One Wish

[nydj66]

Ok, you're walking down the street and find a magic wand. It's got one wish left in it and you can wish for anything you want; money, fame, super powers, correct a past mistake.

What's you're one wish? BM I can predict what yours is, and BT probably wants his heath.

Me, I'd wish for the ability to know the future. That way I could hit the lottery and be set for life. Then I'd know in advance if any harm was going to come to me or my loved ones and could work to prevent it.

Discuss. (I'll bet PICK3 wishes to be more manly.)

 

[Bikini Mod]

You are correct about my wish. I think about it every minute of every day. One day soon.

Now as to yours don't you think that the knowledge of the exact moment and circumstances of your death would be too great to bear?

 

[nydj66]

Now as to yours don't you think that the knowledge of the exact moment and circumstances of your death would be too great to bear?

Yes, that crossed my mind too. But I would accept it to be able to protect my family with such certainty. Plus if I knew that an asteroid was going to wipe out all humanity August 12, 2012, I could plan my time accodingly and "live like I was dying."

 

[Bikini Mod]

Yes, that crossed my mind too. But I would accept it to be able to protect my family with such certainty. Plus if I knew that an asteroid was going to wipe out all humanity August 12, 2012, I could plan my time accodingly and "live like I was dying."

But we are dying... that is the natural consequence of birth so why not live like that now?

If you had knowledge of the future don't you think that if you altered circumstances it would affect other circumstances that would have brought about good, but wouldn't due to your interference?

Think of Jimmy Stewart movie, "It's a wonderful life".

I see what you are saying but to have a power like that would seem to be too much for a body to bear. You would know about certain circumstances yet you would have very little power to change them. If you did, you might have upset a balance in a negative way in the grand scheme of things. How would you live with THAT knowledge?

I don't WANT to know what is going to happen 5 minutes from now, five days from now or 5 years from now. I just want to strength and ability to handle it, regardless of what it is.

I'll give you an example: If I had known in my early 20's that my children would be made to suffer so horribly and my entire family would be adversely affected by my ex I may not have done all I did to overcome the infertility I experienced for 13 months. None of my children would have ever been born. I have NO IDEA how many people my children have or will affect in a good way. Maybe one will grow up to give birth to someone that will change the world? Maybe one will rob a liquor store and murder somebody else's mother but there will be community outrage because it may be brought up what the system did to my kid and MAYBE there will be some sort of program implemented that will change the way the family courts handle such situations and who knows how many other families will be spared the suffering that mine and countless others have and are going through?

Maybe I am wrong and none of us has or will ever affect another human being... doubtfull though.

 

[this_is_adam]

I'd wish for more wishes and would be pretty much set up for life

 

[Bikini Mod]

I'd wish for more wishes and would be pretty much set up for life

Goofy, everybody knows that you can wish for anything EXCEPT that. That is one of the conditions of being granted a wish.

 

[chris302001]

My wish would be to switch lives with gladiator

 

[this_is_adam]

Goofy, everybody knows that you can wish for anything EXCEPT that. That is one of the conditions of being granted a wish.

And who penned the rules to those conditions?

 

[Bikini Mod]

And who penned the rules to those conditions?

*slaps forehead*

The genie who grants the wishes!

 

[nydj66]

But we are dying... that is the natural consequence of birth so why not live like that now?

If you had knowledge of the future don't you think that if you altered circumstances it would affect other circumstances that would have brought about good, but wouldn't due to your interference?

Think of Jimmy Stewart movie, "It's a wonderful life".

I see what you are saying but to have a power like that would seem to be too much for a body to bear. You would know about certain circumstances yet you would have very little power to change them. If you did, you might have upset a balance in a negative way in the grand scheme of things. How would you live with THAT knowledge?

I don't WANT to know what is going to happen 5 minutes from now, five days from now or 5 years from now. I just want to strength and ability to handle it, regardless of what it is.

I'll give you an example: If I had known in my early 20's that my children would be made to suffer so horribly and my entire family would be adversely affected by my ex I may not have done all I did to overcome the infertility I experienced for 13 months. None of my children would have ever been born. I have NO IDEA how many people my children have or will affect in a good way. Maybe one will grow up to give birth to someone that will change the world? Maybe one will rob a liquor store and murder somebody else's mother but there will be community outrage because it may be brought up what the system did to my kid and MAYBE there will be some sort of program implemented that will change the way the family courts handle such situations and who knows how many other families will be spared the suffering that mine and countless others have and are going through?

Maybe I am wrong and none of us has or will ever affect another human being... doubtfull though.

Every December when I watch "It's a Wonderful Life" when little Mary asks, "Is this your bad ear?" Then leans over the soda fountain and whispers in it, "Geaorge Bailey, I'll love you 'till the day I die." I get teary eyed because I know how the story turns out.

I think this is a male/female issue. As a husband and father I feel constant pressure to protect and lead my family. Maybe I'm just looking for a way to make it easier.

I think women are more reactive in their approach beacuse of their (typically) weaker physical and stronger emotional status.

I'm sure that if I did get my wish, it wouldn't be long before there was something else to wish for; becuase that's the way we humans seem to work.

 

[nydj66]

And who penned the rules to those conditions?

The magic wand has one wish left. And it's non-refillable.

 

[this_is_adam]

i'm feeling somewhat cheated from my childhood. Next minute someone's gonna tell me there's no Santa

 

[this_is_adam]

The magic wand has one wish left. And it's non-refillable.

Could i wish it to be refillable?

 

[nydj66]

Could i wish it to be refillable?

Such a wish would lead to a tear in the fabric of the time-space continuum, cause every molecule in your body to explode at the speed of light, and end all life as we know it.

 

[Bikini Mod]

The magic wand has one wish left. And it's non-refillable.

Dewd, the day ANY MAN's magic wand has one wish left he needs to ride hisself out into the sunset and wait for death to come take him.

 

[chris302001]

Such a wish would lead to a tear in the fabric of the time-space continuum, cause every molecule in your body to explode at the speed of light, and end all life as we know it.

on the plus side, this would happen to gladiator too...

 

[this_is_adam]

but there's a chance it wouldn't...i'll take my chances, this planet aint all that anyways

 

[Bikini Mod]

i'm feeling somewhat cheated from my childhood. Next minute someone's gonna tell me there's no Santa

Hello... it is the baby jesus that brings the tree and the presents. Mikulas comes on the second sunday of advent to bring nuts and fruit and chocolates to good children who leave their properly shined sunday shoes beneath the windows. If they were naughty or their shoes were not properly cleaned then they would get switches so their parents could properly beat their asses. Either that or Krampusz would show and take the bad children away.


^^^ For real. No shit joe.

 

[this_is_adam]

Hello... it is the baby jesus that brings the tree and the presents. Mikulas comes on the second sunday of advent to bring nuts and fruit and chocolates to good children who leave their properly shined sunday shoes beneath the windows. If they were naughty or their shoes were not properly cleaned then they would get switches so their parents could properly beat their asses. Either that or Krampusz would show and take the bad children away.


^^^ For real. No shit joe.

Thanks . You could've just run with the Santa idea el grincho

 

[Bikini Mod]

Thanks . You could've just run with the Santa idea el grincho

Here is a bit of wisdom that my parents passed onto me after being handed down through generations:

"It is better that you should cry now, then I should cry later."

 

[nydj66]

Here is a bit of wisdom that my parents passed onto me after being handed down through generations:

"It is better that you should cry now, then I should cry later."

That's a great line. I never heard that one before but I'll damn sure be using it on my kids.

The limits of my father's wisdom was displayed in response to anything I said I wanted, "People in Hell want icewater and we can't do shit for them."

 

[-Ariel-]

Already got mine...

 

[Bikini Mod]

That's a great line. I never heard that one before but I'll damn sure be using it on my kids.

The limits of my father's wisdom was displayed in response to anything I said I wanted, "People in Hell want icewater and we can't do shit for them."

LOL@your dad. I'll have to remember that one... I like it!

The quote loses something in the translation but still conveys the idea. I remember the first time I had to do something to/for one of my children that made them cry. Talk about a relentlessly wailing infant... I had to cry myself. (Post partum and exhaustion didn't help matters LOL). But the truth is that whenever a parent DOES guide/discipline/make a tough choice for their child that the child does NOT LIKE it is because it will make them better in the end.

And we aren't even necessarily talking a physical punishment, but perhaps letting a baby cry themselves to sleep, giving a child an immunization, waking them during the day (we are talking cold washclothes on their faces and chest) so they will sleep through the night.... the list goes on and on. It hurt me every single time, but seriously, when that bit of wisdom came to mind, it helped me to do right by my child.