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What would you do …

May 15th, 2007 7 comments

    … if you would be all-powerful? I’m talk­ing of lim­it­less power like the one the Beyon­der wields. Real omnipo­tence. Cur­rently, I’m re-reading Secret Wars II and I couldn’t help but to think of what I’d do with that kinda power. And guess what! I couldn’t think of any­thing at all. Well, sure, there are some things I’d do but, ulti­mately, there’s noth­ing more to do. If you can do lit­er­ally every­thing in the blink of an eye, what do you get out of life? You’ll never expe­ri­ence ful­fill­ment again because you don’t have to strain to accom­plish what­ever task you set your­self to (yeah, in this con­text lim­it­ing your pow­ers is cheating).

    Seri­ously, could any­one be happy wield­ing such imag­in­able pow­ers? Are we humans even able to under­stand the mag­ni­tude of omnipo­tence? Which leads us inevitably back to the ini­tial ques­tion: what would you do if you would wield omnipo­tent pow­ers? End wars? Stop death? Force oth­ers to embrace love and life? Hon­estly, I truly don’t know what I would do. Every action has con­se­quences and I would really feel like a child in a sand­box. You know, mess­ing around with stuff and unin­ten­tion­ally destroy­ing things in the process …

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