Wednesday, March 5, 2014

Lighthouse Metaphor Part 2

To be a God is to be in a lighthouse so tall and so powerful that it engulfes the entire world, or at least a huge portion of it. Many cultures see the Sun as their primary god for a reason.

As we harness more and more energy of the Sun for our purposes, we become more and more confident in the scope of the light produced by our lighthouses. It is nothing but an illusion.

We still are far from understanding everything we believe we understand because where once there was a drop in the ocean, there are now simply two, three, forty. Still far from enough.

God is an unevitable creation for minds living in a world of light and darkness, of plenty and lack. Had we been born on the bright or the dark side of the Moon, maybe we would not have gods

We would, however, be infinitely good on the bright side, the world of plenty, and infinitely evil on the dark one, the world of lack.

Even life on Earth reflects that, in the spectrum between birds and abyssal fishes. Viciousness and virtuosity do not seem to be a product of chance:

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