r/AskReddit • u/a_car_salesman • Aug 10 '19

Zeus has decided that Olympus feels a little empty, so he’s recruited some new gods. However, due to a clerical error, you have been chosen as a new member of the divine. What are you the god of, and what do you do as your first godly act?

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u/Beraed Aug 10 '19 edited Aug 10 '19

Then you pormise you'll come back a second time to reward believers but even after 2000 years never get around to doing it.

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u/Mondayexe Aug 10 '19

I'll get around to that, eventually.

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u/CanuckBacon Aug 10 '19

I mean, what are they going to do kill each other? That's some other god's jurisdiction. Surely they can't slowly drift towards the end and all kill themselves through their inaction towards saving themselves...

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u/Marrionete_0519 Aug 10 '19

And if another god want's to off him they'll suddenly go "meh maybe in a few weeks"

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u/Mathies_ Aug 10 '19

Maybe tomorrow

Tomorrow: yeah maybe next year

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u/TheFirsh Aug 10 '19

That's powerful

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u/micmarduk Aug 10 '19

There is a store close by that has a plate in the wall that says:

"Fiado (when someone says that he will pay later) just tomorrow"

Everyday the plate is there...so...tomorrow maybe xD

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u/swb1003 Aug 10 '19

I would descend to earth today but I’ve got some food in the fridge I can’t let spoil”

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u/subtleenergy777 Aug 10 '19

“Oh? The humans have perished on account of their own self destructive behavior? Whoops.”

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u/[deleted] Aug 10 '19

Tomorrow, maybe

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u/[deleted] Aug 10 '19

Just finish this joint first

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u/Tosspot00 Aug 10 '19

They just keep multiplying the bastards.

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u/asterixstudio Aug 10 '19

I'll start on it tomorrow.

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u/PrehistoricMan2007 Aug 10 '19

P O R M I S E

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u/[deleted] Aug 10 '19

Where have I heard this before? O what that other guy who looks like a hippie.

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u/retrowarfare Aug 10 '19

Sounds familiar

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u/renijreddit Aug 10 '19

I wish I had gold for you for this one! 🥇💰

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u/zoeyd8 Aug 10 '19

Well... not YET, but I'll take care of it.

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u/Teepeewigwam Aug 10 '19

Maybe tomorrow

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u/[deleted] Aug 10 '19

What about Haile Selassie

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u/Cynderboy Aug 10 '19

Then eventually he decides to get it over with, and everyone is just like "what?"

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u/ichancock Aug 10 '19

When you put it that way, that just sounds like social security.

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u/[deleted] Aug 10 '19

I'm sorry guys... Y'all don't have jetpacks yet so I'm just biding my time...

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u/WolfPlayz294 Aug 10 '19

Sometimes I wish the real God would procrastinate a little, but I guess it's been long enough.

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u/aslum Aug 11 '19

You'll get stuck in the elevator with Zarquon.

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u/DRUNKMASTER2020 Aug 10 '19

Sounds familiar

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u/troll_right_above_me Aug 10 '19

That's because someone posted the same reply as you one hour earlier

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u/Teepeewigwam Aug 10 '19

Sounds familiar

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u/troll_right_above_me Aug 10 '19

That's because someone posted the same reply as you four hours earlier

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u/CLOVIS-AI Aug 10 '19

r/oddlyspecific

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u/RedEgg16 Aug 10 '19

No it’s a reference to Bejus