OT One Wish

[riverman]

2 chicks at the same time man

 

[riverman]

I wish my jetpack would arrive.....they promised!

 

[rasheedfan2005]

Damn that sucks.... So you'd literally pass up on the opportunity to make the lives better of billions of people for your own personal gain? Damn...

I dont think i can make billions of people happy. We are all too different for any 1 wish to please us all. I dont think its my place to play god.

 

[Rastapopoulos]

Sounds shallow, but a ton of money!

Here you go:

 

[Rastapopoulos]

That everyone in the world actually gave a shit about everyone else and made an honest effort to look out for each other. And the first clown that calls me Pollyanna gets hunted down and punched.......

That's two wishes.

 

[bodyman5000 and 1]

Damn that sucks.... So you'd literally pass up on the opportunity to make the lives better of billions of people for your own personal gain? Damn...

That's why I'd wish for omnipotence. Of someone actually had that he or she could make everything perfect for everyone.

 

[Rastapopoulos]

Arvydas Sabonis on the Porter-Drexler Blazers...

 

[e_blazer]

Hmm...dviss1's Golden Rule wish is pretty tough to beat. it could change the world dramatically for the better. I also like the idea of truly being able to converse directly with God, but overall I'd have to choose the Golden Rule.

 

[dviss1]

I dont think i can make billions of people happy. We are all too different for any 1 wish to please us all. I dont think its my place to play god.

Every human on the planet wants to be treated fairly. Every human on the planet wants respect. It's an easy wish.

 

[dviss1]

I dont think i can make billions of people happy. We are all too different for any 1 wish to please us all. I dont think its my place to play god.

And I didn't say make them happy. I said make their lives better. Being happy more than likely would be the byproduct of that.

 

[dviss1]

You would be different the day you met her. We're arguing because you're saying with certainty that nothing you could do differently could have an effect out of your control or imagination.

I'm saying that if you took her to a restaurant that you knew later in your life before you otherwise would have went there, you COULD die in a car accident that day because in your original life you stayed home. We can disagree about what you think would happen but you swearing it won't doesn't mean anything.

I guess we'll agree to disagree.

 

[bodyman5000 and 1]

Not agree. 2 plus 2 equals 4. Opinion means nothing. Your alt facts are imaginary. Hey, I do like that term after all.

 

[dviss1]

Not agree. 2 plus 2 equals 4. Opinion means nothing. Your alt facts are imaginary. Hey, I do like that term after all.

You're using it out of context. And calling me a liar about it. I simply disagree with your assessment of what would happen.

 

[bodyman5000 and 1]

You're using it out of context. And calling me a liar about it. I simply disagree with your assessment of what would happen.

I never once said what would happen. Ever.

 

[dviss1]

You're using it out of context. And calling me a liar about it. I simply disagree with your assessment of what could happen.

Better?

 

[H.C.]

Not sure if I should quote Ray J or not.


My wish would be used for my grandfather.
What the details of said wish would be, I will not say.

 

[crandc]

You know what bugs me? When I am in the middle of writing and the board vanishes so I get to start over. Shit.

OK, if it were purely personal, I had a dear friend with whom I lost contact, neither of our fault, just circumstances. Hard to track people in pre-internet days, even after internet it took years to learn my friend had died. My personal wish would be to re-write the story, even if I could not postpone the death, at least maintain contact during life.

My wish for the world.

Experts in human population dynamics, which I am not, have said the planet can sustainably maintain around 4 billion people in European-level prosperity. That is a little lower than American-level; fewer private cars and smaller houses but more social services. Interestingly, that was about the size of the world's population when then-president Nixon convened a study on national security impact of population growth. The panel concluded that unchecked population growth would lead to resource depletion and regional wars over resources, environmental destruction, breakup of weaker states and of traditional alliances, and growth of apocalyptic religious beliefs. Sound familiar? They recommended aggressive support to family planning, including overall education of girls and women, sex education, support for birth control, and legal abortion. Nixon decided that good policy was not good politics; he was trying to build alliance with "white ethnics" as part of re-aligning the Republican party as the white party, and many of these "white ethnics" were Catholic. So he suppressed the report, which only came to light years later.

Now, we can't just get rid of all the "extra" people, so my wish would be go back in time and stabilize the world's population at 3 billion. But that is not enough if wealth is so inequitably distributed. Where 8 men have as much wealth as half the world. No one needs $50 billion and no one needs to live in abject poverty. So, stabilize population and distribute wealth so every person has access to the basics:

Good, nutritious and tasty food, a decent home, electricity, clean lead-free water, plumbing, sewage disposal. Access to education, health care, recreation and culture, And although legal equality and real social equality are not the same, legal equality is a pre-requisite. So legal equality of all ethnicities, genders, nationalities, abilities, sexual orientations, gender identities. Everyone has these things; then what they do with them is up to each person.

I am not saying this guarantees happiness. There will still be inter-personal conflict, misfit kids, unhappy love affairs, kids who say their parents don't understand them, parents who say their kids don't appreciate them. But every person has a chance at a decent life. That is my wish.

Could groups like ISIS and KKK thrive in such an environment? Unlikely.

 

[bodyman5000 and 1]

Pollyanna ∆∆∆∆∆

 

[rasheedfan2005]

Every human on the planet wants to be treated fairly. Every human on the planet wants respect. It's an easy wish.

you're missing the big picture, removing me from society would probably benefit the rest of the world. plus i wouldnt want internet at my homestead so you wouldnt be constantly owned politically by me. i'd want to pet my dogs and shoot deer and listen to birds/waterfalls.

 

[rasheedfan2005]

You know what bugs me? When I am in the middle of writing and the board vanishes so I get to start over. Shit.

OK, if it were purely personal, I had a dear friend with whom I lost contact, neither of our fault, just circumstances. Hard to track people in pre-internet days, even after internet it took years to learn my friend had died. My personal wish would be to re-write the story, even if I could not postpone the death, at least maintain contact during life.

My wish for the world.

Experts in human population dynamics, which I am not, have said the planet can sustainably maintain around 4 billion people in European-level prosperity. That is a little lower than American-level; fewer private cars and smaller houses but more social services. Interestingly, that was about the size of the world's population when then-president Nixon convened a study on national security impact of population growth. The panel concluded that unchecked population growth would lead to resource depletion and regional wars over resources, environmental destruction, breakup of weaker states and of traditional alliances, and growth of apocalyptic religious beliefs. Sound familiar? They recommended aggressive support to family planning, including overall education of girls and women, sex education, support for birth control, and legal abortion. Nixon decided that good policy was not good politics; he was trying to build alliance with "white ethnics" as part of re-aligning the Republican party as the white party, and many of these "white ethnics" were Catholic. So he suppressed the report, which only came to light years later.

Now, we can't just get rid of all the "extra" people, so my wish would be go back in time and stabilize the world's population at 3 billion. But that is not enough if wealth is so inequitably distributed. Where 8 men have as much wealth as half the world. No one needs $50 billion and no one needs to live in abject poverty. So, stabilize population and distribute wealth so every person has access to the basics:

Good, nutritious and tasty food, a decent home, electricity, clean lead-free water, plumbing, sewage disposal. Access to education, health care, recreation and culture, And although legal equality and real social equality are not the same, legal equality is a pre-requisite. So legal equality of all ethnicities, genders, nationalities, abilities, sexual orientations, gender identities. Everyone has these things; then what they do with them is up to each person.

I am not saying this guarantees happiness. There will still be inter-personal conflict, misfit kids, unhappy love affairs, kids who say their parents don't understand them, parents who say their kids don't appreciate them. But every person has a chance at a decent life. That is my wish.

Could groups like ISIS and KKK thrive in such an environment? Unlikely.

so basically kill all the white people and convert the world to communism. nice.