If you could have any superpowers...

[DanTastic]

I'd only want one.

masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Charge

www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnbOYPwLNqQ

[Sawslig Steve. And William.]

Turn water into wine, healing the blind and multiplying fish.

Because then I'd be hailed as the second coming and placed at the head of some of the world's most influential religious organisations. As soon as I came into power I would come clean, tell everyone I'm an atheist and that there is no God (from my position of absolute authority, as, y'know, Jesus), and bring the whole damn thing down.

[Matt]

i would like the ability to inconvenience people in really obnoxious ways
like
whenever someone hears a high e on a piano they just wet themselves a little bit

[BARRY MANILOW]

I would take the ability to make people think they're about to sneeze.

[Sawslig Steve. And William.]

A false prophet, though, of a false religion.

Not plot hole.

Plot point.

i would like the ability to inconvenience people in really obnoxious ways

I'd have the super power to make people afraid of microwave ovens.

[Sawslig Steve. And William.]

Disagreeing with the religion or not, it is still a real religion with its own structures and rules.

Being raised to a point of power for your presumed godliness within its ranks only to denounce God would NOT have your intended effect. You'd essentially be the Anti-Christ.

having Christ-like powers without any Christ-like attributes.

I'd have the power to edit other people's posts.

Oh wait.

[Sawslig Steve. And William.]

I have my own disagreements and problems with Christianity, but I'm not stupid or naive enough to think something like your plan would actually work. If you wanted to dismantle it, you'd have to try a lot harder and at least know something about it and work from the inside to change the policies you disagree with, like many already do who disagree with certain policies. It's a business, a corporation.

If you wanted to use your powers to dismantle it, fine. But there's better ways to go about it.
You can't really do both, use your powers AND also work from the inside, only to shoot yourself in the foot with your grand atheist proclamations. Plan it a little better.

I am sorry. I was wrong to expect that I could make such a flippant and offhand statement without it being taken entirely seriously. I sometimes forget that this is forum is part of the internet, and as such, any conversation taking place in it is the most serious of business.

I am a disgrace to the clan.

Furthermore, your knowledge of late 90's pop is quite impressive.

[Sawslig Steve. And William.]

What message is this behaviour of yours sending newcomers?

Oh you can't take anything seriously just for the sake of discussion without the admin chimping out.
I made this topic to discuss the applications of having superpowers in a real context, fuck me for taking my own topic a little bit seriously, right?

Exactly! If I could send one message to newcomers, it would be this: never take [almost] anything too seriously, or if you do, never assume everyone else will too and above all, never try to make them.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go and hurl my faeces at a small cluster of school children.

Chimp, out.

[DanTastic]

Fair enough, but at the same time, there's something to be said for knowing one's audience. You've been around long enough to have a pretty good idea of how the various members of the board will react to a given subject, at least generally. Based on my own, admittedly much shorter tenure, I'd put forth that most topics not directly related to IC will elicit non-serious conversation. Which is not, necessarily, a bad thing so long as one goes in with reasonable expectations.

[DanTastic]

But I think that even in responding, barring replying with a joke yourself, the point was missed.

[Sawslig Steve. And William.]

dok do you even have a sense of humour

at all

?

[DanTastic]

Jun 4, 2013 1:18:30 GMT Sawslig Steve. And William. said:

dok do you even have a sense of humour

at all

?

1. He absolutely does.

2. Who deleted the posts?

[Sawslig Steve. And William.]

Wh--

AW. I think it was Dok. Goddamn man. Ruined everything.

[thedoktor]

No,i really don't have a sense of hunour, at least as far as this place is concerned.
I rarely get a chance show it amidst all the unfunny bullshit.

Haha me edit post u laugh now le epic lulz euphoric brave atheist fedora

[DanTastic]

Atheist fedoras? By God, we'll make a fortune!