "universe" wherever we may be located. We all believe in whatever we want and try to live our lives the way we see fit to, or as best possible with the money or circumstances that we are in.

[antifreeze]

Make that optional omniscience, or you'll never have a surprise or a conversation again.
i hate surprises, and i not a big fan of conversation either.
And if you're the only omnipotent being, the local "can-do guy", does that mean other people have no freedom?
i should hope so.
Why bother wishing for omnipotence when near infinite knowledge will grant the same effect?
expediency, and i doubt knowing how to do something equates the ability to do it. just because i know how to shoot someone does not mean i have a gun.
Ah, male god-complexes over god-complexes ...
it isn't about being a male just as it isn't about "impressing the girl next door." only a god could accomplish what i want to accomplish.

[water]

it isn't about being a male just as it isn't about "impressing the girl next door." only a god could accomplish what i want to accomplish.

What do you want to accomplish?

[antifreeze]

i would like to destroy the universe. personally. just a touch of megalomania is all. :D

[water]

i would like to destroy the universe. personally. just a touch of megalomania is all. :D

So you would like to destroy the Universe.
1. Why?
2. Are you are part of the Universe? Will you be destroyed too?

[Rappaccini]

1. I wish for immortality for the human race.
2. I wish for expertise in all areas of modern physics, engineering, computer science, chemistry, and medicine.
3. I wish for an infinite number of wishes, a bottomless reservoir I may only tap if I am sufficiently desperate.

[MewSkitty]

My three wishes would be:

1: that Max and Jirachi (Max is my favorite charictor and Jirachi is my second favorite side charittor) where real and with me
2: That Toobeck was with me (I don't know if Toobeck servived the disease that killed my people)
3: That it was easyer to destroy evil.

[Athelwulf]

1: I wish for a chance to redo all the bad parts of my life to make them better
2: I wish to know the truth behind everything
3: More wishes! Really, though? Hmm . . . Well, it's semi-cliché, but I wish for peace, love, health, and happiness throughout the world!

[Jubatus]

I would need but one wish, where the latter might encompass the first:

The annihilation of all existence

or

Unlimited luck.

Those are the 2 ultimate wishes that cannot result in anything wrong.

[Logically Unsound]

peace, love, health, and happiness

thats four wishes man, just saying them in one sentence doent change that ;)

[moonlight]

I wish if I were a bird.

[redarmy11]

1. 486 gazillion pounds.
2. An end to war, poverty, hunger and miscellaneous suffering (yawn, eh readers!).
3. 994 gazillion more wishes plus a troupe of hunter-killer robot penguins with frickin' lazer beams on their heads.

[kenworth]

1.to be able to learn/forget things at will (sometimes the process of learning is satisfying)

2.to be in perfect health until the day i die :P

3.to have bernards watch (kids tv program where the kid has a watch which can manipulate/stop time)

4.to have aquilla.

[The Devil Inside]

1. my first wish would be for Mexico to have control of a nuclear arsenal the size of the U.S.A.'s.

i would hold back my last 2 wishes to compensate for any insanity that would come as a result of my first wish (can never be too safe).

[Avatar]

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[Avatar]

1. For all people now and in the future to realise and be aware of what they are.
I don't think anything matters after that. So I keep the wishes just in case our sun decides to go nova.

[Roman]

1. I wish that Avatar didn't have his two wishes.
2. I wish that the sun goes Nova.

I'll keep my third wish in case Avatar figures a way around my first wish using one of his remaining wishes.

[Oli]

1) I wish I knew how to express my next two wishes to achieve the maximum benefit for myself and everyone else.
2) ...
3)...
or alternatively only one wish required:-

I wish none of it had ever happened.

[Syzygys]

I will make wishes relating to my posts on Sciforums:

I wish:

1. People would breed less.
2. People wouldn't have a problem with reality/truth.
3. People would get the same actions/treatment as they do to others.

All who wished 3 more wishes cheated. Anyway, let's make it more interesting and you can have only one wish:

I wish happiness.... :)

[redarmy11]

No, let's not, as that isn't what the thread's about. The thread is about... erm, something to do with 3 wishes anyway - NOT one wish. And wishing for more wishes is strategy - NOT cheating. Like when the Government wishes for more money and puts taxes up. Idoit.

[Ghost_007]

1. To be able to breathe fire at will, and maybe have wings
2. Ownership of Liverpool FC.
3. To have the watch that Kenworth stole from Bernard

[orcot]

Sight what would I want. Let's see
1) to be able to walk freely, unharmend and unrestricted with leverache (money) for 1 week on this world 700 years from now as it would have been if I didn't make the wish and be able to retreave anything that fits in whatever container I dessire.
That should give me a legal way to become a triljonair in a fun way.

2) That my protection mentally and fisically are asured for the next 40 years meaning no terminal ilnisses or being shot at and no alsheimer but allows little wounds and wathever pshyco stuff that makes life fun (intoxication for example)

3) I don't now wish that life has evolved on a planet around alpha centauri that by now has a dominant "intiligent" race that's wont be space capable for a other 1000 years.

Yeah I know their silly

[Syzygys]

The thread is about... erm, something to do with 3 wishes anyway - NOT one wish.

You probably never played this game when you were a child. The rule is always you can't have more wishes. Who wants to listen to people's UNLIMITED wishes? We are interested only in the most desirable wishes.

And wishing for more wishes is strategy - NOT cheating.Idoit.

Then OBVIOUSLY one need only 1 wish, and that would be unlimited wishes.

You are the idoit, whatever that means... :D

I wish people wouldn't be idoits...