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RE: If you could have One wish..
July 9, 2017 at 11:43 pm
(July 9, 2017 at 11:28 pm)Divinity Wrote: I don't think the world would be better off, no. I mean who knows how many inventions we have thanks to the idea of guns. Not to mention that we'd probably fuck up with some other invention worse than guns anyway.
My wish--I wish that my whole family including myself were Kryptonian--complete with powers with no Kryptonite to be found anywhere. Terrorism solved. And as a bonus we get fucking awesome powers. And if we hear about a school shooting, we can be in and out in a second.
If I had superpowers I suspect I'd end up like Hancock.
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RE: If you could have One wish..
July 9, 2017 at 11:44 pm
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RE: If you could have One wish..
July 9, 2017 at 11:45 pm
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RE: If you could have One wish..
July 9, 2017 at 11:46 pm
I don't know if a world where guns never existed would be better or not.
I guess I'd have different ideas about having one wish. One obvious choice is having unlimited money. I know they say money can't buy happiness, but I think my life would be happier if I had more.
Sometimes I wish I could make it where no one could lie to me. I think I'd be able to figure people out a lot better, without having to be all cynical and close everyone off, if they always had to tell me the truth about their intentions.
Then of course there's wishing for some sort of superpower. Like being able to save a point in time, and reload it, like in a video game. Or maybe something as mundane as having a better body, that is the pinnacle of the Human condition, and will always remain that way. The other side of the scale, of course, would be to have the power to reshape reality around me. Find some uninhabited island, and make it my own little kingdom.
If I was going to make a world spanning wish, I think perhaps it would be to make all of Humanity more selfless and empathetic, towards their species as a whole. A lot of the problems with corruption happen because people forget their empathy,
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RE: If you could have One wish..
July 9, 2017 at 11:46 pm
(July 9, 2017 at 11:42 pm)Fireball Wrote: If I had only one wish, I'd ask for whatever the fuck it is with the human brain that turns off the reasoning skills and makes it act like an unrepentant willful idiot gets fixed. Everything else would just follow.
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RE: If you could have One wish..
July 10, 2017 at 1:21 am
Mine would probably get me a visit from the secret service.
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RE: If you could have One wish..
July 10, 2017 at 1:37 am
I wish a good God really existed.
One who always rights wrongs for us.
Eg: the girl at the McDonalds drivethru the other day who forgot to put in my fillet o fish! That's right bitch, you're gonna burn for eternity for your unforgivable transgression!
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RE: If you could have One wish..
July 10, 2017 at 1:55 am
I don't know about the gun question, the world would be unrecognizable.
I'd like to be a vampire.
I think that means I could turn into a bat, live for a very long time and kill people.
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RE: If you could have One wish..
July 10, 2017 at 1:56 am
(July 9, 2017 at 10:44 pm)Luckie Wrote: What would it be?
Right now I'm thinking that I wish guns of all kinds, from all parts of the earth over all periods of time, never existed and would never exist in future.
I like hunting. I'd kill a deer for a years worth of meat in the freezer. But at some point you have to look at the benefits and the price of human blood and ask, is it worth it?
A settler in the 1800s might not have gotten eaten by a bear at one point, but too there wouldn't have been rivers of blood spilt in the Revolutionary war.
Do you think my wish is a good one or would it turn out badly?
The movie Bunraku firmly shatters that wishful thinking's efficacy as far as curbing violence. Actually a really great film, totally underrated and not well known despite the cast being very prominent.
Me personally, if I had one wish? I'd wish to go back to my infant self with every bit of knowledge and memory I possess now.
Religions were invented to impress and dupe illiterate, superstitious stone-age peasants. So in this modern, enlightened age of information, what's your excuse? Or are you saying with all your advantages, you were still tricked as easily as those early humans?
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RE: If you could have One wish..
July 10, 2017 at 6:40 am
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"If I had one wish? I'd wish for a big enough ass for the whole world to kiss"
Thanks Marshall, I couldn't have put it better myself.
(July 9, 2017 at 11:40 pm)J a c k Wrote: I wish Jon Snow loved me.
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