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The Six Wishes Thread

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If you got your hands on a genie that could grant you six wishes (I'm choosing six wishes because three is too limiting and unlimited would be boring), what would your wishes be?

In my case ...

1. to become a successful film director who can make the movies I want to make without any studio interference

2. to become a talented comic book illustrator

3. to bring about a renaissance in the music industry that will restore depth and dignity to the mainstream music scene, forcing all the Beibers, Ke$has, and Lil Waynes of the world out into the Outer Darkness of anonymity where they belong.

4. to make it so every season of The Simpsons made beyond Season 9 (minus a select few episodes from Season 10 & 11) never existed.

5. if God doesn't exist, I'd create Him/Her/It; if God already does exist, then I'd wish for permanent financial security for the rest of my life

6. more sanity in the world

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1. Immortality and good health for anyone who wants it.

2. Working Time/Space Machine for me.

3. All Jobs abolished and replaced with satisfying occupations.

4. The man on the stair, who isn't there every night, goes away and stays away.

5. Politicians replaced by a machine that works and is self maintaining.

6. Traffic light style attraction/agree meter visible whenever anyone wants to see it.

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1. An infinite supply of Sharwood's Green Label Mango Chutney (And accompanying supply of fluffy Basmati rice).

2. To find that the original perfectly preserved film elements for the lost director's cut of 'The Magnificent Ambersons' was tucked down the back of my sofa all along.

3. To have a magic block button that allows me to not only block rascist, homophobic, anti-semetic and sexist people from commenting on YouTube but that it would also allow me to block them from accessing the internet all together.

4. The death penalty to be abolished worldwide*.

5. *The death penalty to be mandatory for people who drop litter or talk in the Cinema.

6. All supermarkets to stock Sarsaparilla cordial by law... not just a few of the bigger Sainsburys.

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First three wishes are serious.

1. People would no longer forget their important decisions and experiences, ever.

2. Demand that people make increasing their awareness a lifelong habit. No more being content in ignorance.

3. I'd wish for everyone to become aware of the opportunities to become the best that they could be.

Second three wishes are partly serious.

4. I'd wish for everyone to gain a wonderful sense of humor.

5. I'd wish for aliens to appear on Earth in the form of Norse deities as a giant prank.

6. I'd wish for all of the governments in existence to be guarded a series of trials testing the character and intelligence of anyone applying for higher office in order to continually attract the most ethical and intelligent people to positions of power. I guess this is serious as well.

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1. I'd wish for an infinite amount of wishes.

2. Regardless of whether or not God exists, I would wish everyone into heaven (but only if they wanted it).

3. I'd wish that everyone in the world would enjoy true freedom.

4. I'd wish for world peace.

5. I'd wish for world happiness.

6. I'd wish for something else.

7. I'd wish for another thing.

8. I'd wish for...um...not sure.

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NeverarGreat said:


4. I'd wish for Jetrell Fo to gain a sense of humor.

 Fixed.

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RicOlie_2 said:

1. I'd wish for an infinite amount of wishes.

2. Regardless of whether or not God exists, I would wish everyone into heaven (but only if they wanted it).

1. Cheaters never win and winners never cheat.

2. I don't think you mean that.

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TV's Frink said:

RicOlie_2 said:

1. I'd wish for an infinite amount of wishes.

2. Regardless of whether or not God exists, I would wish everyone into heaven (but only if they wanted it).

1. Cheaters never win and winners never cheat.

2. I don't think you mean that.

 1. I didn't end up making more than six wishes anyway (just in case extra wishes didn't count ;)).

2. I meant it, but I was careful to add the bit in parentheses because I know there are people who don't want to go to heaven (that's kind of what hell is for, but we won't get into that in this thread).

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1. You wished for more than six with your first wish...cheater.

2. So, just for example, you want child molesters in heaven?

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I suppose I would wish for them to go to purgatory and then heaven. With purgatory in the mix, they would have to be saints before they got in. But that just goes to show that I need to be more careful when I make wishes. :)

Also, since there wouldn't be any physical bodies in heaven (it might be wise to specify that in my wish as well), there wouldn't be much to molest.

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Catholics don't believe in physical bodies in heaven?  What's the point of the resurrection then?

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Well...we do believe that we'll get bodies at the second coming of Christ and the final judgement, but they'll be glorified bodies and not quite the same as our bodies. Since there will be a new heaven and a new earth, its debatable whether we'll be in the same type of heaven or not. If there's a new earth too, perhaps heaven and earth will be merged into one thus making bodies possible in heaven. I'm not quite sure how the whole body thing works, given that heaven is more of a spiritual realm than a physical one.

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1. Underpants

2. ??

3. Profit

Wait what was the question again? 

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1. For me to have perfect health an invulnerability until I die of old age of over 500.

2. For me to have the ability to heal any old wounds and regenerate any part of my body I desired and bring back my body to prime condition.

3. The ability to bestow onto any other person or persons of my choice perfect health and invulnerability until old age takes them.

4. The ability to heal any other persons of my choice old wounds and regenerate any part of their body they desired and to bring their body into prime condition.

5. The ability to make others forget anything I want them to forget.

6. I'd save this one for anything else I might want in the future. Considering my previous wishes I could do a lot with that already.

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Although possibly selfish, those would be interesting wishes. You could do all kinds of things you couldn't normally do in real life (like jumping off skyscrapers without a parachute and surviving), and you'd be able to read a lot of books...wait, would you still have to work full time (before you retired, but that would come way late since you'd have to save up extra money) to support yourself and your family? 'Cause that could really limit your reading time and I suspect it would be a long five hundred years...

Then again, eating would be unnecessary, as would a great many other things. So maybe it wouldn't be so bad after all and you could still retire at a reasonable age.

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RicOlie_2 said:

wait, would you still have to work full time (before you retired, but that would come way late since you'd have to save up extra money) to support yourself and your family? 'Cause that could really limit your reading time and I suspect it would be a long five hundred years...

Well working would really depend on how selfish I'd want to be that day. I mean with my "make people forget" power I could walk into any store take something and make everyone forget I ever stepped one foot in their store. They'd just be confused as hell as to why their alarm is going off. And if eventually it piles of into mountains of video evidence that I had done such things then I could just make them forget they ever saw that evidence and make them forget that they made those conclusions in the first place. So in a way I'd be able to rule the world entirely anonymously if I wanted to.

I wouldn't even need to outright steal like that either, if I wanted to be more kind about it, I could just give less money for everything. Ask for change from someplace else, make them forget I asked for change, then buy something at lower value than the change I asked for. So I'd end up with the original sum of cash plus the change and the item. In a way it would be "working" just a different kind of work.

If all else fails, or I simply become burdened by conscious of possibly feeling like I've been stealing, I would still have my final wish to fall back on and I could wish for something to redeem myself.

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What would happen if you undid your wishes? Would they just no longer apply from then on, or would you be back where you started? And if the latter, would you get five more wishes?