Ray. . .

[digitaldiscipline]

. . . when someone asks you if you're a god, you say "Yes!"

- Winston Zedemore, Ghostbusters

On a slightly-related note:

If you were a god, how would you be created?

[I'd link to cavalorn's deification of much of his flist, but I haven't the foggiest idea where that thread got to.]

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[inlaterdays.livejournal.com]

by accident

[etcet.livejournal.com]

what sort of accident?

[bynner.livejournal.com]

When someone asks you if you're a god, you say "Yes!"

I do, because I am.

If you were a god, how would you be created?

Lol... gods create themselves by sheer fiat. I AM THAT I AM, and all that. Sure, their essences may first swirl together from any number of contexts, time and space, hopes and fears, etc., but they don't become "Gods" (beings) until they anoint themselves (so-to-speak) with the right to *be*, distinct from formless tumult. Not that that necessarily requires an isolate, individual consciousness like we humans tend to imagine. I suppose it's sort of like stellar-formation... dust and gas draw together on the sterngth of their like-attracts-like sympathy and can ignite into a star when enough of the right things come together the right way.

If you were looking for something more entertaining, I've always been partial to god-making machines... those things built by mad sorcerer-scientists or left behind by mysterious ancient races that the villain leaps into during the final battle, hoping to transubstantiate into an invincible being, only to realize too late that they'd bitten off more than they could chew and are ultimately destroyed by their own humbris.

But then again... did you ever watch Xena? Velasqa and Callisto became goddesses just by nibbling Ambrosia... and they were *hot*, so there may be something to that option too.

[etcet.livejournal.com]

nibble on someone hot. got it. *g*

i do like your ideas. . . but after announcing your ego (what if there's nobody to hear, or they don't speak your language?), what do you do?

yes, i'm shamelessly polling the minds of those around me to kick-start my creative widget for a plot idea, because i'm stuck on what feels like well-trod ground. *s*

[bynner.livejournal.com]

i do like your ideas. . . but after announcing your ego (what if there's nobody to hear, or they don't speak your language?), what do you do?

Quietly go insane from desperate loneliness, one imagines. But then, that is the fate of most gods, and why so many of them are so desperate to make waves... so the pond that spawned them doesn't forget them immediately.

I suppose, if you're talking fiction... you should inbuild some driving impetus into the creation of this god. There should be something that needs *doing* as a necessary epilogue to whatever circumstances formed the entity in question. For example, gods who are born from the fears of primitive peoples often find they and the serpents in the dark from whom it is their duty to protect the people come into being at the same time, ya' know?

Imagine... you've *just* this instant become self-aware, and already you're moving to thwart your nemesis because it started moving to thwart you this same instant when it became self-aware. lol

[etcet.livejournal.com]

never let it be said that having self-theistic goofballs in one's circle of freinds can't be entertaining. ;-)

[netgoth.livejournal.com]

There would be much nookie and alcohol involved.

Some strange hybrid of Dionysos and Venus, I suppose.

[etcet.livejournal.com]

Baby Got Bacchus!

[critus.livejournal.com]

I would simply "Be."

Not too terribly exciting, I know, but I'd be a pretty laid back deity. Kinda like Pooh. He just is. Ya know?

[izzy23.livejournal.com]

Bitten by a radioactive cherub, obviously.

[david-deacon.livejournal.com]

If you were a god, how would you be created?

I'm with bynner: I'd be self-existing.

"Did you make disease, and the diamond blue? Did you make mankind after we made you?

Then there's the "Pinnochio/Velveteen Rabbit" method: if you get loved enough, you turn from fictional to real. . . .