What if you were God?

This is sort of in response to the "Admin of the Internet" thread, but obviously on a much larger scale. If you had total control over the known and.
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You shall have free will forever, yeah. But you shall know exactly which of my commandments are you breaking. And you shall also know- intrinsically and very personally- that I am watching! Oh, and also, transfer some ,, Euros to my bank account. I am floating around to see only massacre all around me. I am in search of that tiny creature who has disturbed the world with its insalubrious presence. I can see it everywhere but it cannot see me. My eyes are brimming with tears and at the same time I feel agony and anger.

Me - How helpless I was!!! I had no idea what was going on in here. How could I be so oblivious to her condition? All this is my fault. I need to fight for her and I will make things better. Some of them were spurting out blood and I could see them vibrating and then slowly stopping to death. Under such oppressive conditions, they would soon give up. Mell 2 - I feel the surge of an invisible power in me. Do you feel the same? Mell 1,3,4,…infinity - Yeah we all feel the same.

Its time for their long forgotten struggle to start again. Only this time they are unaware that god is with them. Villains - You really think you can fight with us. For centuries we have ruled this earth insidiously. We are the forces behind darkness. We rule the minds, blood and skin of humans. They are afraid of us since the time they have identified us. And you all still think you can defeat us. Mells - We are certainly not sure that we will win.

Reactions are occurring everywhere. Mells are astoundingly pulling the villains apart. Villains are wondering how come these petty Mells became so powerful. A momentary silence spreads across the arena.


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Villains enraged and screaming - You will perish. Only god can save you now!! In no time all villains are defeated. I realise that my duty as god is coming to an end. She is really courageous. This page may be out of date. Save your draft before refreshing this page. Submit any pending changes before refreshing this page. Ask New Question Sign In. If you were God for one day, what would you do? You wake up, and you not only realise that God is real, but that you are Him for the day. What is your first action as God? If one day God could be proven to really exist, how would it change your outlook on the world and how you live your life?

What would happen if God were real? Is it possible we could become gods one day? How often do atheists think about God in one day? What would you do if you were omnipotent for a day? Make myself omnipotent forever. But, considering the possibility that I might not be able to take advantage of this loophole wishing yourself to be omnipotent forever while being omnipotent only for a day is akin to wishing for more wishes or genies when you only have one genie that would grant you 3 wishes , there are things I would like to fix: And in a painless manner.

I am not trying to play God here, but I cannot stand human agony. Expose every scam in the world and reverse it, if it does not have any adverse effects. And free Julian Assange. One where people do not have to slog their asses off, for hours a week, just to be able to sustain themselves. I hate cables Develop a clean solution to the world's energy problem.

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I guess point 6 takes care of that Institute this rule world-wide. Thank you for your feedback! I will invite all to the grand dinner without discrimination of any kind. I will ask trump how he actually won in election. Your obediently Abhi Regards Abhishek Jha. Personal Choice Date Megan Fox and talking about the other parallel universes, make be i'll end up dating someone else. I would stop the rain forests from being destroyed. Education past high school would be free or very affordable.

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Much of the discussion revolved around solutions involving something like a huge chess game with the entire island as the board. There would be moves and countermoves, with a strategy to attempt to maneuver the natives into a desired position.

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Like a chess grandmaster, you would attempt to keep control of the game at all times. Your "win" would be to achieve the desired result. While you have enough resources to eventually win, certain problems immediately become apparent. Not the least is the fact that every move may take decades or even centuries. You might achieve results, but it is a very long, drawn-out process. You might have all the time in the world, but each year brings all the more suffering. There is an even more profound problem. Even more important than influencing events is our ultimate goal of improving the values of the natives.

However, even though a lesson may be learned by one generation, it may be equally forgotten by a succeeding generation. To make positive values an integral part of the island's culture is a most formidable task. A constant thread of suggestion in these discussions involved infiltration. We could try to influence the island through infiltrators. As long as it was not obvious, it would be within the rules.

Such infiltration could serve two purposes. First of all, we could use the infiltrators as an example. They could set up a model society, and if it endured long enough, it might interest people in attempting to emulate it or learn from it. The infiltrators could also be used to teach the natives directly. Gradually, parts of their culture could be introduced to the island, raising its moral level. This could rapidly accelerate the game's conclusion.

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These infiltrators would always be in a position of great peril. Operating on a different value system, they would always be considered outsiders. The more their message diverged from that of the majority, the more they would be resented. Scattered throughout the island to spread their message, they would very likely become a persecuted minority. By the rules of the game, there would be very little you could do to help them.

At best, you would play your game in such a way as to protect them as much as possible. Because of the danger of revealing your hand, communication with your infiltrators would have to be kept to a minimum. They would have to live on this island for many generations, scattered among the natives, and you would have to set up many safeguards to prevent them from assimilating the corrupt values of the island. To some extent, their status as a persecuted minority may also help prevent such assimilation.

But essentially, they would have to play their role in ignorance of your overall strategy. Gradually, the islanders would eventually become aware of your presence. Once the game was ended, you might even be able to reveal yourself. The infiltrators' role would also then be revealed. As part of your organization, they would become the natural leaders and teachers of the island.

As you might have already guessed, examining this microcosm gives us considerable insight into the way that God interacts with the world.

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He is working to bring the world to a state of perfection, which in our tradition is the Messianic promise. It is a slow process, whereby God constantly maneuvers the forces of history toward this end. This "game" is essentially all of human history. You might have also recognized the infiltrators.

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They are the Jewish people, who were given the basis of a perfect society in the teachings of the Torah. A society living according to these God-given principles can set itself up as an example of a healthy society, free of the social diseases of its surrounding culture.

It is our task to bear witness to God's plan for humanity, as we find, "You are My witnesses, says God, and My servant, whom I have chosen" Isaiah Likewise, God told His prophet, "I, the Lord, have called you in righteousness We are thus taught that Israel is like the heart of humanity, constantly beating and infusing all mankind with faith in God and His teachings.

It was in this spirit that Judaism gave birth to both Christianity and Islam. Although far from perfection, these religions are a step in the right direction away from paganism. The final step is yet to be made. More important, however, is the fact that the Jewish people, at least those who keep the Torah, continue to stand as an example of a perfect society designed by God.

The Torah and its commandments indeed represent the highest wisdom in perfecting human society. The tzaddik is the closest that we can come to the perfect human being. Israel's unique position in accepting God's Torah will eventually result in the [dissolution] of all competing cultures. It would also temporarily result in Israel's earning the hatred of these cultures. Our sages teach us that just as an olive must be crushed before it brings forth its oil, so is Israel often persecuted before its light shines forth.

Thus, God told His prophet, "A bruised reed, he shall not break; a dimly burning wick, he shall not be extinguished; he shall make justice shine forth in truth. He shall not fail nor be crushed, until he has right in the earth, and the islands shall await the teachings of his Torah" Isaiah We live in an age of many questions. The newspapers and television bring the horrors of the word onto our front doorstep and our living rooms. What was once hidden by the barrier of intercontinental distance is now before our very eyes. We see the suffering and killing and starvation, and ask how God can tolerate such evil.

For the Jew, the question of the 6 million always looms in the foreground of any such discussion. But for one who understands the true depths of Judaism, there is no question. When you have probed into the very reason for existence and purpose of creation, not only do you find answers, but the questions themselves cease to exist. One of the great Jewish leaders of [recent memory was] the Klausenberger Rebbe. He lost his wife, children and family to the Nazis, and himself spent two years in the hell of Auschwitz.

Yet, he emerged from all this to rally a generation of concentration camp refugees back to Judaism, found a community in Williamsburg, and eventually build a settlement in Israel. I often heard this great leader discuss the concentration camps and the 6 million. There are tears and sadness, but no questions. For here we have a tzaddik, whose great mind can see beyond the immediate.

When one's gaze is on the Ultimate, there truly are no questions. The most important thing to remember is that God is the ultimate good, and therefore, even the worst evil will eventually revert to good. Man may do evil, but even this will be redeemed by God and ultimately be turned into good.

The Talmud teaches us that in this world we must bless God for both good and evil, but the in Future World, we will realize that there is nothing but good. I survived the Holocaust at the age of 15, regaine my interrupted and denied education, eventually escaped from hostile communism and settled in the West. It has helped thousands of my listeners to understand and without exceptions they stopped living in pain and feeling hurt by the injustice I am speechless,such a beautiful article. I found myself crying. I was so touched by the profound truth in this article.

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G-d speaks to men daily and this article is testament to this. Blessed are You L-rd our G-d whose miracles are with us daily. Wandering like angels in the desert, after God revealed himself in miracles leaving Egypt perhaps like angels, maybe not, at least there is some real sense of being more spiritual than humans before or since. Was that the "penalty box" for a generation who HAD been so close, that their children would survive? You did not address the issue of non man-made evil that befalls us such as natural disasters.

David , November 29, 8: I think that the existence of natural disasters is consistent with G-d remaining hidden. The world appears to behave according to the laws of science. If nature were "idiot-proof", if we could endure a foot fall from a cliff, a lightning strike or an attack by a pound tiger, without suffering harm, that could be viewed as proof of a benevolent Creator protecting us. What a great article! So much to ponder here.

Lewis the Christian writer once wrote, yes, the Almightly could appear at any time and put a stop to the evil taking place in the world. But if He should do so, the whole show will be over. And clearly He doesn't think the time has come for that. Each man neither above or below his neighbor. Each having an equal share of living space and breathing space and work space and freedom of choice for raising his family. There would be plentiful food and no real currency. The people could write their own rules. Then I would watch how they conducted themselves.

Determine what they needed to help one another, and secretly provide it for them. You say, Our Father gives "free will" to man. When man ate of the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Bad, what they did was eat food that lowered their immune system, allowing bacterial growth. This degenerated both the mind and body to the point of death. We still have the choice to show HIM we love him. If the Tree of Life corrects the affects of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Bad, just why do we take drugs toxins and use surgery? Lack of faith, choosing mans' ways over God's Ways.

My peoples will live as long as the Tree of Life exists -Sept. I wish you could see my face and my eyes! You would see that I now understand the deep soul wrenching question that I have been dealing with. I think, however, that God reveals Himself more that we believe. We just need 'eyes to see' and 'ears to hear'. He just revealed Himself through your words. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. If i design a computer for myself , i would not infect it with a virus and expect it to function as intended. Since being a puppet would produce a perfect servant. That purpose is to stray from the original program.

It is collision that defines our universe. Collisions of the stars,planets,people etc. Life leads to death and death in turn leads to new life. Know this and you will be one with God. If God were omnipotent and benevolent, He couldn't logically permit serious evil events to occur.

The reason serious evil exists is simply that God's power is limited. Thus He can't always prevent the murder of innocents and the success of the wicked. I would change the method of nourishment.

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It seems strange that everything eats everything else. I would remove the restriction on population control. It is the biggest problem that we have. Finally, I would deny people the right to claim that certain words are "the word of God". For starters, I doubt I'd try to exterminate them if they decided to worship someone other than me. That said, the premise here seems to contradict the Torah-- R' Kaplan claims that revealing my presence would shock these natives into a sense of stupor.

That doesn't seem to have happened on Sinai or at the Red Sea We are all here to live and learn and raise the level of consciousness and make it a world where we are all one family. Lauren Roth , November 8, 1: I read your books while my husband was going through cancer treatments 15 years ago, and they were a wonderful source of inspiration for me. I write a column for Aish. Ken , November 8, 9: At no time, did G-d ever say that we must be perfect. All of us humans are too finite to be able to say where the scales are, nor did G-d give us a specific time limit.

That you are able to see the suffering of others is an improvement over the apathy of the past. Rather than wishing for humanity's destruction, perhaps you should consider what you can personally do to alleviate these problems. They were the keepers of the Law of Moses. If Christianity is "a step in the right direction", why then, did Jesus condemn the Pharisees? Islam is opposed to both Christianity and Judaism. So, where is the "improvement"? With every "new" religion comes the "right" to hate and kill for this new "god". The authors argument is, "If you were God" and revealed, to man, "everything", the result would be more hatred and confusion.

That account seems to the right one. So, the moral of the story is to If life is a chess game, and "God knows the end from the beginning", why bother if the end is known and Judgement has already been determined? I agree with Wassim. Thank you Rabbi Kaplan for a great, inspiring and for me, comforting article. Here's the problem, "Under no circumstances are the natives of this island to be aware of your presence.

So this really ISN'T an argument for the existence of god. Or if it is, its a poor one. Anonymous , March 30, 9: The Problem being presented mainly states how God would be revealing Himself to humans in a "persuasive" rather than "coercive" way. As said, "God reveals Himself to those who are ready to believe Him" It has also been mentioned that people still don't believe even if He has revealed Himself to them as through national revelation, as in Exodus. Ethan , November 11, 3: It hasn't been shown that there IS a God, only that certain people claim that there is one.

Imagine if the infiltrators said instead of showing them that there was an advanced society with a better moral code, and that they should use those morals to create a utopia. The flaw in this article is that only two people are recorded as eating from the Tree of Good and Evil. Yet billions have inherited the results of that decision.

Leigh , March 30, 9: Still basing it on the scriptures from which the story of the first man and woman has been drawn, the generations that came after the two who ate from the Tree of Good and Evil, are THEIR children. So it means they have "inherited" it from them. The First Man and Woman represented the human race The children are the flesh and blood of the parents. How incredible, less than a month ago, I was in the kitchen wondering if I could prove God's existence by employing the scientific method of testing a hypothesis.

It didn't work, there were too many variables that kept creeping into the equation It reminded me of what I read somewhere along the lines of "God had to contract to allow the universe to exist". Anyway, the island analogy is a good one, and the reasons for God's restriction regarding revealing himself, make it easier to continue to believe in God.

You could almost say that you KNOW God exists, but the word "know" doesn't adequately describe the feeling. Maybe it's instinct, intuition, a sixth sense Thanks Rabbi Kaplan - great motivational article. He will always be God, even if he lets me get a taste of his job, so I would defer to him just like Moses and Deborah did. I am reading this post-terrorist hit on America. You can only imagine the thoughts while I read this article.

After hearing a rabbi say in his sermon that G-d did this to make us repent during these High Holy Days, I find the article to give me peace. May we celebrate a new year in peace! A long time now, i've been thinking about this type of stuff but i have never been able to think it through as clearly as this. Thank you for putting them into use. This article has majorly helped me. Thank you very much.

This is a question that I used to ask my father all of the time. His answer was to throw back a short question. Then he would force me to think on the question. I believe that his point was to focus me on the fact that G--d is our parent and deserves that same respect. Also, that G--d has more experience and HIS answers are the right ones. Mine are the ones that need more shaping. This article brings high resolution to ideas that were somewhat cloudy and even presents the new subtle point that if G--d were to "make it all better" HE may cause more evil.

Thank you for publishing it. With all due respect to the great Rabbi Kaplan, this essay is very problematic. We read in the haggadah that "In every generation there are those who seek to destroy us, but G-d saves us from their hands. If, for example, G-d did not decree the Holocaust, He could have caused the Germans to lose battles without resorting to the miraculous. The questions of suffering are valid; why must we insist that our small minds can grasp the answers? After reading the headline of this article, i was reminded of a story: One of the said If I was running the world I would stop poverty, the other one gave said a similar comment What a wonderful exercise in understanding some of the nature of The Almighty I don't believe that we people shall ever grasp Him whole And what a miracle - the Klausenberger Rebbe's surviving the death camps with such terrible losses, to witness the atrocities he must have witnessed, and still have his faith in G-d.

He cheated Evil on every level. I plan to download this article to my hard drive. It is my answer to the question, "How can G-d allow Your email address is kept private. Our editor needs it in case we have a question about your comment. Realistic Expectations this Yom Kippur. Shabbat - Heaven on Earth. Living Under the Stars. A Man of Action. Sheva Brachot at a Soup Kitchen. The Carrol Burnett Show: The Power of Forgiveness.

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