Someone comes to you with a proposal. Maybe he's an angel of the Lord, maybe one of the Men in Black, but whoever he is, you have no reason to believe he is not able to carry out the proposal he makes, which is this:
You will receive the ability to bring world peace, equality for all men and women, enlightenment for all sentient beings, freedom from hunger and fear and violence.
In exchange for this ability, however, you will be required to die a violent, premature death.
The offer is yours to accept or reject.
What would you do?
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Worry a lot about what to do.
Die.
In a New York minute, or however the long the hell it took.
A long time ago someone asked me if I could do one thing with my life, what would it be. Out popped, without thought, "walk with grace". Don't tell anyone. I'm suicidal once a month anyway, so everyone will think it such a shame that I checked out before the miracle. And before they won the lottery, because no fucking how low the odds are that an angel of the Lord or Tommy Lee Jones will honor me with such a request, it's still more likely than Danno bringing home the pork belly.
Namaste.
(A) Will all this enlightenment stick with these humans? 70+ years later will people decide to write miracle stories about me? Including my now virgin birth? Will people be asked to believe I was the Messiah? Will they go to places of worship to talk about being followers of Nina? And then, start arguing about it and undo everything that was done?
(B) OR do I get to use this ability in secret and Utopia spontaneously occurs unaware?
If A, probably…if B, definitely!
I'd take a violent, premature death....period.
By the way, does being a messianic figure also come with the ability to rid the world of cat barf?
hold the fucker down until the men in white can get him and find out what drug he used to make me think he had that power.
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Life is suffering. Get over it. If you tried to end world hunger and get world peace, mankind would be unhappy without big problems to solve and the population would create new problems that led right back to inequalities and war. The power you describe is merely an illusion, as is all the rest.
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For whirled peas, I'd do just about anything.
However! All offers by such beings are null and void if they are MIDGETS, and even more nullified and voidicated if they are MIDGET ALBINOS.
I'm keeping my eyes on the midgets, the albinos, and particulary the midget albinos.
Suggest you do the same.
I have the same problem with this scenario as Nina does; even in a fantasy I can't get myself to believe you can solve these problems from above. People have to change, one at a time, for real. Takes fucking forever and we may destroy the joint before enough of us get there, but that's how it works.
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