Ever day I catch myself wishing I had super powers. Being able to fly through the air at will, move at speeds so fast normal humans can’t comprehend them, having enough strength to level entire mountains, totally invuneribililty to physical damage for the most part, being able to swim at the bottom of sea, fly up into space…
Ehhh, maybe I’m just entertaining fantasies. I know it’s not possible to do these things, at least from what I know now. But, it’s fun to think about it. :lol:
I’m a writer, so in a literary sense I am capable of doing anything I want in the paper world. And much of my writing explores just that, especially my novoul. (and it’s not sci-fi or fantasy) In all honesty, I have yet to read anything in print that is comparable to my writing perspectives…
Ever day I catch myself wishing I had super powers. Being able to fly through the air at will, move at speeds so fast normal humans can’t comprehend them, having enough strength to level entire mountains, totally invuneribililty to physical damage for the most part, being able to swim at the bottom of sea, fly up into space…
Ehhh, maybe I’m just entertaining fantasies. I know it’s not possible to do these things, at least from what I know now. But, it’s fun to think about it.
Does anyone else wish they had superpowers?
You mean who wishes that the world is not what it IS? As to super-powers, we are sugar fueled primates and we get our energy by ATP based metabolic reactions, primarily the Krebbs Cycle. Bottom line, the only way we are going to fly is in gliders, planes or lighter than air balloons. Any other through thin air shenanigans consists of falling (hopefully with a parachute).
Wishing for the physically impossible (violating thermodynamic laws) or the highly improbable is not only a waste of time, it is a very bad way of thinking. Sound thinking means taking Nature as it is or could be (within the laws of physics), not as we -wish- it. Nature does not give one good god damn about what we wish for. That is because Nature does not give damns. Nature, is by and large, as dumb and insensate as a sack full of concrete blocks.
What Mammon is talking about sounds idly wondering what it would be like to have super powers, entertaining the idea, having a desire for it to be true, but knowing it will never happen, and moving on from the the thought ; knowing it wont happen and that theres no pointing ‘‘wishing’’ nature to make it happen.
Pretty harmless really as long as you dont waste too much time with it. I dont think Mammon or ammo actually sit there trying to wish super powers into existence, that would be silly if they so.
As a kid, the first TV series I saw where someone had a “super-power” was “The Invisible Man” (B&W). I thought that was a really cool…could be a great advantage in intelligence work (particularly if unanticipated).
As a kid, the first TV series I saw where someone had a “super-power” was “The Invisible Man” (B&W). I thought that was a really cool…could be a great advantage in intelligence work (particularly if unanticipated).
Here is a thought. The I.M. would be -blind-. If the retinal tissue of his eyes were completely invisible photons would pass right through without imparting energy to the rhodopsin molecules in the rods and cones. So being invisible the the way the I.M. was invisible would not be cool at all.
Here I go again. I was the only one at the movie theater where -Ghost- was playing to say out loud — Why doesn’t Sam Wheat’s ghost sink through the floor?
Here I was imagining myself hunting Bin Laden down in the caves of Tora Bora, but you’ve dashed all hope. Turns out that dot you see on your spy-satellite screen, is me stumbling around – blind – trying to find my way out of the caves!
Here I was imagining myself hunting Bin Laden down in the caves of Tora Bora, but you’ve dashed all hope. Turns out that dot you see on your spy-satellite screen, is me stumbling around – blind – trying to find my way out of the caves!
You are a better man than I, softwareNerd. Here I was imagining myself wandering around the womens locker room…Not much virtue in invisibility if one cannot see.
You are a better man than I, softwareNerd. Here I was imagining myself wandering around the womens locker room…Not much virtue in invisibility if one cannot see.
Invisibility should not curtail your sense of touch. You can cop a feel and not be seen.
Invisibility should not curtail your sense of touch. You can cop a feel and not be seen.
Isn’t this a waste of your time just thinking and typing about it?
Anyways, this reminds me of what Glaucon says in the Ring of Gyges (Plato)…of which I do not agree with nor would I act like (since i’m not even a prudent predator now! why the [----] would i be then!? imo, this is just one “writ large”):
no man can be imagined to be of such an iron nature that he would stand fast in justice. No man would keep his hands off what was not his own when he could safely take what he liked out of the market, or go into houses and lie with any one at his pleasure, or kill or release from prison whom he would, and in all respects be like a God among men. Then the actions of the just would be as the actions of the unjust; they would both come at last to the same point. And this we may truly affirm to be a great proof that a man is just, not willingly or because he thinks that justice is any good to him individually, but of necessity, for wherever any one thinks that he can safely be unjust, there he is unjust. For all men believe in their hearts that injustice is far more profitable to the individual than justice, and he who argues as I have been supposing, will say that they are right. If you could imagine any one obtaining this power of becoming invisible, and never doing any wrong or touching what was another’s, he would be thought by the lookers-on to be a most wretched idiot, although they would praise him to one another’s faces, and keep up appearances with one another from a fear that they too might suffer injustice.
