# If you were (a) God, how would you suggest your existence? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [January 9, 2007, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-a-god-how-would-you-suggest-your-existence/387257 "2007-01-09T04:18:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2007, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-a-god-how-would-you-suggest-your-existence/387257/41 "2007-01-09T21:47:43Z")
[QUOTE=Anaamika] Oh man. This cracked me right up. I had to hide my face. I actually laughed out loud. [/QUOTE] Me too. I finally stopped laughing, and you had to go and quote him and it made me laugh all over again! And me with bronchitis, so I’m sitting here going, “hahaha…snorkchoke…gasp…coughcoughcoughhack…blurgh…haha…urg.” ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2007, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-a-god-how-would-you-suggest-your-existence/387257/42 "2007-01-10T06:57:24Z")
First, I’d embed white tiles in city streets, linking Calvin & Hobbes quotes to Kubrick’s 2001. Then, I’d have zoo tigers reciting ordinary casserole recipes to fascinated tourists. I’d have Rastafarians deciding that Joseph Heller is me. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2007, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-a-god-how-would-you-suggest-your-existence/387257/43 "2007-01-10T07:09:52Z")
[QUOTE=Enola Straight] _pi_ , converted into base 11, deeply calculated into the gazillionth decimal place, had a string of ones and zeroes which, of plotted on graph paper, would form a perfect circle. A siple geometric shape with no beginning nor end. The very signature of the Author. [/QUOTE] Well, he screwed up then. If he had given us all one more finger, then he might be on to something. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_C](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Captain\_C](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_C)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2007, 8:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-a-god-how-would-you-suggest-your-existence/387257/44 "2007-01-10T08:53:18Z")
I’d take the form of a tortoise and fall on someone, killing him instantly. Nothing stirs up belief like a good “tortoise from above” smiting. ---
**Author:** ![Sapo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Sapo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sapo)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2007, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-a-god-how-would-you-suggest-your-existence/387257/45 "2007-01-10T12:33:52Z")
[QUOTE=Captain\_C] I’d take the form of a tortoise and fall on someone, killing him instantly. Nothing stirs up belief like a good “tortoise from above” smiting. [/QUOTE] what would be the porpoise of that? ---
**Author:** ![FordPrefect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e99b99/32.png) [@FordPrefect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FordPrefect)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2007, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-a-god-how-would-you-suggest-your-existence/387257/46 "2007-01-10T15:37:49Z")
I would answer the prayers of amputees and regrow their missing limbs. Subtle, yet undeniable. Courtesy of [http://www.whydoesgodhateamputees.com](http://www.whydoesgodhateamputees.com) ---
**Author:** ![kelly5078](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/6f9a4e/32.png) [@kelly5078](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kelly5078)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2007, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-a-god-how-would-you-suggest-your-existence/387257/47 "2007-01-10T17:09:31Z")
Allegheny College wins BCS championship. And then goes on to win the Super Bowl. ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2007, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-a-god-how-would-you-suggest-your-existence/387257/48 "2007-01-10T18:42:52Z")
I would appear on American Idol. ---
**Author:** ![hotflungwok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/edb3f5/32.png) [@hotflungwok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hotflungwok)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2007, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-a-god-how-would-you-suggest-your-existence/387257/49 "2007-01-10T19:25:55Z")
I would make a large neon sign light up above the heads of politicians giving speeches that said BULLSHIT when appropriate, and a blinking UNBELIEVABLE BULLSHIT if necessary. I’d also make a sign light up above rapists, child molesters, murderers, and any other bad thing I felt like addressing that said I RAPED $NAME, or whatever. These signs would be invisible to the person they were inflicted on, but visible to everyone else. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2007, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-a-god-how-would-you-suggest-your-existence/387257/50 "2007-01-10T19:41:18Z")
[QUOTE=WhyNot] Me too. I finally stopped laughing, and you had to go and quote him and it made me laugh all over again! And me with bronchitis, so I’m sitting here going, “hahaha…snorkchoke…gasp…coughcoughcoughhack…blurgh…haha…urg.” [/QUOTE] And now I’m giggling and snorting _again_. **jjim** , you win the thread. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2007, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-a-god-how-would-you-suggest-your-existence/387257/51 "2007-01-13T14:45:41Z")
No no, it **silenus** wit da funny. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-a-god-how-would-you-suggest-your-existence/387257.md?page=2)