Are We the Gods?

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I just wanted to submit an idea.

It's an old idea but hopefully, I'm presenting it in one of its purest forms which makes it at least to my mind original.

We are the Gods.

(Most everybody groans.)

But bear with me for a moment, imagine (just for me) we are. Well, obviously, we're really not much of a god. Last time I tried levitating something it didn't even flinch!

So, let's say we have a power but it's very minor or at least very difficult to channel. Haven't you ever felt you wished something into existence? Or heard someone say the human will is the most powerful force? I'm willing to present: that is the God power. It's a power that is constantly defeated and sometimes completely broken; but it's also the power (I believe) that made the universe, evolved it ever so slowly, painfully, as the ameba wished to be a fish; and the fish wished to flyyada, yada until the Monkey wished to work a twelve hour shift in a steel mill and eat bread over bananas.

Through out history, almost all humans have had a notion of a spiritual side to the world. May it be because they are the spiritual side to the world; and again may that be why it is so hard to find God? Because we're not looking at that "still small voice" inside ourselves?

Again, I'd like to hypothesize if on some level we are aware of our own Godhood, and if We are the Gods then logically we are the creators of the universe; thus we would have a built in desire to sustain it (which many of us do demonstrate.)

But again, returning to the idea that this power is weak, this power would constantly betray and us and hurt us; we would want to believe in something else, something bigger that would never fail. The God G-Man in the clouds, all powerful, all knowing God. Now, we have freed our consciences.

Working from that basis for religion you might see why especially Monotheistic religions would ban witchcraft and magic. It is what they have been attempting to hide from the proof of their own Godhood.

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There was a Terry Pratchett novel which detailed a world full of thousands and thousands of gods, the vast majority without any believers and powerless. The lucky few would manage to perform a minor miracle at an opportune moment and gain a believer. One believer becomes two, two becomes four, and so on until you it would have a mass following.

Could it be true that we are all gods, yet we have no believers and are powerless. Only the rare few that can convince people they are a god gain devine powers, fueled by belief, faith, and worship.

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We really don't know, do we?

It is an interesting speculation, MrIVI...and the notion of me being GOD certainly has its appeal.

Hell...I can even rationalize the reason that I, as GOD, decided to cloud that information from my mind...and limited what "powers" I have while in this puny form.

But the bottom line is: I do not know what the Ultimate Reality is...and there is damn near no evidence that I can use to make a truly informed guess...so I am pretty much stuck with the "I do not know."

Like I said...it is fun to speculate...but the bottom line remains the bottom line.

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Re: Are We the Gods?
Are we the gods? Of course, what's the doubt?
I have a church in my brain and my priests - they live there as well - are Kant, Wittgenstein and Heidegger.
The temple is always open and I accept oferends. An island in the Pacific with an harem of beautiful girls - sorry Wittgenstein, but only women!- will pardon you for creating topics like this one.
Let the peace be with you and even Very Happy