If you were God for a day, what would you do?

Probably get rid of pedophilia. All pedophiles would simply no longer exist, ever again.

I’d also try to find out my origins. Then I’d probably kill myself because I know there couldn’t be an answer.

I’d do what he does to this day. Do not try to change earth, believe me.

I would log into fluther and say… told ya so!!!

no way. I saw Bruce Almighty!

Try my best not to kill anybody.
Fly into space.
Go swimming deep into the ocean.
Communicate and commune with animals.
Spontaneously create places of great beauty so that I may enjoy all the wonders of nature.

I’d really try not to interfere to much with the lives of people. Even if I was all powerful, I’d still be me, and I’d still believe I have no right to make judgments about other people lives.

However, given certain moods I am prone to, I might just turn everyone into an empath. Then we could all experience each others’ pain and fear, and happiness and joy. If I left any change that would be it.

I would set about proving my non-existence. I would be omnipotent, after all, so I ought to be able to manage it.
Ooh, I’d also play with lava!

Create a boomerang effect so that anyone who hurt someone or an animal would experience what they had inflicted and know that is what was happening to them.

I would have the powerful “see” the impact of their actions.

I would make the rich aware that wealth does not confer any kind of “better human being and more entitled human being” status.

Sit on my hands. “Acts of God” seem to always be bad news. At most, I’d outfit the heavenly hosts with new harps.

I’d spend the morning looking and listening in all the realms of the universe.

I’d spend the afternoon at a god conference comparing notes and swapping horror stories and how-to advice with my peers.

I’d spend the evening writing notes and leaving them someplace on earth where I could find them the next day.

Then I’d sleep and try not to dream. Imagine the dreams of gods.

1. Create longer hours so the day doesn’t end?
2. EVERYTHING :D

@cage- yep. I was worried I would get all bleeding heart and waste away the day do-gooding. Gotta love the loopholes!

Smite Matthew Mcconaughey.

Somebody’s gotta do it.

What do you mean if? I am a god.

I would give the world the cures for all diseases known to man that don’t currently have cures.

I’d probably drink beer all day and Fluther.

Send someone to find that damn Holy Grail.

Actually, I’m gonna ammend my previous answer. I would probably spend the whole day franticly trying to make the world the best possible place it could be, right down to doing everybody’s laundry for them.

Then I’d go back to drinking beer all day and Fluthering, like usual. But I might be a little tired.

I would spend my time putting my face on burnt toast and mildew stains.

@mrswho Think of all the happy people who could have their picture in The Enquirer!

Undo 9/11

@Mr_M Yes, 9/11 was terrible.
But there are so many more historical events
that were much more tragic than that.

How about undoing one of the World Wars?
Heck, if you’re God, why not undo them all.

I hope God wouldn’t be so America-centric.

EDIT: Unless you personally lost someone in that tragedy.
In which case, you have my condolences and apologies.

Make peace all over the world. If people could see that it works for 24 hours, the may demand another day of peace, then another and another and so on.

However if this was Bruce Almighty, Law of unintended consequences kind of deal, getting peace in the world might mean wiping out the human race. Of course that might seem a little harsh but at least Mother Earth would have a rest.

I would enable all sentient beings to see how we’re each a part of the same energy.

I would do NOTHING and give the old fella the day off.

it’s just work, work, work with him. poor guy even has to come in on sundays.

Well, since my existance (or lack thereof) has caused so many sensless wars and deaths, I’d stop trying to be so secretive and mysterious and just show myself. Then people could get on with more important things.

Demonstrate my existence to all sentient life in the Universe in an unambiguous way.

Love. I would simply love.

Go back to square one and try again, see if maybe man could get it right this time.

@cdwccrn nice! Now I am going to simply lurve you.

Thanks, soap

Well, imagine this. They say that power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

I think if I had the power that God is reputed to have, then I wouldn’t give a shit about anything in the universe, and I’d do whatever I felt like doing, without a care for anyone or anything.

I’d much rather just be myself, and just try to do the best I can to make the world a better place, starting with universal health insurance coverage for everyone in the United States. I did it for twelve years of my life; I think I can do it for a few more.

World-wide, simultaneous orgasm.*

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duh…everyone’s missing an obvious one: you go back and kill hitler. the thing is, you become your own grandfa….sorry, wrong thread.

yeah, the orgasm thing..

@cprevite Pancakes for everyone? Cool!

I would:
1) Prove my existence beyond a shadow of a doubt.
2) Tell everyone that I meant it when I said “love thy neighbor as thyself.”

I love all these answers. I want to share an answer I heard last night at my friend’s birthday party, where this question was posed.

The answer was from a guy who has been a hard-core activist for many years. Now he works for The Center for Justice and Accountability. He said that when he was first being an activist, he would have said that he would remove genocide, war, trauma, and abuse. But now, he says there is something playing itself out there, in these situations, and he wouldn’t meddle in it. Of course, his job is to help people who have been affected by these things, mind you. It just really struck me as interesting, and reminded me of Bruce Almighty, too.

Sometimes it’s best to let things alone, love people, and allow them to make the choices they’re going to make. And grab their hand if they reach out for help.

Thanks for starting this interesting thread, @Trustinglife. GQ for you. What I’m wondering now is how we all might have answered, and what patterns the answers might have fallen into, if we couldn’t see previous answers as we went along.

@Jeruba: you can have that at Askville, if you like.

Mwahahahahahahahah!

Ha ha! You are laughing like a…

I’ll stay here, thanks, where such animosities as there may be are pretty much out in the open and don’t poison the well.

Turn all the advertising in the city blank and give everyone a break from all that persuasion.

@lifeflame Ooh, good idea! And I’d change the criteria of newsworthiness from shock and conflict, to inspiration and hope.

Turn the moon around. Time we all saw the other side for a while.

i’d probably kill Joan Osborne.

I think I’d give all those people making selfish prayers a boil on their ass. And then, just for kicks, eliminate all the reasons people use to hurt other people. That would leave me with about 22 hours to have some real fun, like go door to door in Christian neighborhoods and hand out blank pamphlets. When they asked why the pamphlet was blank, I’d answer, Because we’re atheists.”

@eponymoushipster unfortunately, killing Hitler isn’t solving the problem. Much of what happened in those years leading up before the Second World War happened without him. Even killing Hitler wouldn’t have done much, (historians speculate) due to the fact that Hitler didn’t create the events leading up to the war, he just used them to build his empire. It can be speculated that someone else may have followed in Hitler’s footsteps, and done far worse. The speculation of it is astounding.

The best thing god for a day could do would have been to have the Art College where Hitler applied accept him as a student, and for that, Hitler would have gone down in history not as the world’s most evil dictator, but as a two-bit painter with nominal drawing skills.

@evelyns_pet_zebra ok. done.