You have one wish.

[Mr Awe]

^^ Having an escape clause for the end of the world is a very good point! With that type of life span you'd have to be worried about that sort of thing.

Mr Awe

 

[Holdfast]

^^ Having an escape clause for the end of the world is a very good point! With that type of life span you'd have to be worried about that sort of thing.

It's probably the only kind of actuarial risk table I would actually enjoy reading...

 

[Itisnotlogical]

I'd wish for all my friends and myself to be eternally immune to disease, violence, etc.

 

[RegFan]

I would wish that everyone in the world would be able to read minds.

(I think that would eventually lead to world peace.)

I think so too. Everyone would know about each other's emotional state and thoughts, so there would be a lot less conflict and misunderstandings.

I would still wish that people would think a lot more, since that would not only help achieve world peace, but also make people happier, most importantly more moral and help solve all of the world's problems. So my wish would achieve the effects of all the wishes in this thread that are about making the world a better place.

 

[Shazam!]

I would time travel to 1990, but the only thing I would do in 1990 would be to create an online message board using modern forum software(which I would have brought back in time with me), and the online message board would be primarily about gaming, but also about other things. And I would add forums for stuff as it came out and was released. For instance, the groundbreaking game, Doom, was just released, and so I would add a forum for that. Then a forum for N64/PS1/Saturn and other systems as they were released. When StarCraft and Diablo were released, add forums for them. Then Half-Life and Quake, ans all other large game releases and for the consoles. The forum would last forever. I would then time travel back to when I was 13 and relive my life from 13-present, all the while maintaining an ulterior presence in the past that updates and moderates my message board that I would have created in 1990.

Strangest wish ever.

 

[Shazam!]

I'd wish I had the powers of Superman

 

[Cicero]

I would wish to understand everything.

 

[iguana_tonante]

I would wish that everyone in the world would be able to read minds.

(I think that would eventually lead to world peace.)

I think so too. Everyone would know about each other's emotional state and thoughts, so there would be a lot less conflict and misunderstandings.

Actually, I think that would lead to even more violence and conflicts, and most probably bring about the end of the world in a unavoidable thermonuclear holocaust. The veil of civilized lies and false courtesies is the one thing that keeps society together. I don't want to know what people really think of me, and for sure I don't want people to know what I really think of them.

 

[Deranged Nasat]

^ You're like the reptilian Ego to everyone's Id, the reality-tester to our flights of fancy.

Every genie should come with a little Iguana who sits there making quiet suggestions along the lines of "do you really want to do that?" or "I don't think you've thought this through entirely...", and generally casting doubt into people's minds . A sort of inbuilt safety system.

The Iguana of the lamp, basically, is the counterpoint to the genie.

 

[iguana_tonante]

This way, nobody could ever summon the will to actually make a wish for fear of consequences, and the genie's business is intact even if he can't actually grant anything. Good plan, don't you think?

 

[Satyrquaze]

I would wish that everyone in the world would be able to read minds.

(I think that would eventually lead to world peace.)

I think so too. Everyone would know about each other's emotional state and thoughts, so there would be a lot less conflict and misunderstandings.

I would still wish that people would think a lot more, since that would not only help achieve world peace, but also make people happier, most importantly more moral and help solve all of the world's problems. So my wish would achieve the effects of all the wishes in this thread that are about making the world a better place.

I tend to agree with your take on it, I was just thinking since it hypothetically worked for the Betazoids...

 

[Shazam!]

I'm not sure I'd be comfortable having my work colleague know that I want to fuck her up the ass.

 

[Satyrquaze]

I'm not sure I'd be comfortable having my work colleague know that I want to fuck her up the ass.

I'd suggest working on thinking about it more tactfully...

 

[captcalhoun]

i'm lucky in that respect, i don't want to fuck any of my female colleagues.

my supervisor's daughter on the other hand...

 

[Yeoman Randi]

I'd like to see the end of all evil.

 

[iguana_tonante]

^ That sounds terribly boring. I am from the Kirk school about that: humanity wasn't meant for paradise. It was meant to claw, to scratch all the way.

 

[RegFan]

I would wish that everyone in the world would be able to read minds.

(I think that would eventually lead to world peace.)

I think so too. Everyone would know about each other's emotional state and thoughts, so there would be a lot less conflict and misunderstandings.

Actually, I think that would lead to even more violence and conflicts, and most probably bring about the end of the world in a unavoidable thermonuclear holocaust. The veil of civilized lies and false courtesies is the one thing that keeps society together. I don't want to know what people really think of me, and for sure I don't want people to know what I really think of them.

Everyone would completely understand each other. Many conflicts are started because of lack of trust or understanding, so if no one could hide their thoughts, no one would have any reason not to trust each other.

Everyone would also be more empathic due to knowing exactly what others feel. Why would anyone deliberately cause harm to others if they felt bad about it? People also sometimes don't understand that others feel bad about their actions. If everyone was telepathic, that problem would be eliminated.

If one person suddenly became telepathic, there's a good chance that they might both exclude themselves and be excluded from the communities they belong to. But if everyone suddenly became telepathic, they would, for the most part, just laugh about it and learn to get along again. The circumstances would force them to, because there's usually something between one person and the other, who know each other, that the former wouldn't like the latter to know. I don't see how there could ever be a war where everyone fought everyone else. People would never let the circumstances go that bad.

 

[Nowhere Man]

A replicater, I imagine that would be bigger than the industrial revolution. It would change a lot and maybe lead to that world peace you speak of. Now that I think of it, I would need instructions on how to build another one, so I can share.

 

[RandyS]

I'd wish I had the powers of Superman

Me too, man. My cerebral palsy would be gone, and I'd never be tired or in pain again.

AND I could fly. I'd love that.

 

[RandyS]

A replicater, I imagine that would be bigger than the industrial revolution. It would change a lot and maybe lead to that world peace you speak of. Now that I think of it, I would need instructions on how to build another one, so I can share.

No you wouldn't. Just use your first repilcator to replicate another one.

And make one for me while you're at it.