What defines Godhood?

[shadowstriker86]

earlier this morning i was talking with my friends when someone asked what we would wish for if we met a hooker that was also a genie, and as per usual, i brought up my one wish of being able to bring to life whatever i drew, such as a red vial of liquid that tastes like kool-aid but gave me the ability+knowledge to transform into a super-sayjin. They asked what would i do and said i would change the world, but then i started to think, how much power would one have to attain or how much action would a person have to do to be looked at as a god or god-like person?

 

[Wait...What]

That Person already exists

I Present you with THE BRUCE

 

[MagnetoHydroDynamics]

All of this on a large scale:
Violate Newtons laws of motion - Flight and telekinesis
Violate General relativity - Faster than light travel and time travel, Omnipresence
Violate the laws of Thermodynamics - Creation and Destruction of energy
Violate bounds for strength molecule bounds - Indestructibility
Violate bounds for informational density - Omniscience

 

[Programmed_For_Damage]

The Holy Trinity of Omnicience, Omnipotence and Omnipresence. In other words all seeing, unlimited power and ever present.

 

[Marine Mike]

The ability to grok.

Thou art God.

 

[JustShyofGenius]

I think the only common trait among the various gods over the years is immortality.

 

[Sansha]

1) Gods are immortal.

2) Gods are the object of worship.

That is what defines godhood.

 

[Forgetitnow344]

I like how this is a gaming website and no one has said IDDQD.

 

[paragon1]

All of this on a large scale:
Violate Newtons laws of motion - Flight and telekinesis
Violate General relativity - Faster than light travel and time travel, Omnipresence
Violate the laws of Thermodynamics - Creation and Destruction of energy
Violate bounds for strength molecule bounds - Indestructibility
Violate bounds for informational density - Omniscience

Wow, that's really impressive. I don't think I've ever seen it laid out quite so clearly before.

 

[Zacharine]

1) Gods are immortal.

2) Gods are the object of worship.

That is what defines godhood.

I would remove #1 (norse mythology anyone)

and add
#3: Have superhuman abilities
#4: Somehow influence or govern human fates or the world.

 

[Sansha]

1) Gods are immortal.

2) Gods are the object of worship.

That is what defines godhood.

I would remove #1 (norse mythology anyone)

and add
#3: Have superhuman abilities
#4: Somehow influence or govern human fates or the world.

Immortality isn't superhuman? And being the object of worship is pretty much influencing a mass of people.

 

[Zacharine]

1) Gods are immortal.

2) Gods are the object of worship.

That is what defines godhood.

I would remove #1 (norse mythology anyone)

and add
#3: Have superhuman abilities
#4: Somehow influence or govern human fates or the world.

Immortality isn't superhuman? And being the object of worship is pretty much influencing a mass of people.

it is, it is, but jsut saying not all gods necessarily are immortal;they might have some other superhuman abilities. Like, say, throw thunder and spit lighting and sing in a really loud voice.

 

[Toty54]

Imortality and eternal power.

 

[Palademon]

I believe the actual definition of God is simply the being of highest power.

 

[Asehujiko]

1) Gods are immortal.

So what does that say about the norse pantheon and their whole Ragnarök thing?

 

[Glamorgan]

Two words:

Bill. Murray.

He is my god, anyway.

 

[DementedSheep]

A powerful supernatural being who is worshipped by people and believed to control some aspect of the world or be the personification of some kind of force or element.

I think that pretty much covers most gods

 

[MrMahalek]

Immortality, for one, but I think also the ability to exist outside the laws of physics, and the ability to create