Nexus of Identity

Every person is not a single individual, but a nexus of power struggles. Within each individual is a multitude of identities fighting to surface. Each of these identities represent a specific emotion, ideology, thought process, or belief. What makes someone so interesting is his or her complexity, a result of these struggling personas.

Under extreme stress, or through an epiphany of some sort, one of these personas may surface in the form of violent anger, euphoric religious ecstasy, or perhaps even a different personality altogether. When an individual embraces one of these personas, he is no longer himself because he has forsaken the other personas that struggle and comprise his nexus identity.

When a person identifies with only one or a couple of these personas, when he or she submits to it, that individual becomes very simplistic and loses the identity that made them so interesting. 

Even when one of these personas become dominant over all the others, similar results can occur. This is why some people are often angry for no given reason, or religious to the point of obstinacy. They have embraced a certain persona that has manifested into their general personality.

Now everything I just said is purely philosophical and I am using these "personas" as analogies and metaphors. I'm oversimplifying the concept of cognition, conscience, and emotions for the sake of clarity and argument. There's no scientific basis for my claims and I do not intend for them to be taken literally. I'm simply expressing a way to perceive an individual's personality and the internal struggles he or she endures.

Evolution took it's biggest turning point when monocellular organisms arranged themselves in clusters. Anything you reckon to be an "individual" is only called that for convenience. We are each collectives, dependent on the entire universe for our existence.

The most intelligent people on the planet are actually empathetic and altruistic ( unselfishly concerned for or devoted to the welfare of others ).

There are tiered layers of intelligence. You start with dumb sheeple who will always protect their family/kin/religion/country without asking themselves why. They genuinely love things because they genuinely believe in love. But they're kind of dumb, and they stick with what they're told and don't question it.

Then you have the business people, who are cynical, and selfish. They pander to opinions without really having one. Some do, and make sure their customers share their opinions. They're generally hedonists, but they have the tendency to fall into addictions and get caught in cycles of revenge and hatred.

Then you have indifferent scientist types who are smart enough to stay out of trouble, are generally hedonists, and view the universe in materialistic, mechanical terms. They're generally Atheists. They're very logical, and they recognize themselves as a cause of physical phenomenon. They might still be caught up in the emotional immaturity of hubris. They may not recognize that their gifts are arbitrary as the outcome of a dice roll.

Then you have the few people who make the real breakthrough: Pantheists. They recognize the interconnectedness of the entire universe, they consider things like what causes the continuity of consciousness, how individuals are actually collectives, how time is divided into moments, what the smallest moments are, whether the universe is part of a cyclical cycle, whether the human race collectively has intelligence, etc.

You're God.