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Today I'm God

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Today I'll be god.  Today I'll watch every single rape that is happening with folded arms.  I will not intervene to stop it.  Today I'll watch the drunkard get behind the wheel with cold indifference.  I will not prevent the fatal accident that kills a family of 4.  Today I'll stand by and watch the millions of men, women, and children starving to death across the world and do nothing.  I will not provide a means of survival to those people.  They are on their own.  Today I'll watch disease and plagues ravage the globe.  I will not provide a cure for these afflictions and because I do this thousands of children will perish every year in agonizing fashion.  Today I'll watch those who died without belief in me burn in agony as they have for millennia.  I will not give them an ounce of mercy.  I will remain unmoved in the face of eternal brutality.

It turns out that being god for a day doesn't change my life much at all.  We both just sit and do nothing to stop the atrocities in the world, if perhaps for different reasons.  The difference is that as god, I am praised and glorified.  As a human being I am shamed and worthless for doing nothing to help.  Maybe tomorrow I'll be god too...

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