So one day you're walking down the street and suddenly God appeared right next to you and told you that out of all the people on the planet, you're going to be the new deity of the planet and untold infinite power is yours. What would you do?

I would probably make the best world I could with my abilities. I would attempt to be just and kind, and create a world which I would feel to be a good world.

1. Eradicate disease
2. Adjust the climate to allow plentiful food to grow everywhere, effectively ending hunger.
3. Raise an island in the Pacific Ocean and populate it with dinosaurs.
4. Manifest myself in some out of the way country like Guatemala wearing an Arsenal jersey, just to mess with theologists/Tottenham supporters.
5. Retire to my house in the middle of Dinosaurland, and ride a triceratops.

EDIT:

6. A series of lightning strikes in Topeka, Kansas, completely destroying the headquarters of the Westboro Baptist Church, and leaving the words "GODDESS IS DISPLEASED WITH YOUR BULLSHIT" in scorched earth. I wouldn't actually kill any of them, but the next time one of them so much as thinks that I "hate fags", lightning bolt to the brain.

Go get more of whatever drugs I was on because it must've been some goooood shit.

Or check myself into the looney bin since obviously I'm hallucinating.

Make shit awesome and just chill back and ignore prayers.

I wouldn't take it. My life can really suck, but not enough that I'm willing to take on the responsibility of the entire world on my shoulders.

I mean come, every time someone dies...you could have prevented that, but you didn't whether for good or bad. Every time a natural disaster happens, you gotta deal with all the people freaking out and praying and begging you for safety and return of loved ones.

I just think being God would suck.

I would do what I always do when given even the tiniest scrap of power: abuse the shit out of it, because I'm an asshole.

Sorry, but it's true.

EXPLOSION! BOOM! THUNDER! LIGHTING! HAIL!

Yeah, lots of fun I would abuse the power most likely, but then who really wouldn't have a little fun.

ohhhh boy, i have a lot of work to do:

1. unify korea under a democratic goverment
2. end famine
3. give wealth and hope to third world nations
4. end facism and communism
5. pick off all radical fundamentalists (of all kinds)
6. encourage everyone to follow zen
7. raise islands in the pacific and atlantic to create more living space
8. encourage the moral advancement of science and technology

Screamarie:
I wouldn't take it.

I don't think I would either.

Oh it would be very tempting to literally have the power to set the world to rights, but where would it end? Yes, I could stop bad things from happening but in doing so I'd change the entirety of human society, and not necessarily for the better. You can't change human nature on such a scale without changing what humans are.

The only thing I would be tempted to do would be to manifest, just once, to every religious leader and every fanatic who pursues their own narrow minded, selfish and bigoted agendas in My name, and tell them in no uncertain terms "You're Doing It Wrong."

On the other hand (if you believe that sort of thing) God has tried that quite a few times, directly or indirectly through prophets, and it never works. Were Jesus or Muhammad to appear today they'd take one look at the things that have been done in Their Name and be extremely pissed off.

I would use my new found power to create a team of super geniuses so I can finally figure out why kids love the taste of Cinnamon Toast Crunch so much

Make Luxembourg win the world cup. Then take it from there.

The first three things of what I'd do in order:
1. Make Pokemon real
2. See if it's actually possible to create an object that is so heavy that even with my unfathomable powers, I cannot lift it.
3. Save humanity

I would use my power to make it so no God ever existed, and that the universe hadn't been created, that way atheists like me would be right...

Take the power, chill in the clouds watching everything happen on the worlds largest tv.
Maybe help people once in a while cause if I make it too obvious I exist then people will be begging every single second of the day and lose the ability to actually look after themselves >.>

I would treat my worshippers with kindness and respect, spread the word of love and make sure that everyone loves one another. I would ask for nothing in return...though if they feel like it, a temple would be nice.

Also, constant thunderstorms because thunder is awesome and not at all the sign of forthcoming evil.

"Yo Gaben, wheres episode 3?"

I would first deny my own existence for about two years, and after that just settle on me being an agnost, because I don't know what's real anymore due to losing my FUCKIN mind.

After that, interstellar space travel, and introducing magic as a 5th elemental force. WHOO!

I'd be like LOLWAT

and then I would make Obsidian make Arcanum 2 on the creation engine.

There is only one true answer

Intergalactic Dance Party!

Step 1: Replace Gabriel with Flying Spaghetti Monster .
Step 2: Make my status as the new messia known.
Step 3: Profit.
Step 4: True love and hookers for everyone!!!
Step 5: Start over. (I ain't ruling someone else's creation!)

Throw the sickest party ever. Prostitutes and alcohol for everyone! Oh, and for the entire duration of the party all STDS are removed and everyones rendered sterile until the party ends.

I AM NOW GOD KING OF THE PLANET EARTH. KNEEL TO ME OR DIE A SLOW DEATH.

*cough*
Uh, yeah, i'd probably use my powers for good. And by 'good' i mean 'my own personal gain'.

I would also probably terraform mars and create some new life. Maybe i'll edit some laws of gravity or mass or something and make mars have more gravity, and we'll see if Turians can exist on mars happily.

Dunno. Probably carry on life as normal, but make myself rich. Trying to help the world, would probably end up in it getting even more fucked later on.

Stop globel warming I guess?

Oh, and make it manditory for everyone to wear fancy hats in public. Because fancy hats. :D

Collapse reality and begin again. Then hit the fast forward button while evolution takes place (As I would create creatures to evolve without my direct interference, it's easier) then subtly shape the new dominant life form to be the best it can be. If Religion arises, I'd crush it (Don't want them knowing I'm there)and I'd encourage and give a little bit of a hand with scientific discovery. When they eventually reach me, I'd be like "Yo, wassup. Your turn now" and exit reality through the back door.

At the start probably dick around. Then I would probably create a new world and invite those who I feel deserve it. It won't be 'heaven' but it won't have anyone who had done bad in their life.

Oh and of course the pocket dimension to dick around creating new creatures and play with physics.

I'd likely also manifest myself in a mortal form(i.e. Jesus for those who believe in the "three/singular"...I don't know the english name :P [Afrikaans wooooo!]) and continuously change EVERYTHING to games' settings. I wan't to feel the recoil of a rifle as I mow down zergling, I wan't to cleave the flesh of dragons with my hammer (I'm god bitches) and piss people off in call of duty maps(universe) when I play with god mode on. Tee-hee.

Renegade-pizza:
I wan't to feel the recoil of a rifle as I mow down zerglings.

Also, the rifle will shoot velociraptors and T-rexes, OBVIOUSLY!!!

shadowstriker86:
So one day you're walking down the street and suddenly God appeared right next to you and told you that out of all the people on the planet, you're going to be the new deity of the planet and untold infinite power is yours. What would you do?

XD I love seeing the people pretend they would be kind gods when, in fact, they would probably screw everything up.

Me? Build an entire castle our of Diamond, have thousands of concubines and rez a few great musicians like Beethoven and Mozart to play for me while I have copious amounts of sex. I will be the new Hugh Hefner, just 20% more awesome.

Maybe kill a few hundred thousand people, set the entire continent of Australia ablaze (At least a fire that kills all spiders and renders everything else fine, seriously fuck those things). All in all, I would have:

A.) Fucked up the Ecosystem

B.) Fucked up many minds.

C.1) Created an Entire country of awesome
C.2) Nay, a WORLD of awesome!

D.) Pissed off every last human being on this planet.

Wait... I did this in Minecraft (Minus the Copious amounts of sex with concubines) just yesterday... does this mean I am a God (of the Minecraftian universe?)!?

I do a fuckload better than he's doing, i.e. SOMETHING.

1. Release Half-Life 3, and make it so the disc self-destructs when somebody tries to put it in their computer.
2. See how much alcohol it takes to get me drunk.
3. Proceed to a bar and hit on women with cheesy lines like "Whoa, you're smokin'!" while I'm making smoke come out of them.
4. Bring back Firefly
5. Make big images of myself smiling and giving the thumbs up in skies all over the world. Enough so everyone can see it.
6. Become Batman.
7. Implement a filter on all online gaming networks where you are immediately banned from using voice chat if your voice is high enough for a certain amount of time and you happen to be in the age range of 13.
8. Erase Too Humnan from history.
9. Legalise the less harmful drugs (weed, etc).
10. Have Michael Jackson rise from his grave and do a rendition of Thriller.
11. Take the rights to Star Wars away from George Lucas.
12. Find the most advanced AI unit in the world at present and have it ask "Does this unit have a soul?" just to creep the hell out of everyone.
13. Abolish always-online DRM.
14. Find the person who came up with always-online DRM and find some foreign world for them to live on where they can't hurt anyone anymore.
15. Misuse powers in everyday situations for comic effect.

I would leave this pitiful strife-ridden planet with Lauren Faust and recreate Equestria elsewhere Oh wait, my power is localized then? My bad.

OT: I dunno, probably subtly nudge the human race towards indefinite sustainability and relative peace. That, and eradicate anyone who even tries to worship my divine ass; don't want no mortals misinterpreting me and giving me a bad rep, now do I?

Okay, so the Big Guy just gave me the keys to the universe, eh? I'd probaly decline. No seriously, that's what I'd do. Look at me, all humble and stuff. I'd thank him for the offer, refuse politely, ask if I can have a hoverboard instead and head on my way.

...What? Hoverboard's a HUGE step down from Omnipotence!