I think maybe we should believe our eyes rather than make excuses for some old rules that aren\u2019t working.<\/p>\n
Maybe what happened, in the beginning, was that God sent the scribe a text message, saying, \u201c\u2026and I give you all this and a wonderful mind with which you can make models to bee the world around you. Have fun! G.\u201d As the scribe gazed into the meanings of the message, silently observing the typographical error in God\u2019s texting, he quickly judged there was an extra \u2018e\u2019 in \u2018bee\u2019, and to not bother God by mentioning it.<\/p>\n
He then proceeded to follow that instruction by writing down his own model of the world in what he called \u201cthe book\u201d, telling the whole flock that God had told him that \u201cwhatever he imagined would be the world in which we live\u2026 and that it would be fun\u201d \u00a0The scribe, of course, might have traced the dissonances and asked if the typo was actually an accidental \u2018b\u2019 in place of the \u2019s\u2019 God intended.<\/p>\n
If the instruction had said our mental models were to help us \u201csee\u201d the world rather than to \u201cbe\u201d the world around us it would have meant nearly the exact opposite of how he took it. We\u2019d then have always learned to use mental models to help us observe the independent living things with which we share the world, rather than to picture them as all under our control.<\/p>\n
Too bad God didn\u2019t check back in to see if we all had gotten the original message. Then again, maybe he did endlessly, but all his messages were inconstant with the revealed truth and automatically erased as spam\u2026 Taking it as the scribe did we were all then taught that the world is to be controlled by our images, and still worse, to just sit quietly in shame, embarrassed to ask, if our own personal failure to make that work, or to see it as fun, showed how poorly we had listened to instructions\u2026<\/p>\n
~ The end ~<\/p>\n
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I think maybe we should believe our eyes rather than make excuses for some old rules that aren\u2019t working. Maybe what happened, in the beginning, was that God sent the scribe a text message, saying, \u201c\u2026and I give you all this and a wonderful mind with which you can make models to bee the world … Continue reading A very short novel – A Small Mistake<\/span>