Wednesday, November 17, 2010

God is 4.

God is a very complex system. I would actually go so far as to say that God is the most complex system.

Like with any complex system, in order to understand God we have to make assumptions and models.

For instance, before we could see Earth from outer space, we made the assumption that Earth is a sphere. You can go to the science store and find a model of the Earth that is about the size of a basket ball, with blue for oceans, and slight rises to indicate mountain ranges. These models only indicate the crust, they don't indicate anything about the core, or the mantel, unless of course you have a slightly cooler model, but even then it can't include the troposphere, stratosphere, or mesosphere. No model of the Earth can indicate how hot the center of the Earth is, nor how cold the glacier peaks of the highest mountains are, nor the way ocean currents circulate and bring life in upswell regions. But it is at least useful to recognize that the Earth is a sphere, and that there are continents on it... and an added benefit of this model is that even folk without vision can understand it.

So, for God I will design a model around this assumption: God is God is god is God is god is god is God is god.

This model of God will look at god as a whole and not discuss God's complex parts.

The model is: God is the number 4.

In this sense, 2+2=4. If all you know is the number 2, then you can recognize God. However, God can also be recognized even if all you know is the number 1, as in 1+1+1+1=4. Similarly, God can be understood as 1 and 3. Or further, the square root of 16. There are infinite ways of understanding God, just as there are infinite ways of mathematically arriving at the number 4. And for the "atheists," 0+4=4, too.

That last bit about the atheists may have not been understandable, so I will provide a slightly more detailed model of God.

For this model we add these assumptions: God is Life is God is Life is Life is God. And, God is everything. And, God is infinite and finite.

For this model all you have to do is take a deep breath. Or blink your eyes. Just the fact that you are you allows you to experience God. In fact, under the assumptions of this model, since you exist, you are a part of God. And since I broached the subject of parts, I will just add that god isn't just the sum of God's parts, God is god's parts.

Whenever people ask me which God I believe in I get very confused, because according to this model there is only one. And further, you would never ask, "which Life do you believe in?" Neither would you be more grammatically correct in asking, "In which Life do you believe?"

Life is Life. Beyond that, there are some commonly held misunderstandings about different Life and God systems, but I won't go into those right now.

Now go get your God on. Live your Life. Live, you're God.

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