You make a point. In your dream a wolf bites you in the leg. When you wake up, you leg is broken and there is blood everywhere.
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Ability to predict the future up to a day whenever I wish.
Accurate weather reports!
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Pretty cool. I would almost never make a mistake in my life.
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I wish you would let us wish for more wishes.
or i would wish i knew what i want to wish.
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That's a good one. Maybe to happy is to good. Your parent's die and your happily dancing and singing.
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The wish could be taken in different ways.
In one way, it could be even if something bad happens to him, he'd be happy.
Another way the wish could be interpreted would be that nothing bad ever happens to him that would make him sad or angry, or anything other than happy. Basically, his relatives that he loves wouldn't die, he'd never die, and he'd have everything he'd ever wanted and would want.
It's basically one of those "I wish for a million wishes" but condensed into one wish.
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Immortality would mean you can still be tortured, you can still feel pain and loss, also you can still age. You'd be a 1000 year-old man in a wheelchair, with no teeth and arthritis.
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That's why I put him in a wheel chair. I do know that brain functions decrease over the yeras; my grandfather's 81 and lost many of his memories already...he doesn't remember where he lived for the past 20 years and he doesn't recognize some of us anymore.
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Depending on your definition of invincibility, one could easily argue that none of those things would happen. It was certainly my intention for them not to happen.
Still, even without that there's lots of ways to "live" forever with just one wish. One could wish for infinite reincarnation with retention of past lives' memories. That could possibly be even more interesting than simply living out one life. You could even wish for the creation of an all-inclusive afterlife of paradise. You could wish for an undying, universal consciousness.
That said, one wish is kind of boring. With the classic three wishes, you get a clearer picture of intent, as one's wishes tend to build upon one another. There is also less of the chance for more specificity. The more wishes you have, the less you will have to try and "fit" as many desires as possible into a single request.
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Thus why I did not include invincibility into my argument, only immortality.
Of course, with infinite reincarnation of past lives, you run the chance of putting yourself into a deep depression, remembering past loves, children, grand children and other relatives. As you are reincarnated as another being, you will probably meet one of your progeny one day but they will not give you the time of day, nor would they even care about you since you are not who you once were. You also run the chance of remembering how you died from past lives, such as if you were tortured, the feeling of the water rushing into your lungs as you drowned, and the burning pain of fire as it roasted you alive. After a few reincarnations, you will be begging the universe to allow you to die peacefully.
Also, you didn't specify that you were to be reincarnated as a human; just infinite reincarnations with memories of past lives. You might be reincarnated as a fly, only to be squashed a few minutes into your life. The last/only memory of that life time would be that huge palm rushing towards you.
I see that as a quick way to have a phobia of everything in the world. :p
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I'd imagine that you'd fear death less knowing you would be resurrected as soon as it was over. If anything I think you'd be more careless in the things you do.
Also, if you retain all memories, you could pass any "is that really you?" tests fairly simply, from the moment you were physically capable of talking, so really anyone close enough to you to matter could be easily reunited with. That said, I think your new "parents" would likely be unhappy with the situation... Imagine your child's first words being, "Alright there's something I have to tell you..."
As for being an animal? I think it'd be interesting once in a while, but you could always run into an electric fence or something. shrug
Reincarnation also gets rid of some of the problems with immortality. You can't be buried alive, or cryogenicly frozen or something like that. Of course it also means you can't drift through space and land on another planet so it's a mixed bag really.
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"I'd imagine that you'd fear death less knowing you would be resurrected as soon as it was over. If anything I think you'd be more careless in the things you do. "
Once again, I'd like to point out that you might have phobias from past deaths. A fear of water after drowning to death, a fear of fire after being burned alive, a fear of dogs after being eaten/mauled to death by one, fear of spiders after being bitten by a poisonous spider, and so on. Pretty soon, you'll be one of those person who's afraid of everything.
Also, the "is that really you?" tests wouldn't work out if you claimed to be someone famous whose whole life is on Wikipedia or something....
Also, being immortal does not mean that you can't be buried alive or that you can't be cryogenicly frozen.
FYI, after reading "The Monkey's Paws" back in freshman year of high school, it's stuck by me. Basically, wishes will be granted but in the most terrible way possible. Wishing for a million dollars? All your relatives die and you get their life settlement of a million dollars. Wish to be the most powerful person on earth? You are the last human on earth. Want to be famous and known all over the world? You get framed for a massacre and is now the most wanted man on earth with your face being shown on every news channel in an attempt to cut off all your routes to escape.
:p
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Without the possibility of a "real" death, why would you fear potential killers? When you know with complete certainty that you cannot be killed by these things, what is there left to fear? Maybe it wouldn't happen immediately. Maybe at first a part of you would still fear death out of habit. However, I truly believe that logic would ultimately prevail.
As for "is it really you" tests, wikipedia doesn't have every personal detail on someone's life listed. The idea is to find someone you knew and share knowledge of something personal between the two of you. Even if you are on life #1000, you can surely find someone from life #999, or #998, or whoever is still alive. Eventually I imagine you WOULD be famous just for being the guy who never dies. Someone is gonna spill the beans, and eventually someone is going to believe them.
Also, again, if as soon as your new body is capable of talking you tell your parents "Hey I'm actually someone who's been reincarnated. Sup," then that's PRETTY good evidence that you are not the average child. Sure, there's some places where you'd probably be viewed as a demon and killed, but poof, you reincarnate again somewhere else.
When I said, "Reincarnation also gets rid of some of the problems with immortality," I meant that being buried alive or cryogenically frozen are potential problems with being immortal. If you reincarnate, those no longer become a problem as you simply die and awaken in a new body.
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"Without the possibility of a "real" death, why would you fear potential killers? When you know with complete certainty that you cannot be killed by these things, what is there left to fear? Maybe it wouldn't happen immediately. Maybe at first a part of you would still fear death out of habit. However, I truly believe that logic would ultimately prevail."
Once again, you can still be killed by those things. The only difference is that it reflects permadeath in games where once you die for one character, you become a second character and so on.
What is there left to fear? The pain of dying. Obviously you wouldn't fear dying but you'd especially fear things now knowing that although you won't die, you'll still feel every bit of pain associated with dying a certain way.
Also, I doubt that you'd be able to move past being tortured if you were to be tortured to death.
One last point, although you might be a male in a first world country right now, there's nothing to say that you won't be reincarnated as a female in a third world country where rape happens almost everyday and there's no electricity to communicate to the outside world.
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Sure, you can be killed, but it's a minor setback, really. Ultimately when you know you will come back with all of your memories in a younger body the only setback in accomplishing whatever goals you set for yourself becomes the time it takes to reach adulthood (or whatever age you claim independence from your "parents"). You will live forever, albeit in different bodies, so really time is nothing to you.
Regarding pain, whatever deaths are long and drawn out can usually be ended in a quick suicide. Even if you can't/won't do it yourself, there's places where euthanasia is legal, and that's pretty much as painless as it gets (or so they say). This also applies to the societal issues you mentioned. I'm not saying suicide is ever the answer in the real world, but in this fantasy world you ultimately lose nothing of importance by dying. To add to your video game metaphor, it's like when you screw something up and reroll your character/restart your run/whatever.
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Yes, cause I'm sure everyone just happens to have some sort of euthanasia just lying around when they're being burned alive, drowning, being eaten alive, suffocating, or anything else while not in a hospital. =.=
And in all actuality, it's not re-roll. Your character is gone forever. You can remember everything you did with the character, but you can never play the character again. You can try replicating what you've done with the character, but it will never be the same. It's not restarting a run either. It's permadeath, plain and simple.
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I wish people would be more understanding of each other.
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I wish to be able to serve Jesus Christ forever....
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Obviously I'd wish for the power to control the universe.
I'd just fuck everything up by accident, reset everything back to how it was, and try something else to see what happens.
Kind of like constantly quicksaving in a sandbox game.
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You can't ask for more wishes, or anything related.
For me it would be to marry some beautiful woman, who loved and cared for me(and I would love her too). I would take that over a billion dollars. What's yours?
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