How to Become a God
Summary
TLDRExploring the intriguing concept of attaining godhood, this video delves into the various ways characters in fiction, and sometimes even real beliefs, achieve divine status. From the capital 'G' God with omnipotence and creation powers to the lowercase 'g' gods with more specific domains, the narrative traverses through examples like 'His Dark Materials', 'Homestuck', and 'Mistborn Trilogy', illustrating the diverse paths to godhood, including power acquisition, deification, and technological mastery. The discussion extends to the feasibility of such transformations in reality, suggesting education and mastery over technology as the closest parallels, with an endorsement of Brilliant.org for broadening one's horizons.
Takeaways
- 🔍 The script explores the concept of becoming a god, primarily in fictional contexts, acknowledging the difficulty and variety of interpretations in this idea.
- 📖 It discusses various fictional examples where characters aspire to or achieve god-like status, drawing from sources like 'His Dark Materials' and the Mormon Church's theology.
- 🤔 The script delves into the challenges of being a 'capital G God', highlighting the unique requirement of being the creator of a universe, a feat difficult even in fiction.
- 🌌 It points out examples in fiction where characters create or rule their own universes, though they may not meet the traditional definition of omnipotence or omniscience.
- 🛠️ The script mentions different mechanisms in fictional worlds for becoming a god, such as finding artifacts, undergoing a process, or receiving a deity’s sponsorship.
- 📚 It explores the idea of 'deification', where individuals are revered as gods posthumously or through the belief of others, a concept rooted in both history and fiction.
- 💡 Light Yagami from 'Death Note' is used as an example of someone who claims godhood based on the power to decide life and death, raising questions about what constitutes true godliness.
- 👁️ The script references 'Bloodborne' to illustrate how gaining extraordinary knowledge or abilities can be perceived as ascending to godhood.
- 🚀 It highlights how the perception of being god-like can arise from possessing significant power or knowledge, even if it doesn't align with traditional divine attributes.
- 🎓 The script concludes by advocating for education and personal development as means to achieve greatness or mastery, akin to a metaphorical ascent to godliness.
Q & A
What is the main theme discussed in the transcript?
-The main theme discussed is the concept of becoming a god, exploring various narratives from fiction and theology that tackle the idea of mortals ascending to divinity or being perceived as gods.
How does the series 'His Dark Materials' challenge the traditional concept of a god?
-In 'His Dark Materials', the Authority is revealed not to be the omniscient, omnipotent creator of the universe, but the first angel who lied about creating the other angels, challenging the notion of a singular, all-powerful god.
What does the theology of the Mormon Church say about becoming a god?
-Mormon theology suggests that especially devout adherents can become gods of their own worlds in the afterlife, and some believe that God himself was once a mortal who ascended to divinity.
What is the significance of the 'game' in 'Homestuck' for the characters' divine aspirations?
-'Homestuck' features a game called Sburb that blurs reality with cyberspace, where the prize for winning is creating a new universe, essentially making the players gods of their own domains.
How do characters in the 'Forgotten Realms' universe achieve godhood?
-In the 'Forgotten Realms', godhood can be achieved through the sponsorship of existing gods, who select particularly exceptional mortals for ascension, often after the mortals complete specific trials or fulfill certain criteria.
What role does the 'Well of Ascension' play in Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn Trilogy?
-In the Mistborn Trilogy, the 'Well of Ascension' is a source of immense power that, when seized by a character, allows for the ascension to near-limitless power and effectively godhood.
How is deification different from literal ascension to godhood, as discussed in the transcript?
-Deification, often achieved posthumously or through significant influence, involves being worshipped as a god without necessarily having supernatural powers, unlike literal ascension which involves gaining divine powers or creating a domain.
What does the anime 'Death Note' suggest about the concept of godhood?
-'Death Note' explores the idea that the power to decide life and death, even if dependent on an external object like the death note, can elevate a person to a god-like status, challenging the boundaries of mortal power and divine authority.
What is the key to godhood in the video game 'Bloodborne'?
-In 'Bloodborne', achieving godhood involves consuming three umbilical cords covered in eyes, symbolizing the acquisition of knowledge beyond human comprehension, leading to an ascension to a higher, god-like existence.
How does 'Star Trek: The Original Series' episode with Apollo address the concept of godhood?
-The episode illustrates that godhood may be a matter of perspective, showing how Apollo, an alien with advanced powers, was worshipped as a god by the ancient Greeks, suggesting that advanced abilities or knowledge can lead to deification by less advanced societies.
Outlines
🧐 Becoming a God: A Journey Through Fiction
The opening segment humorously questions the dissatisfaction with being mortal and introduces the concept of becoming a god, albeit recognizing the complexity and unlikelihood of achieving such a feat in reality. It leverages this premise to delve into various fictional narratives where characters aspire to or achieve godhood, suggesting that while the idea is a common trope in stories, it reflects humanity's fascination with transcending limitations. The mention of a previous video on killing a god humorously suggests that there might be a 'vacancy' for a new god, further playing on the theme of divine roles within fiction.
📚 Theoretical Divinity: From Fiction to Faith
This section explores the concept of becoming a god from different perspectives, including the unique theology within the Mormon Church which hints at the possibility of adherents becoming gods of their own worlds. It contrasts this with fictional examples, such as the complex narrative of 'Homestuck', where characters play a game that grants them godlike powers and the potential to create new universes. The discussion acknowledges the challenge in achieving omnipotence, even in fictional settings, and the rarity of characters fully embodying the 'capital G God' archetype, instead often operating as powerful beings with limitations.
🎮 Ascending to Godhood: Methods and Mechanisms
The narrative transitions into discussing various mechanisms through which characters in fiction ascend to godhood, highlighting stories from 'Baldur's Gate 3' and the 'Forgotten Realms' universe where mortals achieve divine status through sponsorship or quests. It contrasts these fantastical narratives with the concept of deification in reality and fiction, where individuals are worshipped as gods posthumously or through belief, suggesting that the path to godhood is multifaceted and can range from literal divine intervention to psychological manipulation and belief.
🔍 Understanding Godhood: Power, Knowledge, and Perception
This segment examines different facets of godhood, such as omnipotence and omniscience, through examples from 'Bloodborne', 'Star Trek', and the story of Adam and Eve, suggesting that god-like attributes can be achieved or mimicked through various means, including knowledge and perception. It discusses the fluidity of the concept of godhood, where the belief and acknowledgment by others can elevate someone to a god-like status, even without traditional divine powers. The section also touches on education and technology as modern pathways to gaining power and influence, hinting at the potential for personal growth and impact in the digital age.
👋 Conclusion: The Quest for Knowledge and Divinity
The conclusion reiterates the theme of aspiring towards godhood or superior knowledge through learning and self-improvement. It emphasizes the role of education, particularly in STEM fields, as a means to empower oneself and potentially achieve greatness or a form of 'godhood' in terms of mastery over technology and influence. The mention of Brilliant.org serves as a call to action for viewers to pursue education and personal development as a path to achieving their highest potential, concluding the video with a motivational message.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡Godhood
💡Supernatural powers
💡Deification
💡Omnipotence
💡Ascension
💡Creator God
💡Worship
💡Artifact
💡Divine Power
💡Mortal Roots
Highlights
Exploring the humorous idea of becoming a god and how fiction handles the concept.
Introduction to Brilliant.org, emphasizing personalized education from home.
Discussion on the popular conception of a God in modern world and its representation in fiction.
The Authority in 'His Dark Materials' series as an example of a being pretending to be the Creator.
Exploration of stories where characters create their own universes, showing different interpretations of godhood.
Mormon theology as an example of humans ascending to godhood.
Homestuck's narrative on players ascending to godhood through gameplay.
The distinction between capital G God and lowercase g god, and the feasibility of the latter.
Examples of mortals ascending to godhood in various mythologies and stories.
Deification in reality and fiction, and the concept of gaining godhood through belief and worship.
Light Yagami's use of the Death Note to declare himself a god, and the nuances of what defines godliness.
The role of knowledge and the quest for godhood in 'Bloodborne'.
The story of Apollo in Star Trek and ancient gods' interactions with mortals.
Various methods of becoming a god mentioned in stories, from artifacts to divine sponsorship.
The practicality of 'faking it till you make it' in achieving godhood, and the importance of education in mastering technology.
Final recommendation to try Brilliant.org for accessible, enjoyable learning.
Transcripts
are you tired of being mortal is your limited perspective in space and time getting you down
are you embarrassed by your lack of Supernatural powers and devoted worshippers is there not a
single Church in your name if this sounds like you don't worry I have just the solution why not
become a God okay admittedly that's a little harder than I'm making it sound I don't think
there's any actual way to just become a god yourself but you humans sure do have a lot of
interesting ideas about this in your fiction and hey we already made a video about how to
kill a God so if you are paying attention there should be at least one vacancy so at
least according to the stories you tell where do you start how does one become a
[Music] god [Music] one of the best things in life is learning which is probably why you're here to
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be the most popular conception of a God in our modern world is you know capital G God beginning
and end of all things creator of the universe omniscient omnipotent and Immortal Wikipedia
defines the word God as meaning the Supreme Being Creator and principal object of Faith you're
probably familiar unsurprisingly a god like this often show up in fiction too being all powerful
and mysterious it's rare that characters become a God of this sort though that would be kind of
hard to do wouldn't it there's only one position and it doesn't have a terribly High turnover rate
rare for the end all be all One and Only God of the cosmos to be replaced but there are stories
where it happens in the series His Dark Materials by Philip pman there's a Catholic church-like
organization called the magisterium which worships a Catholic faith likee God called The Authority
the magisterium believes this being to be like the abrahamic god of our world the omniscient
omnipotent creator of the universe near the end of the series as a war is waged against the authority
the truth is revealed The Authority is not the Creator but merely the first Angel after all the
other angels came into being the authority lied to them telling them that he had been the one who
created them which led the world to worship him as their creator eventually however the authority
himself is usurped by a different Angel because he isn't the omnipotent creator of the universe
and that's something you can only fake for so long this is actually a really great demonstration of
the main problem with becoming the capital G kind of God it's got a very difficult to
replicate primary requirement you can't really be the Creator God of the cosmos unless you first you
know create one which a pretty tough feet even in fiction anything less than complete control
over a domain of your own making falls short of the mold but there are some examples that come
pretty close think of all those stories where some mad scientist Engineers a tiny civilization of
people microcosmic God by Theodore sturgeon this episode of Rick and Morty that terrifying messed
up sequence from Mark Twain Adventures where the kids meet the mysterious stranger with the power
to create and destroy life and what appears at least to those life forms infinite power to
manipulate this little reality these figures do appear in some capacity like gods don't they at
the very least they're playing God which is an interesting Trope unto itself now that I think
about it maybe there's a video in there somewhere a little questionable whether they really should
be considered gods but still interesting as one of the more plausible ways to achieve this for
a more direct example I'm going to step out of bounds for a second here look I'm not necessarily
trying to call it fiction but the Theology of the Mormon Church contains an irresistibly unusual
example of this in their scriptures if you pay close attention you find that especially devout
adherence to the faith are promised their own worlds to rule over in the afterlife essentially
becoming gods in their own right that itself is already pretty unique but their really interesting
exception to this hurdle of becoming an omnipotent God we were talking about is uh maybe a bit more
controversial within the church some Mormons believe that God himself was once a human who
ascended to Divinity the fifth President of the church Lorenzo Snow summed up the belief with
a Nifty little poem as man now is is God once was as God now is man may be it seems that more
recent Church presidents have backed away from that assertion and it's now a less common belief
but I still find it a fascinating idea a great circumvention of the idea that there can only
be one ultimate Creator God but like I said not exactly trying to call this fiction per se from
what I can see having multiple capital G Gods like this isn't very common in fiction in fact off the
top of my head I can only really conjure up one instance Andrew hussy's massive sprawling and
notoriously confusing webcomic Homestuck is at its core about four 13-year-old internet friends on
the path to essentially become Gods the story is about the four of them playing a video game called
spur that doesn't so much blur the line between cyberspace and reality as it does completely
destroy it the the prize for beating the game a brand new universe for you and the friends
you played the game with in fact looking at it a certain way spur could be said to be something
of a god training simulator once the players have escaped the world-ending meteor shower triggered
by starting up the game that destroys their real life home planet presumably causing billions of
casualties in the process don't worry about it they're each given their own custom planet to
Quest on complete with a population of Sapient but dimwitted amphibian residents their own monster to
defeat called a denisen a heroic mythological role to embody that shapes their character Arc
and themes their Quest and even a spiritual guide customized with the personality of a
corpse of their choice each of them has a literal death bed hidden somewhere in their world called
a quest bed which if the player dies on it will resurrect them with thematic superpowers a special
costume and near immortality after coming back this way they can only only die if the universe
judges their death to be either just or heroic to beat the game they have to breed and hatch a frog
that contains their new universe in its throat pouch but not before they figure out how to use
time travel and teleportation to ensure that they themselves are born in the past because of course
they've somehow been playing the game since before they were born nothing is ever simple in Homestuck
but that raises an interesting question because who created the players original universes and
were they once players in their own session of spur like I said it's Homestuck so it's pretty
confusing all I know is that I'd be a sear of art okay so those are some examples of stories that
kind of break this mold or get around the hurdle they have multiple of these big Creator gods that
are omnipotent and Rule their own Universe here's the catch though even if they did create their own
universes the Homestuck kids hardly qualify as omnipotent or omniscient right and even if you
are a very devout member of the Mormon church and you do become the all powerful God of your
own domain are you really all powerful isn't there technically a God above you in that case
who originally created you in a weird way these examples both sort of tread the line between being
a capital G God and a lowercase G1 and that's an important distinction because becoming that type
of God seems far more manageable we already gave a definition for capital G God Wikipedia describes
the lowercase G type as a spirit or being believed to control some part of the universe or life and
often worshiped for doing so this kind of God is incredibly popular in fiction probably owing
a lot to their fallibility and the fact that there's more than one of them together both
of those things allow for interesting character your interactions in conflicts that wouldn't be
possible in stories with just a boring perfect capital G God and these Gods also frequently
come from Mortal Roots somehow at some point they ascended to godhood so to the point of this video
how is that done if you've spent any time at all playing the Smash Hit Video Game balers Gate 3
you're probably very familiar with this loading screen apparently the Dead 3 Bal Bane and mgle
were once mortal men but ascended to godhood Courtesy of the lord of the end of everything
jural after a long and brutal Journey they just wandered up to him and demanded to be
gods and lucky for them he decided it was time to retire and that might seem like a pretty singular
experience but they're far from alone a lot of the Gods of the Forgotten Realms started out
as Mortals and in fact one of the main ways that gods are created in this universe is by existing
Gods sponsoring the Ascension of particularly exceptional Mortals almost like some kind of
divine Alcoholics Anonymous meeting for instance mistra the goddess of magic sponsored azuth to
become the god of the Arcane under her and later sponsored Savas to become the god of divination
you get the idea but what if you don't have a patron deity who conveniently thinks you should
be granted immortality and divine power well luckily in such universes there's usually some
sort of literal mechanism for this a process you can follow an artifact you can activate a McGuffin
of some kind that will grant you what you seek if only you can find it in Brandon sanderson's first
mistborn Trilogy the final Empire is suffering under the brutal regime of the Lord ruler a
Godlike being with near Limitless power later it's revealed that he was once a simple pass Blackman
who seized the power flowing from the mythical well of Ascension which only the prophesied hero
of Ages was supposed to do honestly a lot of characters in misbourne wind up becoming Gods
come to think of it and they usually follow a model similar to this but interestingly I think
the most famous example in Mporn is actually of someone who isn't really a god at all just
a human who conned a lot of people into thinking he was the thief in Revolutionary Kelsey sets up
a plan in the event of his death to trick everyone into thinking that he's been resurrected his plot
works and he ends up venerated as the god of a new religion the Church of the Survivor this is called
deification and unlike literal Ascension it's actually quite achievable even in reality many
ancient civilizations had a habit of deifying their leaders after they died sometimes even
when they were still alive Roman emperors were considered to be part partially divided in life
ascending to godhood upon their deaths this led to the emperor Vespasian on his deathbed uttering
these incredible final words oh dear I think I am becoming a god it wasn't just the Romans
though deified rulers or God Emperors showed up in ancient Egypt ancient China the ancient Incan
civilizations and probably plenty of other places too even now there are many cultures who still
practice ancestor worship possibly the easiest path to godhood since all it really involves is
dying these are very different kinds of gods though ones with little if any Supernatural
power so do they really count in our how to kill a God video we discussed killing Gods by depriving
them of belief and worship if removing worship can destroy a God why shouldn't adding worship
create one in the anime death note a teenage boy named Light Yagami stumbles across a notebook that
allows him to kill anyone he knows the face and name of he immediately gets Swept Away by the idea
of using it to purify the world of bad people and criminals creating a new world one that he
will be the god of it's important to note here that light knows there are real gods of death
called Shinigami his notebook came with one more importantly he knows he's not so when he says he's
a god what exactly does he mean he's not Immortal he has no sphere of influence no worshippers at
least not at the time his abilities are entirely dependent on an external object anyone can use one
that already belongs to an actual God which he's just borrowing light is of course referring to
one thing power the ability to choose who lives and dies has often been considered Godlike but
could it really be that simple can an otherwise normal person be considered akin to a God just for
having the ability to kill after all that power resides in nearly everyone to some extent it's an
interesting question it is technically still power over life in a manner of speaking another trait
that's often referred to as Godlike as having knowledge Beyond human Ken in the abrahamic
story of Adam and Eve eating the forbidden fruit is said to have made humans like God in knowing
the difference between good and evil in the video game bloodborne which is almost entirely about
ascending to godhood involves two factions arguing about the best way to do so one of them believes
that the key is knowledged or as it's symbolized in game eyes if you can manage to find and eat
three eye- covered umbilical cords before the end of the game thus sliding your character's stomach
not just metaphorically with eyes you unlock an ending where the player becomes an infant
great old one sort of a slimy baby culu but while the great old ones are definitely powerful and
mysterious figures it's worth noting that we don't actually know that they're Gods in game bloodborne
leaves that like so many of its other questions unanswered and while we're still on the topic of
being Godlike there is a fantastic episode in the second season of Star Trek the Original Series in
which the USS Enterprise is trapped by a powerful alien being calling himself the god Apollo on
a planet that's strongly resembles Classical Greece the crew starts off believing he's lying
or delusional but eventually they put together the shocking truth he really is Apollo he and
the others of his species visited Earth thousands of years ago and the Pastoral ancient Greeks were
awed by their displays of Supernatural power simple Shepherds and tribesmen of early Greece
creatures like that would have been gods in fact they couldn't have been taken for anything else
so how do you become a god perhaps the answer to that question is as diverse as the gods themselves
win a game find an artifact drink a potion ask another God very nicely but if none of that is
working for you if you're having trouble finding a deity to sponsor you or an artifact to Grant
you Godly Powers maybe consider the f it till you make it approach after all sometimes all it
takes to become a God is for someone to believe in [Music] you of course it might be a little easier
to convince people if you did have Godly powers and that's you know little hard to achieve for
human beings in the real world I think the closest you can really come is Mastery over technology to
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