I like to ask people what their darkest desires are. It tells me as much about them as their deepest fears. A dark desire is something that you really want to do but something holds you back. A lot of the time it's because what you want to do is illegal or immoral. Sometimes it's because you don't really want to do it but you like to imagine yourself doing it. Whatever the reason, you hold back.I believe that we need to look at our darkest desires. We need to know what we want deep down inside but are afraid to do. It tells us a lot about who we are. We shouldn't be afraid of our darkest desires. They are a part of us. We shouldn't be afraid of who we are. Of course, I don't mean that we should act out our darkest desires if they're too dark. I feel it's healthy to have them as fantasies.
Mickey Malkin has this thing where she asks the people in the atheism newsgroup questions. I was lucky enough to have her choose one of my favorite questions. A lot of people responded. It was great. Here is a list of things that atheists desire but dare not do...
Anyway, I guess if the desire is merely a desire, and not limited to the realm of possibility, I'd probably desire to become omnipotent, with the option of polymorphism, split myself in half, walk onto the set of the 700Cub appearing to be the generalised image of Yeshua [pale skin, American accent] point at Robertson, and make his head explode. A moment later, my other half, appearing as Lucifer [presumably looking a lot like the jesusmorph, yet less scruffy, wearing a black suit with a blood-red tie] would run onto the set and scream 'no! I'm too late! You've killed another of my best minions!' and then cut to commercial.
I'd like to see the results of that, I think...
--Gremlin
OK my darkest desire as a human is to rule over the planet, let some ethincal groups fight against eachother and you know, just a lot of cruel conventional warfare, chaos and mayhem and me controlling the lot of it.
As an atheist, well, I was in a church in Ireland two summers ago, one of these small ones where the elderly go to. I just phantasised back then of walking in during the preaching of the old father with some huge bass gitar and blast the decorated windows out. Also at the catholic burial ceremony of my greatgrandmother when the priest was swinging his smoking pot over her body I wanted to smack his head with it.
I am not a crook.
D J Nozem
That the Earth be destroyed by bolts of lightning, that babies be impaled, rivers turn to blood, mountains crumble and all mankind is groveling in the dirt to be spared.
Wait a minute.......That's the christian desire. Sounds horrible coming from an atheist.
I can't think of a dark desire, or even one in the shade. Do normal (g) sexual desires count? Then I would like to be a captive love slave at Victoria's Secret.
Steve Knight #855
Damn, I really tried to think of a dark desire but just couldn't find one.
I have a dark fantasy though. I wish I could read minds, then I would use this to remove all the truly evil people from this world (child molesters etc..). In my spare time I would use to gift to really fuck with the minds of xian trolls.
Xalan
Actually, if I could be invisible and had infinite powers, there would be a bunch of child abusers, abortion clinic bombers, racists and other such lovely people who would have very short life expectancies.
Scott #1045
To ship all the most stridently religious people off the planet onto their own little world, preferably one with few metals and no radioactives.
I also get a sense of moral satisfaction when a famous religious person does something that proves what a hypocrite he/she is, and I would love it if I read stuff like that in the paper every day.
Aviva
Darkest, hmmm. Would you believe that I helped tear down a church? Decommissioned of course. (Damn that was fun!)
My darkest desire would be to find definitive proof that there is no ether bunny and see how many people can handle it.
Sean #1454
That there really is a supreme being, and she asks me for sex.
What did you expect?
-mike#1375
I want to live happily ever after (here on Earth, not happily ever afterlife). Other than that nebulous desire, I already experience what I desire to experience and so far, it has been very good.
I do want to go white-water rafting sometime.
Liz #658
My darkest desire? You mean something illegal or unethical? Hmm, I'm not sure. I have lots of things which are intriguing to *think* about, such as taking revenge on people who have done me wrong. But I wouldn't ever do any of these things in real life. My conscience would really bother me if I did.
Anna #1490
My darkest desire would be to have our local version of Jerry Falwell, Jerry Prevo, found tied up in an S&M love nest with twin blond 20-year-old "tops" (male), with a coffee table loaded with crank and crack cocaine. And I want video and arrests and the whole thing.
Michelle
To be known as the man who destroyed Christianity. Oh, wait, that's Marilyn Manson. Sorry.
As for my darkest desire, that would probably involve Lorelei covered in chocolate pudding... ;)
raven1
For *my* darkest desire.... hmm... that seems to be rather censored. It does involve lots of candles, a bottle of fine champagne, some scarves, about 666 hours, and raven.
Oh wait... did you want that from an atheistic point of view? Okay, that would involve the EAC's (not that they exist anyway) rubber chicken, whips, chains, and all of the above items. ;D
Lady Lorelei
To have a machine that could look back into time (to any time or any place). I would use it to televise the life of Jesus (if he actually existed), in an attempt to put an end to the debate over the validity of Christianity.
pan
My darkest desire -- as an atheist -- is that the most outspoken Christian fundamentalists (Falwell, Reed, the godhatesfags dude, etc.) themselves go down in flames after some particularly humiliating and shameful experience that is made public.
Probably an overly simplistic answer, but I'm disappointed that such hateful people, using their hateful scriptures to justify their hateful attacks, actually carry credibility in this nation. It'd be fun to see them go down!
Tony
I want to be everyone's deepest fear. I want to come out at night, spread my dark wings, and cover the earth in a shroud of fear. I want people to see me and tremble with fright. I'm their deepest fear in the flesh. I make them shiver and quiver, freeze and feint, or turn and run away. I want people to talk about me only in whispers behind closed doors for fear that I might hear them. I want to come to people in their sleep, turn their dreams into nightmares, and make them wake up screaming. When I walk into a room I want everyone to become deadly quiet, save for the sound of their beating hearts. I want to be fear incarnate.
When I take a man into my arms I feel the goose bumps rise on his skin underneath my caresses. I feel the heart pounding in his chest. I see the fear in his eyes. I feel his body go limp as I kiss him. His last breath leaves his body and enters mine. He dies in fear and ecstasy. I live on in darkness, rejuvenated.
Veyanne
1. I HATE SLEEP. Let me rephrase that: I hate needing to sleep. As it is I starve myself for sleep because I put off getting to bed.
2. I would like to see all the evil, ruinous people of the world (e.g. the Unabomber, Dennis Rabbitt, etc.) die instantly.
3. This subject is discussed in some sci-fi texts. I would like to become non-corporeal. That is, I would like to upload onto a (good) computer. That means no Windows, no Pentium, no other crap. This is not currently possible, but I intend to make it possible before I would die.
4. I, um, would like it to be... dark? </humor>
Chaos Theory
I'd like to troll my parents in an email pen-pal type discussion, where I could ask them things that I'd never ask them in person, and find out things that they might not like to disclose to me face to face for whatever reason.
I'd have to take things slowly, and all along the way I'd be deceiving them, (dark you say?) and building up a false friendship of sorts, with them not realizing they were corresponding with their own son.
The purpose of this? Well, how many things do you tell friends about that you don't tell your own children or parents or relatives? Sure, you can be friends with your parents, and love them, but how much do you really know about them, and about their desires and true beliefs?
I guess you could even ask your parents what their 'darkest desire' is, and maybe get a straight answer from them this way. If you asked them to their face, do you think you'd get a truthful answer?
Anyway, it certainly would be deceitful, but might prove interesting.
Elroy
Personally taking care of all those on my "Better Dead" list.
Czar
I don't know about dark as in evil. Maybe dark as in secret.
I desire an isolated place in the country where I could live as a hermit in peace and quiet. Free from the corporate state. Meditating, reading, thinking and soaking up a beautiful landscape while growing and living on natural food.
Peter Kelly
Well I have this rather weird dream that I sometime have the 'super power' that makes people face their stupidity. For example, the bloody stupid woman who decided to drive blindly out onto a main road whilst looking in the opposite direction nearly sqaushing me, my wife and my son in his pushchair flat! I would have sent her into a virtual reality where she could see the worst case scenario, the effects on all the families, the pain and suffering all caused by her carelessness. In other words being able to make someone feel the maximum guilt possible. As you can tell, I have an intense dislike for the dangerously ignorant and stupid.
PinkyMan
My darkest desire...
To be a GOD!
And for the first year or so the following would occur.
I would appear in every city and town on the planet and issue a warning that all religions are wrong and forbid worship of anything.
Every religious item and structure would turn to liquid excrement
The pope and his cronies would be beaten to death by starving children and single mothers
Anybody who prays to me would die of an incurable 3 month long hemoragic fever
Anybody who prays to anything else would die of having their anus sealed
permanently.
Anybody who tries to drink and drive would be have the last memories of every innocent killed by a drunk replayed in their minds till they die (complete with the pain).
Anybody who tries to attack another person will live the rest of their lives having the memories of the last minutes of murder and rape victims replayed in their minds (complete with the pain)
Any member of the kkk would be raped and lynched publicly by demons
Wife beaters get beaten to death (month long ordeal at least)
Child abusers would be raped to death by a demon twice their sizeSean
My imagination started to run riot
I dug deep in the darkest caves
of squashed desires
and perverted wishes.To make a choice and pick only one
was not an easy task.But then a picture formed in my mind
of a twisted form
bleeding on the cross
a dead cult leader from a bygone era
poisoning consciousness
of masses of this race.
I made it shimmer and turn into smoke
that swirled and whirled
and reformed again
into a couple -
man - woman perhaps -
joyously engaging
in sweet caresses of their
living flesh.The cross sprung petals
of flowers - no thorns -
and changed by magic into
soft love-bed.At the same moment
all over the world
every one of those
representations of torture and pain
whether on altars
or on the necklaces
of sheep of flock
underwent same change.
Izabel Sonia Ganz
To personally witness the death of the last christian.
Or to have Fiona Apple as my love-slave...... either one.Mark House
1) I would rewrite the constitution of every western democracy to make it an executionable offence for politicians to use the phrase "Family Values" in an election campaign (don't you just hate that?). The method of execution would be to have a 250 pound Scotsman use his boots on the man's head for as long as necessary.
2) To impose a cliche tax on politicians - all national debts solved at a stroke.Bruce Crichton