“When did I realize I was God? Well, I was praying and I suddenly realized I was talking to myself. ”

― Peter O'Toole

Can I be 'A' god and not 'The' god so I've got someone to hang out with>

If you are responsible and always try to do the right thing and treat others with respect and dignity, then in a way you are your own god and have to answer to the face in the mirror

If you're reading Hinduism or Eastern Philosophy you end up believing you are a god. thou are that. no one separates to the Divine, you are that but forgot your original constitutions as god, and you need to realize that by means of meditation, mantra, yoga, sadhana and more regulative principles that might bring you to a complete realization. But for me these are all belief system. What if you are a God is a test, to let your imagination play a trick on you based on your religious biases. Thats why religion does harm to many people lives and psychology. in Mormonism, they to aspire to become an almighty mormon God someday in their own kingdom, thats the reward to their loyalty and strict adherence to mormon teachings. So they can imagine what kind of earth are they going to make and populate it with his own kind/image. What plan of salvation would be effective in his own planet, who would take the role of opposition like Satan. Imagine how religious people speculate and concocted a theology?.

If I am the God then someone has overstated the benefits and remuneration for this position. Please put more in the collection plate and make the clergy stop skimming my rightful due. I have another son position coming due and am having difficulty recruiting even though this time he doesn't have to die a painful death.

I think that is part of the process, Mohssin. You are the being with complete and total control of your life...so god-like if not god.
It is unavoidable to think about it this way at times because most all of us have a reference and understanding of the concept of god. Enough to deny means we get it and that understanding leads atheists to essentially be their own god...although I never refer to myself as god it is sometimes the most direct way to relate the power you have over your own life and choices.

I can get behind such a philosophy. Each of us is our own god. We live by the dictates of our own conscience, which is created by our own compassion and intellect. We create our own morality, and in that sense we are Gods to ourselves. Either that or we delegate that job to an imaginary god whose moral code allows for genocide, human sacrifice, rape, and slavery.

Herod the Great asked this, before being struck down and killed by "maggots in the privy member" as did Herod Agrippa. Caligula also full on declared this, and was soon after hacked to bits by his guards. Many nuts and tyrants and cult leaders have all made this claim over the centuries, and it is egotism out of control, not some divine spark in people. This is also one of the rewards or Mormonism when you go off to space.

DUH...
What If?

If I am the God I am doing a really lousy job of it, given how messed up the world is.

I’ve heard of this theory before. Like maybe I’m the center of everything and you are all just a part of my story.

Welcome, Buddy! You are among friends, here.. (even if some of us "ahem" make stupid angry mistakes..) Not naming names, or anything, lol.. I really hope you feel like you belong here. This site was an amazing discovery for me..

"You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.
The ocean waves and the universe peoples.

What you do is what the whole universe is doing at the place you call 'here and now.'
You are something the whole universe is doing, in the same way that a wave is something the whole ocean is doing."

If there is a "god" we are part of it, EVERYTHING is connected. WE have the power, and collectively, I guess you could say we are all "gods". Man made God in his image..

“Ray, When somebody asks you if you are a god... You say yes!”
-Winston Zeddemore

You are right, of course. Welcome.

Welcome to the site, Mohssin.

I would be laughing all the time it would really cheer me up and I would only tell my one and only friend but I don't drink alcohol so that puts paid to the water into wine trick but I suppose I could do wine into water ...

Welcome! And the only true god is the god within yourself.

The Martian philosophy from Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land: "Thou art God." Every self-aware being is God. You, me, everything and everyone that has this awareness. ("Grokking", in the vernacular of the novel.)

In the novel, this came with magical powers (due to Martian discipline and training, it was science fiction after all) but the principle that knowing you're God and all things around you are also God means essentially the same thing as being an atheist. You have no responsibility to an external deity, you bear complete responsibility for your own actions, and also responsibility to conduct yourself rightly.

I used to be a demi-goddess when I was dabbling in IT at another job, but that particular heaven is more like hell because if you let slip you know anything about 'puters your are instantly the slave of the unworthy and expected to drop everything and fix their mess as fast as they make it. So now I hide my knowledge under a bushel and feign ignorance in exchange for peace.

Crowley based his works on a similar notion.

Nah........ I know I'm not God because if I was, this messed up world would not be in the mess that it is in.

If l am the God, we are all in deep doo-doo!

If I was God I'd wipe out all you atheists and send you all to burn for eternity in Hell , but sense I'm not you all have a nice day

There's a school of philosophical theology called pandeism and there's a similar one called pantheism. You can look them up on the internet. In summary, they posit that god is not separate and apart from the universe and everything is essentially god in a way. You can also look up the philosopher, Alan Watts; he taught a lot about these concepts