The God File

Win-Zip, as everyone probably knows, takes a big file and condenses it into a smaller file. The contents are the same, but magically condensed in size.

Don’t ask me why, but I started thinking of ways that God and our interaction with God could be compared to Win-Zip, and I had different thoughts, some contradictory.

A. My first thought was that we are like Win-Zip. There’s a big file of God’s, and we reduce it to a small thing, just the corner of a page. Just a part is visible to us, and, much like the relative world, we think that’s all there is. Or, similarly, we see the title of the zipped file and think the title is the whole story, and that we have all we think we need, and, therefore, see no need to read further.

B. On the other hand, we could look at Win-Zip a different way. We could see that God has win-zipped all His files into our DNA, and everything is all there ready for us.

C. Or we could look at it as though God’s win zip file is entitled Love, and, inside, is a mere seed pearl of love great enough to fill the whole world and all our hearts, no words, no data, merely a seed pearl of love, and so the title, as mentioned in A above, is indeed really the whole story, and one that we love to have read to us over and over again.

Which do you choose? A, B, or C? Or, perhaps, those of you with greater understanding of Win-Zip than I, have more ideas and carry this metaphor further?

Posted by Gloria on January 26th, 2008 under these topics
computers, Godwriting Journal

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Reply from Jacqueline on January 26, 2008

Well, of course I do not choose A, B or C.
There are always ad infinitum answers to questions of philosphicla/spiritual/metaphysical etc. questions.

So, here’s my two cents: As far as a win-zip file goes, I don’t like the metaphor(pardon).

I don’t like files period. They are useful, but not human-like. Too right-brained idea for me.

I like this metaphor: win-win-win-win-win.

Everybody wins all the time, they just perceive it differently. Sometimes they perceive win, sometimes loss, sometimes neither one, sometimes boring, sometimes hardship, all the range of human perceptions.

To bring it back to the original metaphor of win-zip.
We must condense BIG things into everyday things or else we could not function in this world. If all our attention is on BIG GOD all day, then we would be in BIG GOD LAND and not on EARTH.

EARTH requires attention.

And besides, GOD is there anyway all the time, so GOD does not need our attention all the time. In fact, GOD of course does not need anything. So if we put our attention there all the time, I suggest that it is us who have the need. And that’s fine. We all have needs of one sort or another.

Zippily,
Jacqueline

Reply from Jo on January 26, 2008

I choose A,B,C and whatever else may come up, like Jacqueline’s win-win-win-win-win. They all ring TRUE and don’t feel contradictory at all to me. In fact they seem to collectively provide a metaphor for the balancing of our human self with our spiritual self - the homework assignment we’ve all been given.
Do you know how very adorable you are, Gloria? Even your questions and dilemmas are adorable!

Reply from One on February 6, 2008

I heard God’s moving towards open source and pretty soon everything will be so open and free there will be no need for reducing anything.

Reply from Gloria on February 7, 2008

Moving toward Open Source! Why, Senor, God originated it!

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