wishes

[emily leonard]

what is your wish? if you had 3 wishes what would they be and why?

my wish would be to fly (but not with wings) that would be amazing

[Spock]

I fly without wings.....I use an airplane.

[Nurvingiel]

An airplane without wings? (I know what my second wish would be... )

For my first wish, I wish for 1'000'000 more wishes!

Okay, but seriously, I'm glad you started this thread. The other day, I was pondering the X-files episode in which Mulder is granted a wish by a genie, and he asks for world peace. She the grants the wish, but he's now the only human being on the planet. The rest of the episode is spent trying to restore humanity.

So... what three wishes could you make to come as close as possible to peace on Earth? Maybe it's impossible for this ideal to actually be achieved, but I certainly think it would be worth three wishes to get closer.

But what would you say?


If I was going to wish for something for myself, I think being able to fly would be awesome. And of course, so the genie doesn't mess you up out of spite, you'd have to add a bunch of provisions like no physical changes, you can fly at very high altitudes without suffering from oxygen deprivation, etc.

[Lief Erikson]

The difficulty with wishing that you could fly is that tons of people will be staring at you, unless you only do it in your home (which would be limiting). You'd be talking to the press, going through all sorts of hassle over what should be simple pleasure. Though I suppose some people might consider the press attention to be simple pleasure too .

Annoying to have complications to simple, pleasant desires, isn't it? In dreams, one never has to worry about that.


I find it really wonderful as a Christian that Solomon was able to have his wish. God came to him in a dream and asked him what he wanted. That has got to have been very pleasant indeed .


By the way, Nurvi, it's usually taken for granted that people can't ask for vast numbers of extra wishes, when this game is played .

[Nurvingiel]

Originally Posted by Lief Erikson

By the way, Nurvi, it's usually taken for granted that people can't ask for vast numbers of extra wishes, when this game is played .

I know, I was making a joke!

You could fly at night. Or wear all sky blue. No one would be looking too closely in the sky for somebody flying.

[Lief Erikson]

That's true. But then, if I think hard enough about flying in the day, I might be able to fly during the night anyway, and without any loss of sleep . . .

I would really like to fly, though. Not exactly to fly, actually. To jump really high, really lightly. I've not dreamt of flying for years and years, and doing it was not nearly so fun as jumping. I've dreamt of the jumping several times. These are probably my absolute favorite dreams (with extremely rare exceptions that are dreams from the Lord, and thus extra special).


My main wishes I've made into prayers. I even have prayed that the Lord would grant me the ability to do those enormous leaps I just described. Obviously I can't do them . . . yet . I actually do consider it possible the Lord might give me that as a gift in the future. Perhaps not, but perhaps so. I hope so.

The scripture certainly does not indicate this to be impossible. The Spirit came upon Elijah in such a way that he was able to outrun King Ahab's chariot, even despite Ahab's massive head start. When Satan tempted Jesus by encouraging him to jump off of the Temple, he said that angels would lift Jesus up in their arms so that he would not strike a foot against a stone. Jesus did not say he was incorrect in his interpretation of that passage, but rather said that he would not put the Lord God to he test.

So for it to be possible for someone to make these enormous leaps certainly is theologically possible. The first of my dreams that included jumping was also abnormally realistic and irregular from normal dreams in several ways.

In the dream (which I had when I was probably six or eight years old), I was grown up, wealthy and married. It was night time, and I was standing on top of a skyscraper. Thugs were on the skyscraper trying to kill me, so I jumped off the skyscraper. Instead of falling to my death, I floated over the city, descending very slowly until I alighted on a playground.

This dream was extremely odd because it's the only one I had as a child where I was married. Wealth would not have occurred to someone who didn't have any need of it or thought of it. It's just a pretty odd dream in its realism. It is also theologically sound, because the step of faith was not as a test as Jesus' was to be, but for very good reasons.

So I'm hoping that in the future, that dream will be shown to have been a true dream from God . That's not necessarily a belief, but it's a hope I will stick to with determination .

[katya]

First I would ask for wisdom. I figure it'd probably be worth using the wish, because otherwise I would just waste 'em on something stupid.

[Tessar]

Hmmmm...

A mackintosh for my right foot, and one for my left, and then a bucket to continue gathering seashells in .

[Rían]

Let's see - 3 totally selfish wishes would be to be able to fly (a popular one!), to have long, straight, thick, gorgeous hair that was easy to take care of , and to have a wonderful stable of gorgeous horses.

[Nerdanel]

this is a hard one.. i'll put three wishes here, but i'm sure i'll change them many times..

1. there are some people i'd love to meet.. my first wish would be to have all my friends close to me and keep them for a lifetime.
2. i'd want people to realise that we're animals, as much part of nature as anything else on this planet.. and live according to that.
3. to see Freddie Mercury perform.. i'd give up a lot of things for that.

[Adonai Dragonwagon]

Wishes are dangerous things... it's an interesting question.
The obvious choice for me is to wish that I played the violin better than I do now, as well as the professionals in my school's top orchestra or better. But I don't think that I could do that... because you can't get better without working for it. Those people that are professional (literally; casinos come to my school to get musicians all the time. For pay, too!) have been training for eight to ten years longer than I have. I don't think I'd wish for that.
And then of course, there's the ways that things can be twisted. Like if I were to wish for a Stradivarious violin, I could have the police on my tail. I could wish that the best violinist at our school would occasionally glance my way or notice me... but that's extremely unfair. If he doesn't like me, that's just the way things are.

So I'd probably end up saving them for small selfish things.

[Valandil]

Originally Posted by Nerdanel

2. i'd want people to realise that we're animals, as much part of nature as anything else on this planet.. and live according to that.

But what if that's wrong? Would you still wish them to 'realise' it?

[Lief Erikson]

Well, she thinks it's not wrong . If it's not wrong, then having everyone aware of it might be a good thing. Wouldn't it? I wonder, actually. If everyone thought that they were simply animals and acted accordingly, value for people would vanish. We can kill a chicken and eat it for our own benefit. Why can't we kill people, if we can get away with it? The animal system is survival of the fittest, the strong destroy the weak. Is that really a system we want implemented in human culture?

[Insidious Rex]

Originally Posted by Lief Erikson

Well, she thinks it's not wrong . If it's not wrong, then having everyone aware of it might be a good thing. Wouldn't it? I wonder, actually. If everyone thought that they were simply animals and acted accordingly, value for people would vanish. We can kill a chicken and eat it for our own benefit. Why can't we kill people, if we can get away with it?

we already do. take a look at the world around you.

The animal system is survival of the fittest, the strong destroy the weak. Is that really a system we want implemented in human culture?

what "animal system" are you referring to here? You do realize that as species go we tend to kill interspecially more then most others. And we harvest other creatures for our dining pleasure on a colossal scale of billions and billions. So that makes us better then the other species? Twisted logic...

[Lief Erikson]

Many people believe that there is an intristic value to human life. They believe this for moral and religious reasons that would be decimated if we were viewed as "only animals." I know that religious bodies, of course, have been responsible for massive amounts of destruction, just as non-religious bodies have. However, I believe that religion is overall a most definitely positive force in the world. It is also a force for peace.

People desire what is evil, so they twist religions to their own twisted desires, just as they'll twist political institutions, economic policies, social behavior, and numerous other kinds of naturally good things to wicked ends.

Anyhow, this is my belief. If people thought of themselves as only animals, we'd see a definite increase in human-human violence over what there is now.

[Tessar]

Lets not get too off topic here guys . This is a thread for the things that you wish for--there are a bazillion other threads for moral insights and debates.

[Lief Erikson]

Yup. (Shoots self and dies) [size=1/1000,000,000][raspy voice]Debate over. Hang on . . . what was I just saying about intristic value of human life? Oh well. Debate seriously over.[/raspy voice][/size]

[Rían]

New wish - I wish I could play my harp better.


What, practice?!

[Last Child of Ungoliant]

1. immortality
2. long black hair, that actually grows straight
3. a better world (freedom, peace, equality, end to capitalism, socialist democracy)

[katya]

Aaaarrgh I'm sorry but immortality sounds like a curse to me. I like the long black straight hair though. I'd like that too.

Personally I'd like to have absolute total power. As in, I can do *anything* and I mean anything that I want. No limits, nothing. I'd do all kinds of stuff. I'd like to make myself invisible and fly around, or play life like a video game where I can press restart from my last save point, or materialize pizza out of thin air with a mere thought. There's a lot of things I would avoid doing. I wouldn't do anything that sounded unnatural, (as you laugh and wonder how the previously mentioned things qualify as "natural") but rather just ammuse myself doing stupid things. I'd probably stay in school but fail classes I didn't like. I'd probably create my own planets too, and go there sometimes. Maybe stop time to do so. On Earth, I mean. And I'd make myself an android form that I could turn into as well.