What Would You Do If You Were God?

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  1. StrangerInAStrangeLand SubQuantum Mechanic Valued Senior Member

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    Suppose there's a god & it decides to go on a 3 trillion year vacation & leave you in charge.
    What do you do?
     
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  3. Rav Valued Senior Member

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    The first thing that occurred to me of course was to put an end to all suffering. But you can't really get too far with a plan like that without turning the entire world into a nanny state, and even then you can't control what's going on in people's heads without, well, controlling what is going on in people's heads. So what I'd do, then, is to simply close out the chapter. I'd basically just elevate everyone to a new unphysical plane of existence where they couldn't harm themselves or each other. If there happened to be anyone who was so fucked in the head that they couldn't bring themselves to embrace this new and better existence, I'd just segregate them for a while until they came to their senses. Being God I'm pretty sure that I could get them to come to their senses eventually without completely remodeling them from scratch. I'm the ultimate psychological therapist you see, and I can sell ice to Eskimos.
     
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  5. spidergoat pubic diorama Valued Senior Member

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    I would build myself my own planet and populate it with the people I like. Or maybe I would enlarge Earth and fix all it's problems.
     
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  7. scifes In withdrawal. Valued Senior Member

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    STRANGERRR!!!!
    WHERE HAVE YOU BEEEEN?? I'VE MISSED YOU MAN...
    i seriously thought you were dead or never returning again, how did you remember your password?
     
  8. Mr MacGillivray Banned Banned

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    I would start the apocalypse immediately.

    I think it is a bit cruel to let people wait so long.
     
  9. Light Travelling It's a girl O lord in a flatbed Ford Registered Senior Member

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    Maybe people in your own image ??
     
  10. Light Travelling It's a girl O lord in a flatbed Ford Registered Senior Member

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    What sort of God am I , what powers do I have?

    I assume omnipresence isn’t in the equation, because where would god have been able to go on vacation ?
     
  11. jmpet Valued Senior Member

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    As with most other issues, I would leave things as they were and fine-tuned them until God returned. I would not interfere- I would leave man alone to figure out his own fate.
     
  12. Michael 歌舞伎 Valued Senior Member

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    I'd Vote Ron Paul in 2012 and see if the world really does end

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  13. George1 Registered Senior Member

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    if i were god, i would get rid of all religious nut-jobs that's ruining human civilization. which would be ironic, cuz they do it the name of god. and i would take the pope, kim-jong il, fidel castro and all the others people like them, and make me a human centipede. HAHAHA

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  14. Lori_7 Go to church? I am the church! Registered Senior Member

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    Were you intentionally paraphrasing the bible or was that an accident?
     
  15. Lori_7 Go to church? I am the church! Registered Senior Member

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    Me too.
     
  16. Bowser Namaste Valued Senior Member

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    I would refuse the job and ask for a mid-management position--maybe an angle or something.
     
  17. Oniw17 ascetic, sage, diogenes, bum? Valued Senior Member

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    I would experiment so much. I would take all of the most recognised people in every scientific discipline, all of the best people at every sport, all of the greatest artists and musicians from every little sub-division of every discipline, everyone with a personality trait that I like, all my favorite actors/actresses and comedians, and of course all of my favorite authors, and remove them from the planet. Then, I would begin a new era on Earth, and I would start a society with only progress in all areas as the goal. Entire childhoods would be spent developing all sorts of skills; learning enough to have a general scope of how the world works; developing socially, psychologically(that is, to my own particular ideal), intellectually, morally,technologically, and physically, both as individuals and as individual societies. With the people who I took, I would encourage idleness and make luxury easy to attain. I would give them all slaves and an abundance of any imaginable resource, and the ear of an all-powerful being. Give it 4 generations, and test the groups on everything. See what happens. Then there would be much more to follow.
    Heh. I noticed that too.
     
  18. Rav Valued Senior Member

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    The fact that you've said that shows you know a lot less about the Bible and Christian theology than I do, which is no surprise really.
     
  19. river

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    nothing and be a non-concept or idea to any life form in the Universe

    why ? so any life form can just be about themselves , therefore build confidence towards themselves and evolve their abilities , with no psychological inferiority complex
     
  20. Captain Kremmen All aboard, me Hearties! Valued Senior Member

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    What I probably wouldn't do is to send my son to get crucified.
     
  21. cosmictraveler Be kind to yourself always. Valued Senior Member

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    Since there is no god or gods then how can anyone believe that they could do anything more than what they themselves can do without any supernatural powers? :shrug:
     
  22. Rav Valued Senior Member

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    It's a hypothetical cosmic! It's not much different from asking someone what they would wish for if one could be granted, or where/when someone would go if they had a time machine.
     
  23. Lori_7 Go to church? I am the church! Registered Senior Member

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    I know what I'm talking about, and I'm not the only one who thinks so. Haha this is funny.
     

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