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Topic: Three Wishes
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AcousticGod Knowflake Posts: 7395 From: Pleasanton, CA Registered: Apr 2009
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posted May 03, 2013 02:54 PM
A genie (from a lamp) grants you three wishes. What are they?IP: Logged |
mirage29 Knowflake Posts: 1095 From: us Registered: May 2012
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posted May 03, 2013 03:01 PM
Day By Day - GODSPELL 1972 [3:20] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3PjfBQjJT8 Day by day Day by day Oh Dear Lord Three things I pray To see thee more clearly Love thee more dearly Follow thee more nearly Day by day  or for a car perhaps? Watch out what you wistching for....? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iymBRSUfz9U IP: Logged |
Yin Moderator Posts: 3240 From: Registered: Apr 2009
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posted May 03, 2013 03:47 PM
Infinite amount of wishes
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juniperb Moderator Posts: 6682 From: Blue Star Kachina Registered: Apr 2009
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posted May 03, 2013 05:17 PM
Cappyson, Tell me yours, I`ll tell ya mine!  ------------------ We need to listen to our own song, and share it with others, but not force it on them. Our songs are different. They should be in harmony with each other. ~ Mattie Stepanek IP: Logged |
doommlord Moderator Posts: 2284 From: israel Registered: Dec 2011
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posted May 03, 2013 05:38 PM
Eternal love- for being able to share my life with someone in complete trust.Boundless knowledge- to know the secrets of life, universe and existance. Endless wealth- to allow me freedom to travel and yet have a place away from society and have solitude and time to be with my true love. Selfish wishes they are.... but i find them to my liking  IP: Logged |
T Knowflake Posts: 9569 From: Registered: Apr 2009
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posted May 03, 2013 06:06 PM
World peaceThe end of the monetary system Food and shelter for all IP: Logged |
PixieJane Knowflake Posts: 2233 From: CA Registered: Oct 2010
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posted May 03, 2013 06:55 PM
Not sure (blasted Libra placements...), but I thought I'd share an interesting dream I recorded in a dream journal Feb 3, 2004 Though this one features my real Dad, it also gave me a "little brother" (I was an only child), who appears in other dreams sometimes as a little brother and other times as my son (I've even had the irrational certainty that I need to bear children because I'm meant to give birth to him). So anyway, the dream: quote: I was 12 and with my dad in the store. I was pretty much into the head space I was in at 12, too. I wanted--needed--things and my dad would gripe and complain. This included my suggesting we get more and better food. This made me feel bad, but I was equally mad at how he would get a case of beer (half a case if strapped--but that was usually at another store in which he got nothing except alcohol and tobacco), as if THAT were important. But I didn't have the words back then, and besides, I was a bit scared of my dad.In the dream, I felt something from him that I never sensed in him in real life--guilt, sorrow, self-loathing and anger. I sensed anger in him in real life, but in the dream, he seemed more angry at himself than everyone and everything else around him. A cop followed us around, seeming to ignore me, and made loud condemnations of his choices, of his life, etc. Apparently, only he could see and hear this cop, though I could in the dream. We came to a box barrel display. Inside were a bunch of rings, but we could only take one. A woman's voice, feeling VERY daimonic (that is, unknown and not-human), said we could both take a ring and make ONE wish. Showing my more mature sensibilities all of a sudden, I asked, "What's the price?" No answer. I was tempted, but scared. I told him not to do it and reminded him that there's always a catch. He agreed and we left. The cop followed us all the way to the register, and then just wasn't there anymore. Dad got into an argument with the cashier over something, but I don't recall exactly what. I think it had something to do with returning or replacing something. We left the store and it was night. At this point, I was older, more like 15. (In real life, I barely saw him after 14.) The stars were beautiful. A "knowing" came down to us, a telepathic communications, that offered my dad 2 bracelets and said, "OK, THREE wishes for each of you." I warned him, "They want us to take them too badly. What's in it for them?" No answer from them, but my dad took the bracelets--a gold and silver one. He took the gold one and handed me the silver one. Temptation got to me, but I decided on a plan. I said, "I wish to understand the reasons and motivations for giving us these wishes." If I didn't like the answer, I was going to use my next wish to wish I never made any of these wishes, and that they found someone else instead of us. I don't recall the answer I got, but I did get one [As the other wishes turned out to be temporary then I can assume in retrospect that I DID understand for awhile]. It had to do with achieving wisdom--more for them than for us--and I wasn't comforted by it, but not scared enough to wish it all away, either. We got to his car (a real junker) and my dad cursed as he got his keys out and then said, "I wish my car was a fire engine red Chevrolet Corvette." [In real life Dad had a red T-bird he loved, and pretty much snapped when Mom won it in the divorce and I'm pretty sure it was him who sabotaged the brakes that nearly killed Mom and me.] And it was. I'm not sure what got into me at that moment, but I snatched the keys from his hands, jumped in the car while he gaped at the car and me both, and screeched out of there. I went joyriding for several blocks before I felt guilty about leaving dad and went back to pick him up. Natch, he was cussing up a storm when I came back. But once he was in the driver seat, he took off too in the same way I had. We actually had some fun over some car ride until the car reverted back to its normal junk form, causing my dad to cuss a lot more. Then a scene showed up in which I was not involved in. I suddenly had a "little brother" who was like 7-10. He was picked up by that cop that followed dad around in the store. The cop killed him and then dressed it up to look like a stupid gangland slaying. The memory of this would leave me until after I woke up.
Oddly enough, the murder scene was in the same store where this started, though on the opposite side if that matters. There were other cops around. My dad was suddenly a cop himself and showed up and was majorly upset as you'd expect.
He mentioned to me how he wanted to take the both of us to Disneyland. He then went, "I wish my son [no name I recall] were still alive and we were all at Disneyland." And so we were. Recalling how the car reverted back to its normal form, I added, "I wish that he remains alive," in order to make it permanent. We really did have a lot of fun at Disneyland. My dad was actually pleasant and fun to be around. And I liked my brother, too. But suddenly it was over. Disneyland vanished, and we were back at the store--on the other side near where the wishing rings were--and the boy was skeletal and in a buggy being pushed by dad. The other cops came running up and wanted to know what happened, including the condemning (and killing) cop. My dad threw his badge at all of them and yelled, "Keep it!" He stormed out and I didn't see him anymore in the dream. I decided to use my last wish so I could be done with it. "I wish I could fly by thinking about it, and that I would float gently to the ground just before my wish is over." And so it was. I flew outside so I could go up high. It was dusk instead of night. (I would say dawn, except the activity was more appropriate to dusk.) I flew and saw some of my old friends from when I was 16, just before I had ran away from home. I wanted to show them my flying so they'd believe me when I told them about the wishes. But as I flew all around them, they didn't see me. I grabbed one on the shoulders and yelled, "Can't you see me!?" She stopped and asked the others if they heard me calling. They looked around and said, no. I tried to push her back, but I went through her like she were jello, and she didn't feel anything at all. So I flew around by myself for awhile before I felt myself floating down, and then I woke up.
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PixieJane Knowflake Posts: 2233 From: CA Registered: Oct 2010
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posted May 03, 2013 07:03 PM
quote: Originally posted by Yin: Infinite amount of wishes
Thus imprisoning you in a time loop to make the same wish over & over. 
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PixieJane Knowflake Posts: 2233 From: CA Registered: Oct 2010
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posted May 03, 2013 07:07 PM
quote: Originally posted by T: World peaceThe end of the monetary system Food and shelter for all
You should see The Host where this wish comes true! (Well, not entirely perfected due to selfish humans who refuse a host...but almost! And as the aliens say, it's only a matter of time before the humans who still have their free will die out.)
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Randall Webmaster Posts: 27740 From: Saturn next to Charmainec Registered: Apr 2009
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posted May 03, 2013 07:41 PM
Wishes can have unexpected repercussions. I'd choose very carefully to ensure I'm not violating anyone's free-will.IP: Logged |
Faith Knowflake Posts: 4615 From: Registered: Jul 2011
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posted May 03, 2013 08:18 PM
quote: Originally posted by T: World peaceThe end of the monetary system Food and shelter for all
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hannaramaa Knowflake Posts: 4552 From: Registered: Nov 2011
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posted May 03, 2013 09:26 PM
1. Infinite money (not because I want to be rich, but so I could make a difference and change the world) 2. Wisdom 3. The ability to know who's lying and who isn't, so I would wish for the power of knowing who to trust.IP: Logged |
T Knowflake Posts: 9569 From: Registered: Apr 2009
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posted May 03, 2013 11:56 PM
quote: Originally posted by PixieJane: You should see The Host where this wish comes true! (Well, not entirely perfected due to selfish humans who refuse a host...but almost! And as the aliens say, it's only a matter of time before the humans who still have their free will die out.)
I will check it out. You will have to excuse me as I am mentally and physically burnt out atm. I read the link, but think it's probably better if I watch the movie instead. I think I might need to reword my wishes now...even though they are essentially what I would choose, if I only had three of them. Going to make a bite to eat and be back with more....
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T Knowflake Posts: 9569 From: Registered: Apr 2009
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posted May 04, 2013 12:08 AM
I just wish people could be healthy. Like. truly healthy.In mind, body and spirit. That would solve just about, if not everything, right?  IP: Logged |
T Knowflake Posts: 9569 From: Registered: Apr 2009
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posted May 04, 2013 12:09 AM
Thanks Faith.  I almost put a "Yeah seriously." comment at the end of that, but decided not to. People like you would get it.  IP: Logged |
T Knowflake Posts: 9569 From: Registered: Apr 2009
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posted May 04, 2013 12:46 AM
Utopia anyone? Or is that only what we get when we die? If we're lucky.... Why not here and now with two feet on the ground? IP: Logged |
AcousticGod Knowflake Posts: 7395 From: Pleasanton, CA Registered: Apr 2009
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posted May 04, 2013 10:46 AM
1. That the lamp, and all lamps like it are destroyed upon completion of my wishes 2. Everyone in the world has their IQ raised to a minimum of 110 3. Every person in the world has an account with at least one share of an index fund stock or ETFIP: Logged |
PixieJane Knowflake Posts: 2233 From: CA Registered: Oct 2010
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posted May 04, 2013 07:35 PM
quote: Originally posted by T: Utopia anyone? Or is that only what we get when we die? If we're lucky.... Why not here and now with two feet on the ground?
My previous response to your wish was just having a little fun, we air signs like to be clever (or at least play with ideas if we're not as clever as we think we are). But now I'm being serious: the problem is that one person's idea of heaven/utopia is another person's idea of hell/dystopia. The only way I could see utopia happen without a price tag that's far too expensive (with genocidal slaughter and massive suicide which would probably repeat every generation, at least for several gens) is if those with similar values were to "gravitate" to "dimensions/planes of existence" with similar ideals & values, which of course is currently impossible (or at least unavailable) in our current world. (And even that is problematic, for example where conformity is sought, who wins when conformists are willing to wage a holy war on each other over what exactly is to be conformed to? Or in an individualist society what happens when people believing in social darwinism to "bring out the best and let the cream rise to the top" find themselves in direct competition with others and finding they're not the cream of the crop they thought they were?) And while it can be fun to idly imagine wishes if such reality-altering magicks became possible someone who actually faced such an opportunity should deeply (even fearfully) respect that power, and it's unintended consequences. Or maybe I've just watched too much Buffy (the wish-granting demons) and taken stories like The Monkey's Paw to heart.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4z9HirLNlrQ
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Randall Webmaster Posts: 27740 From: Saturn next to Charmainec Registered: Apr 2009
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posted May 04, 2013 08:41 PM
After watching the Wishmaster movies, I would probably refrain from wishing.IP: Logged |
mirage29 Knowflake Posts: 1095 From: us Registered: May 2012
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posted May 04, 2013 09:53 PM
quote: Originally posted by PixieJane: You should see The Host where this wish comes true! (Well, not entirely perfected due to selfish humans who refuse a host...but almost! And as the aliens say, it's only a matter of time before the humans who still have their free will die out.)
Pixie Jane!!  ADD  Film A.I. - final scene - David's Happiest Day [8:58] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRhCz0ELrKs IP: Logged |
mirage29 Knowflake Posts: 1095 From: us Registered: May 2012
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posted May 04, 2013 10:02 PM
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mirage29 Knowflake Posts: 1095 From: us Registered: May 2012
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posted May 04, 2013 10:06 PM
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charmainec Moderator Posts: 6533 From: Venus next to Randall Registered: Apr 2009
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posted May 06, 2013 02:41 AM
quote: Originally posted by T: I just wish people could be healthy. Like. truly healthy.In mind, body and spirit.
It may not solve everything but it sure would be nice.  ------------------ quote: Remember, love can conquer the influences of the planets....It can even eliminate karma.
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Love&Light Knowflake Posts: 679 From: India Registered: Oct 2011
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posted May 06, 2013 10:18 AM
1) Love that Consumes 2) Sufficient material and human support throughout life so that my basic needs are taken care of. 3) Both of the above for all. These are my 3 wishes. But the first one gives everything actually so.......am i cheating? 
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Randall Webmaster Posts: 27740 From: Saturn next to Charmainec Registered: Apr 2009
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posted May 11, 2013 11:18 PM
Good answers. IP: Logged |