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Poll: Do you think humanity would be better off in the long run, if my wish came true?
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If you could have One wish..
#11
RE: If you could have One wish..
(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.

"Call me an asshole, one more time..."

Playing Cluedo with my mum while I was at Uni:

"You did WHAT?  With WHO?  WHERE???"
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#12
RE: If you could have One wish..
(July 9, 2017 at 11:42 pm)*Deidre* Wrote:
(July 9, 2017 at 11:40 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: That's actually been one of mine:  Fewer Mondays and more Fridays in a week.

Big Grin
Shallow ...err wise minds think alike? 
Big Grin  Angel
(July 9, 2017 at 11:40 pm)J a c k Wrote: I wish Jon Snow loved me.

If he ever met you, he totally would.  Heart
Deidre... I was so happy you came back, but thought you wouldn't remember me with mah new name. Lol! Glad to have you back, girl!
"Hipster is what happens when young hot people do what old ladies do." -Exian
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#13
RE: If you could have One wish..
(July 9, 2017 at 11:44 pm)J a c k Wrote:
(July 9, 2017 at 11:42 pm)*Deidre* Wrote: Shallow ...err wise minds think alike? 
Big Grin  Angel

If he ever met you, he totally would.  Heart
Deidre... I was so happy you came back, but thought you wouldn't remember me with mah new name. Lol! Glad to have you back, girl!

xxoo I'd never forget you!!  Heart
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#14
RE: If you could have One wish..
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,
Poe's Law: "Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of Fundamentalism that SOMEONE won't mistake for the real thing."

10 Christ-like figures that predate Jesus. Link shortened to Chris ate Jesus for some reason...
http://listverse.com/2009/04/13/10-chris...ate-jesus/

Good video to watch, if you want to know how common the Jesus story really is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88GTUXvp-50

A list of biblical contradictions from the infallible word of Yahweh.
http://infidels.org/library/modern/jim_m...tions.html

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#15
RE: If you could have One wish..
(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.

A high calibre lobotomy fixes most ailments...

Big Grin

Playing Cluedo with my mum while I was at Uni:

"You did WHAT?  With WHO?  WHERE???"
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#16
RE: If you could have One wish..
Mine would probably get me a visit from the secret service.
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#17
RE: If you could have One wish..
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!
No God, No fear.
Know God, Know fear.
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#18
RE: If you could have One wish..
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.


Are you ready for the fire? We are firemen. WE ARE FIREMEN! The heat doesn’t bother us. We live in the heat. We train in the heat. It tells us that we’re ready, we’re at home, we’re where we’re supposed to be. Flames don’t intimidate us. What do we do? We control the flame. We control them. We move the flames where we want to. And then we extinguish them.

Impersonation is treason.





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#19
RE: If you could have One wish..
(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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There is no better way to convey the least amount of information in the greatest amount of words than to try explaining your religious views.
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#20
RE: If you could have One wish..
"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.

*changes name...
Sum ergo sum
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