Regardless of your religious beliefs, or possible lack thereof, I propose this question to you:
You are confronted by an angel of God. The angel tells you that for the next 48 hours, anything and everything you do within that time, you will be be completely pardoned for. The reason for this is irrelevant. In other words, no action that you perform, will hold any consequences upon you, whatsoever. You are free to do absolutely whatever you please. You will also be impossible to be harmed physically during the 48 hours. What would you do?
a few obvious choices:
[li]rob a few banks[/li][li]steal a very fast and expensive car i.e. Dodge Viper is my choice[/li][li]eliminate my worst enemies[/li]
some creative choices:
[li]See what really is inside Area 51[/li][li]See whatever may be hidden inside the Pentagon[/li]blow lots of stuff up
Who’d do the pardoning? God alone? Thanks God, but there’s also a little deal of narrowminded cops/dumb lawyers/stupid judges. They don’t all exist, but chances are I’d run into them if I did anything outside what man has set up as laws.
God and the Law? That’d be sweet, but I don’t think I’d do anything. Am I boring? I don’t think so, I just don’t see the point, cause it wouldn’t really matter what I could get away with, it’d hurt someone else. I’m trying to get through life with a minimum of fuss. I’m already cynical from seeing people get away with stuff I’d get killed for, I don’t want to create more distrust.
I know I’m pretty dull, but I wouldn’t be pardoning MYSELF, so I wouldn’t do anything out of the ordinary. I can always find a way that an illegal/immoral action of mine can potentially cause harm to someone…and that I couldn’t bear to do deliberately.
For some strange reason this thread reminds me of a lucid dream I had once as a young teenager. (By “lucid” I mean my mind was aware of the fact that I was dreaming.) So being as I could do whatever I wanted, and being a rebellious youth, I preceded to go my school and started tearing up stuff. Thats when the police arrived and handcuffed me and took me to jail. Damn. I mean . . . damn. Even in my stinkin dreams there are consquences.
In any case, to address the OP - I wouldn’t get too nutty whether you are “invincible” or not. After all, once the 48 hours are up and you return to normal - whoever you pissed off is going to come looking for you.
That being said I think I would like to :
run the bases at Turner Field . . . . during a game
walk into a mall and walk out with whatever my heart desired
walk into a live taping of some wrestling show and kick everybodys ass
leap from the top of the Sears Towers (I am invincible right ?)
surf on top of a city bus going down the highway
steal a cop car and drive like a maniac through town with the sirens on