You have one wish!

[karcentric]

Immortality, I can live with the fact my friends will die for the ability to become ageless.

 

[MonkeyPunch]

Ah always that "no wishing for more wishes" caveat.

How about wishing for your rule about 'no wishing for more wishes' to be void?
That's not wishing for more wishes and would technically work

Also ninja'ed just above with wishing for my own wishes to come true. (though you could argue that indirectly that's wishing for more wishes)

 

[Snowbell]

I wish to be happy

 

[kommando367]

Reality Warping. That's about all I need.

 

[yeti585]

I'm going to wish that Dubstep disappears and takes Skrillex with it. It is then replaced by good electronica.

 

[Soviet Steve]

Near-infinite wealth, I would handle the rest.

 

[Brendan Stepladder]

Invincibility. I would jump off of mountains for giggles.

 

[Scarim Coral]

I would wish for £10 million within my bank. Still I wouldn't trust the fairy since she can twist my wish in that while it does goes into my account but suddently I can no longer access to my account for whatever reasons.

 

[RJ 17]

I'd wish for a magical tome that never runs out of blank pages and whatever I - and I alone - write into this tome becomes reality.

There's the loopwhole for essentially infinite wishes. All you're asking for is a magical artifact...it just so happens that it can be used to do/get you anything you want. :3

 

[Samurai Silhouette]

Wish for more genies.

 

[Rowan93]

Ah always that "no wishing for more wishes" caveat.

How about wishing for your rule about 'no wishing for more wishes' to be void?
That's not wishing for more wishes and would technically work

Also ninja'ed just above with wishing for my own wishes to come true. (though you could argue that indirectly that's wishing for more wishes)

Since you only get one wish, and you used it up wishing that it was possible to wish for more wishes, you basically just lost a wish and didn't get anything.

I wish to be happy

Magical ultra-heroin. Whether you overdose and die or just end up with a crippling addiction because you didn't wish for enduring happiness is up to you.

Reality Warping. That's about all I need.

Your dreams warp reality. You get eaten by a gribbly monster from the nth dimension.

I'm going to wish that Dubstep disappears and takes Skrillex with it. It is then replaced by good electronica.

Dubstep is just one of the things that disappears in The Event. The sounds They make are, to human ears, a lot like good electronica, so the few human survivors no to avoid the hell out of electronica in case it comes from one of Them. Because of what happened to him in The Event, Skrillex is mythologised as a hero of some kind, or at least a martyr.

Near-infinite wealth, I would handle the rest.

Someone living on a dollar a day is exactly as close to having infinite wealth as Bill Gates is. Because of the trickiness contained therein, your net wealth actually drops when the wish is granted.

Invincibility. I would jump off of mountains for giggles.

Invincible just means you can't be defeated. When you suicide by jumping off a mountain, you die without having been defeated by anyone.

I would wish for £10 million within my bank. Still I wouldn't trust the fairy since she can twist my wish in that while it does goes into my account but suddently I can no longer access to my account for whatever reasons.

Well, yeah, that's kind of the point, you're supposed to come up with ways to avoid being screwed over. And you're not just going to lose access to the account, the government is looking to have a word with you about that money, you have a few years behind bars to look forward to (either tax reasons, or money-laundering reasons, or both).

I'd wish for a magical tome that never runs out of blank pages and whatever I - and I alone - write into this tome becomes reality.

There's the loopwhole for essentially infinite wishes. All you're asking for is a magical artifact...it just so happens that it can be used to do/get you anything you want. :3

You open the book, and unfortunately a breeze blows in. The pages turn in a rush, and new pages spawn just as quickly. You drop the book, which makes things even worse. The spine tears open, and the infinite wave of paper engulfs your worm, swamps your neighbourhood, and drowns the world.

Alternately, if I wanted to be lazy, the internet fairy granting the wish just decides you're being a dick and refuses to give you anything.

Wish for more genies.

Granted. The summoned army of Djinn owe you nothing, have no reason to answer to you, and since the wish is granted by a fairy you don't even have reason to expect them to be able to grant wishes. What you do notice, as the dozens of muscular creatures appear before you, is that each one is carrying a big-ass scimitar, and looks pissed-off about something or other.

Seriously, escapist, are you even trying?

Also, why does everyone wish for more wishes, or just some variation of that? It's no fun, since you're basically not announcing anything you'd actually wish for, and generally when you get to wish for something it's because some omnipotent being is granting you a favour or three, what the hell kind of jackass would ask for unlimited favours when they're told "I owe you one" or something like that?

 

[Sean Steele]

Omnipotence.

 

[Scarim Coral]

I would wish for £10 million within my bank. Still I wouldn't trust the fairy since she can twist my wish in that while it does goes into my account but suddently I can no longer access to my account for whatever reasons.

Well, yeah, that's kind of the point, you're supposed to come up with ways to avoid being screwed over. And you're not just going to lose access to the account, the government is looking to have a word with you about that money, you have a few years behind bars to look forward to (either tax reasons, or money-laundering reasons, or both).

That's the thing. If I make a wish for the fairy to NOT screw me over than I had wasted my one wish. Also trying to come up with a logical wish that has little to none repercussions created by the fairy or not would be a painstaking to think of.

Actually what would happen if I wish the fairy to have freedom (or just no longer need to give out a wish and the fairy does whatever he/ she want)? Well assuming the fairy is forced to give out a wish or is this fairy is going it on his/ her free will?

 

[Sean Steele]

Every living thing in the universe, including me, dead.

ummm.. ...why?

We're all going that way anyway, so any other kind of wish I would make would be pointless. Just speed up the process and drift away into peaceful nothingness.

Except we wouldn't you know if you used your wish to fix that you big dumb negative nancy noir nihilist.

We definately wont since I just grabbed up some godhood so don't worry everyone after he kills everyone I'll just bring everyone back. (Because as a deity I wouldn't technichally be "Living")

 

[RipRoaringWaterfowl]

The ability to teleport anywhere, anytime. So many uses, so much fun.

I could visit Canada to get a Double Big Mac (funny that America doesn't have those), beam myself into amusement parks without paying sixty pounds to enter, go to exotic locales, and even beam myself into Number 10 Downing Street and play pranks on that damn David Cameron.

"Why's all my office furnature glued to the damn ceiling!?!?" -David Cameron, 25 minutes after my wish is granted.

 

[Heronblade]

Free access to a permanent personal pocket dimension whose rules and contents were moldable based on my whim. No need for any more wishes, I can bend reality myself.

Every living thing in the universe, including me, dead.

ummm.. ...why?

We're all going that way anyway, so any other kind of wish I would make would be pointless. Just speed up the process and drift away into peaceful nothingness.

Ah, but if this thing was really vindictive, it might send us all to some form of afterlife where you end up being punished for ~7 billion murders, and one suicide.

 

[Right Hook]

-You asked for it-

I took alot of philosophy in college, so...this may hurt.

When I was writing the paper for Rationalism, it represented most of my grade, a very different approach from the usual grading in other courses that I'd taken, even of the same subject. I had to do something that I could keep as an interesting and thought-provoking for pages on end, because this was no regular professor. They had effectively imported him from Germany as a visitor to the area for like...one semester, and then he was gone in a flash! Thus, I came upon the topic of rationally deconstructing god's omnipotence and status as a being of good and evil, despite religious claims that god is only good. An actual discussion of this would belong in Religion and Politics, but satisfying curiosity is hardly out of line, so...

Obviously, I'm not gonna quote the entire damn thing verbatim. What followed in the paper was an establishment of god existence as per rationalism (Easy, since Descarte and plenty of others had thought about this already.), and then went on the properly define omnipotence as all-powerful without fail. It's what we coined the term for, and he's the one we established it to. The all-powerful and all-knowing god, creator of all, etc. It was by this method that I proved that this also meant that god was capable of great evil along with great good by definition alone, if not also for the fact that evil exists and everything originally came from him, SO...there you have THAT. Everyone's definition of evil exists, else we wouldn't be defining them, and even in metacognative, forward-thinking, introspective analysis of the end result of all things we still must conclude he has some asshole moments IF he was indeed omnipotent.

That was where my paper led me, and then I made the incredible discovery that god's infinite power must contain every choice, bad or good, even against paradoxes and impossibilities because it couldn't possibly switch off. How do you put Everything into a box marked Everything, which includes the box you just put Everything in? I determined that the reason things are the way they are and not giant perfection was because - religiously speaking - god's power is always on and never able to un-god, so he has to have the omniscience to look after all that he's done every microsecond, some of which may have been the worst atrocities ever conceived by man, IF we follow that line of thinking.

That's why I believe omnipotence is no fun. You become Sim Universe forever and don't have time for much else.

Thank you, I've taken a small amount of philosophy myself and this is definitely an interesting theory, from what you've presented anyway. Personally I always got too hung up on philosophical skepticism to really make too much of an effort to concretely state much, I'm just not sure the human mind can really grasp concepts that are supposedly anything but human.