Overarching Intelligence and God's House

North Miami Beach, Florida 9-16-2000 Aaron H. Schectman

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OVERARCHING INTELLIGENCE AND GOD'S HOUSE

I was reading a story where someone complained that God's House needed to
be unlocked for all to come in. Picture all the churches, mosques, temples,
synagogues, and places of meditation and reflection. See them all,
simultaneously as places where God resides. If God exists then God lives in
these houses - or, God, being omnipotent and omnipresent lives wherever God
wants. God is the Big Fella.

Then there is the notion of an overarching intelligence existing in our
world. In the parlance of the technical age of computers it is easily
expressed as the "Web" or the "Internet". Simultaneously every individual
or group possessing the hardware can tap into an overarching intelligence,
god-like, everywhere, and anyplace in the world.

This just occurred to me and it sort of prods me into speculating that we
mere humans - strutting self-absorbed animals - are attempting once more to
build a tower reaching into the heavens. Remember what happened to the
first job the Babylonian tribe attempted? Their tower at Babel remains
today a ruin of mud bricks that never quite achieved its promise. Yet we
continue to try.

It may be the promise - the trip - that attracts us. The attempt to
achieve the impossible dream that draws us into a black hole of "maybe if.".
I would that our world were simpler. I do enjoy the achievements of all the
workers who toil at creating this overarching intelligence. It perhaps is a
threat to God who may not allow us to continue and will cause us to lose our
way in confusion. Yet we do not learn from our mistakes.

Imagining the house of god is another of our preoccupations. There are so
many versions of a simple pocket of space reserved for the deity. The
question is asked, how can this super intelligence, creator of all that
exists, choose to live in so many poor abodes at the same time? Do we poor
humans who operate on lesser intelligence expect the creator of all to
actually be there when we are in need? Carol's Evaluation: 9.5 out of 10.