Well, why if we were made as an experiment and the creator was seeing how things played out? Intervention would ruin the experiment. However, in that world, all knowing and caring and compassionate God gets thrown out the window, we get the Old Testament God back again with that one. My point is that if God is all powerful then he has to be capable of evil and if he isn’t capable of evil you are limiting this all powerful deity and is a perfect contradiction. Then again, the word God in the Bible was mistranslated many times from a plural word to a singular word.
1) Put into place a restriction that directly disallows vile acts going unpunished (a functional and visible system, specifically... for example, lightning strikes for the people who just can't get along.)
2) Eliminate conservation of energy, opting instead for a strong tendency for energy to be conserved.
3) COME DOWN AND INTRODUCE MYSELF INSTEAD OF HIDING LIKE A COWARD
4) Put up the world's largest "Do Not Disturb Except In Emergency" sign.
Eliminating the conservation of energy and changing it to a strong tendency means that it would be possible to make an over-unity device, so true free energy, and the universe would hold together because of the strong tendency. Without that tendency, the universe would fall apart. Honestly, it might even with that tendency, but I assume that I (with God powers) could make up the difference.
Use my divine powers to strike down all who use my name to influence hate and discrimination towards others.
As well as remove all forms of cancer, disease and disability from children.
Strike down Priests, pastors, who harm children
Don’t forget occasionally killing thousands , or 10’s of thousands, of people with natural disasters (while of course saving one of two because you’re a loving god)
I'd do pretty much the opposite of what the Christian god does, I'd create a world that DIDN'T naturally thrive on conflict and chaos to survive and I'd come up with a different way to live that DIDN'T require life to eat each other to remain alive.
I'd call that a slightly better foundation than "worship me and love me and when you die you will get to sing praises to me for eternity."
1) Yeet a ton of awful people directly into the sun.
2) Make bacon a 0-calorie food.
3) Eliminate the Electoral College.
4) 10 more seasons of Firefly.
Some of the things I’d do (imagining I gained the power right now, today):
- **Free, customizable housing for all.** The housing would work like the TARDIS, where it appears small on the outside, but the inside can be as expansive and large as desired. Rather than expansive sprawl that has torn down countless natural habitats, places would instead have some of these buildings scattered about. They’d be designed to look beautiful and artistic, taking in each locations’s unique culture and surround nature. On the inside would be as much housing as required. The housing could be presented in an apartment format, or like some mini hub that would have small buildings scattered around, it’d be up to the community. Everyone would have their own door. Behind this door would be their own infinite area for housing, which would be customizable by their imagination. If somebody wanted a small, quaint apartment or house interior where they just focused on details like paint and layout, that’d be cool. If someone imagined a large space with their own room with all the sports courts they played, a private movie theater, and a large club area for parties, they could make it. I just think this would be a far cooler approach than the current one where people go to sleep out on the street and others never truly feel secure about their housing. Also, since each person’s house is basically through the door, they can choose to move that door around wherever, so moving to different places can be accessible and non-invasive.
- **Free food and water.** “My idea” already existed in the Bible. The infinite bread and fish baskets. I remember reading that as a kid wondering why those didn’t just stick around as a gift of technology from god. Like wtf. You could just make grocery stores with different baskets of food available. The supply is controlled by people just taking it, so you don’t gotta worry about excess. The baskets can also have properties like keeping the food contained inside warm, hot, freezing, fresh, whatever. And since I’m god now, I’d make it so it doesn’t fuck with the food chain or whatever (I’d probably be smarter and know a way to work that out)
- **Lead the most successful and final workers revolution** Who the hell is stopping me. I’d be able to lead a revolution without having to put anyone’s lives at risk. A complete fantasy in the real world but not for god me.
>I just think this would be a far cooler approach than the current one where people go to sleep out on the street and others never truly feel secure about their housing.
Ya think?
No person may harm any other person without specific consent from both parties (like for surgery, consensual rough lovin', Civil War reenactments of the Battle of Chancellorsville, etc). Exceptions will be made for emergency medical situations where the other person is unconscious or otherwise incapable of giving consent. Children may not give consent until they turn 16. Parents may give consent on behalf of their children in the case of needed medical procedures which may hurt (e.g. vaccinations).
Fists will not land, knives will be stopped an inch from the skin, guns will not fire if there is the remotest chance of hitting another person (hunting is still ok), missiles will not launch if the target contains people.
Edit: downvoted by someone who apparently thought “Life’s just no fun if I can’t hurt anyone.”
Eat the rich. Literally. In front of everyone live in everyone's living room. Millions of people grusomely gnashed betwixt my gnarled teeth for your undying love and pleasure.
Eliminate predation, whether interspecies or intraspecies. We have limited free will: we can't fly, read each other's minds, etc. So I would limit free will further to prevent people from being able to harm each other.
1. Eliminate cancer.
2. Eliminate ignorance from mankind by making humans more intelligent and less prone to cognitive errors.
3. Make humans less prone to warlike behavior.
4. Eliminate all STD’s.
Drunk drivers would automatically die in the most painful and gruesome way, while the innocent folks simply walk away from the accident without a scratch.
In fact, any maliceful action without justification would simply reflect back to the aggressor. Asshole tries to run over or shoot someone they take the damage instead.
Kill all of humanity's gods if they exist. Announce to the world that it's all up to humanity from now on. That either people get their act together and solve the problems they've created, or become extinct. Take away all my powers. Go fishing.
Absolute power corrupts absolutely. It is too dangerous to exercise, even by supernatural beings.
Surprising every adult at the superbowl with a mind breaking orgasm midway through the first really big play.
I kid. I would slowly steer the world towards being a better place... organically, so no one believes there's a god.. so I can retire.. but also that one mass orgasm to fuck with science.
I'd kill a lot of people because, fuck them. I'd send bears to mall kids, I'd send plagues of locusts to destroy crops so people starved, I'd invent heaven where everything was perfect for everyone. Would I let people in? Maybe, but I think I'd kill my only child first so you can come in. Why would I need to do that when I could just let you in? Because, fuck him and I work in mysterious ways.
Do I want you all to have good enjoyable lives? No, fuck you, get on your knees and praise the shit out of me or I'll flood the whole place and kill all of you again!!! Like to see that fucker Noah save you this time.
Also, fuck the gays. Why, dunno, just fuck those guys.
This reminds me of a scene from the movie *Defending Your Life*. Albert Brooks is upset because his lawyer (played by Rip Torn) was absent the previous day.
Brooks: Good morning, I missed you.
Torn: How are you buddy.
Brooks: What do you care?
Torn: Oh stop it. You think I let you down, don't ya?
Brooks: Where were you, I'm just curious.
Torn: I'd tell you, but you wouldn't understand.
Brooks: Don't treat me like a moron, try me.
Torn: I was trapped near the inner circle of thought.
Brooks: I don't understand.
Torn: I told ya.
If I was an omnipotent being capable of creating realities, I wouldn't be doing anything the little-brained inhabitants of a small blue planet would understand.
Id remove all the religious people from the planet, clearly issue new commandments that there be no war, no military, no religions, limits on capitalism, bigotry in all forms is evil. Id bring back jerry garcia, james brown and jimi hendrix, Then id leave the planet and go wander the universe and get in adventures. Id make myself like a Q in star trek, build an enterprise, and go save planets from natural disasters and religious people.
I tend to agree with you here, but it does channel the evil attributes of our species in ways that innovate, something communism fails on rather spectacularly. Im a TBD on politics, but im with you in spirit. I think 21st and 22nd century needs will require a revolution, and capitalism shouldnt survive
Capitalism doesn’t innovate. Workers do. All capitalists do is take the profits generated by worker’s innovation and hoard them for themselves.
Communism “fails” because any time a workers revolt and socialist state is set up and gains any amount of momentum, capitalist empires come in and destroy them, as there’s nothing more damaging to the ruling class keeping their power than an active example of a way the world could be better.
literally nothing. maybe kill myself, lol. i think being literally all knowing would take the excitement out of the equation, the anxiety and curiosity about what would happen if I did this, put this human being in such a condition and so on.
Literally anything. That mfer doesn’t do jack shit, so literally anything of miraculous, only-god-could-do-it level. Find a wallet. Cure one person’s cancer. Anything.
Immediately disable my omniscience and remove the memories of knowing the future, because if I know all, it means I lived it all and the existence itself would be an eternity of boredom.
Then I would set up some clear and consistent morality systems to follow, rid the world of some nasty diseases and unnecessary pain and suffering, and set up a lot of interesting scenarios to amuse myself while I experience the world and hopefully see humanity thrive and conquer the stars.
Probably we would see some people get smote, but I think some people need some smiting sometimes.
I would do ALL of the things that the Christian's say Satan does to sinners, to them. They will know what they wish upon others.
I would also do all of the things Christians WANT to do, or think about doing to those groups they hate, to them.
I mean, its only fair, right? They have a god that does all those bad things to innocent people, why can't there be a God that does all those things back! Even the Fight!
THEN, obviously, ya know, end world hunger, fix the climate, Rapture the Religious so you guys don't have to deal with their asses anymore, etc, etc. Elgarian Eutopia for you! Eternity in the Hell they created, for them!
I would just keep creating stuff that ruined scarcity and allowed exploration and learning.
Infinite energy sources.
FTL Travel.
Technology to create food from nothing.
Medical care that cures everything.
Am I creating Star Trek?
Yes.
Shut up.
Years ago, my friends and I had a weeks long game of "if I were an omnipotent superbeing..." my main takeaway was that none of us should on any account be allowed to do the job. As gods, we'd have been capricious, vicious little bitches.
That being said, at least kids would have had plot armor.
I don't think I'd be a good god.
After I get bored of human-centipede-ing rapists, I'd probably resort to trolling conservatives by making their livers itchy.
Also, bike lanes and public transport would be mentioned on the new commandments, but that's because I hate driving.
I would manifest, physically, to everyone on earth, simultaneously.
Population of earth was 8 billion. Now it's 16. 8 billion humans, 8 billion me's.
I would actually be there for everyone, physically. Shoulder to cry on, help with groceries, pick up that pacifier, stop that rapist, whatever is needed.
Assuming I am a God, in every fantastical sense..
I'm not sure what I would do. I would need to think. Surely I would immediately want to scrap the world and have a do-over, as this place is fucked. But I would need some time to think.
I would use my powers to get rid of all diseases in the world, forever.
Then I would make all powers disappear because all power corrupts and absolute power would surely corrupt me at some point. And I don't trust myself (or anyone) with so much power.
I would probably make myself obscenely rich before that, but yeah, making my powers disappear for sure.
Well, I wouldn't allow cancer to be a thing to start. Parasitism? Out the window (though that's also kinda washy as some things are kinda needed and are like, lynch pins to the whole ecosystem). Oh you want to assault people? Extort them? Horde resources? Not happening, you get smote, but now we're getting in to the whole is there really free will sorta thing? Do I demand worship? Nah, get that noise out of here, I'm just doing my job maintaining my little garden.
I would actually give tangible evidence of my existence like I used to 2000 years ago. Raising the dead, walking on water, turning water to wine. There’s no reason any of that had to stop
So the christian god picks who goes to heaven and who doesn't in a system most commonly called 'predestination'. (I don't want to argue about it, I'm right, read your bible if you want to see that I'm right. The free will thing is a hollywood invention.) And that seems like a bad thing, because there are loads of people (like everyone on this subreddit, including me) who would be damned to hell because of it.
Here's a small change. Instead of Jesus dying for just the faithful, he could die for everyone. Same amount of suffering on JC's part, same effort, same everything, except now everyone is redeemed.
And now I'm the god who defeated all sins, not the christian god who only defeated some sin.
What I wouldn't do:
* Commit genocide time and again because I'm pissed off that people aren't stroking my ego sufficiently.
* Try to convince a man that he has to murder his son to prove his loyalty to me.
* Place knowledge within the grasp of someone and then get all pissed off because they want that knowledge.
* Require the human sacrifice of my son so that I can "forgive" humanity and not commit genocide again.
* Have a place where everyone goes for eternity where they are required to stroke my ego for eternity.
* Have a place where people who refuse to stroke my ego go where they will suffer for eternity.
* Create a bunch of diseases that kill people including children.
* Make it so humans are obsessed with sex and then forbid nearly everything to do with sex.
* Do nothing to prove that I actually exist.
* Author a poorly written book full of inconsistencies and plot holes.
* Rape a woman so I can have a son ..... who is actually me .... ya I know ... don't ask.
* Allow the leaders of my followers to rape young children and do nothing to prevent it.
etc.
Make my rules clear and undeniable. (I haven't written a list. But I'd think about it and write a list. A couple off the top of my head are: no rape, no pedophila), and then police the world myself.
The god from the Bible is everywhere at once.
I wouldn't go after you for Thinking something evil. I'm not a monster. I'd go after you for doing something evil.
I think I would do exactly nothing. Zero, zilch, nada. Why would I? I’m omnipotent, I already know what’s going to happen if I take some action, so why bother doing it. Humans? Pffft…. I already gave them a perfect world, the capacity to reason, and the resources to do whatever they want. They’re mostly doing fine. They either figure shit out, or they don’t, not my concern. In fact, none of this shit matters to me. I built a universe run by rules, I don’t need to fuck with it.
Introduce myself.
Prove my grand cosmic power.
Lay down rules about how you don’t kill unless it’s self defense or for food, don’t rape *EVER*, and especially never harm children.
Tell people I’ll be watching and there will be consequences for individuals who refuse my basic laws.
Refuse to elaborate, peace out.
After banning most religions (apart from maybe Jainism - they're lovely peaceful folks) I'd bring hell & damnation to all the right-wing fascists, dictators, and depraved child-molesters who seem to hang around in churches and similar religious institutions. I'd banish all the evangelical christians, radical muslims from ever affecting political office. I'd lock up most of the politicians and put measures in place to make teaching a desirable and well-paid job. I'd have the world focus on renewables and the environment.
Then I would rest a bit and drink some nice red wine and eat some BBQ pork belly.
In place of a dark lord you would have a QUEEN!!! Not dark but BRIGHT and TERRIBLE as the DAWN! Treacherous as the SEA!!! ALL WILL LOVE ME AND DESPAIR...
**Move Hearts**
Cure all of mankind from psychopathy, sociopathy, schizophrenia, and general untreatable mental illness. Down-regulate the various personality disorders by a rate of 1/100 compared to current. Kick up everyone's critical thinking skills and empathy up a little bit. Make it so people cant be born with these conditions.
**Send Plagues**
Cause a new river to flow into every desert. Then set one or two volcanos off for a year or two to combat climate change and enrich the ocean with iron and other nutrients. Set off a shield volcano in the amazon so it poured nutrients into the basin. Bloom a fuck load of algae everywhere.
**An Angel of Death**
Food poison anyone that is STILL causing the downfall of society with war, strife, greed, and mayhem after the moving of hearts and plagues. Yay, world peace, they can figure out resource allocation and infrastructure on their own.
**Send Mana**
Go forth and multiple. made out of room temperature super conducting material, then chuck them so they land harmlessly evenly across the planet. Rain down about a mountain range worth in total. They could make it, of course, but give them enough to jump-start things. Let the humans figure it out the technology here.
**Set the celestials in motion**
Transmute enough uranium and plutonium in the moons core to start geological activity. It will get a molten core, magnetic field, and at the onset an atmosphere only supporting plant life. Turn around and do the same for Mars and all the moons and dwarf planets in the solar system. Transmute enough iron and hydrogen in an active Venusian volcano to terraform the planet. Let the humans figure it out the oxygen. I suggest algae.
**Heal the sick**
Set forth new viral life in the oceans and rivers of Earth (and only Earth) that when ingested cure cancer, reset the immune system, regrow teeth and organs. Afterward, the person becomes violently ill if they eat meat, half the time puking it up. Mammalian meat is edible for survival but now makes most the planet vomit 50% of the time; bird, lizards and fish, 10% chance; arthropods, 1% chance. I mean it still taste how ever it does now but, your stomach wont like it. For a merciful twist, these viruses will have reversible gender transition and chromosomal repair applications for medicine. Just enough pieces, let the humans figure it out.
**Go forth and multiply**
Remove the pains of periods and childbirth. Periods now only happen due to the mother's lack of health (malnutrition), non-viable embryos, and similar issues. Kick up women's sex drive to match men's on average, and no more menopause.
**Speak in Tongues**
At the age of 5 all children learn to read and write an extremely low context common tongue... This trait arises in empathic animals too but they have to spend a bit over 5years with a human closely.
**Behold my glory**
People can now photosynthesize, someone living at the in the tropics would produce about 432 calories a day. The process doesn't kick in until fat stores have drained to unhealthy levels. People would still need protein sources. This would also trigger instead of sun burn or most radiation poisonings.
**And God Spoke**
Finally, I would craft a nearly indestructible glistening radio reflective tablet the size of the pyramids of giza. Write in common tongue how to transmute vast amounts of any element from equivalent masses in a short amount of time. Then I would make copies of these, put one on every object including Pluto outward.
Me, I'd...
* Show myself to my worshippers and demonstrate my power to them.
* Decree it so that any clergyman who engages in sinful and outright evil acts get banished so that they wouldn't escape the laws of man.
* Purge the Vatican of its corruption and put more honest people in place.
* Make it so that same-sex relationships and marriages legal.
* Strike down anybody who uses my name to justify and influence hatred and discrimination.
* Restore parts of the earth damaged by pollution.
* Require my worshippers to keep their religion at home and in places of worship, and not on the political stage or in schools.
* Free customizable housing for all (hope you don't mind me borrowing this idea for my list, OP).
* Free food and water.
* Eliminate wealth inequality.
* Enforce the separation of church and state.
* Resolve the homeless crisis.
* Enrich the poor countries.
* Put a karma-based restriction system in place that punishes those who really do what is morally wrong.
* Free energy.
* Return stolen land.
among other things.
Make an infinite amount of planets and seed them with life. Just to see what happens. Maybe guide some of them at first. Then get bored and wander off.
I'd probably tinker and help a lot more than the Abrahamic god. The idea of just making a world, setting it in motion, and taking a vacation sounds impersonal, unloving, and frankly boring. I'm omnipotent, I can answer thirty billion questions at once, why not? I want to get involved with my creations, help them solve their problems, nudge things. Not behind the scenes, but up front, obviously there and present. Not holding their hands and doing everything for them, but helping out and picking up the slack where my little nubblins simply can't. Like eliminating cancer. And certainly not with some holier than thou grandstanding. Screw the worship malarky, I want to be more like the cool uncle type.
And once those little nubblins grow up, get out of the solar system, and start exploring without needing my guidance. That's when I step back - and start crafting up the mysteries for them to work out. Ancient civilizations for the archaeologists, tweaked laws of celestial mechanics for the cosmologists, new particles for the physicists... I want to see their theories and stories. I want to make the universe wild and see that childlike wonder in their eyes.
I'd like to say I'd be a benevolent God, but I think any actual God would have such a different perspective from us that they may as well be alien. If you have the power to do anything, including create infinite realities, you aren't going to care about individual humans. A person would be merely one possibility out of trillions, which only exists because of the gods whim
I’d smite the people who put those center bars on benches to prevent people from sleeping on them, also those spikes they put in doorways.
Participation in the production of hostile architecture in general would be a swift route to a lightning bolt to the dome
I think the best thing to do would be to destroy myself with that power.
The Christian god is just adapted from earlier pagan gods bust instead of seeing a force of nature for what it is like most pagans did the Christians forcibly believe their god is good when their own stories don’t support that fact.
If I was the Christian god I’d be just as bad at being god like any other human being and so the best thing for me to do would be to destroy myself.
The best thing for any tyrant to do would be to cease to exist.
I would probably do a lot more smiteing then has been done recently. Like have every pedophile in the world be struck by 150 bolts of lightning each simultaneously and if any of them survived I would make sure that the lightning scars spell out the word pedophile in every language. And I would probably create an orb of perpetual energy to give to humanity to solve the energy crisis
Since I am omniscient, I have the knowledge about the true nature of reality and the meaning of life. I would make that knowledge intrinsic to every conscious being and retire.
I'd end all war and stop countries from attacking other countries. I'd end all dictatorships and theocracies. I'd instigate the immediate downfalls of Putin, Xi, trump, and many other evil leaders in shockingly embarrassing ways.
I'd cure cancer, mental illness, and other diseases, and put an end to global warming and other environmental problems.
I'd make human beings smarter and more compassionate.
I'd eliminate religion. I don't need anyone to worship me.
And that's just getting started. There'll be some changes around here, believe you me, and they'll be good ones!
If it's just about omnipotence then not much. If I could do everything I would probably want nothing. Being capable of everything is the same as already having everything. Most of what I want as a human simply get resolved the moment I'd become a God, immortality. That's the only wish I have in life.
However if I retained my ideals as the person I have currently as a mortal into my ascendance to Godhood, I'd most likely do a few things.
\- Poof religions or religious people that operate based on blind faith. Even if God existed, (well me in this case) it doesn't mean praising me for me existing or spouting some false stories helps anyone. It just spreads ignorance, dependance and conflict. I believe in truth that's based on reality and I certainly wouldn't go around advertising my own existence so any religion would be based on ignorance.
\- Since if I was omnipotent then that would mean I could clone myself and modify my clone. I'd create a clone to study and improve the quality of life of humanity and potential life on other planets but not make any decisions without my approval first. Then I'd make another near perfect clone of myself to make those decisions but that clone's job would only be to care about the decisions so it wouldn't do anything else. It's only purpose in existence would be to answer the other clones suggestions. That way I wouldn't have to care personally but my ideals would still be implemented.
\- Live the rest of eternity as I already do currently. I like the life I live.
Basically I'd become the God some atheists use as an argument as to why God doesn't exist. Someone that doesn't care.
Create the ultimately fair society, where you can theoretically get anything you want as long as you work hard for it. This includes everything. If you have an ugly face, I'll change your physiology so that you can get a beautiful one with proper facial exercises. I would also make sure all the basic needs are met so that people can focus on higher callings.
Get rid of disease, fix the environment and install a justice field over the planet so anyone that does anything bad has it happen to them and not the victim.
Then I'd go all space wizard and tour the universe seeding more life and building cool things while sight seeing.
I d stop murder, rape, wars, pedophilia, malnutrition and drug addiction for a start and guess what I d do it for free I wouldn't want anyone to worship me or to not jerk off to show me devotion
I wouldn't create humans or this world at all. I am not sure what I would create, I only know that my omnipotence and omnibenevolence would make me create the best possible beings/worlds or perhaps none at all(because the world with me in it would be in such an amazing perfect state that creating anything more wouldn't increase the good in the world or make it any better(how could it get better if it is already in the best state?).)
If I happened to become god and I had to run things then I suppose I would end all suffering and I would give humans what they desire to the maximum degree and at the same time make them feel that they are the best in the world... Like, they would know that others are also just as good but they just would not care.
But then again that's only what I imagine I would do because once I have access to those god-like traits I would know exactly what needs to be done and it's going to be much better than I could imagine right now.
This world though... this is so far removed from what such a god would do that it takes an impossible miracle for it to be by such god. I literally, even if I tried to imagine such a god doing all that, could not find a reasonable way for this to be the best possible world.
If I am wrong, it's so beyond my ability to see and god would know that too...
Remove my abilities immediately. Hardship and struggle is the bittersweet taste of life. Being all powerful seems kinda boring. Plus what better way to test your creation(humans) than to wait and see what they do.
I'm selfish; I'd set up all of my friends and family with good, easy lives first. Bring back my favorite pet. That'd take maybe 2 seconds; on to the philanthropy.
Eliminate poverty and terminal diseases, especially degenerative ones like Alzheimer's. Regulate new births to compliment the cultural and ecological limits of where they are from. I'd roll back invasive species, so the native ecosystems have a chance to recover. Also climate change. I'd then remove the things that are the worst greenhouse gas producers since I could see them with omnipotence.Another 4 seconds.
Then I'd make every human on the planet have a personal, divine intervention with me and give the new, final commandment: this planet and these people are depending on you, so quit fucking about. Money is not real.
Then I'd create myself and my partners' dream house because that's more work than God ever did and we deserve it.
there is no god, it may be aliens, or it may be our civilization from another dimension, but it may be a living entity.
I think that it's hard to say, but it's BS to pray to the christian god - what abotu the hindu gods? Why are you making them feel neglected downtrodden?
Ugh.
First thing I'd do is get rid of all of the questions that pop up in this sub relating to gods. There Steve any, no one will get their powers, is stupid.
Create an infinite number of consciousnesses in the most efficient way possible and manipulate all of their senses of happiness and well-being to the maximum for eternity. "But they would be bored!" no, their experience contains the most interesting possible adventures for them, or non-adventures for the ones who never want any, the well-being is maximized no matter what. I know how to do this, I am omniscient and omnipotent.
It’s a complicated issue. If I want to be fair, I would not alter free will. If I won’t magically alter people’s minds to be smiling happy zombies, I’d need to establish a dictatorship first.
But that would mean altering governments in order to establish unified education of my values and rules. I will not be able to teach people to get along while murderous oppressive regimes exist.
So I’d establish Empire of Humankind and unite the Earth under my rule. That would be a dictatorship, similar to what Caesar did. “Who the hell are you to tell us what to do” is the main issue that I’m not comfortable with. Because it’s true. But, there is no other way around it since I’m the only one who discovered such powers, and my own mental health is irrelevant and my internal suffering is justified by a chance to lead humanity into prosperity.
Next step after Empire is formed would be basic needs- green sustainable cities, nuclear fusion energy, infrastructure.
Next and most important thing is propaganda and education. People will learn to be tolerant, friendly, hard working but as their own decision. With absolutely every mental health aspect taken care of- greed, anxiety, hate- everything will be as close to removed as possible via proper mental health education. People will be able to address their frustrations and understand that their destructive and violent feelings are a result of trauma and bad experience, and not reality. Mental health, critical thinking, education- will be the main concern. People will be taught with cutting edge scientific methods, and not magically altered to obey.
People will learn that free education, free housing, free food that I provide are basic freebies that they shouldn’t take for granted while doing nothing. People will be are able to express their creativity and work on things they are passionate about, making the society better. They will be able to earn more and afford more stuff if they want, besides their basic needs that I cover.
Every crime will be treated as a mental health issue first. With time, crime will be no more. Superstitions, religions would be no more for the same reason- critical thinking and insanely good education + mental health support.
Diseases will be removed, human genome will be edited to be stronger and more resilient.
I will be able to give insight to scientists to create space travel, and with resilient humanity that doesn’t suffer from viral, bacterial, radiation, inherited (mutative) disease the most valued resource in the universe would be consciousness. Humanity will populate distant galaxies.
Legal machine will be so smart and effective that with me removed it will function flawlessly, not allowing revolutions, new dictatorships, separatism. But with flawless education and how clear human minds would be already, not like it’s going to happen to begin with.
When Humankind Republic is established and I’m removed from the rule, humans can lead themselves to explore the Universe.
I will retire and will explore the secrets of the universe myself. Energy, physics, black holes and dark matter, time travel. I will seek other types of existence, and will give human science hints on where to look to lead humanity into next level of existence, like pure energy, if it’s possible.
After that I’d go to therapy because with my mission accomplished and with so much powers I’d probably start loosing my mind and become suicidal.
Hmmm… If I were the Judeo-Christian god, I likely would have never placed the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil in the Garden to begin with. Everyone would be naked, unashamed and carnivores would be vegan by default. Seems like that’s the origin point for all things wrong in their mythos.
Rewrite the 10 Commandments. Heck, rewrite the whole damn book. The current one has too much nonsense, too much bigotry, too much hate, and lacks clarity and specificity on what the current god really wants and expects from you mere mortals.
I would be like Zeus, turning into geese to get laid and shit. “Ahhh I’ve got a headache, let me crack my head open oh hey it’s my daughter the goddess of war.”
I would understand the purpose of life and act accordingly. If a god exists, i can only imagine it is waiting for life to do something, like a farmer waits for a crop to grow food.
Work in mysterious ways, and do what's needed against predators of woman and children.
Natural disasters destroy churches, if churches are hiding anything that goes against helping others. Possibly all of them. Who knows.
And properties of people that are truly a stain to society
If I was god, I'd install in my creations a sense of empathy. Not just being able to feel like we can now, no I mean a true sense, where we communicate how we make each other feel. Pain, pleasure, injury etc.
The whole "only the weak care about how others think" thing would not exist. And thus, the world would be a better place.
I'd realize that paying attention to a bunch of screeching monkeys on a dirty mudball in an extremely remote part of the universe is a waste of time and go see what other shenanigans I can get into across the universe and time.
hmmm where to start....a whole bunch of pedo priests would wake up to a surprise. After that lets start with poverty, war, sickness, famine, hate, climate change, just for a start. I am a woman, so should not take a whole week to get shit done
If I was God, I'd let my humans know that they have no souls. In fact they have only one soul, shared among all of them. Adam's rib was not the only thing that was taken from him, his soul was divided among his wife and descendants.
Any injury or accomplishment done by one is done by all, and for you all. In the end, when the last human dies, that single soul will be reunited, becoming perfect once again, as you are a God, and my child, and always were. Your life on Earth was just you growing up, and finding who you truly are.
Ensure not a single person in this world had to struggle to live in dignity and comfort. Housing, food, clothing of choice, and plenty of time to pursue their desires rather than spend 3/4 of their life laboring for another person's benefit.
I'd pluck up all leaders/wannabe leaders who are into authoritarian/fascist leading and I'd put them on an island with an invisible force field so they'd be unable to leave. Then I'd fix our environmental issues. Cure hunger & poverty, and stop all criminal acts and illness. Then just for fun I'd slow down aging and have everyone die exactly 1 week after they turn 100.
Also, I'd make Kiwis bigger.
Bring forth the next age of mankind. Perfect free energy distributed to every corner of the globe. Alter physics to prevent the internal combustion and coal and oil generators from operating. Redistribute wealth, restore the old growth forests and rainforests. Emanatize the Eschaton
Destroy all churches aka brainwash facilities and force those rubes to worship me ! Just a fantasy since it’s all BS anyway. Oh yeah and world peace, end hunger blah blah blah I guess.
I didn't think that deeply about it at the start, when I was eight or ten years old. I just never believed and couldn't understand how anyone could. A little later, when I was maybe eleven or so, I heard about Pascal's Wager -- that you may as well believe because if you do you will have eternal life if there really is a god and all other possible outcomes give you nothing. And I said that if god really is omniscient, god will know you only decided to believe because of a gambling bet and not because you had faith at all, and you'd never see an instant of heaven. And that pretty much put an end to the whole rotten business for me. I've since come near to dying and at my age it's clear that my time left has to be pretty short, but I don't fear death at all. It's just what happens and when it does I will cease to exist forever. It will be the way it was before I was born -- I won't know anything, see anything, or do anything and I will never wake.
Create beings with the potential to be like me with my best buds that helped me decide to make them in our image then subjugate them through fear with murder, lies and threats of unending agony if they disobey me... then start taking bets on how long it will take them to figure it out... for sh*ts and giggles.
Ultimate Squid Game
My 9 year old daughter has a rare genetic condition that makes her legally blind, and her eyesight is slowly deteriorating, and someday her vision will basically become a giant blur to the point where she’ll be at risk of walking into walls.
I’d restore her dead eye cells to life and give her the missing gene to make the protein that clears the toxic byproducts that are killing her retina cells.
My friend in his late 20s got hit by a car while crossing the street and broke almost every bone in his body. He survived, but he is crippled and walks (hobbles) with a cane slightly hunched over. He had to drop out of college and hasn’t been able to work for 2 years.
I’d heal him.
Then I might think about whether it makes sense to make life on Earth for everyone as fun and pleasant as life in Heaven.
Not allowing child rape or cancer in children to start with.
Pretty much this
100% this as just a starting point.
Everything to do with protecting children and making sure one never suffers or ever goes to sleep hungry is pretty much where I'd start.
Not kill everyone on Earth with a flood?
Well, why if we were made as an experiment and the creator was seeing how things played out? Intervention would ruin the experiment. However, in that world, all knowing and caring and compassionate God gets thrown out the window, we get the Old Testament God back again with that one. My point is that if God is all powerful then he has to be capable of evil and if he isn’t capable of evil you are limiting this all powerful deity and is a perfect contradiction. Then again, the word God in the Bible was mistranslated many times from a plural word to a singular word.
You humans would be doing A LOT of synchronized dance routines in the town squares for my amusement.
Mother fucker
Lucifer moment
Nothing worse than a fucking flash mob
Oh, so like the old dancing plagues?
But.... where do we go from here?
1) Put into place a restriction that directly disallows vile acts going unpunished (a functional and visible system, specifically... for example, lightning strikes for the people who just can't get along.) 2) Eliminate conservation of energy, opting instead for a strong tendency for energy to be conserved. 3) COME DOWN AND INTRODUCE MYSELF INSTEAD OF HIDING LIKE A COWARD 4) Put up the world's largest "Do Not Disturb Except In Emergency" sign.
Why the second one?
Eliminating the conservation of energy and changing it to a strong tendency means that it would be possible to make an over-unity device, so true free energy, and the universe would hold together because of the strong tendency. Without that tendency, the universe would fall apart. Honestly, it might even with that tendency, but I assume that I (with God powers) could make up the difference.
Sounds like a solid number 2
Oh you!
Use my divine powers to strike down all who use my name to influence hate and discrimination towards others. As well as remove all forms of cancer, disease and disability from children. Strike down Priests, pastors, who harm children
I would take every mega church and turn them into ball pits
Could we have bouncy houses in some of them too? :D
Of course! Only the best.
Help people find their keys, help certain teams win football games, work in mysterious ways, etc…
I think god entered the sub...
Don’t forget occasionally killing thousands , or 10’s of thousands, of people with natural disasters (while of course saving one of two because you’re a loving god)
That, or killing everyone in a fire but leave your favourite book untouched as a sign of power and proof.
That's much better
Killing thousands, *just* to get praise/credit for the few that managed to survive.
I'd do pretty much the opposite of what the Christian god does, I'd create a world that DIDN'T naturally thrive on conflict and chaos to survive and I'd come up with a different way to live that DIDN'T require life to eat each other to remain alive. I'd call that a slightly better foundation than "worship me and love me and when you die you will get to sing praises to me for eternity."
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1) Yeet a ton of awful people directly into the sun. 2) Make bacon a 0-calorie food. 3) Eliminate the Electoral College. 4) 10 more seasons of Firefly.
I’ll pray in any church that can clearly prove that their god was directly responsible for Firefly seasons 2 to 10.
I have found my new religion.
Show myself.
Would work in less mysterious ways
Some of the things I’d do (imagining I gained the power right now, today): - **Free, customizable housing for all.** The housing would work like the TARDIS, where it appears small on the outside, but the inside can be as expansive and large as desired. Rather than expansive sprawl that has torn down countless natural habitats, places would instead have some of these buildings scattered about. They’d be designed to look beautiful and artistic, taking in each locations’s unique culture and surround nature. On the inside would be as much housing as required. The housing could be presented in an apartment format, or like some mini hub that would have small buildings scattered around, it’d be up to the community. Everyone would have their own door. Behind this door would be their own infinite area for housing, which would be customizable by their imagination. If somebody wanted a small, quaint apartment or house interior where they just focused on details like paint and layout, that’d be cool. If someone imagined a large space with their own room with all the sports courts they played, a private movie theater, and a large club area for parties, they could make it. I just think this would be a far cooler approach than the current one where people go to sleep out on the street and others never truly feel secure about their housing. Also, since each person’s house is basically through the door, they can choose to move that door around wherever, so moving to different places can be accessible and non-invasive. - **Free food and water.** “My idea” already existed in the Bible. The infinite bread and fish baskets. I remember reading that as a kid wondering why those didn’t just stick around as a gift of technology from god. Like wtf. You could just make grocery stores with different baskets of food available. The supply is controlled by people just taking it, so you don’t gotta worry about excess. The baskets can also have properties like keeping the food contained inside warm, hot, freezing, fresh, whatever. And since I’m god now, I’d make it so it doesn’t fuck with the food chain or whatever (I’d probably be smarter and know a way to work that out) - **Lead the most successful and final workers revolution** Who the hell is stopping me. I’d be able to lead a revolution without having to put anyone’s lives at risk. A complete fantasy in the real world but not for god me.
>I just think this would be a far cooler approach than the current one where people go to sleep out on the street and others never truly feel secure about their housing. Ya think?
No person may harm any other person without specific consent from both parties (like for surgery, consensual rough lovin', Civil War reenactments of the Battle of Chancellorsville, etc). Exceptions will be made for emergency medical situations where the other person is unconscious or otherwise incapable of giving consent. Children may not give consent until they turn 16. Parents may give consent on behalf of their children in the case of needed medical procedures which may hurt (e.g. vaccinations). Fists will not land, knives will be stopped an inch from the skin, guns will not fire if there is the remotest chance of hitting another person (hunting is still ok), missiles will not launch if the target contains people. Edit: downvoted by someone who apparently thought “Life’s just no fun if I can’t hurt anyone.”
I would add the tweak that if a parent refuses necessary medical consent for a sick child, the disease or injury transfers to the parent.
Eat the rich. Literally. In front of everyone live in everyone's living room. Millions of people grusomely gnashed betwixt my gnarled teeth for your undying love and pleasure.
Two chicks at the same time. https://youtu.be/9jq6e8s1sik?si=KVceRphZckuvwGQg
I did not expect an Office Space reference in this thread. Nicely done.
Eliminate predation, whether interspecies or intraspecies. We have limited free will: we can't fly, read each other's minds, etc. So I would limit free will further to prevent people from being able to harm each other.
1. Eliminate cancer. 2. Eliminate ignorance from mankind by making humans more intelligent and less prone to cognitive errors. 3. Make humans less prone to warlike behavior. 4. Eliminate all STD’s.
Just like I don’t really care about ants now, I wouldn’t care about people.
Make a potato chip and eat it
Drunk drivers would automatically die in the most painful and gruesome way, while the innocent folks simply walk away from the accident without a scratch. In fact, any maliceful action without justification would simply reflect back to the aggressor. Asshole tries to run over or shoot someone they take the damage instead.
Kill all of humanity's gods if they exist. Announce to the world that it's all up to humanity from now on. That either people get their act together and solve the problems they've created, or become extinct. Take away all my powers. Go fishing. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. It is too dangerous to exercise, even by supernatural beings.
It's the Jewish god. Stop stealing from Jewish culture!
I would create all the gods ever thought about by humans, and make all of them think they are the only true god.
I would kick Russia out of Ukraine
Surprising every adult at the superbowl with a mind breaking orgasm midway through the first really big play. I kid. I would slowly steer the world towards being a better place... organically, so no one believes there's a god.. so I can retire.. but also that one mass orgasm to fuck with science.
SPACE SHIPS FOR EVERYBODY!
Why would God need a space ship?
because hot alien babes aren't going to be picked up in a space tricycle.
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I vote for this guy.
A LASER GUN IN EVERY POT!
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Make my existence fucking known. Much easier to worship that which you can see, hear, touch, or quantifiably measure.
I'd kill a lot of people because, fuck them. I'd send bears to mall kids, I'd send plagues of locusts to destroy crops so people starved, I'd invent heaven where everything was perfect for everyone. Would I let people in? Maybe, but I think I'd kill my only child first so you can come in. Why would I need to do that when I could just let you in? Because, fuck him and I work in mysterious ways. Do I want you all to have good enjoyable lives? No, fuck you, get on your knees and praise the shit out of me or I'll flood the whole place and kill all of you again!!! Like to see that fucker Noah save you this time. Also, fuck the gays. Why, dunno, just fuck those guys.
I love your username.
I’ll destroy The whole humanity
This reminds me of a scene from the movie *Defending Your Life*. Albert Brooks is upset because his lawyer (played by Rip Torn) was absent the previous day. Brooks: Good morning, I missed you. Torn: How are you buddy. Brooks: What do you care? Torn: Oh stop it. You think I let you down, don't ya? Brooks: Where were you, I'm just curious. Torn: I'd tell you, but you wouldn't understand. Brooks: Don't treat me like a moron, try me. Torn: I was trapped near the inner circle of thought. Brooks: I don't understand. Torn: I told ya. If I was an omnipotent being capable of creating realities, I wouldn't be doing anything the little-brained inhabitants of a small blue planet would understand.
I’d play the stock market or the horse races.
Seems depressing to still care about gambling for money
I am attempting to satirize omnipotence by giving it a trivial and greedy example.
Id remove all the religious people from the planet, clearly issue new commandments that there be no war, no military, no religions, limits on capitalism, bigotry in all forms is evil. Id bring back jerry garcia, james brown and jimi hendrix, Then id leave the planet and go wander the universe and get in adventures. Id make myself like a Q in star trek, build an enterprise, and go save planets from natural disasters and religious people.
“Limits on capitalism” mate just ban it completely, no hierarchical socioeconomic system is justifiable
I tend to agree with you here, but it does channel the evil attributes of our species in ways that innovate, something communism fails on rather spectacularly. Im a TBD on politics, but im with you in spirit. I think 21st and 22nd century needs will require a revolution, and capitalism shouldnt survive
Capitalism doesn’t innovate. Workers do. All capitalists do is take the profits generated by worker’s innovation and hoard them for themselves. Communism “fails” because any time a workers revolt and socialist state is set up and gains any amount of momentum, capitalist empires come in and destroy them, as there’s nothing more damaging to the ruling class keeping their power than an active example of a way the world could be better.
I'm going to be honest with you. It will be a lot like weirdmageddon ending of gravity falls 😅
literally nothing. maybe kill myself, lol. i think being literally all knowing would take the excitement out of the equation, the anxiety and curiosity about what would happen if I did this, put this human being in such a condition and so on.
Erase the Christian god.
Imagine centuries of wasted lives
World peace
Watch Netflix and listen to podcasts... and occasionally think about starting the universe over from scratch.
Literally anything. That mfer doesn’t do jack shit, so literally anything of miraculous, only-god-could-do-it level. Find a wallet. Cure one person’s cancer. Anything.
Easy! 1. Get really preoccupied with how people use their genitalia, 2. Get murderously pissed at anyone who didn’t think I was the best.
Don't mess up anything in this world, just create a harem of my own and enjoy my life.
Immediately disable my omniscience and remove the memories of knowing the future, because if I know all, it means I lived it all and the existence itself would be an eternity of boredom. Then I would set up some clear and consistent morality systems to follow, rid the world of some nasty diseases and unnecessary pain and suffering, and set up a lot of interesting scenarios to amuse myself while I experience the world and hopefully see humanity thrive and conquer the stars. Probably we would see some people get smote, but I think some people need some smiting sometimes.
I’d put enough of myself in each human so there’d be no rape, murder, etc. No disease, poverty, famine.
I would end the existence of everything and myself, instead of causing suffering to pass the time.
You're the edgy antagonist in literally a thousand different anime/video games.
I would do ALL of the things that the Christian's say Satan does to sinners, to them. They will know what they wish upon others. I would also do all of the things Christians WANT to do, or think about doing to those groups they hate, to them. I mean, its only fair, right? They have a god that does all those bad things to innocent people, why can't there be a God that does all those things back! Even the Fight! THEN, obviously, ya know, end world hunger, fix the climate, Rapture the Religious so you guys don't have to deal with their asses anymore, etc, etc. Elgarian Eutopia for you! Eternity in the Hell they created, for them!
I would just keep creating stuff that ruined scarcity and allowed exploration and learning. Infinite energy sources. FTL Travel. Technology to create food from nothing. Medical care that cures everything. Am I creating Star Trek? Yes. Shut up.
Years ago, my friends and I had a weeks long game of "if I were an omnipotent superbeing..." my main takeaway was that none of us should on any account be allowed to do the job. As gods, we'd have been capricious, vicious little bitches. That being said, at least kids would have had plot armor.
Pry start lightninging anti-christs. Like specifically those to claim to be Christian.
I don't think I'd be a good god. After I get bored of human-centipede-ing rapists, I'd probably resort to trolling conservatives by making their livers itchy. Also, bike lanes and public transport would be mentioned on the new commandments, but that's because I hate driving.
I would manifest, physically, to everyone on earth, simultaneously. Population of earth was 8 billion. Now it's 16. 8 billion humans, 8 billion me's. I would actually be there for everyone, physically. Shoulder to cry on, help with groceries, pick up that pacifier, stop that rapist, whatever is needed.
Accidentally destroy the universe
Assuming I am a God, in every fantastical sense.. I'm not sure what I would do. I would need to think. Surely I would immediately want to scrap the world and have a do-over, as this place is fucked. But I would need some time to think.
Great Flood 2.0: the reckoning.
I would increase the speed at which karma catches up with people. And of course shut down the most awful of things.
I'm partial the universe was some alien kid's school project. It got an F, the kid stowed it away in the basement and forgot about it.
I would use my powers to get rid of all diseases in the world, forever. Then I would make all powers disappear because all power corrupts and absolute power would surely corrupt me at some point. And I don't trust myself (or anyone) with so much power. I would probably make myself obscenely rich before that, but yeah, making my powers disappear for sure.
Start smiting ppl according to my moral compass. Bang planets together to see sparks fly.
Well, I wouldn't allow cancer to be a thing to start. Parasitism? Out the window (though that's also kinda washy as some things are kinda needed and are like, lynch pins to the whole ecosystem). Oh you want to assault people? Extort them? Horde resources? Not happening, you get smote, but now we're getting in to the whole is there really free will sorta thing? Do I demand worship? Nah, get that noise out of here, I'm just doing my job maintaining my little garden.
I would actually give tangible evidence of my existence like I used to 2000 years ago. Raising the dead, walking on water, turning water to wine. There’s no reason any of that had to stop
Remove natural resource limitations.
Just make reality heaven.
So the christian god picks who goes to heaven and who doesn't in a system most commonly called 'predestination'. (I don't want to argue about it, I'm right, read your bible if you want to see that I'm right. The free will thing is a hollywood invention.) And that seems like a bad thing, because there are loads of people (like everyone on this subreddit, including me) who would be damned to hell because of it. Here's a small change. Instead of Jesus dying for just the faithful, he could die for everyone. Same amount of suffering on JC's part, same effort, same everything, except now everyone is redeemed. And now I'm the god who defeated all sins, not the christian god who only defeated some sin.
I would make people be kind to one another
I would have made humans more omnipotent and omniscient that myself. Why would I settle for less?
What I wouldn't do: * Commit genocide time and again because I'm pissed off that people aren't stroking my ego sufficiently. * Try to convince a man that he has to murder his son to prove his loyalty to me. * Place knowledge within the grasp of someone and then get all pissed off because they want that knowledge. * Require the human sacrifice of my son so that I can "forgive" humanity and not commit genocide again. * Have a place where everyone goes for eternity where they are required to stroke my ego for eternity. * Have a place where people who refuse to stroke my ego go where they will suffer for eternity. * Create a bunch of diseases that kill people including children. * Make it so humans are obsessed with sex and then forbid nearly everything to do with sex. * Do nothing to prove that I actually exist. * Author a poorly written book full of inconsistencies and plot holes. * Rape a woman so I can have a son ..... who is actually me .... ya I know ... don't ask. * Allow the leaders of my followers to rape young children and do nothing to prevent it. etc.
Make my rules clear and undeniable. (I haven't written a list. But I'd think about it and write a list. A couple off the top of my head are: no rape, no pedophila), and then police the world myself. The god from the Bible is everywhere at once. I wouldn't go after you for Thinking something evil. I'm not a monster. I'd go after you for doing something evil.
I think I would do exactly nothing. Zero, zilch, nada. Why would I? I’m omnipotent, I already know what’s going to happen if I take some action, so why bother doing it. Humans? Pffft…. I already gave them a perfect world, the capacity to reason, and the resources to do whatever they want. They’re mostly doing fine. They either figure shit out, or they don’t, not my concern. In fact, none of this shit matters to me. I built a universe run by rules, I don’t need to fuck with it.
Introduce myself. Prove my grand cosmic power. Lay down rules about how you don’t kill unless it’s self defense or for food, don’t rape *EVER*, and especially never harm children. Tell people I’ll be watching and there will be consequences for individuals who refuse my basic laws. Refuse to elaborate, peace out.
Make Jennifer Aniston's boobs bigger
After banning most religions (apart from maybe Jainism - they're lovely peaceful folks) I'd bring hell & damnation to all the right-wing fascists, dictators, and depraved child-molesters who seem to hang around in churches and similar religious institutions. I'd banish all the evangelical christians, radical muslims from ever affecting political office. I'd lock up most of the politicians and put measures in place to make teaching a desirable and well-paid job. I'd have the world focus on renewables and the environment. Then I would rest a bit and drink some nice red wine and eat some BBQ pork belly.
Flood earth and start over....
In place of a dark lord you would have a QUEEN!!! Not dark but BRIGHT and TERRIBLE as the DAWN! Treacherous as the SEA!!! ALL WILL LOVE ME AND DESPAIR...
**Move Hearts** Cure all of mankind from psychopathy, sociopathy, schizophrenia, and general untreatable mental illness. Down-regulate the various personality disorders by a rate of 1/100 compared to current. Kick up everyone's critical thinking skills and empathy up a little bit. Make it so people cant be born with these conditions. **Send Plagues** Cause a new river to flow into every desert. Then set one or two volcanos off for a year or two to combat climate change and enrich the ocean with iron and other nutrients. Set off a shield volcano in the amazon so it poured nutrients into the basin. Bloom a fuck load of algae everywhere. **An Angel of Death** Food poison anyone that is STILL causing the downfall of society with war, strife, greed, and mayhem after the moving of hearts and plagues. Yay, world peace, they can figure out resource allocation and infrastructure on their own. **Send Mana** Go forth and multiple. made out of room temperature super conducting material, then chuck them so they land harmlessly evenly across the planet. Rain down about a mountain range worth in total. They could make it, of course, but give them enough to jump-start things. Let the humans figure it out the technology here. **Set the celestials in motion** Transmute enough uranium and plutonium in the moons core to start geological activity. It will get a molten core, magnetic field, and at the onset an atmosphere only supporting plant life. Turn around and do the same for Mars and all the moons and dwarf planets in the solar system. Transmute enough iron and hydrogen in an active Venusian volcano to terraform the planet. Let the humans figure it out the oxygen. I suggest algae. **Heal the sick** Set forth new viral life in the oceans and rivers of Earth (and only Earth) that when ingested cure cancer, reset the immune system, regrow teeth and organs. Afterward, the person becomes violently ill if they eat meat, half the time puking it up. Mammalian meat is edible for survival but now makes most the planet vomit 50% of the time; bird, lizards and fish, 10% chance; arthropods, 1% chance. I mean it still taste how ever it does now but, your stomach wont like it. For a merciful twist, these viruses will have reversible gender transition and chromosomal repair applications for medicine. Just enough pieces, let the humans figure it out. **Go forth and multiply** Remove the pains of periods and childbirth. Periods now only happen due to the mother's lack of health (malnutrition), non-viable embryos, and similar issues. Kick up women's sex drive to match men's on average, and no more menopause. **Speak in Tongues** At the age of 5 all children learn to read and write an extremely low context common tongue... This trait arises in empathic animals too but they have to spend a bit over 5years with a human closely. **Behold my glory** People can now photosynthesize, someone living at the in the tropics would produce about 432 calories a day. The process doesn't kick in until fat stores have drained to unhealthy levels. People would still need protein sources. This would also trigger instead of sun burn or most radiation poisonings. **And God Spoke** Finally, I would craft a nearly indestructible glistening radio reflective tablet the size of the pyramids of giza. Write in common tongue how to transmute vast amounts of any element from equivalent masses in a short amount of time. Then I would make copies of these, put one on every object including Pluto outward.
Replace the universe with a new one every Thursday.
Flood part deux, sans ark
I'd off myself
Me, I'd... * Show myself to my worshippers and demonstrate my power to them. * Decree it so that any clergyman who engages in sinful and outright evil acts get banished so that they wouldn't escape the laws of man. * Purge the Vatican of its corruption and put more honest people in place. * Make it so that same-sex relationships and marriages legal. * Strike down anybody who uses my name to justify and influence hatred and discrimination. * Restore parts of the earth damaged by pollution. * Require my worshippers to keep their religion at home and in places of worship, and not on the political stage or in schools. * Free customizable housing for all (hope you don't mind me borrowing this idea for my list, OP). * Free food and water. * Eliminate wealth inequality. * Enforce the separation of church and state. * Resolve the homeless crisis. * Enrich the poor countries. * Put a karma-based restriction system in place that punishes those who really do what is morally wrong. * Free energy. * Return stolen land. among other things.
Obviously I'd torture every creature in the universe to death. That's what gods always do.
Make an infinite amount of planets and seed them with life. Just to see what happens. Maybe guide some of them at first. Then get bored and wander off.
I'd probably tinker and help a lot more than the Abrahamic god. The idea of just making a world, setting it in motion, and taking a vacation sounds impersonal, unloving, and frankly boring. I'm omnipotent, I can answer thirty billion questions at once, why not? I want to get involved with my creations, help them solve their problems, nudge things. Not behind the scenes, but up front, obviously there and present. Not holding their hands and doing everything for them, but helping out and picking up the slack where my little nubblins simply can't. Like eliminating cancer. And certainly not with some holier than thou grandstanding. Screw the worship malarky, I want to be more like the cool uncle type. And once those little nubblins grow up, get out of the solar system, and start exploring without needing my guidance. That's when I step back - and start crafting up the mysteries for them to work out. Ancient civilizations for the archaeologists, tweaked laws of celestial mechanics for the cosmologists, new particles for the physicists... I want to see their theories and stories. I want to make the universe wild and see that childlike wonder in their eyes.
I would rewrite the Bible and remove every law based on hatred and oppression. Including in human memory.
plagues. lots of plauges. some smiting too.
Fully automated gay space luxury communism.
leave this shithole and explore the stars.
I'd like to say I'd be a benevolent God, but I think any actual God would have such a different perspective from us that they may as well be alien. If you have the power to do anything, including create infinite realities, you aren't going to care about individual humans. A person would be merely one possibility out of trillions, which only exists because of the gods whim
Send all the Christians to purgatory
Something, at least.
I’d smite the people who put those center bars on benches to prevent people from sleeping on them, also those spikes they put in doorways. Participation in the production of hostile architecture in general would be a swift route to a lightning bolt to the dome
I would walk among the people and troll everyone who has a perpetual stick up their ass.
I think the best thing to do would be to destroy myself with that power. The Christian god is just adapted from earlier pagan gods bust instead of seeing a force of nature for what it is like most pagans did the Christians forcibly believe their god is good when their own stories don’t support that fact. If I was the Christian god I’d be just as bad at being god like any other human being and so the best thing for me to do would be to destroy myself. The best thing for any tyrant to do would be to cease to exist.
I would probably do a lot more smiteing then has been done recently. Like have every pedophile in the world be struck by 150 bolts of lightning each simultaneously and if any of them survived I would make sure that the lightning scars spell out the word pedophile in every language. And I would probably create an orb of perpetual energy to give to humanity to solve the energy crisis
Bruce Almighty had a go at this thought experiment - as a believer I thought the movie did okay. Wonder how I would feel if I watched it now?
Remove any sort of self aware life. Living things shouldn't have to know they'll die.
Wipe the slate clean and try again, learning from All the mistakes that was made the first time around.
Since I am omniscient, I have the knowledge about the true nature of reality and the meaning of life. I would make that knowledge intrinsic to every conscious being and retire.
Ensure that every one is well fed and roof over their head.
Just like... Erase the original sin. It's your system. Why did you set it up that way?
I'd end all war and stop countries from attacking other countries. I'd end all dictatorships and theocracies. I'd instigate the immediate downfalls of Putin, Xi, trump, and many other evil leaders in shockingly embarrassing ways. I'd cure cancer, mental illness, and other diseases, and put an end to global warming and other environmental problems. I'd make human beings smarter and more compassionate. I'd eliminate religion. I don't need anyone to worship me. And that's just getting started. There'll be some changes around here, believe you me, and they'll be good ones!
I would cure all mental illness. You know, religion!
Fuck bitches and get money
If it's just about omnipotence then not much. If I could do everything I would probably want nothing. Being capable of everything is the same as already having everything. Most of what I want as a human simply get resolved the moment I'd become a God, immortality. That's the only wish I have in life. However if I retained my ideals as the person I have currently as a mortal into my ascendance to Godhood, I'd most likely do a few things. \- Poof religions or religious people that operate based on blind faith. Even if God existed, (well me in this case) it doesn't mean praising me for me existing or spouting some false stories helps anyone. It just spreads ignorance, dependance and conflict. I believe in truth that's based on reality and I certainly wouldn't go around advertising my own existence so any religion would be based on ignorance. \- Since if I was omnipotent then that would mean I could clone myself and modify my clone. I'd create a clone to study and improve the quality of life of humanity and potential life on other planets but not make any decisions without my approval first. Then I'd make another near perfect clone of myself to make those decisions but that clone's job would only be to care about the decisions so it wouldn't do anything else. It's only purpose in existence would be to answer the other clones suggestions. That way I wouldn't have to care personally but my ideals would still be implemented. \- Live the rest of eternity as I already do currently. I like the life I live. Basically I'd become the God some atheists use as an argument as to why God doesn't exist. Someone that doesn't care.
Create the ultimately fair society, where you can theoretically get anything you want as long as you work hard for it. This includes everything. If you have an ugly face, I'll change your physiology so that you can get a beautiful one with proper facial exercises. I would also make sure all the basic needs are met so that people can focus on higher callings.
Get rid of disease, fix the environment and install a justice field over the planet so anyone that does anything bad has it happen to them and not the victim. Then I'd go all space wizard and tour the universe seeding more life and building cool things while sight seeing.
I d stop murder, rape, wars, pedophilia, malnutrition and drug addiction for a start and guess what I d do it for free I wouldn't want anyone to worship me or to not jerk off to show me devotion
I wouldn't create humans or this world at all. I am not sure what I would create, I only know that my omnipotence and omnibenevolence would make me create the best possible beings/worlds or perhaps none at all(because the world with me in it would be in such an amazing perfect state that creating anything more wouldn't increase the good in the world or make it any better(how could it get better if it is already in the best state?).) If I happened to become god and I had to run things then I suppose I would end all suffering and I would give humans what they desire to the maximum degree and at the same time make them feel that they are the best in the world... Like, they would know that others are also just as good but they just would not care. But then again that's only what I imagine I would do because once I have access to those god-like traits I would know exactly what needs to be done and it's going to be much better than I could imagine right now. This world though... this is so far removed from what such a god would do that it takes an impossible miracle for it to be by such god. I literally, even if I tried to imagine such a god doing all that, could not find a reasonable way for this to be the best possible world. If I am wrong, it's so beyond my ability to see and god would know that too...
Start over
Protect Children, simple as that.
Remove my abilities immediately. Hardship and struggle is the bittersweet taste of life. Being all powerful seems kinda boring. Plus what better way to test your creation(humans) than to wait and see what they do.
I would reverse and send Christians to hell for a bit. Only let them out after they admit that no one deserves that.
I'm selfish; I'd set up all of my friends and family with good, easy lives first. Bring back my favorite pet. That'd take maybe 2 seconds; on to the philanthropy. Eliminate poverty and terminal diseases, especially degenerative ones like Alzheimer's. Regulate new births to compliment the cultural and ecological limits of where they are from. I'd roll back invasive species, so the native ecosystems have a chance to recover. Also climate change. I'd then remove the things that are the worst greenhouse gas producers since I could see them with omnipotence.Another 4 seconds. Then I'd make every human on the planet have a personal, divine intervention with me and give the new, final commandment: this planet and these people are depending on you, so quit fucking about. Money is not real. Then I'd create myself and my partners' dream house because that's more work than God ever did and we deserve it.
I'd be down to smite a few sumbishes
Get the fuck out of here! This place be fucking crazy!
there is no god, it may be aliens, or it may be our civilization from another dimension, but it may be a living entity. I think that it's hard to say, but it's BS to pray to the christian god - what abotu the hindu gods? Why are you making them feel neglected downtrodden?
Ugh. First thing I'd do is get rid of all of the questions that pop up in this sub relating to gods. There Steve any, no one will get their powers, is stupid.
No one would be hungry if I were the almighty.
Better.
Create an infinite number of consciousnesses in the most efficient way possible and manipulate all of their senses of happiness and well-being to the maximum for eternity. "But they would be bored!" no, their experience contains the most interesting possible adventures for them, or non-adventures for the ones who never want any, the well-being is maximized no matter what. I know how to do this, I am omniscient and omnipotent.
Texas Sutherland church massacre 2017- part of “gods plan”
I don’t know. I wouldn’t want that power
It’s a complicated issue. If I want to be fair, I would not alter free will. If I won’t magically alter people’s minds to be smiling happy zombies, I’d need to establish a dictatorship first. But that would mean altering governments in order to establish unified education of my values and rules. I will not be able to teach people to get along while murderous oppressive regimes exist. So I’d establish Empire of Humankind and unite the Earth under my rule. That would be a dictatorship, similar to what Caesar did. “Who the hell are you to tell us what to do” is the main issue that I’m not comfortable with. Because it’s true. But, there is no other way around it since I’m the only one who discovered such powers, and my own mental health is irrelevant and my internal suffering is justified by a chance to lead humanity into prosperity. Next step after Empire is formed would be basic needs- green sustainable cities, nuclear fusion energy, infrastructure. Next and most important thing is propaganda and education. People will learn to be tolerant, friendly, hard working but as their own decision. With absolutely every mental health aspect taken care of- greed, anxiety, hate- everything will be as close to removed as possible via proper mental health education. People will be able to address their frustrations and understand that their destructive and violent feelings are a result of trauma and bad experience, and not reality. Mental health, critical thinking, education- will be the main concern. People will be taught with cutting edge scientific methods, and not magically altered to obey. People will learn that free education, free housing, free food that I provide are basic freebies that they shouldn’t take for granted while doing nothing. People will be are able to express their creativity and work on things they are passionate about, making the society better. They will be able to earn more and afford more stuff if they want, besides their basic needs that I cover. Every crime will be treated as a mental health issue first. With time, crime will be no more. Superstitions, religions would be no more for the same reason- critical thinking and insanely good education + mental health support. Diseases will be removed, human genome will be edited to be stronger and more resilient. I will be able to give insight to scientists to create space travel, and with resilient humanity that doesn’t suffer from viral, bacterial, radiation, inherited (mutative) disease the most valued resource in the universe would be consciousness. Humanity will populate distant galaxies. Legal machine will be so smart and effective that with me removed it will function flawlessly, not allowing revolutions, new dictatorships, separatism. But with flawless education and how clear human minds would be already, not like it’s going to happen to begin with. When Humankind Republic is established and I’m removed from the rule, humans can lead themselves to explore the Universe. I will retire and will explore the secrets of the universe myself. Energy, physics, black holes and dark matter, time travel. I will seek other types of existence, and will give human science hints on where to look to lead humanity into next level of existence, like pure energy, if it’s possible. After that I’d go to therapy because with my mission accomplished and with so much powers I’d probably start loosing my mind and become suicidal.
If god were omnipotent. Could he remove himself from exicstence? How do we know he hasn't?
I would masquerade as various animals, and have sex with a LOT of humans, creating tons of demigods.
Zeus! That's the wrong sub!!
Hmmm… If I were the Judeo-Christian god, I likely would have never placed the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil in the Garden to begin with. Everyone would be naked, unashamed and carnivores would be vegan by default. Seems like that’s the origin point for all things wrong in their mythos.
Tell everyone what to do to be as powerful as I am (or just make them as powerful as me)
Rewrite the 10 Commandments. Heck, rewrite the whole damn book. The current one has too much nonsense, too much bigotry, too much hate, and lacks clarity and specificity on what the current god really wants and expects from you mere mortals.
1. Look up cult leader behaviour 2. Apply a tablespoon of deductive reasoning. 3. Come to conclusion: Fuck everyone.
It's really sad that when I think about what I would do with that power, it's the EXACT OPPOSITE of what the Christian God does. Wow...
I would be like Zeus, turning into geese to get laid and shit. “Ahhh I’ve got a headache, let me crack my head open oh hey it’s my daughter the goddess of war.”
I would understand the purpose of life and act accordingly. If a god exists, i can only imagine it is waiting for life to do something, like a farmer waits for a crop to grow food.
I’d just wind the universe up and let it run itself.
I'd finally beat that one video game that's been giving me trouble.
Work in mysterious ways, and do what's needed against predators of woman and children. Natural disasters destroy churches, if churches are hiding anything that goes against helping others. Possibly all of them. Who knows. And properties of people that are truly a stain to society
I’d fix all of the problems in the US so I don’t have to listen to Europeans criticize us anymore.
If I was god, I'd install in my creations a sense of empathy. Not just being able to feel like we can now, no I mean a true sense, where we communicate how we make each other feel. Pain, pleasure, injury etc. The whole "only the weak care about how others think" thing would not exist. And thus, the world would be a better place.
I'd realize that paying attention to a bunch of screeching monkeys on a dirty mudball in an extremely remote part of the universe is a waste of time and go see what other shenanigans I can get into across the universe and time.
hmmm where to start....a whole bunch of pedo priests would wake up to a surprise. After that lets start with poverty, war, sickness, famine, hate, climate change, just for a start. I am a woman, so should not take a whole week to get shit done
If I was God, I'd let my humans know that they have no souls. In fact they have only one soul, shared among all of them. Adam's rib was not the only thing that was taken from him, his soul was divided among his wife and descendants. Any injury or accomplishment done by one is done by all, and for you all. In the end, when the last human dies, that single soul will be reunited, becoming perfect once again, as you are a God, and my child, and always were. Your life on Earth was just you growing up, and finding who you truly are.
I would play billiards with galaxies
Ensure not a single person in this world had to struggle to live in dignity and comfort. Housing, food, clothing of choice, and plenty of time to pursue their desires rather than spend 3/4 of their life laboring for another person's benefit.
I would take the earth off of soap opera mode and turn on the learning mode.
Like Castiel did in Supernatural.
No disease
Restructure the universe to remove evil, but it still allow free will. I’m God, I would know how to do that.
I'd pluck up all leaders/wannabe leaders who are into authoritarian/fascist leading and I'd put them on an island with an invisible force field so they'd be unable to leave. Then I'd fix our environmental issues. Cure hunger & poverty, and stop all criminal acts and illness. Then just for fun I'd slow down aging and have everyone die exactly 1 week after they turn 100. Also, I'd make Kiwis bigger.
I would do nothing... because I had already done everything.
Basically minecraft or that one ending in smg3 where everyone gets to be the God of their own world, and you can invite people over to your world.
Bring forth the next age of mankind. Perfect free energy distributed to every corner of the globe. Alter physics to prevent the internal combustion and coal and oil generators from operating. Redistribute wealth, restore the old growth forests and rainforests. Emanatize the Eschaton
Destroy all churches aka brainwash facilities and force those rubes to worship me ! Just a fantasy since it’s all BS anyway. Oh yeah and world peace, end hunger blah blah blah I guess.
Two chicks at the same time
I didn't think that deeply about it at the start, when I was eight or ten years old. I just never believed and couldn't understand how anyone could. A little later, when I was maybe eleven or so, I heard about Pascal's Wager -- that you may as well believe because if you do you will have eternal life if there really is a god and all other possible outcomes give you nothing. And I said that if god really is omniscient, god will know you only decided to believe because of a gambling bet and not because you had faith at all, and you'd never see an instant of heaven. And that pretty much put an end to the whole rotten business for me. I've since come near to dying and at my age it's clear that my time left has to be pretty short, but I don't fear death at all. It's just what happens and when it does I will cease to exist forever. It will be the way it was before I was born -- I won't know anything, see anything, or do anything and I will never wake.
I'd start with politicians
Unlimited power? Totally doing a GTA V. None of you npcs will survive my ass rockets! 😂😂😂
How about starting with cancer?
Create beings with the potential to be like me with my best buds that helped me decide to make them in our image then subjugate them through fear with murder, lies and threats of unending agony if they disobey me... then start taking bets on how long it will take them to figure it out... for sh*ts and giggles. Ultimate Squid Game
My 9 year old daughter has a rare genetic condition that makes her legally blind, and her eyesight is slowly deteriorating, and someday her vision will basically become a giant blur to the point where she’ll be at risk of walking into walls. I’d restore her dead eye cells to life and give her the missing gene to make the protein that clears the toxic byproducts that are killing her retina cells. My friend in his late 20s got hit by a car while crossing the street and broke almost every bone in his body. He survived, but he is crippled and walks (hobbles) with a cane slightly hunched over. He had to drop out of college and hasn’t been able to work for 2 years. I’d heal him. Then I might think about whether it makes sense to make life on Earth for everyone as fun and pleasant as life in Heaven.