Originally Posted by Avian
Humans all want to be god. I don't know why, but everyone feels it. A lot of people deny it but they are just kidding themselves. I seriously doubt that there has been any person - who is not significantly different from normal people - who has never felt the urge to be powerful. This can manifest in mere ambition. Looking at a field and thinking "wow, I could build a great farm there" is a form of this. Animals do many things similar to humans, but the difference is the reason. They are one with nature, in that they don't go against the natural flow of things. They do what they need to survive, and they are content. Humans not only want to survive, but we want to go beyond that. It is not "can we be prosperous?", it is "how prosperous can we be?". One thing I do not know if I will ever know though; why are we like this?
Why are humans like this? Because, what separates us from the animals and the angels is that we have free will, awareness, and the ability to reason. If you treat the Genesis both literally and figuratively, God created man and man ate the fruit of knowledge despite God's forewarning. We could have been just happy, but we needed more. Thus, we dug our own graves. We had to die. Not forever, but to teach us a lesson. Just another concept, another way of perceiving things. It says it right in the Genesis, once man ate the fruit he was now like God. We most likely, becoming self-aware, realizing that we had freewill, given the violent ways of nature and the fact it was all that we knew, started to kill each other out of fear. We devised ever more elaborate ways to do it. Now that we have figured out how to share information very quickly, we are accelerating the growth of our intelligence, our insights, the way we interact with the world and those around us, and are paving the way for ourselves. We are Gods already in this sense. We shouldn't think too highly of ourselves, that is not what I am saying, but we should always be inspired to create and express ourselves, and with enough time we will be able to create as much as God has created it/him/she/whatever-self. We aspire to Godliness because it is in our nature, it is who we are, our destiny, whether we realize it now, later, or choose to run from it, it will happen, given enough time.
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