Your Metaphor for God

[Wandered Off]

Maybe we're metaphors for God.

 

[doppelganger]

Maybe we're metaphors for God.

At the same time "God" is a metaphor for us.

 

[MysticSang'ha]

If you had to choose one object or living thing to symbolize what God is to you personally, what would it be?

A duck.




Peace,
Mystic

 

[doppelganger]

A duck.

Bow down before HOWARD!

 

[tomspug]

Ahahaha!

 

[BucephalusBB]

Well, if there has to be one... a programmer..

 

[doppelganger]

Well, if there has to be one... a programmer..

How about BIOS?

BIOS refers to the firmware code run by a personal computer when first powered on. The primary function of the BIOS is to identify and initiate component hardware (such as hard disk, floppy and optical disk drives). This is to prepare the machine so other software programs stored on various media can load, execute, and assume control of the PC.[3] This process is known as booting, or booting up, which is short for bootstrapping.

I think that one is a really cool metaphor for "God." So is "bootstrapping."

 

[Sunstone]

Sexual union.

 

[BucephalusBB]

How about BIOS?

Nah, in that case God would almost equal the rules of this world. We allready called that physics. No, the only thing we could need a god for (and only because of the lack of knowledge) is creation AKA programmer..
A bios creates nothing, only executes..

 

[doppelganger]

Nah, in that case God would almost equal the rules of this world. We allready called that physics. No, the only thing we could need a god for (and only because of the lack of knowledge) is creation AKA programmer..
A bios creates nothing, only executes..

But the things are rendered through the software interpreting the data. God could be though of as raw and undifferentiated being onto which the operating system (self-awareness) and its software (the algorithms that make up identity) are loaded to take in and interpret data (senses) and store the output in files (memory) to be used with future data input.

God could be the hard-wired code that hooks up the hardware and starts the operating system, and then runs almost invisibly in the background while the OS with its software carries out its tasks - like "creation" of things.

 

[sandandfoam]

But the things are rendered through the software interpreting the data. God could be though of as raw and undifferentiated being onto which the operating system (self-awareness) and its software (the algorithms that make up identity) are loaded to take in and interpret data (senses) and store the output in files (memory) to be used with future data input.

God could be the hard-wired code that hooks up the hardware and starts the operating system, and then runs almost invisibly in the background while the OS with its software carries out its tasks - like "creation" of things.

If you combine the idea that you posted somewhere that seeing God implies one needs to clean their mirror with the idea that math is simply a projection (Is that Spinoza ?) To conceive of God as code is indeed fitting for you ?

 

[BucephalusBB]

But the things are rendered through the software interpreting the data. God could be though of as raw and undifferentiated being onto which the operating system (self-awareness) and its software (the algorithms that make up identity) are loaded to take in and interpret data (senses) and store the output in files (memory) to be used with future data input.

It would mean God does not think. He would follow a path, not to be changed. It would make God as limited as possible..

 

[doppelganger]

It would mean God does not think. He would follow a path, not to be changed. It would make God as limited as possible..

Maybe "God" doesn't think. With apologies to Willamena, "thinking is an us thing". Perhaps people are just projecting their own "thinking" on to "God."

Put another way, some of the "God" software was programmed with an infinite regression in it.

 

[Smoke]

When I was a theist, I considered "God" itself a metaphor for the Mystery. I no longer consider "God" a good metaphor; it's too easily misunderstood by people who think of god as a supernatural being. A better metaphor is "42."

 

[BucephalusBB]

Maybe "God" doesn't think. With apologies to Willamena, "thinking is an us thing". Perhaps people are just projecting their own "thinking" on to "God."

Put another way, some of the "God" software was programmed with an infinite regression in it.

So who was the programmer then

Nah, but if God does not think, he will simply be a substitue for physics. Not only are you changin the standard description of God, it's also useless.

 

[eXiled]

Hmm... one word. Former friend.




Actually, that's two, huh? I see that now.

 

[Storm]

If you had to choose one object or living thing to symbolize what God is to you personally, what would it be?

Water.

 

[Izdaari]

I can't do it with just one. But in different aspects:

A wise king.
A loving father.
A lamb.
The Force or the Tao (in an EO panentheistic way, both immanent and transcendent).

 

[doppelganger]

So who was the programmer then

There are all kinds of aspects to creating the programs. The infinite recursions are collectively our doing. This is about the BIOS.

Nah, but if God does not think, he will simply be a substitue for physics.

No, physics is just one of the pieces of software.

 

[Captain Civic]

So who was the programmer then

The Architect!