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What would you do if you were God?

Temporarily suspend free will and disinvent guns
 
End the practice on giving people bull**** conditions that seem to exist to only make people suffer.
Stop with the ridiculously painful and harsh diseases. There is no point in that ****.
No longer make people ugly as all hell. Seriously god, wtf. Variation is all good, but you took it too damn far.
Making getting as big as a house impossible. Really, I'm seeing way too much of that **** these days.
Make aging less harsh.
Eliminate all governments of the world and kill the dictators.
Make more things as good as bacon.
 
Tell people to forget everything but the Golden Rule.
 
Abdicate and leave the spot vacant.
No thing remotely similar to myself, should have that much power.

Too many chances for good intentions to go wrong, bad intentions to go more wrong.
 
Deuce said:
Nonsense. It's a hypothetical.
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Then, hypothetically, what if you discovered a married bachelor? Tell me about this hypothetical married bachelor.

Deuce said:
If you were offered a choice between Pepsi and Dr. Pepper, which would you choose?

Is your answer "Nobody is presently offering me, so the question is contradictory!"
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No, I would choose probably not to drink one, as I don't like soda, but if I had to choose, it would be Dr. Pepper. There's no contradiction in the choice, or the question that presents the choice. There is, however, a contradiction in asking any of the following questions:

1. What if you found a four-sided triangle?

2. What if there were a married bachelor?

3. What would you do if you were God?

The questions are not answerable in any direct way that respects the definitions of the words employed. Human beings cannot be God in the same way that a four-sided shape cannot be a triangle.
 
Masterhawk said:
This will be based on if souls are eternal and live on after they die

I would reveal myself to all men and carve "god is real" on the near side of the moon the following day. The next day, I would descend down to earth and eradicate all diseases. I would take over earth and help humanity advance even faster than it is now and I would set these commandments:

1. no murder

2. no rape

3. no slavery

4. no stealing

5. do not hold back science

6. show love to your neighbor

7. show some appreciation

There will be no victimless sins under my administration.

Almost everyone in hell would go to heaven because they were in there for a long time. No one will die under me but if they did then some of them would serve a short sentence in purgatory and then get released in paradise which will be like the garden of eden. Murderers and rapists would spend eternity in the outer darkness which is pure blackness for the rest of eternity. Permanent hell would be for the worst like hitler. Heaven will be an exclusive club for angels and maybe people I knew before I became God.
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What would I do?

Leave town.
 
Masterhawk said:
This will be based on if souls are eternal and live on after they die

I would reveal myself to all men and carve "god is real" on the near side of the moon the following day. The next day, I would descend down to earth and eradicate all diseases. I would take over earth and help humanity advance even faster than it is now and I would set these commandments:

1. no murder

2. no rape

3. no slavery

4. no stealing

5. do not hold back science

6. show love to your neighbor

7. show some appreciation

There will be no victimless sins under my administration.

Almost everyone in hell would go to heaven because they were in there for a long time. No one will die under me but if they did then some of them would serve a short sentence in purgatory and then get released in paradise which will be like the garden of eden. Murderers and rapists would spend eternity in the outer darkness which is pure blackness for the rest of eternity. Permanent hell would be for the worst like hitler. Heaven will be an exclusive club for angels and maybe people I knew before I became God.
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I'd stop playing silly parlour games and show my existence to the Universe so everyone can get on with their lives.
 
Eat pizza three times day, drink all the booze in the world, watch sports constantly and have sex with every 18 yr. old pretty woman.
 
Masterhawk said:
This will be based on if souls are eternal and live on after they die

I would reveal myself to all men and carve "god is real" on the near side of the moon the following day. The next day, I would descend down to earth and eradicate all diseases. I would take over earth and help humanity advance even faster than it is now and I would set these commandments:

1. no murder

2. no rape

3. no slavery

4. no stealing

5. do not hold back science

6. show love to your neighbor

7. show some appreciation

There will be no victimless sins under my administration.

Almost everyone in hell would go to heaven because they were in there for a long time. No one will die under me but if they did then some of them would serve a short sentence in purgatory and then get released in paradise which will be like the garden of eden. Murderers and rapists would spend eternity in the outer darkness which is pure blackness for the rest of eternity. Permanent hell would be for the worst like hitler. Heaven will be an exclusive club for angels and maybe people I knew before I became God.
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If I were God, and do anything, I would make a rock so heavy I couldn't lift it.
 
ashurbanipal said:
Then, hypothetically, what if you discovered a married bachelor? Tell me about this hypothetical married bachelor.



No, I would choose probably not to drink one, as I don't like soda, but if I had to choose, it would be Dr. Pepper. There's no contradiction in the choice, or the question that presents the choice. There is, however, a contradiction in asking any of the following questions:

1. What if you found a four-sided triangle?

2. What if there were a married bachelor?

3. What would you do if you were God?

The questions are not answerable in any direct way that respects the definitions of the words employed. Human beings cannot be God in the same way that a four-sided shape cannot be a triangle.
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Man.....you are really overanalyzing this question.
Someone poses a simple question and, rather than respond, you go on and on about how illogical the question is.
You're like Mr. Spock from Star Trek.......boring....
Not really a life-of-the-party type are you?
I'll bet you're an insurance actuary in real life.
 
radioman said:
Man.....you are really overanalyzing this question.
Someone poses a simple question and, rather than respond, you go on and on about how illogical the question is.
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The question is far from simple...which you would understand if you spend some time thinking about my reply. You may notice the question is posted in the philosophical discussions forum; presumably you're aware that philosophers like to analyze carefully. Even if most of the posters in this forum have scant (or no) philosophical training, that doesn't mean those of us who do should shrink from attempting to live up to the standards implied by the name of the forum.

This is more than just idle mental masturbation. I bet if you spend much time on these boards (as it appears you do), you'll see instances of people talking past each other. In many cases, this is because one or both sides don't spend much time thinking through the questions at hand. Many of the debates posted on these boards are mirrors of larger debates taking place on the national stage. It is surely no crime to want to see such debates be more rigorous.

In this specific case, the question makes God a kind of pedestrian, which has been a general trend in popular religion since the Protestant Reformation. That trend comes with costs, among them an obscuring of God in the popular consciousness. To put it bluntly, I find this trend among the most disturbing identifiable current social trends. It does a great deal of damage, and so I oppose it when I see it. In short, there's something pretty big and serious at stake behind the simple-seeming question posed by the OP.

radioman said:
You're like Mr. Spock from Star Trek.......boring....
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Mr. Spock seems to be quite popular, from what I can gather. He is surely one of the most beloved of the Star Trek characters, which puts him high in the running for most beloved of all characters in popular culture.

radioman said:
Not really a life-of-the-party type are you?
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Depends on my mood. I have to admit I haven't been much fun the last few weeks.

radioman said:
I'll bet you're an insurance actuary in real life.
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University professor.
 
ashurbanipal said:
Then, hypothetically, what if you discovered a married bachelor? Tell me about this hypothetical married bachelor.



No, I would choose probably not to drink one, as I don't like soda, but if I had to choose, it would be Dr. Pepper. There's no contradiction in the choice, or the question that presents the choice. There is, however, a contradiction in asking any of the following questions:

1. What if you found a four-sided triangle?

2. What if there were a married bachelor?

3. What would you do if you were God?

The questions are not answerable in any direct way that respects the definitions of the words employed. Human beings cannot be God in the same way that a four-sided shape cannot be a triangle.
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You're not being charitable here. There is a meaningful sense in which to ask the OP's question. Just like there's a meaningful way to ask the question "What would you do about Syria if you were the President?". A person who asks this is not posing a logical contradiction (that someone who is not Barack Obama could be Barack Obama) but asking something more along the line of "what would you do about Syria if you had the powers available to the President". In this sense there is no logical contradiction. Just because the powers available to the President are not available to the_recruit it doesn't seem to be incoherent to imagine a world in which the_recruit had such powers available to him.

This is what the OP is asking. If you had available to you the powers available to God, what would you do with them? Maybe not all such powers are transferrable in a coherent way but at least some are. The power to control the weather, for instance. Or to swoop down from the heavens and stop an act of violence. Or to stop childhood cancer. This is what the OP is getting at.

The other examples you've given don't work like this. There isn't a sense in which to ask about four-sided triangles because three-sided-ness is integral to being a triangle. There is no way to separate being a triangle from having three sides. This isn't the case with the_recruit and the aforementioned powers. There seems to be nothing incoherent about a world in which the_recruit has the power to control the weather. Not-having-the-power-to-control-the-weather-ness doesn't seem integral to the identity of the_recruit.
 
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Masterhawk said:
This will be based on if souls are eternal and live on after they die

I would reveal myself to all men and carve "god is real" on the near side of the moon the following day. The next day, I would descend down to earth and eradicate all diseases. I would take over earth and help humanity advance even faster than it is now and I would set these commandments:

1. no murder

2. no rape

3. no slavery

4. no stealing

5. do not hold back science

6. show love to your neighbor

7. show some appreciation

There will be no victimless sins under my administration.

Almost everyone in hell would go to heaven because they were in there for a long time. No one will die under me but if they did then some of them would serve a short sentence in purgatory and then get released in paradise which will be like the garden of eden. Murderers and rapists would spend eternity in the outer darkness which is pure blackness for the rest of eternity. Permanent hell would be for the worst like hitler. Heaven will be an exclusive club for angels and maybe people I knew before I became God.
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Relevant. lol

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What would you do if you were God?
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1. Inflate Tom Brady's balls.
2. Unleash a horde of zombies into the world.
3. Change all racists into the people they hate (white into black, black into white, Islamophobics into Muslims, etc.)
4. Give everyone a second sexual organ
5. Make lollipops grow on trees.
6. Resurrect all the dinosaurs
7. Turn all vegetarians into cannibals

I'll probably think of more once I do all that. :2razz:
 
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I would make the universe either a lot smaller or another way to make sure it can all be documented and appreciated by at least some of my creations. I would reveal more as to whether there's an afterlife so my creations (those able to contemplate this) don't waste so much of their lives wondering and fighting over what happens when they die. Speaking of which, probably make death a lot less drawn out/painful and random so that it doesn't strike the young and the very old both

Other than that, my purpose will remain a mystery
 
the_recruit said:
You're not being charitable here.
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Indeed I am not, but I have my reasons, most of which I explained in my previous post.

the recuit said:
There is a meaningful sense in which to ask the OP's question. Just like there's a meaningful way to ask the question "What would you do about Syria if you were the President?". A person who asks this is not posing a logical contradiction (that someone who is not Barack Obama could be Barack Obama) but asking something more along the line of "what would you do about Syria if you had the powers available to the President". In this sense there is no logical contradiction. Just because the powers available to the President are not available to the_recruit it doesn't seem to be incoherent to imagine a world in which the_recruit had such powers available to him.
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Well, if the question were "what would you do if you had unimaginable power?", that wouldn't be contradictory. I suspect that's how most people take the question. But I'm calling attention to something about God that few people understand or recognize.

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This is what the OP is asking. If you had available to you the powers available to God, what would you do with them?
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As you noted immediately after this, some of the powers often attributed to God can be unproblematically attributed to human beings as well. But not all can be. I get that it's supposed to be a fun question, like "what would you do if you won the lottery?" or "would you rather live in the Star Trek or Star Wars universe?" I don't mean to be a party pooper, but there is a serious point in the neighborhood of the question. While others have their fun, I consider it my job to bring that point into view.
 
I would give Trump three more anuses on his face.
 
Get rid of hang overs.
 
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