Earth, Air, Fire, and Water Are Five Words That Describe an early attempt at classifying things people saw around them. Since early classifiers didn’t understand God as The Loving Programmer, many of them thought, (as some continue to think), that earth, air, fire, and water either came into being by accident, arraying themselves by some largely coincidental, random process, or that they always were, or that they were produced by some combination of “specialists” in complicated pantheons of gods working from Olympian heights.
When we understand that everything is a sub-program, or a combination of them, we have a clearer view of what’s around us. We can see similarities, for instance, in the sub-programs for teeth. Lots of animals have molars that are similar, as are incisors and all the other teeth. Any of the sub-programs that make up any individual tooth are similar to other sub-programs in other teeth. The Chitin Sub-program is pretty much the same, but is configured differently in each sub-program that has it. Claw, hair, scale, and feather sub-programs have similarities, and are all made of sub-programs that are made of other sub-programs.
We can’t take this awareness of things as sub-programs too seriously. We could, if inspired, find the “Basic Sup-Program”, and identify it as “Particle 1”, and project some vast cosmology that would combine the periodic table and variants of Linneausean systems of genus, species, phyla, etc. But He doesn’t like for most of us to waste our time on any sub-program but our own soul, so it’s best to focus on that and let the scientists beaver away at various classification schemes.
Just because Catholic Fundamentalists have a better feel for the fact that there is a programmed structure of the universe, we don’t want it to go to our heads. After the Communist Revolution, people took pride in being a part of the bloody boobery by addressing and being addressed as “Comrade”. During the French Revolution, earlier generations of nincompoops found the same joy in calling and being called “Citizen” as wagons filled with their neighbors were sent to the guillotines by the leading, and most bloodthirsty, who went by that name. If, in the unlikely event Catholic Fundamentalism were to become the foundational thought of a social ordering, it’s probable that we’d go around calling each other, and being called, “Human Program”; as in, “Hello, fellow Human Program, what sub-programs did you have for lunch?”
Taking even the great step forward of seeing that all which is around us are programmed entities can’t be taken so seriously that we run the risk of falling into vanity.
