I'd Starve because I don't hat many foods.

What if Nobody had an imagination?

Well, its important for people to think in 3s whenever possible... one major reason is that there's always a 3rd option, though it's near impossible to think of one if we feel trapped, threatened, pressured, etc etc...

Firstly, both the top God & the top Devil are more like tourist attractions... and in many cases, the same entity in different moods/circumstances. A happy devil in a sharing mood would more closely resemble the ordinary concept of 'God'. God, in a snit of biblical proportions, would not be someone you'd see yourself hanging out with; The devil has been the saintly savior many many times; God has been evilily vengeful and nasty and the destroyer many many times. And then there have been a few other entities love 'em or hate 'em, screwed up the whole works...or made something altogether half-another thing entirely which got everybody who's anybody curious enough to see this completely new thing...

It's the cost of free will, essentially.

There are only a handful of folks who have been to heaven and haven't opted to stay forever.

There are only a handful of folks who have been to the real hell and can still appreciate goodness and beauty, and be useful for anything requiring kind free will again.

God and the Devil are two of those folks. I shall nominate myself as a third. I do this because I seem to have this talent of being able to answer rhetorical questions sensibly, and solve god-ly problems with devilish detail. I have contemplated oblivion. There's perfect peace and eternal rest. No more troubles after oblivion, no sir. But further introspection into some of the stuff I've said to my older cousins, which I don't remember, but which they've since reminded me, that before I was here, I was a woman named Melinda, and I was very sad, took a lot of pills, died, and turned up as a two year old boy, who grew up to figure out that yes, indeed, it certainly looks like you re-incarnate in hell if you commit suicide. And what a beautiful, delightful, loving place hell is to be sent to, to figure out what and how I'd been a screw-up in past lives, with all kinds of fun folks and educational activities available for eventual graduation. Does a fire-spirit care about how hot it gets? Hell no. Doesn't a water spirit get more energy by being dammed? Hell yeah. Does being cast into bondage for 1000 years sound like a lot of really great sex for the "punished"? Is God making a big joke out of The Bible (of which no two are quite the same...) for those very real legions of folks who have some pathetic urge to never to let themselves have any fun? Why, why yes He is... (He happens to be a She currently; it'll revert back to whatever works best in due time).

So Jehova aka Jove aka Jupiter aka Zeus aka Jesus, (not me , likes to eat, drink and be elzebub. A better-time charlie this world has never known. He, like me and you, is perfectly himself, always. He doesn't always FEEL perfect, but being doesn't have as much to do with feeling as anybody might hope. Belief(Knowledge, rationality), Feeling(Sensing/intuition, conscience) and Being(Doing/changing/reacting/I AM, YOU ARE, S/HE IS) often has some interesting distortions to our common, shared reality, but when the three align, those times seem to be most impressive; alas, not always serving us well.

AnyHooooo....

I'm sure I don't have to point out to anybody who has even the least reliable, spotty connection to the spirit realm that we are in spectacularly interesting times; so spectacularly interesting that all the big, fun old guys and gals who've kicked some righteous ass in the past are all back here and now, in various states of wholeness (as is best for them and the universe), to help maintain, gracefully dismantle, and kick off something new and amusing. At least, they'd better be, or there's gonna be a whole lot of shaking goin' on... >:)

I do not wish to be the head guy, although I probably could pull it off if I really needed to. I enjoy the benefits of having someone with more authority than me, who doesn't generally interfere unless its real important. It's important for others to have a second or third opinion available to them. Not always beneficial for them, but they're free to use that good ol' will however they see fit...
(I give out pretty fine answers to questions; I'm good at explaining complex things simply without missing the important stuff. I LOVE being asked about stuff; and it doesn't serve me well to give unpleasant answers, or to inspire artificial incompetance in those around me. But between you and me, if you don't like my true blue answers, just shush about having asked me the same thing when you ask one of the others; perhaps you'll luck out and get something better that what I had to give you at the time. I even like being wrong from time to time.

For the diligent out there, if you mythologicially trace Satan's origins, you'll find that he's primarly related to water, not fire. Prometheus was a son of Oceanus, but like many mythical characters, gets promoted and merged, rather than kept as a seperate entity. Circe and Arachne are Athena's other characters. Zeus was jewish and his middle name Peter probably just for the pun of Jupiter. Remember, the gods select the culture, not the other way around.

Lucifer (Dis), Hades, is the maintainer of 'ordinary heaven'; the elysium fields.

I have a golden castle under the sea somewhere. I think John Lennon's already there.

See yaz. Keep laughin!

-nev

Hey Nevin, I found what you typed interesting in a sort of twisted way, but thats just me. Anyways to not go off topic you forgot to ask a "What If" question. Ohh and to BC.

The only one I could ask without being flooded with a highly probable chain of events to realize whatever "What If" question I posed, would be "What If I was unable to ask What Ifs without it turning into an 'It Shall'?"

...which is, in fact, the case, with me, and perhaps one or two other living beings, while we're all currently sharing system resources on a universal level.

In other words, things I say have an alarming habit of coming highly true, fast, with few restrictions and fewer guidelines, in a term that started 3 1/2 years ago, and ends in 2012.

And I haven't created nor sent anyone to hell yet! Mostly because in case anyone's not noticed, this world is automatically turning to hell, right on Kronus' schedule. Available to the average mortal are three general scenarios to place that omega bet on... 1. No particularly effective supernatural/alien intervention occurs, and our environment generally ceases to support human life, we become denizens of the Underworld and become Lucifer/Dis/Hades's problem, which is likely to remain whatever death ordeal one should reasonably expect to occur in this lifetime. 2. I, Satan/Posiedon, currently the reigning Lord, six ways to Sunday.(Karmatically noble, I went to Sacramento legislature and non-accusingly, politely, reasonably, and in writing strongly suggested that the Gov stop Stanford's SLAC project's black-hole research, as entertaining a successful experiment in this realm would also bring an object with a mass of over 3x our sun into existance, only a few thousand miles from the center of the Earth, after that 9.8 magnetude disturbance, pretty close to diametrically opposite Palo Alto, Dec 26th. I dunno if SLAC is actually responsible, but a black-hole experiment was being discussed on or around Dec 18th, when I livejournalled how fantastically stupid performing this experiment would be... Believe it or not, I do not enjoy being right about everything, especially about something like this. I made no attempt to see if SLAC was active on the 26th; I do not wish to know, for forgetting is mostly effortless; forgiving takes work, doesn't it?)

So, since this already played out, What If my deed reduced or aborted global destruction? What would this do to my kharmatic credit? What If my warning was ignored, or even, premeditatedly unwelcome by evil intent? Ouchie.

I figure I have enough god/earthly brownie points to finance an exodus of myself and some small subset of others, and mythically, I have this golden castle underwater somewhere to hang out... it's probably not subject to ordinary time and space... Jesus will be hosting a banquet (Last Supper), I'm doing the Last Dance, in this probable for me, unlikely for you, post-human scenario, prolly starting 2011.

3rd... Jesus/Zeus intervenes, comes back, ignores the flagrant violation of his 'no graven images' commandment, and laughing off the Catholic Church's calling that particular Friday 'Good', and not going apebleep with lightningbolts starting with the Pope's house, and ending when he runs outta juice. How likely would the Pope issue an emergency revocation of all crucifixes, to save the world? What If he did?

(How's that, dear?

-nev

AIEEE! You've just revealed Satan's not-all-that-secret plan to liven up this hellhole.

I'm storing up enormous reserves gleaned from the melting fresh-water ice reacting with the salt water; imagine a metalic-crystaline palace forming, as the worlds oceans increase in their ability to leach long-flooded mana, which is matter that has its own life-force and is attuned to respond to the will of its creator/owner/delegate; pixie dust; magical gunk... primordial old-skool pyramid-raising, sky-castle fun stuff us old dinosaurs blew the last creation to bits with when we all got bored of it, all about the same time.

What If each of you've already been pre-selected to party with one of us new old ones, as best suits your beings' natural attraction to each of our distinct styles of reckless abandon?

What If, by Jesus, Lucifer, and Satan, everybody gets to have fun, or (hehheh) be the fun by the end of this damned show? We three boys are gonna show the stars how to party, feast, and spread the wealth around that'll put 'em to shame. As you shall fairly soon see.

-nev

I think it would be a real shame to see Jesus partying down with Lucifer and Satan, and as to how the stars party, who cares? I don't need to live my life through them, I have enough drama in my own!!

No offense nv but I think this subject belongs more in Speak Easy or General Chat at least rather than the games forum.




What if life ran backward, starting out old and progressing back to a baby??

WHOA! Thats a mad thought Iodine! would babies be rearing us...babies having old people...*mind boggles over conception*

What if we saw everything in negative like photos ...everything black, was white and vice versa?

Hey Nev, thought you might like this!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RMzA82H-Qo

If that were the case then "Bono" could save $ from his purchases of designer glasses and donate even more to humanitarian causes!!


What if we stopped speculating about Mars....would that mean the end of Mars Bars???

If we stopped researching Mars....the money could be spent on improving life on Earth!!! And likely "Oh Henry" would help!

What if the Native Americans still had their peaceful existence and continued to live in harmony with nature and were not forced to live on indian reservations...

There would certainly be more Native Americans around and this once beautiful country would probably not be covered in concrete,asphalt and housing developments. The wild life would still have a place to enjoy their existence and the air would most likely be cleaner and the sky bluer.
~~Thank you by the way georgia for saying Native Americans instead of indians, the Indians I know are from a country in the east called India.


What if you could have 1 wish to come true, what would it be?

That people would take time each day to talk to one another and find out how similar our goals in life are instead of watching the news or reading the papers and being influenced in their thoughts of others by the "rag mag" hype that sells and makes the CEO richer while the grass root people struggle to make ends meet. This would at least i believe offer a glimmer of hope to our children who are our future and seem to be subjected to horrific acts by a society that appears to be slowly decaying.

What if everyone cared for their aging parents at home instead of institutionalizing them..(that is what I did and was gratified by wit and wisdom )

Couldn't agree more with your opinion,except in your last Paragraph.Everyone just about used to look after their ageing Parents,and with the rush and bustle of today's World,it's not allways possible.With both Husband and Wife forced to go out to work,often even working Overtime, it is impossible to be the carer 24/7 .We owe it to our Parents to take care of them in old age,and I for one feel I am missing out on their last years, and I feel bad having no option but to put them in a retirement village.The only Positive I can see,at least they are with other poeple their own age,and share life's stories together.I miss mine soooooo much.

Sometimes you have to do what you have to do which in your case DTSM is have them go to a retirement community. In my eyes its probably better that they are there instead of being by themselves. At least this way they are around people there age and have people looking after them. Plus the place probably has activities that they can do and enjoy. As for my mom and step dad I hope it takes a veryyyyyyy long time till they reach the age of where they need to be taken care of. Don't get me wrong I love them both, but boy are they a handful. My mom has a very strong personality, and a very sarcastic sense of humor if you don't know her then you would take what she says to heart. Most of the time I am the only one who can deal with her, especially when she is ticked off. At that time no one wants to be around her and people always tell me to go "straighten her out". My step dad, well lets just say if he gets a paper cut he thinks he is bleeding to death. To not go off topic i'll ask a what if question.

What if you knew you could not fail, what would you attempt to do?

Heal every child.

What if animals could suddenly speak our language?

If Animals could speak our language,I think the first Question they would ask is,Why are so many of us animals tortured to Death in medical research, including Cosmetics?????

What if the World ended next week.What would you like to do before it ended.?

I would spend my time visiting with as many friends and family and Enjoy!!!

What If there was gold at the end of every Rainbow????

There would be a lot of fit and healthy people around,from chasing it. LOL

What if you inherited a Fortune from a distant Relative. What would you do with it?

I would look to helping seniors organizations and needy seniors as they built our countries and more often than not get overlooked by the charities.
Try to make their "golden" years more comfortable and have them make a wish that hopefully the $ could help make it come true!!

What if you were heir to the British throne and had one wish, what would that be???

Well said 'Georgia' I would definately do the same for the Elderly.

As far as a wish as Heir to the British Throne,there are a number of wishes.

I would like to see the Media prohibited from taking uncensored Photos of the Monarch's and Families Private life.
I would like to see all 775 rooms at Buckingham Palace serving a usefull purpose.
All Palaces and Country Estates sold and the Millions of Pounds given to Registered Charities.
Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle kept only.

What if you found out you had an incurable and Fatal Disease? Would you end the suffering prematurely,or fight it right to the end.?

knowing my look i would end it and they would find a cure the next day


what if aliens invaded earth?

About my luck as well.


If the Aliens were friendly,I wouldn't have a problem.Once they learnt our language,I would love to hear their Stories of their experiences in Space,and of their own Planet.

It's 3AM LOL I forgot to ask what if.

What if you came home from work, and your house was Bare and the wife gone?

pray she does'nt come back




what if you had a magic lamp and a genie granted you three wishes?

Healthy Wealthy and Wise.
Not allowed to Post what I'm really thinking.

What if you were in President Bush's Shoes?

in bush's shoes probably get shot by secret service
but seriously if i was in bush's shoes i'd really have to think before i spoke the amount of slip ups the man makes(verbally)
can fill a calender 1 for everyday infact i actually own the george bushisms calender

what if hitler had won the war?

The world would not exist as it does right now that is for sure and humanitarian issues and multiculturalism would never get spoken about; however perhaps there would have been a traitor amongst the groupie and the person would have resolved the plight, perhaps it may have been Mrs. Wallis Warfield Simpson, much to the chagrin of the Duke of Windsor.
I think from my reading that she was besot with Mr. H.

What if popcorn didn't pop? What would the movie theatres do???

Sell a whole lot of cheese puffs!!




What if you found out that your phone had been bugged?

Well i would derinitely find out why I was the "bugee" and be in hot pursuit of the "bugger"...wiretapping is not a "tap dancing offence"!!!


What if there was only black and white and no grey area that politicians love to fall behind????

Well we'd have a very good government wouldn't we?

What if there was no BC?

For me, if there were no British Columbia; I would not be here and worse again if there were no BC Iwould definitely not be here!! and not be heard!!


What if there was no such thing as organic food to choose???

I guess we would just have to go back to the times when we had to cut the blemishes from fruit and veg's before consuming.
We survived then.

Further to your previous post, re Politicians.

What if Politicians, every time they told a lie to deceive the Public,were automatically barred from Politics, till the next Election?

We would have a full new house of budding liars !!!

What if there is another planet with clones of everyone of us living on it??!!!

Oh my god, you mean there would be two mugs like mine looking into the mirror before getting ready to go to work, the better half couldn't stand that one!!!

What if we didn't have to have a passport to travel anywhere in the world?????

There would no longer be nations, a probable collapse of society world wide.


What if humans reproduced asexually?


nos

We would have a lot of humans walking around or spreading around like fungi or bacteria, eeks!!!

What would people do if all the stores and gas stations were still closed on Sundays as in the old days???

We would have a lot more money in our bank accounts and lot more respect for what the day of rest was meant for!!

What if we were back in the era of no telephone answering machines????

We wouldn't care who called while we were away and if it was that important they'll call back!! A lot less guilt too over missing a call!!





What if you lived in the day before refrigeration??

I'd simply become nomadic and live a little more north in british columbia than I do now and preserve my food in a cavity in the side of a nearby mountain and live the life of my ancestors!!! a more healthy ice cream, junk food free one!!!

what if there was a real Robin Hood???

I'd sure like to think that he'd find poor old me and help me out with some of loot!






What if you suddenly gained the ability to fly?

I believe that I would take off each sunny day to simply get a gorgeous aerial view of our environment at its finest; imagining that I would be able to see through the pollution!!!

What would the next US election be like without U Tube????

We wouldn't get the pleasure of watching the "finest" of the land respond with such gaffs!!!


What if there were no lighters and matches to light a cigarette????

back to the flint and steel and catstail fuzz!!






What if you didn't know how to make a fire??

If I was a north american indian in the early years of the colonialist takeover I would be in big trouble!!!
I believe that the indigenous people knew what they were doing and were messed up by all of the conversion by a self righteous group of immigrants???? And now today they talk about everything Green.
Why did they not take the founding peoples original way of life seriously??

What if all of these out of space missions by America stopped???

They could put the money that each one cost and put it toward the National Debt!!!






What if you woke up and found that you were President of the U.S.?

I would get the soldiers out of Iraq and into North Korea


What if You Woke Up and Life was like Pokemon (sorry had to do it)

i would go back to sleep....what if everyone had to go back to dial-up?

Similarly, I would go back to sleep.
And probably spend a lot less time on the computer...hey, it's quite a good idea. Dial-up it is (nah, couldn't live without hi-speed to chat with my bf)

What if you discovered there was a dead body buried in your garden/yard?

I would probably move out... too superstitious. I would walk around every dark corner expecting something like on 'A Haunting'.


What if you didn't have to live every day like your last and life never ended?

I would probably have a month or week of "last days" and then top myself. I don't want to get old.

What if electricity was down in your country for a week? (it went out for an hour in 5 local villages recently)

I'd go back to our cottage in the mountains where there is no electricity and enjoy another holiday!!

What if your only immediate family member committed you to an insane asylum and was the only one who could sign papers for your release?

Well I would be in some major trouble then, because my mom would be strapped down right beside me in the asylum. Then again it would be a good thing because I know I would find Mrs. Iodine in there as well.


What if the only way to move about was to bounce on your butt would you have surgery to return it to a normal butt?