What Power Would You Choose Options

Just something silly I was surprised to not see here already, if you can give reasoning for the choice all the better.

For me it has to be teleportation...the commute to work alone would be worth any of the other ones. Though all of them would be fun for many reasons.

This post has been edited by paxx: Nov 19 2007, 07:17 AM

I chose telepathy, because it would help me to better understand people and their motives. I'm already pretty good at determining what people are thinking and I could make an argument that I already possess a subtle form of telepathy, but it's weak, operates passively and hard for me to harness consciously. I was much better with it when I was younger. SeekerVI mentioned that "most people's minds are like fortresses with carefully guarded gateways of encoded communication," and that's an excellent way of putting it. Even with telepathy, what you are receiving may be just that: the walls of someone's mental fortress. Minds are complex things and sometimes we aren't even sure what we're thinking. Quite often in life we think we're doing things for one reason, which sits in an obvious position near the surface, and find in retrospect that we were really being driven by something else buried much more deeply.
To possess telepathic abilities able to reliably bore through that wall of surface thoughts and unfailingly retrieve information from the core of a person's mind would be to hold great power, for good or ill.

Knowing things by touching objects/people. I don't mind car trips, hate wind burn, telepathy would be cool, but kind of suck at the same time; I already don't like what I get from most people's thoughts, and that's not much. Telekinesis sounds good in theory, and would be fun, but doesn't really enrich one's life in any way besides that fun factor (worth a lot, granted). However, being a reall sensitive, accurate touch-know has potential for all sorts of things, besides just your own education. Imagine holding a dinosaur bone, or a relic from the mayan civilization. You'd make bank as an archaeologist, curator of a museum, or a psychic advisor. Wonder who penned that supposedly genuine grimoire? Wonder if that watch was stolen? Wonder what happened to the person who owned that bloody scrap of sweater found in the ditch near the river? Who pulled the trigger of the murder weapon?

Having nifty magick tricks is all good and well, makes life easier and all, but knowledge is invaluable, and that's something you can do good with while still making a living and enriching your own existence all at once.

peace