Your Three Wishes
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» AlienZeD replied on Thu Nov 2, 2006 @ 1:16pm |
 Coolness: 510275 | So you're rubbing yourself when you notice that you're lamp is still turned on. So you go to turn it off but keep rubbing.
A genie pops out and gives you three wishes. You have to make them now. What are they? 1: I wish I could fly. (duh!) 2: I wish for the abolition of money. 3: I wish for a bright future full of flava. |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Minou replied on Thu Nov 2, 2006 @ 1:32pm |
 Coolness: 136760 | 1.I wish Peace on earth (take all the guns, bomb and crap away and kill bush and middle east)
2.I wish to Find the right one.... 3.I wish to Have enought money to not work anymore and be happy till i die |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» AlienZeD replied on Thu Nov 2, 2006 @ 2:04pm |
| Coolness: 510275 | for that third one, you could just take too much heroin :\ |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Minou replied on Thu Nov 2, 2006 @ 2:12pm |
| Coolness: 136760 | nah thx... i prefer being a pothead! |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» AlienZeD replied on Thu Nov 2, 2006 @ 2:17pm |
| Coolness: 510275 | me too baby, me too.
no needles for me for real. or sniffing (but that's a personal thing that i've sadly broken before and might again) |
| I'm feeling indecisive. right now.. | |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Phoenix replied on Thu Nov 2, 2006 @ 2:21pm |
 Coolness: 82405 | In no particular order...
-To live in a world without borders, boundaries, classes, money, religion, fear, violence, discrimination, or misunderstanding of any kind. -To end censorship completely, insuring that everyone has full access to obtain, collect, maintain, and distribute information at no cost, especially truth. -To exist symbiotically with other organisms and the surrounding environment allowing for the supply of inifinite energy, eliminating waste completely, maximizing production efficiency, and potentially allowing for true immortality. |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» AlienZeD replied on Thu Nov 2, 2006 @ 2:26pm |
| Coolness: 510275 | you raise some interesting points.
All that I will now happily debate! 1. I'd agree but that sums up life, what would be left? 2. Censorship is bad, but only because of our opinions, would you not censor a man who rapes young girls and encourages others to do the same? Maybe you wouldn't, what if he specificaly mentioned your 12 year old daughter? Then censorship, and murder, don't seem so bad. 3. this is similar to the first one, infinite energy would be great but then there'd be no economy, eliminating waste would leave us spoiled and powerless to deal with new types of waste (potentially), production efficiency now takes the form of making kids in third world countries work for pennies, think about that. And immortality would completely eliminate the need to live, there would be no progress ever; not to mention severe over population. |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Phoenix replied on Thu Nov 2, 2006 @ 2:51pm |
| Coolness: 82405 | You make it sound so unrealistic I can't help but smile. Isn't it funny how we believe we need certain things because we're so used to them?...because we've been conditioned by systems of control?
It's ironic that you mention the overpopulation problem cause the way I see it, overpopulation only exists because we live within limited surroundings...Realistically speaking we live in a world composed of infinite space (supposedly / theoretically) which includes countless solar systems with potentially limitless land & resources. If we became immortal, figured out a way to distribute the universe's available resources evenly so that every living consciousness was perpetually happy and had more than they need to survive (which most of us have right now already), we wouldn't need economy alltogether because we'd all be more than satisfied therefore there'd be no desire to compete with one another which would end individual greed and envy. Furthermore, to think that immortality would potentially eliminate the need to live is unjustified... How else could we possibly come close to achieving our full potential as individuals or as a species without endless time to do so? Progress would increase at unimaginable exponential speeds by the nanosecond. The way things are now you can never possibly learn everything you want to know because you simply don't have the opportunity or time to communicate with every person alive, every person who's ever lived, ,every person who will ever be born, nor could you study everything that's ever existed. To elaborate on censorship, it simply wouldn't be required in a perfect world because rape wouldn't exist without violence and fear. People would have eveything they could possibly need so there would be no precursor to misuse information with malicious intent. |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» AlienZeD replied on Thu Nov 2, 2006 @ 5:18pm |
| Coolness: 510275 | here goes nothing!
Originally Posted By __PHOENIX__
You make it sound so unrealistic I can't help but smile. Isn't it funny how we believe we need certain things because we're so used to them?...because we've been conditioned by systems of control? It's ironic that you mention the overpopulation problem cause the way I see it, overpopulation only exists because we live within limited surroundings...Realistically speaking we live in a world composed of infinite space (supposedly / theoretically) which includes countless solar systems with potentially limitless land & resources. If we became immortal, figured out a way to distribute the universe's available resources evenly so that every living consciousness was perpetually happy and had more than they need to survive (which most of us have right now already), we wouldn't need economy alltogether because we'd all be more than satisfied therefore there'd be no desire to compete with one another which would end individual greed and envy. Furthermore, to think that immortality would potentially eliminate the need to live is unjustified... How else could we possibly come close to achieving our full potential as individuals or as a species without endless time to do so? Progress would increase at unimaginable exponential speeds by the nanosecond. The way things are now you can never possibly learn everything you want to know because you simply don't have the opportunity or time to communicate with every person alive, every person who's ever lived, ,every person who will ever be born, nor could you study everything that's ever existed. To elaborate on censorship, it simply wouldn't be required in a perfect world because rape wouldn't exist without violence and fear. People would have eveything they could possibly need so there would be no precursor to misuse information with malicious intent. No no no, No! I very strongly disagree with a lot of that, most of it even. It's in our nature to never be satisfied, inanimate objects are satisfied because they don't need anything to persist, the very notion of life is to strive for something. If we were complete, we'd have nothing left to strive for and then why live at all? It's a very widely held notion in sci fi that immortal beings are either evil or crave the only thing they can't have, death. And this is very important because again, we have desire, without desire, we have no purpose, and without purpose, life is tedious and meaningless. An immortal society not only would never progress (due to the fact, one which I strongly believe, that the older you get, the less open your mind is to new things) but they would end up obliterating themselves because that would be the ONLY thing they couldn't achieve; ironically (and no this doesn't fall under the definition of irony, but no one ever uses it properly) anyway. This can be understood by the notion of space travel. I once pondered travelling to other solar systems while on some illegal psychedelic drug and came to the conclusion that I would never need to leave the solar system. Everything I know and love is here, if I was able to leave, all I'd want would be to come back, but once back everyone I knew or loved would be long dead. You cannot live without emotion, emotion necessitates attachment and without attachment, we are essential dead. If you were the only human left on earth, would you be concerned with furthering your knowledge os quantum theory!? Or would you be more inclined to dream of not being alone anymore. Without competition, we have no reason to progress, without an uninformed population, children, we would never question our methods and that is why there would be no progress. An immortable being would likely try to Dominate the world, the universe and would more than likely oppress the universe than make it free, without fear, there is no hope, without death, there is no life. You speak of 'full potential' and then of unlimited time, 'if' we lived forever our potential would be limitless and you'd never achieve anything, you'd always be learning more and going further and you'd really never be satisfied. I personaly feel that I am satisfied with my life and realizing that I will always technically be alone, I need not live any more. I am not suicidal, but I have experienced wonderful things and I honestly would not be afraid if I knew I were to die tomorrow. Not because I am physically satisfied but because I realize my own limits, my own inabilities and a million years would not change that. At the very least you must understand that you can never be everything, you will never be a dolphin for example, but having done EVERYTHING else, you may in fact wish to be something other than yourself. But I digress, in the HitchHickers' Guide To The Galaxy, a discussion along the lines of "The way things are now you can never possibly learn everything you want to know because you simply don't have the opportunity or time to communicate with every person alive, every person who's ever lived, ,every person who will ever be born, nor could you study everything that's ever existed." took place and the being came to the very realistic conclusion that the rate of birth on each planet is potentially near infinity, and there are potentially an inifinite amount of planets, now see what happens here, you could visit everyone on a planet, but the second you leave, a child will be born and that child will die long before you reach even the 100th planet you are visiting, therefor you could never meet everyone because there is an inifite amount of people and infinity as we all know is not possible to attain, in any way shape or form. As far as rape goes... girls love violent sex, so violence would have to remain for women to be satisfied, and satisfaction is important right? Fear must also exist, otherwise immortal being would be killing each other left and right with no consequences to fear, and that takes away the immortality, which in itself, proves the assumption incorrect. (Discrete math IS useful) And you may say that without violence, no one would kill anyone else, but that is simply misguided as accidents happen all the time. Humans cannot have everything they possibly need. Economics teaches us that ressources are limited, this limit creates the need for an economy (not currency, just demand and supply). Our most basic needs are unsatisfiable by definition, you can never eat enough to sustain yourself without predetermining your life span for example. As ressources are consumed and eventually brought to 0, we need to replace those resources. If you're wish is to have a society of creatures that need no replenishment, and are therefor completely 100% satisfied, I believe you are describing a dead planet. This may sound somber but I also strongly believe that death is the ultimate answer to our questions, when we die, we become part of the universe as opposed to senses that can only feel/taste/touch/hear and smell our immediate surroundings. However, every atom in our body is 100% attoned to the universe, every gravitational force, every unit of energy and matter affects every single other atom. For this not to be true, there would have to be separate universes, which to me at least is incomprehensable. A rock is satisfied, needing to achieve nothing more to remain in it's current state, living beings are much more complicated and IMO the complete opposite of anything that is eternally satisfied. You use some oxymorons/redundancies that make it easy to argue against, I'll list them now and explain why they are contradictions. "living consciousness": redundancy, I do not know of any other type of consciousness (if you're going to bring up AI, don't bother, that's a whole different discussion that we could argue for weeks and neither of us would ever really be right or wrong) "perpetually happy": oxymoron, happyness is a state that only exists if you know what unhappyness is, therefor you can't be happy if you haven't been unhappy. And to conclude this monster of a post with a little redundancy of my own. Satisfaction means there was a need to be filled in the first place, that need requires an economy or sorts. Also, unless everyone is a clone, man will never be made equal, a huge noble lie that most still do not truly grasp, and that inequality will insure jealousy, greed and competition. Communism didn't work for a similar reason, once you're comfortable, you stop, you stop everything. "Satisfaction: act of fulfilling a desire or need or appetite." without needs, desires or an appetite, you are essentially doomed to never be satisfied, and with needs, desires and an apetite, you are doomed to quest for that satisfaction, eternaly. I guess inaminate objects can't be satisfied because they have no needs or desires. But in essence that is the greatest peace one can achieve and so, death, imo, is not only a sure eventuality, but also the greatest release from pain, suffering and doubt. I am sure that a lot of what I said is very debatable, if not blatantly wrong, but not because I have ommited logic, but because language is so limited and getting my notions across is extremely difficult. We are what we define ourselves to be though, so there's really no good/bad/right/wrong among the living. Our opinions, based on our experience is all we have and all we have comes from what we have sought. We seak because we desire, and we desire because we are not satisfied. bam |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Mico replied on Thu Nov 2, 2006 @ 5:28pm |
 Coolness: 151175 | 1- I wish I had a license to kill,
2- A flame Thrower. 3- ... And an undead monkey. |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» AlienZeD replied on Thu Nov 2, 2006 @ 5:29pm |
| Coolness: 510275 | now we're talking! |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» juju replied on Thu Nov 2, 2006 @ 10:02pm |
 Coolness: 61075 | I wish I was the most successful person on the planet
I wish that evolution of technology went twice faster I wish I'd have superpowers that would allow me to travel in time and space |
| I'm feeling happy right now.. | |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Nathan replied on Thu Nov 2, 2006 @ 10:15pm |
 Coolness: 167260 | I wish I had more (good) records.
I wish I could live in a desert somewhere and be self-sufficient. and, I don't care what the Genie in Aladdin says, I wish for more wishes! |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Minou replied on Thu Nov 2, 2006 @ 10:16pm |
| Coolness: 136760 | Originally Posted By MICO 1- I WISH I HAD A LICENSE TO KILL, 2- A FLAME THROWER. 3- ... AND AN UNDEAD MONKEY.
the 1st one is a good one |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» cvxn replied on Fri Nov 3, 2006 @ 12:40pm |
| Coolness: 179360 | genre Bush. mais si c'était le cas, tout le monde tuerait tout le monde.
Hmm... Wishes... 1. Ultimate knowledge and objectivity. (always useful) 2. Power to travel through spacetime, as fast as I can (no speed limit, not even light), without being harmed by the hostile environment. (I've always wanted to know what was inside black holes...) 3. erm... can't really say... but it involves me and my boyfriend. |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» AlienZeD replied on Fri Nov 3, 2006 @ 12:50pm |
| Coolness: 510275 | ;P
my current three 1. The power to make any girl cum at any given moment, even from a distance. 2. What else do I need? |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» CravinYourMom replied on Fri Nov 3, 2006 @ 1:37pm |
 Coolness: 39910 | I wish to get accepted into IUS
I wish for everyone on here to have a splendiferous day :) I wish for Danielle to keep her head up through rough times |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» AlienZeD replied on Fri Nov 3, 2006 @ 1:40pm |
| Coolness: 510275 | splendiferous! nice |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» djpsychokitty replied on Fri Nov 3, 2006 @ 2:05pm |
 Coolness: 48140 | I only have one wish. that would be not to worry anymore. worries about everything and nothing, my family, my job, what will become of me, anykind of worry on a daily basis.
total peace of mind |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» AlienZeD replied on Fri Nov 3, 2006 @ 2:09pm |
| Coolness: 510275 | lol, did you read my 'too long for [ rave.ca ] post? I mention total peace of mind at some point :P |
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