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Post by: Gai Daigoji on March 25, 2005, 04:57:15 pm: ....what would it be? And please dont go for the basic ones like: "Oh I'd wish for all the money in the world!" Think about it, what would you really want to wish for?

I'd wish for immortality :D
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Post by: Stealth on March 25, 2005, 05:02:23 pm: peace and/or end of sickness/death
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Post by: Clave on March 25, 2005, 05:03:43 pm: Proof
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Post by: Unknown Target on March 25, 2005, 05:08:01 pm: I'd wish for the power to get whatever I wanted, for all eternity....;)
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Post by: Kie99 on March 25, 2005, 05:11:15 pm: I'd wish for the powers of Agent Smith, no Virus Smith. (Virus Smith = Clonable)
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Post by: MatthewPapa on March 25, 2005, 05:22:59 pm: I would wish for Freespace 3
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Post by: TrashMan on March 25, 2005, 05:31:42 pm: Immortality? Dull thing...besides, I allready am immortal (screw the body.....beware the wording of the wish. Being immortal doesn't mean having a youthfull, agile boy. Immagine being a decomposing corpse, unable to move but still alive...ugh!)

I'd wish for...for...for...Everyone in the world to have the same moral values as me! (Yay! no war, no hunger, no pollution!)
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Post by: karajorma on March 25, 2005, 05:41:43 pm: I'd wish for more wishes. Greedy I know but what the hell :D
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Post by: Rictor on March 25, 2005, 05:59:49 pm: I would wish for something unmentionable.
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Post by: MatthewPapa on March 25, 2005, 06:38:20 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Rictor
I would wish for something unmentionable.

3 girls at once? eh?
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Post by: übermetroid on March 25, 2005, 06:45:18 pm: I would not mind having Jedi Powers...

*you want to give all your money to me*
*Oh... I want to give all my money to you*

:D
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Post by: pyro-manic on March 25, 2005, 07:02:16 pm: Quote
Originally posted by MatthewPapa
3 girls at once? eh?

Only three? :p

This is a tricky one. I'll have to split it into a few categories...

Material wish (stupid): As much money as I could ever spend, with which to buy much cool stuff.

Material wish (halfway sensible): Enough money for me to live comfortably. Oh, and a one-off payment with which to buy a Spitfire :D

Wish for humanity: For everyone to be excellent to each other (an end to war, poverty, etc. follows on from this).

Wish for myself (silly): A lifespan of my choosing. I can do whatever I want, for as long as I want, but when I've done everything and get bored I can choose to die. Same for everyone else as well, obviously - it'd be no fun to watch everyone you know get old and die around you. Immortality's overrated, however.

Wish for myself (sensible): To perfect my martial arts and never need to use them.

Wish for myself (possible): To get over my social ineptness.
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Post by: karajorma on March 25, 2005, 07:05:58 pm: Screw it. I'd surround Earth with a justice field like on Red Dwarf cause it would be f**king funny as hell to watch :D
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Post by: Fineus on March 25, 2005, 07:07:48 pm: Meh, happiness for myself and those I care for, for the rest of our days.

Unrealistic, but nice nonetheless.
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Post by: Dranon on March 25, 2005, 07:08:42 pm: Quote
Originally posted by pyro-manic

Wish for myself (sensible): To perfect my martial arts and never need to use them.

Wish for myself (possible): To get over my social ineptness.

You are not the only one with those wishes... :nod:
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Post by: pyro-manic on March 25, 2005, 07:23:54 pm: Bleh, they're actually both possible, just bloody difficult. ;)
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Post by: Taristin on March 25, 2005, 07:56:12 pm: Sadly, mine is the same as Kalithundreth's...
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Post by: Jeryko on March 25, 2005, 08:12:31 pm: I'd wish for the ability to do absolutely anything and everything that has ever BEEN done, can NOW be done, and can/will EVER be done. ;)
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Post by: KappaWing on March 25, 2005, 08:31:08 pm: Ummm... I'd wish for a large lemon popyseed muffin.

(http://www.punchstock.com/image/foodcollection/4009001/thumb72/902017.jpg)

They are satisfying and delicious. :)

Edit: Yay! Post #200! :D
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Post by: Ransom on March 25, 2005, 08:54:38 pm: To live long and healthy enough to have enough time to finish all my projects and things.
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Post by: NGTM-1R on March 25, 2005, 11:52:05 pm: Permanently stuck at current physical age. Including wear and tear on bodyparts.
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Post by: kv1at3485 on March 26, 2005, 12:17:30 am: I would wish for wisdom, even though I cannot imagine what that ultimately entails.
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Post by: Primus on March 26, 2005, 12:37:02 am: I wish I could understand my girls.
Nah.. That wouldn't come true...
I wish for world peace, 'cos I can't wish money.
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Post by: Night Hammer on March 26, 2005, 12:51:29 am: Quote
Originally posted by karajorma
I'd wish for more wishes. Greedy I know but what the hell :D

:nod:
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Post by: Scuddie on March 26, 2005, 01:28:26 am: I wish that I wasnt as sad a person deep down inside as Liberator is :(.
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Post by: Liberator on March 26, 2005, 01:33:41 am: I'd wish for the Freedom.
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Post by: Stunaep on March 26, 2005, 04:24:59 am: Quote
Originally posted by TrashMan
Immortality? Dull thing...besides, I allready am immortal (screw the body.....beware the wording of the wish. Being immortal doesn't mean having a youthfull, agile boy. Immagine being a decomposing corpse, unable to move but still alive...ugh!)

I'd wish for...for...for...Everyone in the world to have the same moral values as me! (Yay! no war, no hunger, no pollution!)

Yes, but think how bloody boring it'd be.
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Post by: beatspete on March 26, 2005, 06:31:30 am: I wish the little flies buzzing about my flat would go away. I haven't got a clue where they come from....
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Post by: TopAce on March 26, 2005, 06:49:48 am: I would like to live in the Star Wars universe as a Force-sensitive man.
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Post by: Flaser on March 26, 2005, 07:04:02 am: Money? Jeez looks like a lot of you bought into this krematisical madness - you don't need lots of money, you need enough...

Immortality - that would suck major....watch 3x3 Eyes or read some Ursule Le Guin books. Nothing would be so horrible for a human as immortality.

I'd wish for power.

Simple and plain, power for power's sake.

No, I don't speak of superhuman or any childish fantasy.
Not for money, fame or the strenght to rule.

Power to percieve and change - just an ounce to grasp fate. To be in control of my own life and make a verdict of my own over it.

Power to finally see - and power to change the world....though if I think about it the power to change myself is even greater.
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Post by: vyper on March 26, 2005, 08:10:38 am: Success, love and peace.

Some knowledge of the afterlife might be nice too ;)
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Post by: Janos on March 26, 2005, 08:53:30 am: Omnipotence.
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Post by: aldo_14 on March 26, 2005, 09:54:21 am: Everything I ever wanted.
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Post by: Dark_4ce on March 26, 2005, 10:08:57 am: I'd wish that I wouldnt need one.
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Post by: NGTM-1R on March 26, 2005, 10:25:31 am: Quote
Originally posted by Flaser

Immortality - that would suck major....watch 3x3 Eyes or read some Ursule Le Guin books. Nothing would be so horrible for a human as immortality.

Ah, so little one chooses to understand. Immortality is not a curse unless one wishes it to be, just as being bored is a self-imposed condition. By the time you've done everything there was to be done when you gained immortality, they've come up with ten times more stuff. And so on.

Yes, you will see a lot of people you know and like die. But you've got forever to get over it. Forever to find new people to know and like.
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Post by: aldo_14 on March 26, 2005, 10:29:53 am: You could always take up insulting everyone that ever lived.....
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Post by: Flaser on March 26, 2005, 10:51:01 am: Hahhaahhha....funny.

...you see the problem is: humans aren't cut out to be immortal.

In essence you'd have to go beyond the human state to survive with your sanity (whatever that term means in that state) intact.

Do what? If you do look into the world with wide eyes and have all the time....it would all seem wasted. Pointless waste of time and resources...after all, all this time we couldn't answer any of the important questions.

Sure we made more and more intricate things, and gained a more intricate questions to adress the world with.

Never the less in some regards it was and will be for naught.
What kept us going and ever striving for more was our mortality though - who the hell would waste time struggling to identify elements and make a better world when I could just live like I ever did....

If immortality ensues the progress and charge of humanity will cease to be.

...all the individual could do would be to carry on, on their own...so IMHO simply put there's nothing better to do for an immortal being than attain godhood.

You may argue, that no, there's tons of things to do, places to see, people to meet....however for how long? ...and how far?
Forever is too long, and too crucifing....no matter whatever you do, you'll eventually (it may take millenias though) run out of anything human to relate with.
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Post by: Swamp_Thing on March 26, 2005, 10:54:35 am: I would wish for a Enterprise completelly crewed by beautifull women, so i could travel the stars and fund my own colony.
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Post by: KappaWing on March 26, 2005, 11:23:19 am: To be honest, immortality sounds terrible to me. outright horrible. nothing to live towards, no goals you have to achieve within a certain time (so how would economics survive, or anything for that matter?), every disaster you'll survive, no matter what that does to you emotionally or physically, staying together & making a commitment with someone for the rest of your life becomes utterly useless, the difference between generations becomes either vague or disappears, & last but not least; if we 'win' immortality, that doesn't mean the rest in this world suddenly stops being ever-ending. there's no use to bond to a place, to care for anything, to love at all for that matter, as everything goes, besides you. even the hormones, that cause love. your life, your precious never-ending life, would be a chain of goodbyes.

An entire society of immortals may be a problem. For example, who wants to be a firefighter when one false step means you've blown the next billion years? No one would want to risk things, and the value of time would depreciate. People will take for granted all the time they have and forget that they were once a mortal race. "Why do it now when you could do it in the next billion or so years?"

I find it interesting what people say about the lack of purpose in life if there is no immortality. However, there are many different visions of immortality. There is the religious one (Heaven/Hell), the scientific one, (Live forever), but what about changing the world? IMHO, leaving your mark on the world is the only way to achieve immortality, at least for now.

I know eternity sounds wonderful in most ears, but.. I've seen my grandmother slowly dying without any reason to live in her life left. everything she loved had already gone away. it made so much sense for her to go away too. & she lives on. in my memory & that of her other grandchildren & her sons. on top her & her husband's life was described in books, practically she'll live on forever.

& if I'd die tomorrow, my life still would've made perfect sense. I've had wonderful moments, that not only I remember. I lived through numerous of things in which I felt & knew the support & love of others. What on earth happened to right now? we're only living in a future, that's ahead of us & might never come...

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Post by: aldo_14 on March 26, 2005, 11:24:19 am: Quote
Originally posted by Swamp_Thing
I would wish for a Enterprise completelly crewed by beautifull women, so i could travel the stars and fund my own colony.

You realise said colony would be a colony of inbreds a few generations down the line, don't you? It'd be like Planet Alabama.........

NB: don't think we can really say how good/bad/indifferent immortality is until someone achieves it. Because there's no real way to judge how one person will react - you could say our mortality drives us onwards, but you could also say it curtails our amibtions and achievements as it does so.
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Post by: karajorma on March 26, 2005, 11:32:10 am: Don't agree with you Flaser. I don't have enough time as it is to do all the stuff I want to. If I was immortal I'd probably still find ways to fill every day :D
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Post by: Rictor on March 26, 2005, 11:54:57 am: There can be only one!
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Post by: Flaser on March 26, 2005, 12:05:29 pm: Quote
Originally posted by karajorma
Don't agree with you Flaser. I don't have enough time as it is to do all the stuff I want to. If I was immortal I'd probably still find ways to fill every day :D

For how long?

Sure, I agree we may not have enough time....forever though that's another dimension we can't even comprehend with our finite expressions.

Yes, you can find stuff to do for the next hundred years - what about a thousand though....tenthousand?....IMHO you're a bit out of perspective.

100-200 years could be nice....but even a 1000 is IMHO beyond what a human psyche is capable of.
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Post by: karajorma on March 26, 2005, 12:07:26 pm: I am NEVER bored when I'm at home. Unless the entire human race ended and left me alone I know I could find something to do with my time.
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Post by: aldo_14 on March 26, 2005, 12:07:50 pm: Possibly also outside what the human psyche is capable of remembering, though. There is simply no way to know for sure.
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Post by: Carl on March 26, 2005, 10:32:57 pm: omnipotence!
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Post by: übermetroid on March 27, 2005, 08:59:06 am: If I could I would like to live for about 40000 yeas. I figure that would be long enough.

But only if my son would live longer then that. There is no way in hell he is going to die before me.
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Post by: Nuke on March 27, 2005, 07:56:04 pm: the nuclear sterilisation of this rock called earth :D
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Post by: Jeryko on March 27, 2005, 07:58:08 pm: I refined my wish to become more simplistic...

I want to be a 'Q.' :nod:
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Post by: Ghost on March 27, 2005, 07:59:01 pm: A Herc Mk. I, armed with Prometheus/Banshee combo with Hornets and Phoenix Vs.

Hehehe...
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Post by: Scuddie on March 27, 2005, 08:04:55 pm: To be serious, I would wish for appreciation of all the time I have on this earth.
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Post by: karajorma on March 28, 2005, 02:16:20 am: Quote
Originally posted by Jeryko
I want to be a 'Q.' :nod:

Bah. Bond got all the chicks, you should be him instead :p

yes I'm well aware he meant ST Q not Bond Q
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Post by: TrashMan on March 28, 2005, 06:59:17 am: Immortality..it's vastly overrated...

Everyone you know dying..sure, you can make new friends, but they die too..and the ones after that..and after that...

and sadnees and soroww over their loss will repeat itself over and over and over again.
In the end you won't want to make new friends as you realise you're going to watch them grow old and die while you linger.

We are mortal anda short-lived race, and that's how it's supposed to be. We aren't cut out for immortality.

I rember one sentance Tolkien wrote:
"Death was gift to man for Eru, a gift that one day even the powers themselves will envy."