Sounds exciting!
The Sayings of Rob
My good friend Rob comes up with some really funny stuff, but he is too busy selling sports cards to post any of this on his own blog, which currently only has an earlier draft of the story we tried to write. I told him he is really performing a disservice in not sharing this merriment with the world, and so have decided to post some of it myself!
Hear ye all the Sayings of Rob!
Rob's idea for a new reality show: Itinerant Farmer Reality TV! Sounds exciting!
Yesterday we got into a debate over whether omniscience includes omnipotence or not. I contended that it does, because if you know everything you must know how to do everything, and are thus also all powerful. He said it does not because even if you know how to do everything, they aren't natural abilities. For example, you'd know how to build a spaceship that can exceed the speed of light, but you still would not be able to go faster than light with nothing more than your body. I think the difference is immaterial, but we like to split hairs over such pointless abstractions. I countered that being omniscient, you'd know how to genetically re-engineer your body such that you'd be able to exceed the speed of light just by jumping real good.
Anyway, Rob kicked off this spirited debate by stating out of the blue that were he omnipotent, he'd sneak into people's houses and clean them up. They would get home and think they'd been burglarized, until it eventually dawned on them that nothing was missing... Meanwhile Rob would be invisible, watching all this and no doubt giggling and snickering uproariously (but silently)...
Over the years Rob and I have assembled a list of Useless Super Powers, which we both very much aspire to. As Super Heros, we would be:
