In a message dated 9/17/2000 7:02:45 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
mike99@lascruces.com writes:
>
> Emlyn,
> I think you missed Mitch's point. He is not praying to God for help to cure
> us; he is asking for help in building God to be us.
>
Well, Joseph Campbell insisted that God was made completely of our thoughts,
a self-activating metaphor for the energies that surround us ...and that the
god construct we imagine guides our actions. In that capacity it has a use.
Dunno if we can make a computer be a god, which seems to be what some of us
are asking for --- but we can certainly "make" new metaphors from our
thoughts - create new myths... experience ecstasy, wonder awe - and guide
ourselves into good actions -- "overactive god modules" or not!
I'd base my metaphor/god on compassion, vitality, loving acts, contradiction
and humor!
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