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[Ben] pointed out that it seems simplistic that I would use an old man in a white robe as a symbol for God. my reply is that, yes it is. So is the use of a pregnant woman to symbolize the Body of All Life on Earth. Symbols are often simplistic. The point of a symbol is that you mention it and right away everyone knows what you are talking about. Type a lower case delta and everyone knows you are talking about a small change. The old man in a white robe is a quick shorthand for God. The fact that within the story, he regularly becomes a marionette, tells you that I am not talking about the Old Testament God, or the New Testament God either. The EarthSeed like verses at the start and end, tell you that I am talking about Change. The marionette is Change that can be controlled and the sudden "large God" interventions are Change that can't be controlled or that gets out of control. The alternation in God vs. Gaia sizes expresses my understanding that while God is greater than Gaia (it pervades the universe), Gaia is greater than God (she can intentionally shape change). Well she can't because she isn't a person either. But if she is taken to be the personification of the Body of All Life, then individual beings do have intention and can intentionally shape change and the sum total of their actions, even if schizophrenic, are still intentional shaping of change.
This contemplation was put together more as a dreamscape than as a logical metaphor. Size within this contemplation symbolizes both power and time scale. The variety of God's and Gaia's symbolize the different relationships over different scales that these two powers can have both simultaneously and in series. Taken as a series, the contemplation would seem to imply that the Big Rip is bigger than a future Gaia who can sail stars between galaxies, which is bigger than an urbanized world, which is bigger than agriculture, which is bigger than evolution, which is bigger than the Galaxy, which is bigger than asteroid induced extinction events. It even implies that there are power's and or time scales greater than the Big Rip. But am I talking about power or time scale? How do you integrate power over time scale? Would destructive power, which limits itself, even integrate in the same way as would constructive power, which builds on itself? I think that the uncertainty about what lies in the adjacent possible of any event or concept, makes integration of power over time scale impossible. Instead paradoxes appear in which A is greater than B and B is greater than C and C is greater than A. The loop can even be formed as an obvious contradiction; Gaia shapes God -> God shapes Gaia.