# Genie Wish #3-Resurrection! **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 5, 2013, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/genie-wish-3-resurrection/668085 "2013-09-05T16:11:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Moonlitherial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4bbf92/32.png) [@Moonlitherial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonlitherial)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2013, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/genie-wish-3-resurrection/668085/21 "2013-09-06T14:02:07Z")
Alright, just to finish off the series First wishes 1 & 2: I’ve already got $100 million from the first wish so I become the family secret. No need to move away because every 30 years or so I have someone in the family “give birth” to a baby girl who is homeschooled and otherwise kept out of society until I take over her ID at a fairly old looking 20 and keep it til she’s an extremely young looking 50. Since I’ll be traveling a lot and exploring the world I can keep the secret to a very limited line of the family. This clarification (that you are healthy but subject to injury or death from misadventure) makes it tolerable as when living alone with no connections becomes too much you’ve got the ability to end it. Also no super hero delusions Now, hopefully the third wish can be held until needed and so that when I get completely sick of living alone I can choose one person from my many lifetimes and bring them back at 30 during the start of one of my new identities. Actually that would give you an extra 100 years or so of interest. One lifetime to decide who and set up the birth records accordingly, a good 40 years or so with this person (and possibly more if you could find someway to keep them around during a second identity of yours) and then another to mourn them. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2013, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/genie-wish-3-resurrection/668085/22 "2013-09-06T14:10:36Z")
Considering the clamor on the SDMB a couple of days ago, I’m surprised no one wished to bring back Ariel Castro so he could finish out his sentence. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2013, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/genie-wish-3-resurrection/668085/23 "2013-09-06T14:35:15Z")
> [@Moonlitherial](#): > > Now, hopefully the third wish can be held until needed and so that when I get completely sick of living alone I can choose one person from my many lifetimes and bring them back at 30 during the start of one of my new identities. Actually that would give you an extra 100 years or so of interest. One lifetime to decide who and set up the birth records accordingly, a good 40 years or so with this person (and possibly more if you could find someway to keep them around during a second identity of yours) and then another to mourn them. Genie says no time limit on the third wish-you can have it whenever you want. I do believe you’ve come out a winner in the “Three Wishes” scenario! ---
**Author:** ![akennett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ee59a6/32.png) [@akennett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/akennett)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2013, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/genie-wish-3-resurrection/668085/24 "2013-09-06T14:37:55Z")
I’ll bring back Jesus of Nazareth, and I’ll do it live on a TV special with as many religious leaders and religion experts as possible in the studio audience. That should put an end to at least one of the world’s religions. ---
**Author:** ![Obnoxious\_Hood\_Ornament](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/3be4f8/32.png) [@Obnoxious\_Hood\_Ornament](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Obnoxious_Hood_Ornament)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2013, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/genie-wish-3-resurrection/668085/25 "2013-09-06T15:10:59Z")
Assuming I could opt to use all three wishes for resurrection, I’d bring back Jesus, Hitler, and my wife. If anyone asks about my wife, I’ll just tell them Jesus was out of practice and needed to work on a few corpses to get his resurrection mojo back. ---
**Author:** ![Agent\_Foxtrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc29f/32.png) [@Agent\_Foxtrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agent_Foxtrot)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2013, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/genie-wish-3-resurrection/668085/26 "2013-09-06T17:52:43Z")
Nikola Tesla. Either he’ll prove to have been brilliant all along and the world will be a better place once his theories are realized, or he’ll prove to have been a charlatan and the world will know once and for all. ---
**Author:** ![Moonlitherial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4bbf92/32.png) [@Moonlitherial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonlitherial)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2013, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/genie-wish-3-resurrection/668085/27 "2013-09-06T20:50:06Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Genie says no time limit on the third wish-you can have it whenever you want. I do believe you’ve come out a winner in the “Three Wishes” scenario! Excellent I’ll be awaiting a PM from the genie. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2013, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/genie-wish-3-resurrection/668085/28 "2013-09-06T21:49:37Z")
I’d bring back Van Cliburn. He was really tall and I’ve always wanted a giant pianist. :d&r: ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2013, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/genie-wish-3-resurrection/668085/29 "2013-09-06T23:27:58Z")
> [@Trinopus](#): > > Isaac Asimov and chain him to a typewriter in a basement. I was prepared to object to this, but on second thought, we’re on the same side, methinks. ---
**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2013, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/genie-wish-3-resurrection/668085/30 "2013-09-07T16:05:33Z")
I bring back Nicolas Flamel, and pretend he was always alive. Make a fortune (well, more of a fortune since wish 1 gave me a ton of money) selling fake philosophers stones. When called on our Philosopher’s Stone not working, I tell them to wait – since I have immortality from wish #2, I claim that clearly the stone is working. How else would I be looking this way after 80 years? They clearly just can’t use it properly. I can keep this sham going of for a very long time, perhaps indefinitely since there’s nothing to prove I’m **not** using my fake Philosopher’s Stone to stay alive. When Flamel inevitably dies, I’ll just pass it off as him being tired of being immortal and refusing to use his stone anymore. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/genie-wish-3-resurrection/668085.md?page=1)