What if you were 'omnipotent', but not 'omniscient'?

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I kind of were in a weird way.... and oh, did I crash and burn. Knowledge is definitely more crucial than simple capability... and it's not like I do not seek knowledge, but who can be omniscient? If I had a choice I'd surely choose the latter, but that is a physical impossibility... nor desirable in all contexts, so unless it's some sort of selective omniscience, like in a certain field, specifically to aid the aforementioned 'omnipotence' perhaps. But not raw omniscience, no... knowing of all people's thoughts constantly? It's more than enough to read the sewers online...

But seriously, why does anyone expect 'omniscience' and blame them for the lack of it? Because a symbol was created 'imbued' with 'omnipotence'? Clearly, though, there are some who are kind of like ninjas navigating novelty and psychotic sociology... in addition to bureaucratic organizations and personal hobbies too. I might have indulged hobbies too much and forsaken novelty, perhaps... if only it was two years later. And the universe! I swear, all of existence must be essentially sarcastic, to me at least, to show me what I lacked as per my deficient knowledge at the very end... it's like "see what you've missed for years? Ha-ha, now relish it for just a few weeks" (like some childish bully, no? But, realistically, I'm an idiot for missing it for so many years... still, omnipotence without omniscience doesn't work... and gods are fictional, anyway).

I don't desire to be either omnipotent or omniscient. The responsibility involved in being either is ridiculously onerous.

The cartoon character named "Wreck-It Ralph" comes to mind.

If you were truly omnipotent, you could go back in time for do-overs of the things that being omniscient would have handy for.

If you were omniscient without being omnipotent, you'd just know when you needed to be omnipotent instead.

Heh, well, as you might have figured out there is no absolute omnipotence, which is why I ended it bracketed as such, but systems can be created and relative omnipotence 'simulated'... more like Aladdin's Jhin, though, only able to exercise when summoned. Such is the nature of artificial systems... the whole universe, on the other hand... well, no one alive has went beyond the moon, but if only I existed when light-speed travel was possible...

It is only logically possible to be one or the other. Those two attributes are mutually exclusive. If you know what will happen in the future you won't be able to change it, or else you didn't really know.

I wouldn't want to be either regardless. One of the great joys in my life is learning and I couldn't do that if I already knew everything. And I don't think I'm smart enough or wise enough to be omnipotent. It would be too much power.

The thing is... I might have been too obsessed about it, I think I was more obsessed before attaining it than after it, considering timescales... and while I survived for years, my eventual declining interest might indeed have blunted my "smart" aspects to not miss the obvious. I don't even know why I'm suddenly obsessed about it anew now... my life must be so empty... it wasn't even this empty when I first attained it, and despite repeating to myself that, rationally, it never did make me happy, nor will it in the future (unlike a relationship, which funnily I had for seven months while also having this 'omnipotence'... which made me more happy, though? Obviously not the latter...) - I wish I just stick to video games or something, while they're systems confined to a certain logic and unless cheats are used only skills are relevant, they at least do not rely on others... oh, what am I saying, of course, there are many 'team games' which can result in utter, utter frustration... like, recently, after not playing for months I got the second highest score of the team, this after months and some quick re-adjustment to keys... our team actually got twenty more in score than the other team... but who's the winner? Maybe I should stick to NES games, at least there, despite their difficulty, it's just about my skills...