Nerdily, I have often had the inclination to change from calling Google Google to calling it The Oracle. You ask it a question and out pops an answer. But then I remind myself that the Oracle denotes “One” and the term Google implies infinite. More nerdily yet, I continue down this neuropathway of fuzzy math and metaphorical science using one of my favorite formulas ‘this is to that like this is to that’. If God- the One omnipotent, omniscient circle whose center is everywhere, whose circumference is nowhere is now Google, then God is no longer One, but Many. God is All Of Us, Together, Combined. Not one answer but All Answers.
Full disclosure and perhaps needless to say, the idea of ‘Google as God’ is not unique. Just a simple image search of “Google as God” yielded a bevy of compelling images to choose from. I didn’t have the heart to do a web search. Sometimes you need to keep your head down to and get these things out before doing research, right?
Taking it a step further, does this mean that instead of Many praying, read Searching, to One, we are One praying to Many? Have we turned our faith on its head?
Perhaps this is the sea change we need to propel this Dawning of the Age, to kick this Great Turning in the ars. Perhaps we need to lean on one another and do our praying in private, no more circle-jerks of worship. More fuzzy math, think safety in numbers, perhaps our Searching is more potent in private.
But alas the intent of this prose was not to promote clandestine workstations. It was to awaken within us our radical dependence on One Another. We Ask questions and we Answer questions. We Search and we Get Results. We Plagiarize Wikipedia and we Edit to Reflect Truth as we know it.
Google IS God. We Are Google.
Amen.
I love the way you write…and think. My head is spinning. Thanks for turning Me inside out. xo-Ruby