Posted on 08/20/2005 8:44:58 PM PDT by ChefKeith
If you had three wishes what would you wish for?
I forgot about this bit...friggin hilarious!
What if he doesn't swing that way?
Not even gonna read the replies before I start wishing ...
1) End the war in Iraq with minimal casualties on all sides (meaning, I don't want to leave if that means that Iraqis will be slaughtered. I do want to leave, though.).
2) Marry my man. I have been waiting for 11 years, but the time is never right. I WANT the time to be right.
3) Tax reform. I know - boring as hell, but that's what I want, dammit! Gimme my money back!
Never know if you don't ask.
I could only trim it down to 6.......
1. For my 2 children to live long, happy and healthy lives.
2. That I get to enjoy many years with my grandbaby who is due in October, and the other ones to come.
3. That I can make the love of my life happy, and be with him for the rest of my life.
4. One more minute with my late daddy.
5. Strength for our great president and his wonderful wife, and let our country see that he is doing his best to keep us safe.
6. For the Hollywood idiots and the liberal press to get a clue and realize what a great country they live in, and support Pres. Bush in his fight against terrorism.
Just one: To be perpetually 5 years old (pre school)
Yeah, that's 4 wishes, but it's such a gooood wish, we'll let you keep it!
You can keep the other two wishes; I only have one:
That every child born into this world will be loved and cared for.
True true true. Wishes are interesting things, and if you delve into several world myths you will notice an interesting trend. That of wishes being used by capricious deities to destroy those that they would wish to destroy. Careful wording is extremely necessary, otherwise one would gain their wish .....and find it fulfilled in a way that makes them scream bloody murder.
For example those that wish for immortality. There is a geek myth of a man being granted that, but being given a disease ridden form that is aged and crippled, and thus having to spend the eons in blinding pain. Thus he was given immortality, but it was a form of hades.
A more well known example is that of Phrygian King, Midas. The whole tale about the golden touch and how his greatest desire (being able to substantiate anything into gold by touch) actually destroyed his TRUE greatest blessing (his daughter, who was turned into a splinking sparkling golden statue through an accidental touch).
There are other legends of people asking for omniscience, and once their wish is granted they spend the rest of their lives in misery as all that knowledge enables them to know what true suffering is.
Maybe the most interesting is in the form of a cartoon. I believe it is Alladin 2: The Return of Jafar (I'm 80% sure it is from that movie cartoon). Anyways this bad dude gets the lamp that imprisons Jaffar (who had been turned into a genie in the first movie, when he made the mistake -AGAIN through making a stupid wish where he asked for unlimited power, and thus was turned into a genie, with the sligh addition that genies had to be imprisoned to have ultimate power). Anyways, this guy gets the lamp and Jaffar (in genie form) asks him what he wants. 3 wishes. The first wish the dude makes is to get immense wealth, and in the flash of a second he is teleported into a sunken galleon at the bottom of the sea. Now, the guy has gotten his wish ....astounding wealth and treasure .....but he is no drowning, and thus needs to use his second wish to ask to be taken to dry land. Now, he has already used 2 wishes and has nothing to speak for them apart from some wet clothes.
Again, wishes can be fickle things. For example wishing to meet one's true love. If it is granted in a skewed way this might mean literally meeting them ...for a second. For example meeting the love of your life in the arms of another. Or in the freeway where your eyes lock for a second before they whisk off. It is not specific enough.
Oh, and I think the worst wish of all would be the whole 'unlimited wishes' thing. The evil genies and capricious demi-gods must have some really special mad mojo waiting for anyone who asks for that one. Some really nasty mojo. LOL.
And the final thing is probably that all the wishes that people have can be realized. All that is needed is for people to live by design instead of just wafting through life. Refusing to settle for just anything has this funny knack of allowing someone to fulfil their purpose. Everyone can get their heart's desires.
excellent post as usual
Full recognition that- 1) I am the source of my problems. 2) I am not the prime source of solution to my problems. 3) I stay actively willing, to allow the 2nd to work on the 1st.
1. That my husband and I and our future children all enjoy long, healthy, holy lives and die in states of grace.
2. The demise of the ideologies that are tearing our world apart (i.e., Islam and liberalism).
3. More cowbell.
The typical, "limitless wishes"
That's such a wonderful one. At a Girl Scout meeting once my daughter's troop had a "wish tree" where the girls wrote a wish out on tissue paper, tied it to a tree, and it would supposedly come true. The girls must have been 8 or 9 years old. After it was all over I read some of the wishes. It was heartbreaking to read some of them. Some were darling like "I wish I had a little sister to play with." But others were along the lines of "I wish Daddy hadn't died" or "I wish Mommy and Daddy still lived together."
That usually catches someone eventually making an off-hand remark like "Sometimes I wish this had never happened." If you have a finite number, then after the last one you don't have to watch your words so closely anymore.
That would go a long way to creating a better world.
There is no doubt about that.
2.Five minutes alone with same.
3. A pardon from the governor.
Lookin' at my #73, I guess I'm goin' to hell.
(Like this is all more than a playful game...)
;-D
I wish to be a better husband, a better dad and a better man.
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