God sees Itself, Themselves

 

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Pronouns that used to guide us, now pursue
us in the quest to clarify. This is self-conscious
language. I don't know if the many-doored
play is mainly in English or doubled where
languages also gender objects and concepts.
Enough musing.
Here's what I want to say: God exists
and we are walking on it, like microbes
or fungi that form symbiotic relationships
with their hosts. But we are also God,
they are also God. Do you see? There is
godness in all nouns, pronouns and what
they symbolize, and we/they see God, too,
in the action verbs and actions. Language
infects everything, but helps limit what
we/they see as well. Remember that.
Because there you/we/they/it is or are
walking down the road. We/they (etc) exist
because walk is an action containing—you
know—God. You tell me that you are
athiest or agnostic and that what we see
isn't God. Ok. But we/they—all of us
or some of us see it anyway. And we
are lucky to see benign faces of God
in shrubs and wolves, loner and
family animals to balance the evil that
is also God. As the ancient Greeks learned
from the African cultures that became them--
all is Zeus, this too is Zeus. We tell the stories
of how God sees itself.  Should I use "themselves"
so we/they are included? So we/they can love?

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