So, you're all-powerful.

Discussion in 'The Red Room' started by Uncle Albert, Jan 19, 2011.

  1. TheBurgerKing

    TheBurgerKing The Monarch of Flavor

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    Haruhi Suzuyama?
  2. Nautica

    Nautica Probably a Dual

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    Omnipotent, sure...




    ...but let's not get carried away!

    :ramen:
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  3. Nova

    Nova livin on the edge of the ledge Writer

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    Well, for starters, it's overkill. An all p0owerful being could, for instance, remove all memory of anything related to the teachings of Mohammad from humanity without actually disposing of those who follow those teachings.

    Whatever human characteristic you find problematic you could simply alter without ending the person.
  4. Nova

    Nova livin on the edge of the ledge Writer

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    Actually, if you can set aside the morality of it, screwing with alternate time lines would probably be the most fun you could have. Assuming you were, i the course of being all knowing, able to remember what the previous results were like, it would be, i should think, quite amusing to pick a turning point and go back and flip it and then look and see how it played out. Then put that one back and pick another, so forth and so on.

    Assuming your main goal is just to keep yourself interested.
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  5. shootER

    shootER Insubordinate...and churlish Administrator

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    To answer the OP: Right now? I'd make it so a couple of people I know were never born. :mad:

    And that's actually too good for them.

    They deserve a painful end for some of the stuff they've done, but I'd rather them just not exist in the first place. That way, they never would've troubled my friends and I in the first place. :)
  6. Volpone

    Volpone Zombie Hunter

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    Why, yes. Yes I am. :diacanu:
  7. Nova

    Nova livin on the edge of the ledge Writer

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    And yet you still have to decide whether to drive across town in order to marginally increase your odds of getting a preferred bit of trim?


    Does not compute...

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  8. Demiurge

    Demiurge Goodbye and Hello, as always.

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    GREEDO shot first?

    [spoilers]GREEDO DIDN'T SHOOT AT ALL![/spoilers]

    You are so fucking dead to me.

    Note to omnipotent self - Bulldog doesn't exist. :D
  9. Zombie

    Zombie dead and loving it

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    Yeah but then you'd forget to back it up and a asteroid would crash into it wiping out the lifeforms you made forcing you to make new ones.....

    Hey....... :unsure:
  10. Uncle Albert

    Uncle Albert Part beard. Part machine.

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    Assuming you don't miss the point entirely by ignoring free will and creating a perfect little world molecule-by-molecule, what real-world implications would you expect? Mass revolts in the middle east and Africa over the fact that I won't let them beat, rape, and bomb each other to death anymore? Thousands of lawsuits and charges filed back in the 'States over my violating privacy and due process by stopping crimes when they were in progress, when no non-omnipotent being would have known it was happening?
  11. Jenee

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    I suppose that would depend on how the omnipotent being "stopped" those actions. Did the local police just show up? Or did the criminal ... run into an unseen wall?
  12. Jenee

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    Oh. The omnipotant being could create an electrical shock to anyone who attempts any wrongdoing. They couldn't sue anyone for that and I'm sure it would drastically change their behavior.
  13. Volpone

    Volpone Zombie Hunter

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    Heh. Thinking about the ramifications of omnipotence makes me realize it is boring. The Earth is God's reality television. :diacanu:
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  14. Uncle Albert

    Uncle Albert Part beard. Part machine.

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    Oh, no. I'm not hiding myself, and the police would be too slow and constrained by constitutional concerns to go kicking down doors on my say-so. If I'm aware of something horrible going on, like a parent sexually assaulting their child or something, I'm going to teleport into the room and break some bones, then summon the cops. And that's being merciful, as far as I'm concerned. My first inclination is to just toss rapists, child molestors, wife beaters and all similar manner of cowardly shitsacks, into the sun.
  15. Jenee

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    Ah, so you'd be a superhero omnipotant being.

    I think I'd go with electric shock therapy. I'm too self-absorbed to be checking in on other people all the time.
  16. Diacanu

    Diacanu Comicmike. Writer

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    ...yes, it is.

    I'd turn their marrow into molten lead, and calmly watch them expire.

    ..little bit of Rorschach in me...

    :calli:
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  17. Volpone

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    I'd use my powers to switch Uncle Albert's poop with Tasvir's.
  18. skinofevil

    skinofevil Fresh Meat

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    Skin would turn them inside out for a fraction of a second and then right-side out again, then stand there and watch to see if they figure out what just happened and why. If they figure it out and desist permanently, they live. If not, back to inside-out-opia they go, permanently. Give the M.E. something to marvel over.