The weird thing about my thinking too hard about a situation like this is much akin to "If you were granted three wishes by a djinn, what would you wish for?"
Sure, I confess that at times I've puzzled over what exactly I would wish for and how I might word it in a way that I wouldn't end up with horrible unintended consequences*, but ... hold a moment. A DJINN?! I get to meet an honest-to-goodness DJINN?! I've got to show Gwendel. This is so AWESOME! Never mind the WISHES -- I mean, if I still get them, THANKYOUSOMUCH, sure, I'll carefully consider how to use them, and be open to suggestions on how to wisely use them in a way that won't annoy the djinn or unduly take advantage of his or her generosity -- but a DJINN! Like, let me get a camera, or, oh, the place is a MESS! Have you had anything to eat in that bottle? Do you even have to worry about that sort of thing? Sorry if I'm prying. I don't know what proper etiquette applies here. I probably have some chicken thawed in the fridge. Gimme a bit to cook something up and we'll talk over supper. I have SO MANY QUESTIONS! And do you get to find out about what's going on in the outside world while you're stuck in that bottle? I mean, you have REALITY-ALTERING POWERS, I know, but the fact that you still feel grateful for someone getting you out of a bottle means that I obviously don't have the whole picture here, and ....
(* For whatever reason, one of my big over-the-top daydream wishes is some formulation along the lines of, "I wish to terraform the extra-terrestrial planets and moons of the solar system, after the fashion of the terraformed worlds in the Mutant Chronicles (but minus all the undead monsters), so that they'd be habitable by humans and plants and animals without need for artificial habitats, and without negatively altering the habitability of Earth itself in the process." Largely just because I like the idea of additional worlds to explore. I can still think of only too many ways a nasty djinn could easily twist THAT one. And then there are the implications of just how mind-bogglingly powerful a djinn must be, if such world-altering wishes would even be POSSIBLE, and the inherent frightening weirdness of the universe if I, a mere ME, were to be given the chance to wreck the solar system with a few words. And I'd have to wonder how often this happens, and what OTHER people might wish for and just how easily it could turn into a disaster of apocalyptic proportions. Blargh.)
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Date: 2014-05-15 02:15 pm (UTC)Sure, I confess that at times I've puzzled over what exactly I would wish for and how I might word it in a way that I wouldn't end up with horrible unintended consequences*, but ... hold a moment. A DJINN?! I get to meet an honest-to-goodness DJINN?! I've got to show Gwendel. This is so AWESOME! Never mind the WISHES -- I mean, if I still get them, THANKYOUSOMUCH, sure, I'll carefully consider how to use them, and be open to suggestions on how to wisely use them in a way that won't annoy the djinn or unduly take advantage of his or her generosity -- but a DJINN! Like, let me get a camera, or, oh, the place is a MESS! Have you had anything to eat in that bottle? Do you even have to worry about that sort of thing? Sorry if I'm prying. I don't know what proper etiquette applies here. I probably have some chicken thawed in the fridge. Gimme a bit to cook something up and we'll talk over supper. I have SO MANY QUESTIONS! And do you get to find out about what's going on in the outside world while you're stuck in that bottle? I mean, you have REALITY-ALTERING POWERS, I know, but the fact that you still feel grateful for someone getting you out of a bottle means that I obviously don't have the whole picture here, and ....
(* For whatever reason, one of my big over-the-top daydream wishes is some formulation along the lines of, "I wish to terraform the extra-terrestrial planets and moons of the solar system, after the fashion of the terraformed worlds in the Mutant Chronicles (but minus all the undead monsters), so that they'd be habitable by humans and plants and animals without need for artificial habitats, and without negatively altering the habitability of Earth itself in the process." Largely just because I like the idea of additional worlds to explore. I can still think of only too many ways a nasty djinn could easily twist THAT one. And then there are the implications of just how mind-bogglingly powerful a djinn must be, if such world-altering wishes would even be POSSIBLE, and the inherent frightening weirdness of the universe if I, a mere ME, were to be given the chance to wreck the solar system with a few words. And I'd have to wonder how often this happens, and what OTHER people might wish for and just how easily it could turn into a disaster of apocalyptic proportions. Blargh.)
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