If you had three wishes...what would you wish for?

[G.W.K]

Odd thing to do on a thread on but I'm bored...so...if you had THREE wishes, what would you wish for?

I personally don't know...I'll get back to you all when I know...

G.W.K

[wotgoplunk]

1. To see what Kelly Ripa is like off-camera
2. My own theme music that plays everywhere I go
3. To have no bones

10 points to anyone who can guess my favourite TV show from that 

[soliloquy]

1. To see what Kelly Ripa is like off-camera
2. My own theme music that plays everywhere I go
3. To have no bones

10 points to anyone who can guess my favourite TV show from that 

family guy o.o



Wish #1- I wish there was no rule about wishing for more wishes.
Wish #2- I wish I had a million wishes.

[lmpianist]

(1) I wish to be rich and famous
(2) I wish for world peace
(3) I wish for a turkey sandwich, on rye bread, with lettuce and mustard, and, *and*, I don't want any zombie turkeys, I don't want to turn into a turkey myself, and I don't want any other weird surprises.  Got it?   

[G.W.K]

Wish #1- I wish there was no rule about wishing for more wishes.
Wish #2- I wish I had a million wishes.

Where is wish 3? Also...you can't wish for a million wishes...you can only have THREE!

G.W.K

[wotgoplunk]

(1) I wish to be rich and famous
(2) I wish for world peace
(3) I wish for a turkey sandwich, on rye bread, with lettuce and mustard, and, *and*, I don't want any zombie turkeys, I don't want to turn into a turkey myself, and I don't want any other weird surprises.  Got it?   

We like our animated shows 

[soliloquy]

Where is wish 3? Also...you can't wish for a million wishes...you can only have THREE

I wished there was no rule about not being able to wish for more wishes, so yes I can.


And I think I'm just going to savor them for a while.

[G.W.K]

I wished there was no rule about not being able to wish for more wishes, so yes I can.

And I think I'm just going to savor them for a while.

Well, you just wished your third wish away. You wished for the rule to be removed. That means your wishes are used up. You have no more now! LOL

Work that one out...

G.W.K

[soliloquy]

Well, you just wished your third wish away. You wished for the rule to be removed. That means your wishes are used up. You have no more now! LOL

Work that one out...

G.W.K

Nope, that was my first wish.  Didn't you read my post?


Wish #1- I wish there was no rule about wishing for more wishes.
Wish #2- I wish I had a million wishes.


If those don't count, then I still have three wishes.  So I either have three or 1 million.

[G.W.K]

Ah...OK

G.W.K

[ahinton]

Nope, that was my first wish.  Didn't you read my post?


Wish #1- I wish there was no rule about wishing for more wishes.
Wish #2- I wish I had a million wishes.


If those don't count, then I still have three wishes.  So I either have three or 1 million.

You have as many or as few as you want. One will do me right now - to know the name, address and contact details of the charm scholl that you attended (as requested on another thread here); now that you've told us all who Terry is (although why that is supposedly the case remains as much of a mystery as it did before you did so), this shouldn't prove unduly onerous for you...

Best,

Alistair

[soliloquy]

You have as many or as few as you want. One will do me right now - to know the name, address and contact details of the charm scholl that you attended (as requested on another thread here); now that you've told us all who Terry is (although why that is supposedly the case remains as much of a mystery as it did before you did so), this shouldn't prove unduly onerous for you...

Best,

Alistair

Terry's School of non-wit, Charm and placemat design:

Easton Dene, Bailbrook Lane,
Bath, BA1 7AA, England

Phone: +44 1-225-85-2323

[ahinton]

Easton Dene, Bailbrook Lane,
Bath, BA1 7AA, England

Phone: +44 1-225-85-2323

Solly - there's really no need for you to have gone to the trouble of advertising those particular contact details of The Sorabji Archive, you know, since they are already on the website at www.sorabji-archive.co.uk, but I appreciate your having done so nevertheless; for the record, I should perhaps point out to anyone that might otherwise be interested to know that this address is not that of the charm school to which I referred earlier...

Best,

Alistair

[pianochick93]

I would wish for

1) no more wars

2)no more atomic weapons

3) Slightly more music talent than I have now. Either that or to be a little taller.

[annoying_airhead]

How much is a little?

[pianogeek_cz]

1) Perfect health, especially tendons in wrists (WAAAAAGH!!!)
2) The strength to always do the right thing (which, right now, would suggest finishing that damn German Seminararbeit...)
3) Did I say healthy wrists? Oh, okay. So... I'm gonna use this one up for a large bag of money, big enough to make me not worry about finance in the musician's life.

[pianochick93]

How much is a little?

Well I'm about 5 foot 4 now, so maybe 5 foot 7.

Then again, being short isn't that bad. maybe money instead...

[shoenberg3]

If wishing for more wishes were not possible, I would wish for:

1)a healthy immortality for me and my relations
2) endless stream of money
3) charisma and charm x 100000 so I can get any chick I want.

This would make me very happy indeed.

[Kassaa]

1. Perfect health in hands (darn raynauds)
2. Shitload of money so I don't have any worries in my music career
3. Dunno, I'm happy.

[G.W.K]

Ah...hasn't anyone noticed how humans ALWAYS have a habit of choosing those things that would actually make their life WORST? Money, fame, immortality are always chosen before more important things. Use wishes wisely...as the saying goes "Careful what you wish for."

Only a few people seem to wish for no wars, no weapons and world peace...

2. Shitload of money so I don't have any worries in my music career

1)a healthy immortality for me and my relations
2) endless stream of money
3) charisma and charm x 100000 so I can get any chick I want.

This would make me very happy indeed.

How do you KNOW that would make you very happy?

(1) I wish to be rich and famous

See my point?

G.W.K

[Kassaa]

I just want money to have no worries and problems in the future so I can do what I love most: playing the piano.

[G.W.K]

Fair enough...

G.W.K

[leahcim]

Ah...hasn't anyone noticed how humans ALWAYS have a habit of choosing those things that would actually make their life WORST? Money, fame, immortality

I have noticed that most of them deserve immortality.

I'd go now if I could. If I'm going to be here until 80 and I'm only half way through I just despair.

Anyway, on a more cheery note, if I could have 3 wishes it'd be a piano, the ability to play it, and someone else could have the 3rd.

[pianogeek_cz]

1. Perfect health in hands (darn raynauds)

Hah. Thinking along the same lines, are we?  Darn, for the record, all variants of CTS, tendonitis, trigger finger, fractures, etc., but an ESPECIALLY devious torture chamber for the [insert expletive] tendonitis.

As far as wishing for um, mundane (as far as magically appearing bags of very real money can be called so) stuff goes...
What would be the point of wishing for, say, being able to play the complete Beethoven sonatas - if you didn't go through the process of mastering them first? And this principle translates to pretty much anything. Wishing for things that are entirely in your power (patience, devotion to work, being able to manage your time, etc.) would be catastrophic, because without going through the process of moulding your self to the shape you wish to be, I do not see any incentive to appreciate the result. Goals would stop being achievements, instead of having a way to follow, you'd be flapping around aimlessly. So, that leaves quite a portion of worthwile pursuits out of the Wish For Me list. Or so I think.

Your thoughts on this?

[G.W.K]

Your thoughts on this?

Boring...confusing...utter nonsense.  Could you explain something concerning this topic (if you have and I have missed it) could you please explain yourself more clearly?

G.W.K

[pianogeek_cz]

Uh. It's really hard to put in words, but I'll try my best...
It all comes down to the pursuit of some large goals (like, changing yourself to be a better peron, whatever that my translate to) being the actually important and rewarding part - more so than the goal itself. You could also say that the way - the effort - is a goal in itself.

Another important point is that everything (at least, everything we may possibly encounter) is in some way a process. Or, as the presocratic philosopher Heraclitus introduced to the world of western thought, Panta Rhei. Most of all, we are a process, too. What we may describe as a state [I'm a good person] is in fact a process [of trying to do the right thing all the time], too.

Gosh, this really is hard to write down...

I think that it is also possible to derive from these points that the value of a goal can be defined by, or at least is directly proportional to, what we gain by making the effort to reach it. And if you don't have to make -any- effort - you just wish and whoa! there you go, fancy wrappings and everything - then the goal suddenly loses the value it held for you, or, in other words, is not an achievement, because it didn't take anything to achieve!

[thalbergmad]

Terry's School of non-wit, Charm and placemat design:

Easton Dene, Bailbrook Lane,
Bath, BA1 7AA, England

Phone: +44 1-225-85-2323

Thats the ministry of copyright and long posts.

Thal

[pita bread]

1. Be married to my girlfriend
2. A healthy and stable future for my parents and brother
3. 5 million dollars

[pianowolfi]

I *have* three wishes. And some more. So I will answer to the initial question: If I had only three wishes I would maybe be quite happy. (since there was nothing mentioned  about getting satisfied three wishes but only about the wishes themselves) 

[G.W.K]

Uh. It's really hard to put in words, but I'll try my best...
It all comes down to the pursuit of some large goals (like, changing yourself to be a better peron, whatever that my translate to) being the actually important and rewarding part - more so than the goal itself. You could also say that the way - the effort - is a goal in itself.

Another important point is that everything (at least, everything we may possibly encounter) is in some way a process. Or, as the presocratic philosopher Heraclitus introduced to the world of western thought, Panta Rhei. Most of all, we are a process, too. What we may describe as a state [I'm a good person] is in fact a process [of trying to do the right thing all the time], too.

Gosh, this really is hard to write down...

I think that it is also possible to derive from these points that the value of a goal can be defined by, or at least is directly proportional to, what we gain by making the effort to reach it. And if you don't have to make -any- effort - you just wish and whoa! there you go, fancy wrappings and everything - then the goal suddenly loses the value it held for you, or, in other words, is not an achievement, because it didn't take anything to achieve!

OK...thank you for that long monologue

G.W.K

[G.W.K]

I *have* three wishes. And some more. So I will answer to the initial question: If I had only three wishes I would maybe be quite happy. (since there was nothing mentioned  about getting satisfied three wishes but only about the wishes themselves) 

OK...what would you do if you had three satisfying wishes? LOL

G.W.K

[leahcim]

What would be the point of wishing for, say, being able to play the complete Beethoven sonatas - if you didn't go through the process of mastering them first?

Your thoughts on this?

If you can master them first, kudos and good luck. The rest of us have our wishes

[pianolearner]

Odd thing to do on a thread on but I'm bored...so...if you had THREE wishes, what would you wish for?

I personally don't know...I'll get back to you all when I know...

G.W.K

I wish that I was someone else. That person wouldn't need the other two wishes.

[leahcim]

I think that it is also possible to derive from these points that the value of a goal can be defined by, or at least is directly proportional to, what we gain by making the effort to reach it. And if you don't have to make -any- effort - you just wish and whoa! there you go, fancy wrappings and everything - then the goal suddenly loses the value it held for you, or, in other words, is not an achievement, because it didn't take anything to achieve!

Perhaps, I guess this is why you only get 3 wishes. If you can't imagine 4 or more things then you'd have to value struggling over achievement

I would make sure you put your effort into things that you will never achieve. Because once you can play the piano, or whatever else you are using your effort for today, it will be easy and thus, according to you, valueless.

OTOH, as a parent and someone that listens to people playing music, I know there's just as much value in things that you can obtain with no effort as there is in things that do. Sometimes more. YMMV.

[pianogeek_cz]

I would make sure you put your effort into things that you will never achieve. Because once you can play the piano, or whatever else you are using your effort for today, it will be easy and thus, according to you, valueless.

Not what I meant. Once you'd be able to do that (whatever "playing the piano" means to you), you will have gained a lot through the process...

...blah, this is way too irrelevant as a topic for abstract discussion, anyway. I now regret I scratched its surface. Being a fan of Wittgenstein, why was I even trying..? Naive.

[lmpianist]

An angel appeared at a faculty meeting and told the dean that he had come to reward him for his years of devoted service. He asked him to choose one of three blessings: either infinite wealth, infinite fame or infinite wisdom. Without hesitation, the dean asked for infinite wisdom. “You got it!” said the angel, and disappeared. All heads turn toward the dean, who sat glowing in the aura of wisdom. Finally one of his colleagues whispered, “Say something,” and all heads turned toward the dean, desperately waiting for him to share his newfound wisdom.  The dean looked at them, contemplating deeply, and finally said: “Damn, I should have taken the money!”

[pianowolfi]

OK...what would you do if you had three satisfying wishes? LOL

G.W.K

1. "Go into this light beyond time and space" (From my "Elegy" poem)
2.  Be able to come back
3.  Be myself


Perhaps.

[pianistimo]

just wondered a bit about that wish to see kelly ripa off camera.  hmm.  well, anyways...

if i had three wishes:

#1 to undo the number of wishes and reset it for any number of wishes.
#2 to play piano better without as much practice time (i know.  very unreasonable.)
#3 to score 99 out of 100 on dinner experiences for my family.  they only eat about 2-3 of 5 meals per week.  this leaves about 2 dinners cooked but uneaten for some odd reason.  i think they don't appreciate homecooking, myself.  i cook healthy stuff on some nights.  like minestrone soup with greens in it.  nobody ate it excepting my husband and self.

[leahcim]

Once you'd be able to do that (whatever "playing the piano" means to you), you will have gained a lot through the process...

Indeed, you'd have gained the ability to play the piano.
Something I often wish I could do. But hours of "process" does nothing to help. What does Wittgenstein have to say about failure, physical injury and depression? Would I be likely to kick him in the nuts? [Perhaps not, wikipedia makes him sound a bit of a miserable git so he probably knows how it feels]

These are things I've recently gained from the process of learning the piano. Arguably if I do eventually learn I'll lose them [although I suspect at least 2 of the 3 make the process more pointless than it was to begin with]  I could just as well have learned to live without the experience

Being a fan of Wittgenstein, why was I even trying..? Naive.

To get something from the process?

[m1469]

I only need one right now :

1 -- To study with Bernhard. 

[G.W.K]

2.  Be able to come back

Come back from where?

G.W.K

[pianowolfi]

Come back from where?

from that "land beyond time and space" from my elegy poem.

https://www.pianostreet.com/smf/index.php/topic,26406.msg305743.html#msg305743

Would be cool to be able to just go there and see how it is/was/has been/ will be (all these tenses have no actual meaning there because there is no time, as I said) and to come back, just as I wish

[G.W.K]

from that "land beyond time and space" from my elegy poem.

Interesting poem...however, I am not sure I quite understand it. I am still unsure of what the "land beyond time and space" is all about.

G.W.K

[pianowolfi]

Interesting poem...however, I am not sure I quite understand it. I am still unsure of what the "land beyond time and space" is all about.

G.W.K

It has to do with my musical program "Styx. A long Journey" and with it's story. The land (or light) beyond time and space represents a particular part of eternity, where, as I think, we all came from, having a common origin in a divine dimension, or divine harmony. And this music "Elegy" and that poem came to me as a sort of remembrance of this common origin. And, as I said in that Elegy thread, I am just trying yet to grasp it because it's a very big picture after all. And it's "dangerous" to talk about this stuff here because it might be easily misunderstood as a religious statement which it is certainly not. It's a musical and human experience I had while working on my program.
Elegy: "We forgot each other. We want to remember. We want to go back or forward into this land beyond time and space and see what it all is about."

Or: "I want to see and understand you inside. I want to be you without losing myself."

So my three wishes: 1. Being able to go "there" (there might be also an improper word because there is no space ) and see what it is all about.
2. Being able to come back from there without getting damaged or dying
3. Be myself based on the divine harmony knowledge I might gain there.

[leahcim]

from that "land beyond time and space" from my elegy poem.

You wrote a poem about the Mighty Boosh?

[pianowolfi]

You wrote a poem about the Mighty Boosh?

ROFLMAO

[thalberg]

1. Perfect health until the moment I die (don't care when)
2.  The ability to fly
3.  The ability to be invisible

[G.W.K]

1. Perfect health until the moment I die (don't care when)
2.  The ability to fly
3.  The ability to be invisible

I can understand the ability to be invisible...but why the power of flight? Would it not be easier to wish for instant teleportation? LOL

G.W.K

[lmpianist]

1. Perfect health until the moment I die (don't care when)
2.  The ability to fly
3.  The ability to be invisible

The ability to shape-shift.  I think I could have fun with that.  Also, being able to fly would be really neat.  Even better if I could go at blazingly fast speeds.  As long as there's enough oxygen up there 

[gyzzzmo]

1) invisibility
2) better piano technique
3) less epilepsy

For the rest i already have a great life 

gyzzzmo