If you could have ONE wish.......
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A million dollars would do the trick. I'd have enough to retire, help out my Brother and a good friend who have been out of work for way too long, and fund the artistic ventures of myself and others.
Or, if we're talking about super-power-type wishes, I'd want the ability to astrally project through time and space. Dinosaurs, historical events, Mars, Jupiter, exoplanets would all be available for sightseeing.
Or, if we're talking about super-power-type wishes, I'd want the ability to astrally project through time and space. Dinosaurs, historical events, Mars, Jupiter, exoplanets would all be available for sightseeing.
Depends on how the wish works. If the money just appears in front of you, it would take some explaining (and where did it come from? Is it counterfeit or did it disappear from somewhere else?). But not if reality simply bends to accommodate your wish, e.g. you suddenly win the lottery or something.
But what if you found them on that planet and after observing for some time you gradually came to realize they were building their invasion force for earth? You couldn't tell anyone, no one would believe you.
^^^^ OMG is that Stahma!!!!!
Well when we get working artificial eyes we can work on kidneys and pancreas.....
I'm surprised we haven't had trials with them now.
I'm surprised we haven't had trials with them now.
If I had one wish, it would be for all the children of the world to join hands and sing together in the spirit of harmony and peace. 
I'd bring back my mom, alive and healthy.
I'd bring back my mom, alive and healthy.
meh, eventually you would be pretty fucked up watching people you love grow old and die many, many times over.
They covered this theme many times in Doctor Who. While he isn't immortal he outlives his companions and that's part of the reason he has to leave them behind, and the heartbreak it causes.
Eventually the weight of your immorality would colour all joy you had in new friends or lovers or children because you would know you would be there for a thousand years after they were not.
So true....
Unless you were some kind of thrillseeker it would not be fun after the first 1000 years.
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That's possible. I wouldn't want to have to deal with that a million times over. Alright, we'll fall back on my second choice for one wish, which is that I would eliminate world hunger.
Selfish wish: to never need sleep, either physically, neurologically, or psychologically. I could do anything I wanted!
Less selfish wish: that my parents would live healthy, happy, independent lives until they were 104 and 105, whereupon they would pass away painlessly together in their sleep.
Least selfish wish: to end absolute poverty in the world.
My conscience would force me to choose 2 or 3.
Less selfish wish: that my parents would live healthy, happy, independent lives until they were 104 and 105, whereupon they would pass away painlessly together in their sleep.
Least selfish wish: to end absolute poverty in the world.
My conscience would force me to choose 2 or 3.
I'd write a novel about a guy who gained the power of astral projection and visited a planet of aliens building an invasion force for Earth and tried to tell people but they wouldn't believe him so he wrote a novel about a guy who gained the power of astral projection and visited a planet of aliens building an invasion force for Earth and tried to tell people but they wouldn't believe him and when events start to play out exactly as in the novel everyone realizes it's all true and all the nations of Earth unite just in the nick of time to repel the invaders.
Or I'd haunt the alien leader like Marley's ghost and make him change his mind.
I guess if you really could astrally project anywhere they you could find out so many secrets you shouldn't know that this might swing people towards believing you. Alternatively you could find out enough infformation to blackmail people into helping defend the earth
Coming up with a single wish that would help everyone is tricky. You can cure world hunger sure, but as a result there'd be a whole lot more people taking the world's resources, which would cause problems of its own and potentially kill as many as hunger does.
Two wishes would be better, at least then I could use one philanthropically then use the other just to give myself the ability to time travel or something
This strip made me think of my favourite joke to tell: (When I google it, I come up with a different variant that I dont like as much, so I'm going to have to type the whole thing
):A man walks into a bar and he has an orange for a head. He walks up to the bar and asks for a pint of lager. The barman, trying hard not to make an issue of his condition, starts pouring the drink. Unfortunately, he starts to find the customer rather distracting and lets the pint start to spill over.
On recovery he says: "Look, I'm really sorry about this, but I can't help noticing that you have an orange for a head..."
The customer replies, "Don't worry, I'm getting used to it. I'm not offended."
Barman, "But, why?... How?..."
Customer, "It's a rather strange story, but I was clearing out my attic the other day, trying to make some room for extra storage. There were lots of boxes, and in one of them there was a really old, dusty looking lamp. I thought well this might be worth a bit if I clean it up a little. So I started rubbing it and dust was going all over the place. After a while, I realised there was not only dust, but smoke coming from the lamp, swirling in front of me and eventually taking shape. Eventually, it became a great figure of an extremely muscular man. In a booming voice he said, 'I am the genie of the lamp. I thank you for freeing me from my imprisonment. As a reward you may make any one wish of your heart's desire!'. And basically, that was how it happened."
The barman pauses for a while and clearly trying to take all this in, but eventually manages: "Right... erm... So... what did you wish for?"
Customer, "An orange for a head."
The real trick to it is to string the story out as much as possible, and when imitating the customer at the end act as if you are puzzled the barman even asked the last question, and that it was a perfectly normal thing to do.
The versions of it I found online involved 3 wishes, with the first two being really normal, and that feels to me like a completely different joke.
My wish is to read this novel
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If I had one wish, it would be for all the children of the world to join hands and sing together in the spirit of harmony and peace.
I'd bring back my mom, alive and healthy.
So would I. I miss my mom every day.
And her parents. It's been too long since I've seen them.
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