If you were granted three wishes to change the world, what would they be?

I've given this a lot of thought, but everything I come up with runs smack into the law of unintended consequences.

Nonetheless, suppose some magic sky wizard, or genii, granted you those three wishes. I'd really like to hear what you'd wish for.

Once that's done, I'll feel calm enough to figure out my other two wishes.

Doesn't free will suggest we are outside of cause and effect?

If all events have a cause, then every decision we make has a cause, and every cause for every decision we make has a cause, and so on.

2) the rising up of the working class globally to seize the means of production and government

3) ? I can tell you what I envision as an ideal next phase but it's up to the people, not my whims.

:)

true justice for all(including nature).

my three as well. :hi:

Doesn't that just about cover it, when you think about it?

Today? Right now?

I'd:

1. Wave my magic wand and make every human on earth physically, mentally, and emotionally healthy. Not only that, but they'd stay healthy until their allotted time on earth was done, unless:

2. I'd wave the wand again and institute instant karma: the only disease or deformation of any kind would occur in those people who indulged in fear, hate, greed, or any other philosophy or action that caused harm to others or to the planet. The more serious the infraction, the faster and more devastating the karma.

3. I'd wave the wand one last time to ensure that, until the human population was reduced to half a billion people, conception would occur in only 1 out of every 1,000,000 people each year.

I'd end up with a health planet and an economy based, not on growth or profit, but on ensuring the quality of life and abundant resources for all.

I've never pretended to be a Ghandhi or Jesus. I'd be in a speck o trouble for sure. As I'm sure most everyone else would be too.

tough customer you are! :rofl:

There's a reason why I'll never be given those 3 wishes. ;)

so the far right becomes the far left etc.

I'd remove all nuclear weapons from the planet, no fusion or fission weapons would ever work or be able to detonate. Power plants would be unaffected.

The final wish I'd hold onto for something else, probably having to do with some sweeping 'repair' or 'fix' for the earth's environment but nothing too drastic.

Wish 2: Would not happen because wish 1 takes care of that problem.

Action 1: Start a neighborhood peace drive that fixes wasteful energy uses in each neighborhood, puts solar cells on all roofs, changes all yards to a natural yard using sustainable, low water, plants.

a really cool stereo for my car. Amen

I would wish that religion does not cause the world to continue to fight. I think religion is the main cause of most conflicts to day.

Then I would wish that peoples attitudes about each other would be more compassionate. I don't like the way people like tea bags and radical republcians use the fact that just because a person is different they should be shunned and picked on.

If those two were fulfilled I would wish that the hungry of the world would be fed.

fair trade and the elimination of poverty. the first two would go a long way in accomplishing the 3rd.

with secular humanism.

Eliminate mental and physical disease.

Increase the intelligence level of the "average" human being.

2. Human population gradually declines to no more than one billion through reduced reproduction

3. Animals and ecosystems respected and protected

2. Humans would gain the ability to instantly turn into self aware, self directing light, and back again. This would mostly be for travel and self defense.

3. Humans would no longer need food, air, or certain temperatures to survive. This would aid in light form space travel.

1. reincarnate Frank Zappa, and this time catch the fucking prostate cancer in time.

2. campaign finance reform - in the form of publicly funded elections

3. Prosecute the entire GW Bush White House for treason and crimes against humanity.

in that order

-90% Jimmy

for people to wake up and take effective action to protect net neutrality.

The internet is our only hope, and it's already half taken-over.

When we can't find out what's really going on, we're screwn.

read books by Chomsky and his pardners, RWingers to understand that sometimes the way to win the game is not to play.

Then I'd get started.

Then, 30 million dollars a month, tax free, in a Swiss bank account,

All encompassing power over every living being,

Revenge against my enemies,

and a 31 day orgasm once a year...

:P

5 wishes from Steve Martin on SNL:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPVuHP3OXk0

with enough stupid people made sterile to keep the world population at 1 billion or less.

Undo all the pollution in the world. All the PCBs, all the persistent organic pollutants, the mercury, and the everything else. Just poof and it is gone.

Then I'd hold onto the last one.

That wish would be to immediately eliminate the ability for humans to reproduce. This planet and all the creatures on it deserve better than being infested with "intelligent" life forms.

to go backwards and forwards to any time, go get the eagle's view and see what are the most important things to change.

2. I would make an end to all violence and war and any desire for it in fantasy movies.

3. I would make humans understand compassion is a great gift and to use it generously for all sentient creatures.

and free of all organized religion.,

I know thats 4 but I saved the best for last.

:)

Bluejazz responsible for earths population rise to 44 billion.

:rolf:

...say..oh...20 trillion, I could "buy off" the war mongers and Polluters and still have lots of Women. :)

For the world:
1. Some kind of respectable resolution to the israel/palestinian conflict as it essentially fuels everything else in the middle ease
2. An end to the drug war, at least against marijuana both in the usa and the world at large
3. Higher reliance on alternative energy, maybe even fusion
(oh well, may as well go for nine)
4. Cut our millitary budget by at least half with the savings going to job programs and renewable infrastructure(like maybe trains)
5. Cutting our prison industrial complex in the US, as well as the drug industrial complex, thogh both of these as well as cuts in the millitary in south america would be partially accomplished through number 2.
6. Start taxing churches in this country and stop letting them influence both foreign and domestic policy in any way.
7. Have publicly financed elections in this country that dont take years to run, and I guess this would also mean stripping personhood away from corporations, this would also involve dramatic changes to the supreme court.
8. Give Washington DC full voting priviledges, possibly make Puerto Rico a state and have voting reforms in all states, also let ex felons vote which seems to make sense if you want to re-integrate them into society.
9. Get some, any kind of gun control laws in this country starting with no gun shows and no assault weapons.
10. Roll back anything done under Reagan and make rich people pay their share in this country, stop outsourcing everything and return some kind of manufacturing and union base to this country.

...no 2 and 3. I'm good after 1.

Not necessarily in that order, of course. :beer: