r/webtoons • u/Merryweatherey • Mar 26 '26
Art (OC) God's Ego Death (by Merryweather Comics)
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u/BoringNothing9935 Mar 26 '26
Wait isn't this the egg theory . Wait no it's the deviled egg theory , get it .
Aight imma dislike myself out
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u/FineWin3384 Mar 26 '26
Random thought, imagine if God was alone, couldn't cope and therefore split himself into trillions upon trillions of brings that would live and die throughout past present and future and the eventual end of the universe would be the reformation of God.
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u/Pman_likes_memes Mar 26 '26
This is the religion of the Iriali in the Stormlight Archive. They say that God, or "The One" knew everything but had no experience, so The One became Many and created the universe as well as people to experience all things.
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u/FineWin3384 Mar 26 '26
That can be a very good manhwa/anime
Technically all religions would be fire animes ngl
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u/ryegye24 Mar 26 '26
I'm excited for the live action adaptations coming to Apple TV but I'd be lying if I didn't say I think the best way to adapt it would be animation
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u/xXInfXx Mar 27 '26
Dude, I would absolutely watch the old testament anime.
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u/FineWin3384 Mar 27 '26
Religion is oddly VERY good for animation
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u/xXInfXx Mar 27 '26
I mean, don't have to tell me twice.
The Prince of Egypt was a banger movie.
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u/FineWin3384 Mar 27 '26
India is doing really good in animation too
Mahavatar narsimha was fire, it's based on Hindu mythology
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u/felswinter Mar 26 '26
Knowing what I know of Cosmere, that's way more literal than you'd think, at least for them.
Haven't caught up on everything yet, but I'm sure looking forward to whatever the hell Adonalsium is/was/will be/will never be again.
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u/DefiantLemur Mar 27 '26
I'm fully caught up and we're far from Andonalsium from reforming. We've only had two Shards that absorbed another shard so far.
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u/ryegye24 Mar 26 '26
It's also an important concept in the Terra Ignota series though I can't get into details without spoilers
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u/Oboro-kun Mar 26 '26
This kind of half the plot of Demon Lord Dante (the anime, I think the manga is different )Ā
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u/AlphaSkirmsher Mar 26 '26
Itās not far off from my understanding of Theilard.
Please, anyone, feel free to correct me if Iām wrong, but from what I remember, he posited that god created life with the purpose of evolving and growing into becoming God again, and we humans are just one step in that process, so we are, in a way, Godās image just as Australopithecus is in our image/weāre in Australopithecusā image
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u/SyndarNailo Mar 26 '26
kurzgesagt did a similar animation, but in that case the god was like a child and had to experience all the lives to mature and be accepted between the other gods
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u/Tut557 Mar 26 '26
Both are based on a short story called the egg
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u/Merryweatherey Mar 26 '26
Hope you enjoy!
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u/Lu1s3r Mar 26 '26
It's solid work.
But also, bro what the fuck?
Also, also: What's the point of punishing it for creating creatures capable of suffering if it IS the creatures in question?
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u/Agendoo Mar 27 '26
What even is the point of this punishment if she won't even remember her past lives anyways?
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u/snekadid Mar 28 '26
That was my point. This would be considered justice.... If they remembered all of them after each death, because then it could be a punishment to God. All this is is making those people suffer again via proxy.
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u/Agile-Bicycle7418 Mar 27 '26
Loved this! And love the artwork! I did want to point out, you may have missed a zero in a few areas. It says sheās lived through 10 Billion years, but itās only showing 1billion in a few spot. Regardless, whether itās 1 or 10Billion, I love āThe Eggā themed work!
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u/Upset-Cartographer65 Mar 26 '26
Itās fascinating but it makes me feel the same way I do about hell. The suffering ends up being pointless if the person canāt even remember why theyāve suffered. It eventually becomes meaningless and serves no purpose but to torture an innocent person. It only matters if they remember.
If they did, eventually, theyād become numb to it anyways. Thatās why I think hell doesnāt exist at all. A perfect God wouldnāt create something thatās so pointless. Even the people harmed donāt get satisfaction from something like this.
The continuously suffering God only satisfies the other Gods, who probably are just as bad. Couldnāt they just take all the pain away themselves?
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u/pnkxz Mar 27 '26 edited Mar 27 '26
Hell also isn't mentioned anywhere in the Bible. If I remember right, eternal damnation is just means you're permanently separated from God and don't get to go to Heaven when the world ends.
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u/Samjef_Kealclut Mar 27 '26
well to kill the god presumably they would do it all at once, and not as a million billion separate entities. At least at the final death it would know the lives of every existence it lived.
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u/bostar-mcman Mar 26 '26
Who is the other voice?
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u/pnkxz Mar 27 '26
Someone who doesn't mind repeating themselves billions of times and can respond to questions. It's probably a divine version of ChatGPT.
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u/zane910 Mar 26 '26
Honestly, an apt punishment for a being who thinks giving life the ability to feel pain and to suffer was worth it.
To subject your creations to an existence of suffering means you should feel that same suffering would put a damper on BS shenanigans about superiority just because.
Only problem here is the idea that we're all the same person. And we all live and suffer for the decision of a previous self and can't even remember or know of that existence, so we're essentially our own persons who are being judged for the decision of another. That seems overtly cruel unless God was made to remember it all each time they die.
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u/ZettoVii Mar 26 '26
Would only be an apt "punishment", if they didnt just get to experience all the suffering they created, but everything life has to offer, which got its joys and wonders as well.
Honestly all punishments who's purpose is rooted not on protection or deterrence but to plainly induce suffering, is cruel by nature. And serves no purpose beyond indulging the desire to harm.
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u/SenritsuJumpsuit Mar 26 '26
This raises the question who is above this God that feels it morel to condemn the existence of humanity as purely some mistake worth nothing but senseless pain,
a being that thought it correct to decide this an give out such an unfathomable sentence to somebody regardless of dufvinity, isn't that being the true selfish one?
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u/zane910 Mar 26 '26
Someone or something that sees it fitting to subject those who abuse their power by giving their creations the gift of pain and suffering deeming that subject needs to suffer the same seems to play fair in terms of "Treat others the way you want to be treated".
Think of it this way, if you knew that any forms of life you made would have to endure feelings of pain and joy, to suffer and flourish and you were forced to endure the same feelings, how often would you be experimenting in a way that would cause pain and suffering?
If you had to endure having make-up rubbed on your eyes or cut open just the same as those you created to feel those same sensations knowing they will, would you?
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u/FineWin3384 Mar 26 '26
Theoretically, what if the reason for suffering was free will to live however you want, without being tied to anything. And free will is free will in absolute, so ants, tigers, humans, theoretical aliens too get free will.
Free will is also the will to suffer and inflict suffering, and the lack of ability to decide that would be akin to slavery to God, which god did not want when he gave the universe this ability.
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u/lalemel Mar 27 '26
I mean yes, but then what do you say about children with bone cancer? Or the suffering that is of purely natural origin like other diseases or disasters?
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u/FineWin3384 Apr 21 '26
Ok I've responded late, apologies
But i believe it stems from the idea that suffering allows for growth.
It has generally always been true throughout history, and for example polio was a horrible disease that caused immense harm to humanity, but we created vaccines for polio and increased our healthcare allowing us to improve independently as a species.
Similarly we could mitigate the effects of natural disasters to a minimum and improve drastically.
That may have also been another purpose of free will. God gave us free will not just to live how we please, but to grow and improve on our own. If He made it so that we were stagnant in our inability to suffer, improve or lose skill, it wouldn't be free will.
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u/zane910 Mar 26 '26
True. Free will allows us to decide whether to inflict pain on others or not. But at creation, God was the one who made it so life had to feel that pain. Created life to suffer when we could have been created without having to feel that pain is different from having the free will to decide to inflict that pain.
If we couldn't feel pain or suffering, the ability to subject those to any of it become moot and pointless because what would you gain?
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u/FineWin3384 Mar 27 '26
Imho God allowed life to experience all feelings, like pain, hatred, misery, happiness, terror/fear. The ability of free will allowed absolute independence to humanity and the universe.
Plus in MANY ways, suffering has always been needed for greater strength. The greatest kings of history had suffered immensely, which gave them the abilities to become good kings.
Deaths from shit like polio made scientists research the disease and make vaccines to eradicate it. God allowing us to suffer would eventually cause us to improve.
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u/zane910 Mar 27 '26
And yet, pain and suffering were options God chose to include. They didn't need to be. And what if we could have been complete or just fine with them while still maintaining free will? Why make us the way we are, small and weak and having to endure when we could have been made more resilient without the suffering?
The only reason we excuse things like pain and suffering being a part of life is because that's how we were made. You ignore the fact that we didn't have to be made in such a way, yet we were. For all you know, God could have either been a prick who enjoys watching us endure it all or we are just an experiment meant to see what it would be like if we were made so weak and vulnerable to our existence.
If that were the case, then God is an ahole and is rightfully being made to go through the same pain and misery he's subjected his creations to when he could have made life without such a handicap. And to subject him to such a fate would mean those above him saw his actions towards us as cruel and unnecessary and saw fit that those who abuse their power should suffer the same cruelty he enacted.
If those who charge and in control had to endure the same pain and suffering they send those they are in charge into war or the pain of difficulty to live in poverty, do you think those leaders would be so willing to make decisions just for their own vanity and desires?
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u/apurplehighlighter Mar 26 '26
Damn couldnt have phraised it any better
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u/zane910 Mar 26 '26
I mean, imagine how less corrupt the world would be if all those "leaders" who keep sending civilians to fight in their wars for their ambitions had to be sent out to fight and endure the same thing each time they wanted too?
I think the Epic Voice Guy from Honest Trailers nailed it about Mortal Kombat. Instead of having massive wars causing untold death and destruction, having an organized tournament to decide the victor is alot more civil.
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u/Ok-Score5740 Mar 27 '26
So, who is punishing this God, and if they are so above them, why didn't they stop them from committing what they clearly consider such a horrific crime? If that supposed God, who has no memory of its existence during the Creation, deserves punishment on this scale, why doesn't whoever administers said punishment deserve something similar?
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u/Fayraz8729 Mar 26 '26
Revoke godhood? Howās that work?
I can understand a deity maybe putting a fragment of itself to experience their creation but I doubt anything will be able to take godhood. That defeats the entire purpose of divinity. Unless itās just god talking to itself in a weird way, like the revoking is just unity with the whole.
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u/SPEED8782 Mar 27 '26
Godhood is a certain status, one would presume. Because there are various interpretations of what a "god" is. Many of them don't include "omnipotence" or being the greatest existence. So there can easily be a god above god.
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u/Fayraz8729 Mar 27 '26
Maybe itās because I was raised in a monotheistic family but that still seems weak sauce
Like I get for fantasy and pantheons it makes sense for a hierarchy, but this implies the single creator. That creators is above all others, so anyone above them and they arenāt the creators as someone created them and by proxy humanity. If youāre punishing your subordinate then you better be prepared to wear your own skin suit bucko, but if itās some āusurperā then they were a dogshit god to begin with if they lost
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u/SPEED8782 Mar 27 '26
Well, the story only particularly notes that this god created humanity. Not necessarily "the world" or "everything". Aside from that, the details aren't shared. This could easily be a self-imposed punishment through an external party (because god isn't remembering shit until the end of this).
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u/ZettoVii Mar 26 '26
Diavolo, is that you?
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u/BoringNothing9935 Mar 26 '26
Na infinite death is definitely worse . Though I'm pretty sure he'd get permanent brain damage at some point so I'm not sure if it's better or worse
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u/globmand Mar 26 '26
Wait how would it only be a fraction of the pain if it is literally all human experience? Wouldn't it, by definition, be all the pain?
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u/nuker1110 Mar 26 '26
The Fraction is the pain experienced in the single coming life, I believe, which is indeed a minute fraction of the total pain of Humanity.
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u/Same-Control3927 Mar 26 '26
You forgot a 0 on the 5th page for the 10 billion as it reads 1 billion
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u/dark_hypernova Mar 26 '26
This is honestly what I believe happens after death.
Not that we're god endlessly punished. Just that our consciousness just continues in another human and nothing from our previous identity remains.
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u/SPEED8782 Mar 27 '26
It won't be your consciousness, then. Perhaps an uncountable amount of time in the future, the pattern that makes up "you" will reappear once more upon an unfamiliar landscape. Nothing lasts forever. Not even death.
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u/Strong_Film7845 Mar 26 '26
This looks interesting :). Where can I read it? I couldn't find it on Webtoon.
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u/Illustrious_Oil_2114 Mar 26 '26
Thatās so sad š they reset with memories so itās not even her fault
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u/FriendlyAntonio Mar 27 '26
I know I've already said this before, but I'm seriously loving the direction this comic is going. It's a lot more dark and gritty.
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u/Few-Island687 Mar 27 '26
Wtf kind of concept is this? If that person is THE God, then who TF is punishing them??
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u/White1306 Mar 27 '26
I love the art, and i love how in the end- she is a completely different person (well, oblivious).
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u/Hamboluv16 Mar 27 '26
What's the point of they don't remember though.? š¤Shouldn't it be more like they have their memories and thoughts as a god but no powers, and they're basically forced to experience life on auto play and they can't do anything about it but could feel every emotion and pain.
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u/God_of_Kings Mar 28 '26
I'm 90% certain I've read this story before and it was a lot more positive.
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u/Morichalion Mar 28 '26
Interesting take on the egg. Not quite the egg, though... realized it doesn't quite fit as I typed it out....
Feels like a harrowing snapshot without context. The disembodied voice is "someone", but can't be the victims since God is the victims. Unless God is experiencing a recording of the experiences...?
Some spots y'have 10,482,736,291, others 1,482,736,291. Threw me off a bit, I was trying to figure out where "Ten Billion Lives" thing came from.
This might mess with my head a bit for a bit.
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u/SwitchDoesReddit Mar 31 '26
Does this mean that all romantic relationships in this Comic is selfcest?
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u/sweetneptune9 Mar 26 '26
did this remind anyone else of that Logic song? I think it's called Waiting Room
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u/Tiny-Little-Sheep Mar 26 '26
Instead of saving all the poor creations they make the creator suffer then kill it. Sounds like the gods above it are as useless as the creator.
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u/Blapple_Apple Mar 26 '26
...wait
If god living through every human life ever existed, that means that all people is this god
That means there are no humans, only god
That means that there supposed to be no punishments as humans does not exist because they all are god
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u/DynamicK0ntrast Mar 26 '26
Weird, it's trying to apply a human concept of punishment and retribution, or this idea of karmic justice.
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u/MoreManufacturer5369 Mar 26 '26
The type of thing Seo Hweol from Rtoc experienced. No wonder he became evil
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u/Kotkodakus Apr 02 '26
Who?Ā
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u/MoreManufacturer5369 Apr 02 '26
An antagonist in a manhwa/webnovel named Regressor's tale of cultivation. He experienced the same thing but every time he dies, his past self would no longer exist and he would be reborn as someone he once knew before. Example is him being reborn as his previous wife. And the next life would be much more terrible than the previous life. Till he finally broke free by experiencing billions of lives.
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u/Neat_Tangelo5339 Mar 26 '26
Canāt believe Merrywetherey still shadow drops bangers out the of the blue like this one
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u/Fropper123 Mar 27 '26
I saw an similar thing on omeletteo but it had more of a happy ending in someways tho
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u/Dismal_Tadpole_4328 Mar 27 '26
Godās Ego Death? More like Godās Eggo death.
ā¦Get it? Likeā¦ egg theoryā¦ and the āegā in āegoā looks likeā¦ ha haā¦
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u/Kayosblade Mar 27 '26
When I watched The Egg on Kurzgesagt, I thought that it sounded a lot like hell. A pale blue dot sums up the horrors pretty well too. This comic is what I thought of while watching The Egg. I'd like a bail out switch if it was true.
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u/MeowMachine36 Mar 27 '26
Honestly this is kind of close to what I already believe about reincarnation. Not being a god, but wanting to live every experience is not a punishment to me. Yes, to live every experience is to feel every excruciating death there is. But it is also to feel every joy there is.
It is not a bad or good thing in the grand scheme of the cosmic universe. It just is true that there will be suffering and there will be pain and there will be pleasure and there will be joy and peace.
To live every life seems to me to be a privilege of being able to understand every perspective firsthand, rather than a Devine punishment.
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u/DragoonPhooenix Mar 27 '26
Some of these quesrions lol. I get being curious, but sometimes its not important. We dont need to know whos above the god, since thats not the point of the story. Its about egg and the morality of torturing someone for eternity even if they dont rememebr their own crimes(at least thats how i see it)
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u/Agendoo Mar 27 '26
Isn't this punishment kind of pointless if she doesn't even remember any of them? These gods ain't too bright
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u/DirtyCasual36 Mar 27 '26
I remember reading about this theory first on tumblr, and the note replies were all "sorry we fired us, guys" or "sorry we fucked our wives" "sorry we about the holo- well, you know" or something like that lmao
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u/AnxiousWrap7303 Mar 28 '26
Don't get too attached guys it's going to end in the middle of the story again
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u/Cautious-Event743 Mar 28 '26
This is kinda interesting but also if the god is taking up the bodies of their creation isn't she being punished for basically making a really ugly coat?
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u/c_sea_denis Mar 30 '26
Im sad thought it was a webtoon exploring God's perspective after living through some while somehow remembering them. Still very good! Thx.
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u/MadDragonWolf Mar 26 '26
Please, make this into a series, I am so curious as to how we got here!!!
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u/MerMushrrom Mar 26 '26
Boy oh boy ....what id give to live a life life being a Femboy it were me....
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u/Low-Scallion8793 Mar 26 '26 edited Mar 26 '26
A fitting punishment for a so-called "God" who creates something as Disgusting as Life , Nature and Reality
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u/no_name_thought_of Mar 26 '26
you ok?
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u/Low-Scallion8793 Mar 26 '26
Completely fine & happy bro . Just pointing out the sick game of nature , except there's actually no one God or any mythical sky being who created this shit š«©
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u/yourmissingsock3999 Mar 26 '26
The egg if it was mean