What is the proper way to kill a god?
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What is the proper way to kill a god?
What is the proper way to kill a god?
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Kill its followers, destroy its temples, and burn its scriptures.
Nailed it. A god with no presence might as well not exist.
He respawned
What if there is an afterlife where the God judges you for not believing in it and sends you to a hell for that?
im ok im christian
Contrary to belief, the god doesn't actually die. It lives on but its mind and physical form grow distorted into some eldritch disaster to the point where nobody, not even the god itself knows what it is anymore except that it is a forgotten god turned into an unstable and powerful abomination.
Doesn't work, it just galvanizes the remaining worshippers and drives them underground.
Killing the faithful isn't enough unless you're sure that you can get all of them. They need to be roundly broken to the point where they abandon their faith. Or use mass-scale mindrape spells to erase memory of the god in question.
It worked for Christianity against the Pagans
euphoric atheism.
Depends on the style of god that exists in the setting. Greek style pantheon of basically just uber wizards sitting on a mountain? Stab them, possibly with a weapon made in a particular fashion or of a specific material, possibly both.
Cosmic idea given form style deity? remove the idea from the mind of the world.
Cringe
>Greek style pantheon of basically just uber wizards sitting on a mountain
They're not just uber wizards. And they're not the hyper immortals that can't be touched. They're somewhere between. The uber wizard thing is relatively new, when a lot of people were going back into actual Greek mythology, not the Victorian and Renaissance era pseudo mythology and D&D BS, which contained the latter, conflating a lot with the Christian view on God. Either way, it somewhere in between, with a scale, depending on which version you're looking at. In the Iliad for example, they can be hurt, but can't be killed, by mortals. In other versions they can't be hurt at all, or even if they're cut up, like say with Oranos or Kronos, they're still alive, writhing in agony of a million pieces. It's complex, I'm tired, I don't feel like explaining it for the 10th time this month.
The way I do gods is that in between state. Better than mortals in every way, but mortals can still potentially harm them, but never truly kill them. Cut them up, strew their remains across the underworld to be walked upon by the feet of leprous Trolls writhing in agony until they reconstitute themselves, if they can.
I HATE "gods need prayer". They're not truly gods then. They're just giant Tulpas. The only good way it's been done is Discworld and American Gods. Discworld is a parody of everything fantasy, and American Gods whole point is that gods aren't really real, just parasites on humanity given identity by the people and the obsession over it. I'm talking the book, not the show by the by. The show went down like the Titanic in season 2. Everything ekse does it badly.
>The uber wizard thing is relatively new, when a lot of people were going back into actual Greek mythology, not the Victorian and Renaissance era pseudo mythology and D&D BS, which contained the latter, conflating a lot with the Christian view on God.
Actually most of that is the Romans' fault. When they started conflating Jupiter Optimus Maximus with Zeus.
Really interesting. As someone who intends depowered gods trying to regain their full power to rule over humanity again to play a big part in his campaign, how would you execute the premise. I personally am ok with the idea of a god being empowered by belief and faith in them but I also admit its really samy in that almost all gods seem to work that way and I wanna do something different
You can have the actual god existing as a sort of powerful unknowable entity, but one that takes on a certain recognizable form shaped through belief. Their power exists whether people believe it or not, but the way it manifests is influenced by how those people believe it to be. Like you could imagine how Zeus would come to be portrayed like Jupiter, while aspects of Jupiter might be incorporated into the image of God. The power behind them is the same, but the presentation, religious tenets and doctrine differ as the 'tangible' aspect evolves through worship.
So the gods themselves are eternal, fundamental forces of the universe that never truly die but they can change based on how mortals view and worship them. The Skyfather(s) exist but their various incarnations like Odin, Zeus, Perun are all a result of their humans giving them shape and personality
Any base level of education amongst the populace.
true, it was uninteresting rote public education that turned the romans away from the classical hellenic/celtic gods towards eastern cults like christianity.
>Christianity
>eastern cult
Not very familiar with geography, are you?
Do not bully the mutt. Take pity and compassion, for the time will come when we are all mutts.
Other mutt here. When we say "east" what we usually mean is "appreciably east," not "a tad east of Greece." For that region it's "middle east."
Of course the moron shill is a redditgay
Emphasis on "base" since that's how we get the unfortunate Dawkinsian fanboy breed of internet atheist.
>Education fixes belief systems
>While scientists were still practicing alchemy for a long ass time
Don't forget that a huge amount of scientists and thinkers were also very faithful. Hell, a bunch of them made their discoveries because they wanted to understand God more.
By 2200 half of America will be Amish and the other half will be Mormon. It's only man's arrogance that says God has to work on the scale of one human lifetime.
Nietzsche was lamenting us discarding tradition without regards for the consequences of it. That's what was meant by "God is dead and we have killed him", not euphoric homosexualry or nihilism like people tend to think.
>Mormons
Absolute kek, ty anon your post was a blast
Why Amish?
apparently they'll be the only ones free of globohomosexual influence and they have large families. this seems like nothing but cope to me.
we know what you consider east and west but the context was about rome so we were using roman concepts.
christianity was definitely an eastern cult to the romans at that time period.
>context was about rome
I dunno, that point seems easily confused.
Birth rates. The enlightened liberals were so busy being enlightened and liberal that they forgot to have children.
For the Amish to take over, everyone else would have to stop having kids altogether. That sounds like a bad prediction.
Gods die all the time. Unfortunately as beings of myth, they don't stay dead.
With grand and intoxicating innocence.
The hell does that even mean.
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Came here to post this.
>not posting it regardless
Shame on you sweet Nerevare.
me too
Learn to be blind to his existence.
Fight them one on one and take their place, obviously.
Find who ever created the god, and trick them into destroying their creation (lie about sexual assault etc)
You don't. A god is a fundamental being required to exist by reality to govern its aspects. Unless you are fine with no water, no sky, no breathable air, all of a specific concept poofing from existence, or stuff like that.
What about doing this in reverse? Could you kill a god of some lesser concept by exterminating that concept? Burn down all forests to limit the influence of a God of Forests?
Proper?
You don't. When done properly, gods don't manifest in forms which they can be killed or even interacted with on a vaguely tangible level. When done properly, a god is easily mistaken for an unstoppable force that can't be understood or communicated with, beyond vacuous rituals that maybe curry favor or at least a desirable reaction.
I don't give a shit about which civilizations did it what way for how many years; gods ≠ mortals.
This girl punches it once.
Cringe.
Not wrong, though
Seethe election tourist
Cringe buzzword spouting cum head
You can't just defeat god with lesbianism and punching
Well, not JUST lesbianism and punching. There are other criteria too.
Sure am!
>There are other criteria too.
Like a show that wears out its welcome before its first season is out and then massively nosedives from there?
>Like a show that wears out its welcome before its first season is out and then massively nosedives from there?
By that logic, Chibnal's Dr. Who, Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Kenobi, Loki, Moon Knight, Star Trek Discovery, The Mandolorian, The Book of Boba Fett, The Boys, Wandavision, and numerous other recent western shows fit the bill.
seems like sound logic to me.
I'd put all of those on par with Symphogear, yes.
>Yes
>Yes
>Yes
>No
>No
>Oh dear god yes
>Nah, that still solid
>Yes, very much so
>Sorta
>Yes
You symphogag gays are absolutely wretched morons.
Ask the Klingons.
You have to eat them
You eat them, you become them. It was their plan all along.
Laios, please.
Eat them and transmute them. After all that's where Kronos fricked up. He never finished digesting those damn kids.
Using a piece of another god.
You defeat them in their own turf and at the same time create some big disturbance in the field that the god has as portfolio (example: killing a god of war the same day 7 wars end by peace treaties)
A team of 4 adolescents using the power of friendship
If a Non-god can kill a god, then it was never a god in the first place.
this tbh
In my opinion, fighting a god needs to be like an ant fighting godzilla; the ant is technically capable of winning, but we all know godzilla is coming out on top
I feel like a demigod is at the tier of a 10th level adventurer at the start of their travels, independent of any skills or development of their powers. To fight an actual G O D, even as a legendary hero, is the same suicidal hubris that brings a commoner to strike an ancient dragon. There's a power gap for any proper deity, essentially.
Nobody gives a shit about your conception of god not matching the infalliable/omnipotent judeo christian god.
The Olympians defeated the priomodial gods and Titans and the Asir kept the Frost giants in check.
Being a god might as well be a political title and the only actual god would be something that could never be interacted with in a meaningful way.
Gee, it's also as though having a "god" in your story is pointless if in the end even the name and concept is ultimately rendered trivial.
Gee, why don't you go tell everyone who's every made stories of gods being slain or overthrown that they are doing it wrong. I'm sure they'll be enlightened once you tell them.
"God" did not mean supreme, omniscient and all-powerful until much, much, MUCH later on. Even Hindu gods were fallible. And all daemons/Greek psirits were flavors of "god" who could be outsmarted or felled.
>nobody gives a shit except 2/3rds of earth
moron ALERT, moron ALERT
>anon says no non-god should be able to kill a god
>anon's rebuttable is a bunch of examples of gods killing gods
You missed the great difference the structure of the Underworld made. Titans are chained in Tartarus and only gods could do that. Sending titans to the Underworld alone wouldn't kill them, they are powerful, they can return. Olympians imposed order on the universe that kept Titans out. Mortals can't do that, maybe they can deliver a great buttkicking but they don't kill gods on their own.
You can't just kill a god
I have come upon this earth, and with my two feet taken possession!
with two other gods
Cum. Lots of cum. Cum to him.
Defeated in single combat by aggrieved widower, heart cut out upon their own sacrificial alter and used to construct a desalination plant.
Get a plucky band of teenage adventurers with a couple months of experience to fight them.
4 nails and a spear.
>thinking you can kill a god
What a grand and intoxicating innocence.
With this.
>dies after a full page spread of a naked little boy
lmao
no you kill dragons with that you illiterate frick
flatulence
Genocide all of his followers.
We turn the god into a mortal
I know that reference
power of friendship
Probably, be so shit that the god you created forces you to dismantle and destroy it to put it out of its misery and suffering.
you cant kill a god in any meaningful way, while its a god.
you have to strip them of their godhood first, either through death of all who know their name, or through assistance from other gods.
then whatever's left can be dealt with as if it were a mortal, unfortunately most gods have a pretty powerful mortal form, since they themselves had to ascend to godhood through killing a god, so prepare to be slain by someone who's already succeeded at killing a god, and probably knows all the tricks.
>killing gods
What a fool you are. He's a god! How can you kill a god?
Gods are not alive, so they cannot be killed.
However, they can be reprogrammed.
For me, it's sacrificing one's humanity for such an ability. Gods should feel more impressive than just really high stats.
facts and logic
stay under a copper roof to be safe
Eat it's pet to gain the godlike powers, then best the bastard up.
Hundred years from now people will look contemporary bea pics from USA like we look those 70's pics from Afghanistan or Iran.
What a grand and intoxicating innocence!
And that's a good thing! Remember the Golden Age of Islam.
Erase all knowledge of said god from the minds of their followers.
No idea, I think my DM is crazy, I might be going up against an incarna in a Werewolf the Apocalypse in the next 10 minutes, wich is pretty close to one, I gonna try to claw his face and tell you guys how it went after
In my setting
You can't kill a true god, but you can replace it's avatar by absorbing their core. They will inhabit your body, but since you have their core they usually have no choice but to collaborate with you.
Fake gods, demigods, angels, demons or beings that have ascended to levels where they can challenge avatars of true gods 1 on 1, can be destroyed just like any other living being, but they are though to beat, usually needing an special material or strategy to beat them.
Natural beasts or force of natures are """spirits""" that can challenge gods in certain situations. You can easily defeat them by destroying things that make give them power.
Things get complicated when they have a dedicated cult or something that keeps feeding them energy.
>What is the proper way to kill a god?
Sexually
cum inside of it and make it carry your children
The only tried and true tool.
You posted it. Through possessing the sheer force of will to overpower fate, and claim what is yours.
Also this
Only by using pieces of other gods. Better get scavenging through some ancient divine battlefield if you're hoping to trickstab a deity.
With your hands.
Absurdly complex rituals involving the invocation of other, deeper, older powers
eat it
Permenantly
A weapon with a physical component you can interface with, but most of the weapon exists as a spiritual or metaphysical concept. You're just handling the tip of the iceberg and can tell there's something incredibly "heavy" about this thing. Like somehow it's more "real" that anything else you've ever come across but you can't put your finger on why.
Become a follower of its faith.
It would kill itself out of embarrassment.
Being forgotten. If a Gods power comes from worship and fear, than a lack of worship and fear would mean a lack in power. Before long they slip into obscurity and no one remembers them at all.
Be a strong enough god to stab him to death, then to ensure he does not return, wear his skin, steal his wife, then kick his wife out of the house and unperson her.
With your dick.