Wish poll
May31
I Created a wish poll. Considering people will have there input, I decided to add a post for people to add there 2 cents.
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I would suggest, just cause you wish for one item, doesn’t mean you’ll automatically get another. Eg, You can be famous without being rich, or visa versa.
And you can’t wish for the same kind of thing twice (like Solving a world issue – air Pollution and then Solving a world issue – Pure drinking water for everyone).
Of course, be careful of how you plan the wish–for example, living forever does not necessarily include eternal youth, so you might live forever as an extremely old person. On the other hand, you should probably specify just how young you want to be if you choose eternal youth, lest you be a baby or child forever. Personally i would say “just old enough to be taken seriously as an adult” would be the sweet spot for youth.
This is why wishing to “live forever” and “shapeshifting” is the solution. Getting a bit old? Shapeshift a younger body. Need to make people think you’re mature? shapeshift an older body.
Be young and fit.. but not forever.. I think forever would be a curse
Wish freedom, well-being, and happiness for the genie and send her on her way.
Freedom for genie, be healty, smart Chakat in middle age for me and maybe, maybe something else for many decades later.
Super powers: shapeshifting (self and others)
World Issue: end GLBTQIetc harassment / 2nd-class-citizen treatment
-something- for -someone- else: everyone (who wants) can have their body magically become the body of their dreams
Superpowers: The ability to manipulate boundaries (Touhou fans know what’s up)
Riches: That way I don’t ever have to work and can do what I want
Long Life: So I can enjoy the former two
Hey this list is missing a REALLY important thing to wish for – a Lawyer to make sure the genie doesn’t mess up by accident or on purpose.
Wouldn’t help, considering the genie can mess up the Lawyer wish.
PS: Important note for the minority who decided to solve some world problem (including peace and hunger): If you wish something for yourself and the genie mess up the wish, it’s bad for YOU. If you wish to solve some world problem and the genie will mess up the wish, it may be end of the civilization. Looking at the wishes … “Survive the zombie apocalypse” … why do I think it can become very sensible second wish after the “Eradication of Hunger” wish being granted too creatively?
You left out sex!
Question. If carefully worded can one wish grant you multiple options? For example: If I choose to have the superpower to create and control life, could I controlling my body and give myself eternal youth that way, and therefore not have to waste a wish on it?
I voted “Superpowers” because that would be awesome (I’d go with flight and teleportation), “Riches” so I could be like Bill Gates and use my money for the good of the world, and “Solve a world problem” so I could get one big thing out of the way that money couldn’t solve by itself.
Now that I think about it, the world problem I’d solve would be climate change. I’d have to be careful about how I word the wish, though, because it’s already too late to fully stop the destruction that global warming is going to do to our planet in the next century. But simply reverting the CO2 level in the atmosphere to per-industrial levels won’t convince humanity to stop fucking up. It’d probably just give the worst polluters an excuse to get even worse than they already are. So maybe what I’d do would be to wish that everyone in the world supported green technology and rapid CO2 scrubbing techniques. That would kill the fossil fuel industry in a relatively painless way (they’d go the way of the horse when automobiles came around, being swiftly phased out), and it would give us the best chance to combat the damage we’ve already done before it’s too late.
Super Powers: Be successful in what ever endeavor I choose.
And I agree their is no get the girl of your choice options, or bring back Elvis.
Super Powers: Be successful in what ever endeavor I choose.
And I agree their is no get the girl of your choice options, or bring back Elvis.
Just a reminder to all the DnD fans, freedom for a genie might mean you take its place and wish master would have you use all three wishes to open a portal to another realm to invade this one.
Ah, the three-wish list. I’ve gone through many iterations of this, so I’ll just list the most important three.
1.) A Green Lantern power ring and battery (later Green & Blue ring and battery). There’s your superpowers. For Marvel fans, Q-bands or the reality ring. I can do anything with this wish – turn dirt into gold coins, make myself more fit, fly, etc. You can program the ring for auto-defense for when you sleep.
Result? Try to live a life with power and freedom without other people finding out and wanting what you have.
2.) Turn all coca plants, marjiana plants, and poppy plants and all their sources and derivatives instantaneously into sawdust, along with ticks, mosquitoes, gnats, flies, and any insect or bug that harms man. Possible with wish #1’s result (GL ring), but it’d be nice to have it instantaneously happen all over the world instead of me doing all the work with the power ring, which would take days as I zoom around the world, doing several hectares at a time.
Result? No more drug additions or parasites. But also no opium-based painkillers, and certain birds eat mosquitoes. No hemp-based products.
3.) The ability to stop time and move and breathe and sleep normally while everyone else is stopped. (Would require the “eternal youth” wish as well, unless you have a power ring to keep yourself youthful.)
Result? Same as #1.
But what wishes come down to is: power, freedom, self-sanctification. We all want more power than what we have. We all want the freedom that power brings. And we want the self-justification that using that power requires.
Only one wish? To have my post-resurrection body, right now, before I die or go to Heaven. But God does not allow resurrected people to remain on Earth, so you would be brought to Judgement for your actions immediately.
I want to be young AND pretty forever. If I had to choose between the two, I’d go for pretty. And since I’m going to be living forever, an instantly and always believed ID. Then I’d go for a freebie for the rest of the world, no more nukes or something; no wait, for all nuclear weapons to turn into chickens. Just to imagine the generals and world leaders faces when they learn their nukes have vanished in a cluck of feathers.
I chose “Super Power” since Psychokinesis/Telekinesis is the super power I would want since I could accomplish many traditional powers(strength, flight, speed, et cetera) with that power alone 😛 .
Living forever is clearly something I’d want so I can live long enough to experience many possible future human achievements(hover technology becoming common place, virtual reality reaching the level of science fiction, space travel to Mars and beyond our solar system, et cetera).
It would probably be good to have a form of Eternal Youth for my third wish, although I did vote for “wish -something- for someone else” since I couldn’t think of something else to pick x3.