analogies
Warning: this might sound more wacky than it is.
Nature is rife with analogies.
Every where you look you can see them: repeating patterns which echo in the millions, the hand of God at work. Trees are akin to families, fractals are akin to trees, atoms are akin to the solar system, community breeds more community, unity in diversity gives rise to an advantageous symbiosis. Piranhas rip and tear each other to pieces like a Japanese business group.
Everyone recognizes the analogies of nature to human nature and thought, it is found in millions of proverbs and used as a strong tool in magical thinking of practitioners of animism and the occult. This makes perfect sense, since man is made in the image of God, and God is order, peace, and consistency.
I feel that there is a great fallacy that we all draw in relation to the creations of mankind.
Everywhere you look you see manmade things: we have garnered objects of nature to do our bidding and make our lives easier. Are these things evil and not part of the plan of God? Are they grand pollutants of creation? Or are they a part of the plan of God? My belief that they are a part of the plan of God has led me to suppose that these manmade created things might also have analogies.
1. A prime example is the internet, especially having to do with the subconscious and man's deep longing and striving for mutuality. Every human mind would be a computer in this instance, and the overall intermingled web of all of our thought patterns (whether shared via speech or otherwise) would be analogous to the internet. If all of our synapses intertwine to form one grand overmind, we may also have many lesser overminds which are thought patterns governing people of a certain social or cultural group. This would be analogous to the .us, .edu., .kor, and all the rest. Different languages provide mental barriers, and differing thought patterns or social worldviews separate people, but we are nevertheless still of the same source.
2. A second example, which is a little less complex, is that of jumpstarting a car. When one car is out of battery, we connect it to another car and it usually works again. This could be analogous to the laying on of hands in prayer. If you don't know how to jump start a car, it won't work, and if you don't know how to pray in faith, it won't work either. The sick will not be healed. Naturally, you need the wisdom of Christ and submission to that higher knowledge for him to work through you. Read the car manual.
Nature is rife with analogies.
Every where you look you can see them: repeating patterns which echo in the millions, the hand of God at work. Trees are akin to families, fractals are akin to trees, atoms are akin to the solar system, community breeds more community, unity in diversity gives rise to an advantageous symbiosis. Piranhas rip and tear each other to pieces like a Japanese business group.
Everyone recognizes the analogies of nature to human nature and thought, it is found in millions of proverbs and used as a strong tool in magical thinking of practitioners of animism and the occult. This makes perfect sense, since man is made in the image of God, and God is order, peace, and consistency.
I feel that there is a great fallacy that we all draw in relation to the creations of mankind.
Everywhere you look you see manmade things: we have garnered objects of nature to do our bidding and make our lives easier. Are these things evil and not part of the plan of God? Are they grand pollutants of creation? Or are they a part of the plan of God? My belief that they are a part of the plan of God has led me to suppose that these manmade created things might also have analogies.
1. A prime example is the internet, especially having to do with the subconscious and man's deep longing and striving for mutuality. Every human mind would be a computer in this instance, and the overall intermingled web of all of our thought patterns (whether shared via speech or otherwise) would be analogous to the internet. If all of our synapses intertwine to form one grand overmind, we may also have many lesser overminds which are thought patterns governing people of a certain social or cultural group. This would be analogous to the .us, .edu., .kor, and all the rest. Different languages provide mental barriers, and differing thought patterns or social worldviews separate people, but we are nevertheless still of the same source.
2. A second example, which is a little less complex, is that of jumpstarting a car. When one car is out of battery, we connect it to another car and it usually works again. This could be analogous to the laying on of hands in prayer. If you don't know how to jump start a car, it won't work, and if you don't know how to pray in faith, it won't work either. The sick will not be healed. Naturally, you need the wisdom of Christ and submission to that higher knowledge for him to work through you. Read the car manual.
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