So let’s say you got to be God for a day

What would you do? Make everyone think like you think? Stop all wars everywhere? Wipe out all disease? Repair the effects of global warming? Give universal health care to everyone on Earth? Turn the lunatic fringe nuts into liberals?

The possibilities are endless. But what happens the next day when your God powers are gone? Overpopulation might quickly overwhelm humanity. No matter what you did, the law of unintended consequences would kick in at some point.

Nonetheless, I’d really like to hear what you’d do with 24 hours of “Godhood.”

Lots of folks need to be smitten,or smitted or whatever.

:evilgrin:

"Humanity sucks, everyone should die" does not strike me as a particularly useful philosophical outlook.

Most days I am run-of-the-mill empathic-egoistic moral relativist.
Cheers!

she'd be SO psyched!

If you told her to run, she'd immediately announce her candidacy for president.

I'm not sure if that's what you meant, but any normal human being would run like hell.

that way- people could get on with the business of living, and concentrate on the real things that matter.

:evilgrin: :thumbsup:

And here I've been good all day, not clicking on any of the Novak threads. You tricked you did.

put them in charge of the Earth. Allow those that wished to prey upon humans or to make pets of them, to do so. I think 'god' erred when he thought he had gifted man with enough intelligence to rule over all other creatures.

I know many animals I wouldn't mind working for - great attitudes and very kind.

Then I'd put the bonobos in charge.

...that the only way to understand me is by understanding what I created, not what other people said that I told them, because I have told nobody anything. I observe and remember, I do not guide or interfere.

and immediately label many Catholic bishops, the Pope, the Mormons, the Southern Baptists, and the wingnut evangelicals as instruments of Satan.

Then, to make it even sting more, I'd pronounce that the GLBT community are God's chosen people, reminding all that God created "man" in His own image, and the first sexual act was when God interacted with Adam to create woman. . .thus explaining how God only wanted a chosen few down the road to duplicate His/Her own sexuality.

"I feel your pain" would become much more literal..

Pretty much the same as the original model, but now with pockets as standard equipment.

and watch what happened.

I'd take one night with each of the anti-gay preachers - Christmas Carol style - and show them the world on my terms and just how wrong about it they really are.

I'd make women the master majority for a while, the men had their chance and screwed too much up.

I'd raise Jerry Falwell from the dead, just so I could smite him down - but I'd do it publicly - probably during one of the talking 'news' shows where he's blaming some group or another for a calamity not of their own making - ie, 9/11 or Katrina on the gays and abortionists.

I'd cure mental illness - but with all the Republicans out there these days, that's going to take more than a mere 7 days.

Then I'd set up a Mount Olympus style throne and stick around to make sure the one's who would pervert the message didn't get too much of a foothold before a lightning bolt got flung their way.

Our species would become extinct.

Second, zombies would be a reality. All who die would come back to feast upon the living.

Third, no more disease. The zombies would be the result of magic, as opposed to disease.

Forth, no more country music.

Fifth, everyone would be able to magically summon yummy sandwiches at will.

Sixth, skin color would be randomized each year and I would add new colors. Each color would have its own flavor.

Seventh, Women would only be able to get pregnant if both people involved wanted the pregnancy to occur.

Eight, quotes would go inside of punctuation.

Ninth, increased vegetation in the universe.

Tenth, carnivorous animals would become herbivores.

Eleventh, people would be able to safely travel at 100 times the speed of light.

Twelfth, people would be able to alter themselves so they could survive in outer space and/or on alternate planets.

Thirteenth, All of the glitches would be fixed in Battlefield: Bad Company for the PS3.

Fourteenth, I would let everyone know there is a God and he could take a joke.

Fifteenth, Diet soda would taste more like regular soda.

Sixteenth, people would gain the magical ability to fly.

I would trouble shoot from there, but those 16 things would be a good start.

if that was a campaign platform, i would be your staunchest supporter.

be even better.

humans are not really worth saving.

I would also outfit humans with more empathy so that it is harder to hurt others or passively stand by when others are hurt.

Doing those 2 things would solve most of our problems IMO. The science & technology will take care of disease, global poverty, climate change, sustainability and other major issues. The empathy will take care of destructive tendencies in our race.

"What would you do?"

Laugh at everyone who says I don't exist, and spend the rest of the day watching pigeons poop on their trendy t-shirts.

That's a pretty good reason why I should never have that particular position. :evilgrin:

I'd create a slew of microbes to solve our current set of environmental and energy problems. They would, of course, be self-limiting so that an equilibrium can be sustained over the long term.

Everyone deserves a clean slate/second chance every once in a while.

...How'd I do?

I would immediately smite:

Bill O'Reilly
Sean Hannity
Michelle Malkin
Ann Coulter
Laura Ingram
Rush Limbaugh
Rev. James Dobson
Tom Delay
Sarah Palin
Glenn Beck
Michael Savage
Mark Levin,
etc.
etc.
etc.

It would be a blood bath of biblical proportions. No mercy for swine.

Specifically, people would know/be aware of the consequences of their actions/beliefs that they espouse. RWers would no longer be able to hide behind "God's will" as their excuse for their brutal & uncivilized ideology.

i'd give up that power the second i inherited it.

If "absolute power corrupts completely," it seems to me that this would also apply to this God of which we are speaking.

Thus, if we in fact have a corrupt God, it would surely explain the history and current day reality of humanity who was made in (His/Her/Its) image.

And let me add this. I too would give up that power the second I inherited it. Or at least I sincerely hope I would have the courage/character to do so.

I respect and absolutely love your answer to the OP.

got my point.

if we were created in a "god's" image, that means we would reflect god's own imperfections, which includes succumbing to the seductive abuses of power.

no one, not even a deity, LOGICALLY, could have god-like powers and not abuse them.

I would ban all religions. This IS a fantasy thread, isn't it?...;-)

If you were God and banned religions, wouldn't you be banning Yourself? :shrug:

because a hypothetical God didn't "invent" religion, ignorant people did.

from it's ending back to begining? Start old, weary, worn out and tired and work our way back to youthfulness- but take it right back to infancy and our begining as fragments of two different people... ?

or maybe design us humans that we experience the effects our actions have on others before we commit to taking them? That might be a bit tedious....

so..

How about have everyone begin life born into a world where they are cherished, nurtured, and encouraged to treat each other as if "they" were the "other". ?

good question-


:hi:

The main problem seems to be that so many are easily duped into acting against their best interest and don't learn from their mistakes.

It'd be like taking out the garbage.

Just because I'd be giggling the rest of the day after that. Then I'd get around to the good stuff. You know, no more famine, end a few wars and genocides, cure AIDS/cancer/etc, whole lot of smiting to do...Michael Vick, I'm looking at you first. W, Cheney, get in line fellas.

Then I'd do the fun stuff. Like put another curse on the Yankees. Then, because I go back to being plain ole flvegan in a day, I'm making a small transfer of funds into my name. Not a ton, I'm not greedy. Just a dozen or so billion dollars.

First, the fuckwads who do awful things in my name.

Then the rotten turdsuckers who think they know what MY son, Jesus, would think, do, say, or want.

there would be a void in this solar system.

That shit has GOT to stop.






What's that? It's already been done??

Ahhh fuck it - I'm out of ideas then..............


:shrug:

And maybe Rush, while I'm at it.

If you're gonna be God, go all out! :toast:

I would then hug and say, "I love you." to everyone I've ever cared about, be they alive or dead.

Then there would be less cruelty and greed, and a lot more generosity.
:grouphug:

I would immediately resign before someone defeated me in a battle of logic. Omniscient or not, I'm not sure I could stand the embarrassment.

Just joshing. Cheers -- :toast:

J

Using your own omnipotence to self-delete -- brilliant! :toast:

Create a world ...
without discrimination
fear
hunger
illness
greed
or suffering

Because I am loving and just.

as does the human capacity to make war.

All people suddenly have total comprehension of others' point of view.

Homelessness no longer exists.

Anyone who wants to marry, can do so.

And the Beatles catalog becomes available on iTunes.

Just my first day -- I'll be a better supreme being with experience. O8)

and then I'd take each person, one at time, to some point out in space where they could see the planet as a whole, from a distance. We'd have a talk about how fragile life is, and about our common responsibility to every living thing that shares the planet. We would talk about religion, and I'd give each person the same three commandments: Don't hurt other people, don't hurt the planet, and don't vote Republican. Then, I'd give them the ability to remember the moment for the rest of their lives.

As a bonus, I'd give humans the ability to grow new replacement teeth (like sharks) for the entirety of their lives. I'd also give everyone the desire, stamina, energy, and will power to maintain a regular exercise regime. I'd give humanity a cure for every disease that was free and tasted like chocolate or vanilla (whatever you liked better), and create a billion duplicate worlds to where people could be transplanted when each current one became overpopulated. All wars will be fought with squirt guns and nerf weapons, and would be great fun. Each day, everyone would wake up with perfect hair, fat could be melted off with a pill, and no one would have unpleasant body odor. Every family (even families of one) would get a home of their own, with free cable, and no commercials. Sitcoms would never, ever have laugh tracks.

Matter replicators would be on every street corner, and cost nothing at all to use. They would dispense water, food, clothing, or anything one desired, and would run on batteries with a ten thousand year life, and use trash as raw material. New batteries could be replicated easily by the replicators. Free portal technology would allow instantaneous travel between any two points, and free portals would exist in every city center across the planet.

To help people avoid getting bored when employment phased out, I'd create free holo-decks with innumerable adventures, based on current and future works of fiction, and each home would have one.

Finally, I'd tell every person that I loved them just as they were, and remind them that as such, they never ever had to do anything else to earn my favor. I'd tell them that there was no hell, and that I don't want anyone to suffer for a moment of time - let alone an eternity. Before I left them, I'd give them a vision of eternity, and then a pat on the back, and wish them good luck.

Don't know where it would go from there, though.

:D

Changed people, changed world.



and the band Journey would never exist :yoiks:

and George Carlin and John Lennon would still be alive.