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Infinity Gauntlet: What Would You Do With It?

That's the interesting thing about playing this sort of mind game--nearly every "good deed" comes with its own set of unforeseen consequences. Even making people empathetic, understanding, or more rational in their behaviour would drastically change and alter who we are as humans. Creating unlimited resources only teaches us that we can continue to exploit the world. Ridding the world of disease creates an unsustainable population explosion. And so on.
But the Gauntlet is no monkey-paw--the ill that comes of choices can also be wished away---although I guess that could turn into a whack-a-mole deal...and you'd be Annorax.

Why put the nukes on the moon instead of just making them disappear?
Fission reactors on the Moon to beam power to Earth just in case.
 
Which God are we talking about here?
The one and only God. The God of the Bible, who does this:

I think I’d create a new world. I’d fill it with people who can worship me. I’d give them scripture full of fantastic stories. When they die, I’d send the believers to Paradise, and the nonbelievers to a lake of fire and brimstone where they’d be tortured for all eternity.
 
Nothing...if he's already God.
If however, you're some poor mortal schlub, you'd need the gauntlet to become God, which is basically what Captrek is proposing.
Exactly. This is Gary Mitchell territory. If I believed in such things, I might even call it blasphemous.
 
Exactly. This is Gary Mitchell territory. If I believed in such things, I might even call it blasphemous.
If you don't believe in such things, why do you care who blasphemes and how?

This entire thread is an exercise in wishful thinking. Why don't we treat it as such and let people have their fun, eh?
 
No one said we were constrained to the MCU gauntlet, so I'll go with the comics version that doesn't do a bunch of damage to you when using it.

First of all I'd get rid of cancer. Second, I would give myself the ability to time travel into the past and back to my point of origin while not being able to interact with the past, or be perceived by its inhabitants. Then I'd look at interesting history stuff all day.

After that, I'd only use the gauntlet for extremely trivial things. I forgot to buy groceries and tomorrow is a Sunday? Snap! Here's some rice.
Printing error in my reprint of Silver Surfer by Lee and Buscema? Snap! Fixed!
Phone battery low? Snap! You get the picture.
 
You're entitled to your religious beliefs. I do not share them.
Truth be told, I don’t either. Just trying to have some fun. Would be more fun if an actual believer were participating in the thread.

No, if I possessed omnipotence, I wouldn’t use it to torture nonbelievers for eternity, because I don’t revel in cruelty.

I wonder if it’s true that, as Decker said, “We all create God in our own image.” Are people who believe in such a God people who, if they had the power, would use it the same way?
 
One for humanity: I'd amend the US Constitution to give weighted votes proportional to their state populations. And one for me: I'd redistribute a billion dollars each from the bank accounts of Musk, Rupert Murdoch, and that one living Koch brother into my own account. From there, I'd make movies. :p
 
You have the Infinity Gauntlet. You are omnipotent. You can do absolutely anything. And you use this ultimate power to… watch your parents have sex?
:crazy:
Dude, no, I mean I can travel back to any point in the past but I can only return to the point in time from which I started.
If I time travelled back to January 8, 1648 from December 8, 2022 I could only return to December 8, 2022. Basically just a „can‘t travel into the future“ rule.
 
Truth be told, I don’t either. Just trying to have some fun. Would be more fun if an actual believer were participating in the thread.
Right here, baby!
And my response to this
The one and only God. The God of the Bible:
is:
Then He wouldn't be the one and only God. What then?
Jehovah said:
I challenge thee to arm-wrestling. Right now. Winner taketh all. And know ye well that I don't need any bling-mitten on THIS hand.

No, really, I'd like to think I'd just destroy it.
 
I'd like to think I'd get rid of it too--after giving myself a few modest millions to retire on and my own Enterprise with crew to explore our sector of the galaxy.

Hey that's my idea too but I'd go for an Intrepid class ship so we can land on planets and have adventures
 
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