Posted by Woody on January 25, 19101 at 10:45:40:
In Reply to: Re: Christ OS (The Paradigm - so far) posted by johnboy on January 25, 19101 at 10:13:25:
Jboy wrote: So, what are the implications of PxOS for the life of prayer? for the life of charity and service?
Well, for one thing, with PxOS installed, there are javascripts available in your web browser that weren't available before. To use your anagogical/metaphorical/unitive triad (but didn't pseudo-Dionysius come up with that before you?), your javascript allows the prayer and the pray-er to seamlessly operate as one: the prayer, the one who is praying and the act of praying, the person and God, are all unitively joined.
Without PxOS, there maybe could be the prayer of a "natural theology", with its myths and chants in this religion or that culture. For instance, perhaps a prayer of imperfect contrition from an early Kohlbergian stage of morality?
With PxOS, the direct experience of God was made possible, the mediated experience became fully operative, the liminal threshold between the two loaded into RAM and, always resident, acted as controller, allowing for a seamless processing of the experiences as they alternate between the most elemental command line editing, like PC Anywhere or LapLink (apophatic prayer) and the jazziest, snazziest graphical user interface (kataphtaic prayer).
When idle, the PxOS invokes an habitual awareness of the presence of God, the most beatific and pacific screensaver, and overrides all of the old invasive programs, bad habits, fixes and addictions which would not only wreak havoc with the CPU and cache memory but also were serious resource hogs.
For prayer, PxOS made possible the going forth, the resting and the return, allowing the system to remain stable, to, from and in its Program Code. The application programs, doctor, lawyer or indian chief can now run mindfully, charitably, in service and virtue, natural and supernatural.
This what you had in mind johnboy?
Shalom,
Woody