{"id":364,"date":"2012-02-09T08:21:12","date_gmt":"2012-02-09T16:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=364"},"modified":"2012-02-09T08:31:25","modified_gmt":"2012-02-09T16:31:25","slug":"test2912","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=364","title":{"rendered":"That Explains Everything"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cA camel is a horse designed by a committee.\u201d So it has been said. I was pondering the mysteries of the universe, the riddles of existence, and my friend Zordak (the extra-terrestrial buddy who visits from other dimensions, too), reminded me of Universe #9&amp;$(x-1)! , which, he assured me, was not a cuss word, but rather the coordinates, loosely translated, on the trans-dimensional map, of another universe managed by nine small-g gods who have agreed to cooperatively governing that project. That\u2019s all they\u2019ve agreed to, apparently, but on closer examination, things run pretty much the same, although of course quite differently in details. But the riddles and inconsistencies have the same isomorphic properties.<a href=\"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/9gods.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; margin-left: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"9gods\" border=\"0\" alt=\"9gods\" align=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/9gods-thumb.jpg\" width=\"299\" height=\"309\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>So, what if our cosmos is more the product of, the surface expression of the tempestuous relations among the Greek pantheon? Whoa! What about monotheism, the reigning doctrine? Sounds good, said Zordak, but doesn\u2019t really explain why \u201cthis\u201d so radically does not fit with \u201cthat.\u201d Mountains of theology seek to rationally coordinate these disjunctions, but when it comes down to it, theologians don\u2019t end up agreeing any more than the nine gods of that other universe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCome on!\u201d says I, \u201cYou\u2019re just messing with me!\u201d \u201cMaybe,\u201d says Zordak.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cA camel is a horse designed by a committee.\u201d So it has been said. I was pondering the mysteries of the universe, the riddles of existence, and my friend Zordak (the extra-terrestrial buddy who visits from other dimensions, too), reminded me of Universe #9&amp;$(x-1)! , which, he assured me, was not a cuss word, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,25,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foolin","category-play-and-spontaneity","category-zordaks-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}