If I had three wishes...
Feb. 10th, 2004 09:01 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ewxYou meet a genie, who grants you three wishes. Meta-wishes ("I wish for six wishes", "I wish for another genie", etc) are not allowed, and wishes are interpreted literally, so be careful what you wish for and how you phrase it. What do you wish for?
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Date: 2004-02-10 01:22 am (UTC)"I wish for all current conflicts to be ended via negotiated settlement within the next three months, said end to please all conflicting parties."
"I wish that your chosen means of fulfilling my first two wishes should not involve causing suffering or death to anyone."
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Date: 2004-02-10 02:25 am (UTC)I wish for 60 blessed scrolls of chaos resistance.
I wish for red eternium plate mail armour of travelling.
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Date: 2004-02-10 03:12 am (UTC)I wish for 5 million pounds in my bank account
I wish for an orange instead of a head
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Date: 2004-02-10 03:51 am (UTC)Kinda dependant on the answer to the first one
b) I wish I knew what God wanted me to do with my life
or
b) I wish I knew what I want to do with my life.
c) I wish that I'll be able to do it
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Date: 2004-02-10 04:19 am (UTC)If one asks for an end to all war, famine and disease then is that one wish or three?
If one asks for magical powers (including the abilities to end all war, famine and disease as well as to create untold wealth) then does that count as a meta-wish?
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Date: 2004-02-10 04:31 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-02-10 04:49 am (UTC)Two, I wish for a poly relationship with the two people I most want in it to become possible.
Three, I wish for a steady private income of about 30K a year after tax.
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Date: 2004-02-10 05:17 am (UTC)2) Something very carefully worded.
3) Enough money to pay off the lawyers.
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Date: 2004-02-10 05:27 am (UTC)2. A publishing contract and enough material to write a novel every 18 months or so with a very unpressured work pattern.
3. Good weather for the whole world (which includes enough rain, timed to arrive between 2am and 5am, as required to keep crops growing, rivers flowing, etc).
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Date: 2004-02-10 06:06 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-02-10 07:38 am (UTC)2 Not to be afraid of spiders any more
3 A full, true answer to the Fermi Paradox, with a demonstration if relevant (flying-carpet journeys to other planets would be ideal!)
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Date: 2004-02-10 08:26 am (UTC)blessed +2 gray dragon scale mail
blessed fixed +2 speed boots
Duh.
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Date: 2004-02-10 08:41 am (UTC)Hard luck for shift workers. :-)
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Date: 2004-02-12 01:26 pm (UTC)How many genies would like to watch the heads of wish-makers explode in slow motion, with the victim not dying or losing consciousness until the explosion and all concomitant pain had been fully experienced, I wonder?
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Date: 2004-02-12 03:07 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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