(June 13, 2013 at 1:37 pm)Insanity x Wrote: I'd completely fuck with everyone. I'd be like "Oh you donated everything you have to charity? Lets see how you feel about your dog getting hit by lightning." Then drop a winning lottery ticket in front of them. Then they get hit by a falling tree.

Hey, that would be fun.

Like one day, you could make everyone's car keys disappear. That would fuck up everything for a while.

Or have everyone wake up in your next door neighbor's house one morning. Just move everyone to the right one spot all over the planet. But I'd make sure they knew I existed and it was me messing with them.

The ones that laughed at my pranks would go to heaven. Everyone else would have to watch Sex and the City reruns for an eternity in a doctor's waiting room.

Well probably not an eternity but I'll let them sweat it out a couple years.

Also I'd do things like reverse the private parts between a male rapist and any woman he tried to jump. You know, until the encounter was over. If you tried to stab someone the knife blade would turn to rubber. If you tried to shoot someone the bullets would turn into nerf balls.

If you tried to sneak up anywhere to commit a crime I would make each step you took make a loud honking sound.

*honk! honk! honk! honk!* "Hey what are you trying to do over there fella?!?!"

(June 13, 2013 at 2:31 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote: Recognition from people you have a modicum of respect for can reasonably be appreciated. Recognition from ants is a ridiculous thing to care about and we're barely different from ants if compared to an omniscient and omnipotent being.

That's an argument I frequently make when critics bitch because god killed people.

If the ants on my patio marched in a pattern spelling out John V Rocks, yeah, they'd have a better chance of surviving.

Ants are smarter than that.

(June 13, 2013 at 1:31 pm)Maelstrom Wrote: If you were a godlike being, would you desire to be worshiped or merely acknowledged for existing? Would you punish those you deem deserve it for whatever reason that satisfies you?

What do you mean, "If"?

I would probably be bored, so to entertain myself I would just troll humanity by giving them conflicting and incomplete information. I'd put them in the impossible dilemma of having to answer correctly a question that cannot be answered, or be well and truly screwed if they get it wrong. Of course, there wouldn't be a right answer, but I wouldn't tell them that.

Maybe I'd watch them wipe each other out on the basis of this fiction and chuckle, knowing that there's always more people where those came from. Sometimes I'd feel bad for doing all this, so I'd throw them a bone with some good information for a change. But on average I'd give people more power than sense, and laugh hysterically every time it predictably goes off the rails.

Every now and then I'd chuck some giant rocks at the earth for lulz, or wipe out 90% of everything in some other fashion. Just to mix it up and keep it fresh.

So the answer to the question "worship or acknowledge": neither.

If I were a god, I don't think I'd want worship but I would definitely want to be acknowledged for existing, if for no other reason to make all the people following different religions and claiming to speak for me to stop their bickering. I guess I'd have to show myself to humanity and tell them exactly what it is that I want and don't want. Maybe a monthly press conference.

Maybe if people needed something from me then I'd set up a petition website like the White House does, and if it doesn't get enough signers then it's ignored. That way I wouldn't be bothered by the frivolous crap when I'm trying to enjoy myself fishing on the lake. "Please help me find my car keys." "Really, why don't you try to remember where you last had them. Maybe hang them on the wall on a hook by the front door so you'll always remember where they are. I don't have time for this crap."

I would require human sacrifices in the form of something similar to the Hunger Games.

If I were a deity - I'd create space people. And do a bunch of cool things with space itself, they can go exploring and I can go make shit and experiment. If they forget about me, I don't give a shit, I'm smashing black holes together.

I'd probably manhandle my world in all sorts of ways. I'm prone, as a human being, to trying too hard, if that makes sense, and if I were a God, I just think that would be worse. I'd be trying to make my world into everything I could ever want, and revise things way too often inan effort to do so.

If I were a god like being... The world wouldn't be that different. Unicorns would exist, and Phoenixes, and fairies... Yea just imagine a fairy tale world. Peaceful and nonjudgemental. It would be wonderful. People could worship me. You know free stuff is nice. However if they didn't that's cool. Free will is important, but ignorance would be bad in my world. Education would be a high priority.