If we are all gods, we extend our existence by creating half versions of ourselves. We bind our halves with other halves, and make new creations where parts of us live on in new forms.

Yet, there are too many of us for each of us to be gods. Billions of us trying to stake a claim over our worlds, choosing violence and struggle over peaceful co-existence. Although we create our identities and our entire worlds around ourselves while we collide with other worlds, we all die. We delude ourselves in materialism and social power, and cannot save ourselves with all our seemingly boundless power, knowledge, curiosity, and accomplishments. Our influence is but a small thumbprint upon the many other gods among us, as our power diminishes with age, poverty, and poor health. We are able to influence our closest neighbors, but yet cannot directly change the reality outside our world. The creations before we came into this world existed regardless of our existence, and we foolishly believe we have the right to destroy them. We have no right to destroy what we didn’t create. We did not create trees, although we helped grow them, we have no power to create them. We did not create the animals, yet we eat them. We did not create the natural and the pre-existing flora, yet we deplete and abuse them.

We are our own downfall. In all the stories, the myths, the fables, religions, philosophies, and theories, we ultimately destroy ourselves, usually regardless of informed choice.