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If you were granted ONE wish...?

Started by Siege, July 01, 2011, 01:43:52 PM

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AnchorClanker

#45
July 04, 2011, 09:37:46 PM
As for the original question - I suppose I'd wish for people to understand when to use facts and reason, and when to use emotion... that would solve a good many problems by virture of the ripple effect.
The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.  - Reinhold Niebuhr

garbon

#46
July 04, 2011, 09:43:38 PM
Quote from: AnchorClanker on July 04, 2011, 09:37:46 PM
As for the original question - I suppose I'd wish for people to understand when to use facts and reason, and when to use emotion... that would solve a good many problems by virture of the ripple effect.

Oh don't be so emotional.
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

AnchorClanker

#47
July 04, 2011, 09:50:44 PM
 :D
The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.  - Reinhold Niebuhr

Siege

#48
July 04, 2011, 09:57:40 PM
Quote from: Ideologue on July 01, 2011, 08:57:43 PM
Superman powers, without Superman responsibility.

Very interesting.
This brings up a new interesting topic.


"All men are created equal, then some become infantry."

"Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who don't."

"Laissez faire et laissez passer, le monde va de lui même!"

Neil

#49
July 04, 2011, 10:04:48 PM
Quote from: merithyn on July 04, 2011, 09:12:27 PM
Quote from: HVC on July 04, 2011, 08:25:42 PM
Quote from: merithyn on July 04, 2011, 08:11:15 PM
I would wish for the entire world to return to the barter system. :)
Dear god why?
Because then only the people who can actually do or make something will be valuable and everyone else will be dead and gone. :)
Yeah, that's what poverty is.
I do not hate you, nor do I love you, but you are made out of atoms which I can use for something else.

Siege

#50
July 04, 2011, 10:08:51 PM
Quote from: merithyn on July 04, 2011, 09:12:27 PM
Quote from: HVC on July 04, 2011, 08:25:42 PM
Quote from: merithyn on July 04, 2011, 08:11:15 PM
I would wish for the entire world to return to the barter system. :)
Dear god why?

Because then only the people who can actually do or make something will be valuable and everyone else will be dead and gone. :)

Haha. You must certainly realize that even if you reset human history and we are back to the barter system eventually some people will realize how to acumulate power and wealth, and in the end we will be back where we are now, no matter how long it takes.


"All men are created equal, then some become infantry."

"Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who don't."

"Laissez faire et laissez passer, le monde va de lui même!"

Razgovory

#51
July 04, 2011, 11:44:56 PM
Quote from: merithyn on July 04, 2011, 09:12:27 PM
Quote from: HVC on July 04, 2011, 08:25:42 PM
Quote from: merithyn on July 04, 2011, 08:11:15 PM
I would wish for the entire world to return to the barter system. :)
Dear god why?

Because then only the people who can actually do or make something will be valuable and everyone else will be dead and gone. :)

Presumably you believe you are one of the valuable ones?  What exactly do you do?
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

jimmy olsen

#52
July 05, 2011, 12:17:17 AM
It is far better for the truth to tear my flesh to pieces, then for my soul to wander through darkness in eternal damnation.

Jet: So what kind of woman is she? What's Julia like?
Faye: Ordinary. The kind of beautiful, dangerous ordinary that you just can't leave alone.
Jet: I see.
Faye: Like an angel from the underworld. Or a devil from Paradise.
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Slargos

#53
July 05, 2011, 12:48:40 AM
 :lmfao:

Razgovory

#54
July 05, 2011, 01:06:03 AM
Might be worth it.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

Brazen

#55
July 05, 2011, 06:19:49 AM
A vaccine against Alzheimer's disease.

Slargos

#56
July 05, 2011, 06:31:17 AM
Quote from: Brazen on July 05, 2011, 06:19:49 AM
A vaccine against Alzheimer's disease.

Great, you smug bitch. Way to make everyone else feel like a jackass.  <_<

grumbler

#57
July 05, 2011, 07:03:44 AM
Quote from: Neil on July 04, 2011, 10:04:48 PM
Quote from: merithyn on July 04, 2011, 09:12:27 PM
Quote from: HVC on July 04, 2011, 08:25:42 PM
Quote from: merithyn on July 04, 2011, 08:11:15 PM
I would wish for the entire world to return to the barter system. :)
Dear god why?
Because then only the people who can actually do or make something will be valuable and everyone else will be dead and gone. :)
Yeah, that's what poverty is.
It would certainly kill off the artists and the poets and the writers, but I think it would also kill off valuable people like research doctors, scientists, and disaster-recovery planners.  Obviously, it would eliminate police, and all forms of transportation save shank's mare, but those might not be huge losses.  If Meri is a criminal or a peasant, she would be okay.
The future is all around us, waiting, in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.   -G'Kar

Bayraktar!

Neil

#58
July 05, 2011, 08:07:55 AM
Maybe the disaster-recovery planners had a plan for the disaster of someone wishing for mankind to go back to the stone age?
I do not hate you, nor do I love you, but you are made out of atoms which I can use for something else.

Ed Anger

#59
July 05, 2011, 08:13:01 AM
Poland would cease to exist.
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