Context.
Father Totti had a big excuse in the fact that he had never investigated a paranormal event. He knew that The Church does look into weird stuff now and then, but the sole purpose of the detailed investigation is to avoid an embarrassment when the Vatican considers upgrading the event into the miracle category. In other words, the tears that appeared on the statue of Virgin Mary could have come directly from the water hose of a caretaker and from the wishful attitude of the believers, instead of from the Heavens. Father Totti suspected that if God had decided to personally address the issue of his existence, the country of Italy would have become ungovernable within 24 hours. Why to peanut with statues of the saints, then?
The Heavens didn't expect Father Totti to find and follow the main argument, but provided for the likely alternatives. Totti made the right and logical move to focus on the circle of the Venn diagram in his attempt to reason out the assumption that God said something by burning the copy of it. He was correct in taking into account the similarity between the shape of the circle and the letter O - the last letter of DIO, which is the Italian word for God. He did the comparison with the hypothetical source of the alternative; he compared DIO with DIAVOLO and counted the "circles," but the designated alternative of the main path wasn't the devil; it was UFO -- the three-letter international acronym that is used in Italy as well. By comparing DIO with UFO, Father Totti would have learned much more about the symbolic structure of the language that God designed to utter a wordt about the Venn diagram, but Totti was a priest and was naturally biased toward favoring God as the source of the paranormal event that took place in the monastery. Despite that, he was doing remarkably well. Especially the link between the defining three points of a unique circle and the word DIO and GOD based on the Bible/Elements comparison was very good. And it becomes better when Father Carlo Totti hits the Bible -- as he is about to do right now . . .
God didn't say much about Himself in the Scriptures, but it was enough for Father Totti to recognize something that he couldn't notice before.
Revelation 22:13 (International Version)
I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.
Taking into account the defining three points of a circle, Father Totti divided God's self-description into three parts:
God was clearly into the opposites, but also possibly into the "unlike any other" questions that litter various IQ tests.
The "logical" conjunction AND favored the O (circle) relation with the point of origin being also the point of destination. We begin the journey at the North Pole, walk south and end the sightseeing tour at he same point. The proof that the earth is not flat and doesn't have the end is complete.
But things were not that easy with the English version:
Father Totti could never explain the logic that made him to realize that Dio and God are two different words with the same meaning and that the question should be formatted accordingly.
(The switch from the parallel to the serial view was questionable by scientific standards -- it smelled after a manipulative speculation in order to reach the desired conclusion -- but the shuffling occurred within the pages of the Bible, not in some PhD thesis, and there was a permissible argument after all.)
But the view change that re-formulated the question didn't make it easier. To which opposites out of the three does the word GOD relate the best?
Father Totti didn't know. He could see similarity between a geometric figure called "the circle" and the letter O with its application to the word GOD and DIO, but for some reason, he couldn't relate the circle to another symbol that folks use for communication: the number 0. The change from GOD to G0D was essential for kicking the door to the Heavens open. Father Totti clearly needed more time to organize his thoughts.
Next: God knows what.
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Father Totti had a big excuse in the fact that he had never investigated a paranormal event. He knew that The Church does look into weird stuff now and then, but the sole purpose of the detailed investigation is to avoid an embarrassment when the Vatican considers upgrading the event into the miracle category. In other words, the tears that appeared on the statue of Virgin Mary could have come directly from the water hose of a caretaker and from the wishful attitude of the believers, instead of from the Heavens. Father Totti suspected that if God had decided to personally address the issue of his existence, the country of Italy would have become ungovernable within 24 hours. Why to peanut with statues of the saints, then?
The Heavens didn't expect Father Totti to find and follow the main argument, but provided for the likely alternatives. Totti made the right and logical move to focus on the circle of the Venn diagram in his attempt to reason out the assumption that God said something by burning the copy of it. He was correct in taking into account the similarity between the shape of the circle and the letter O - the last letter of DIO, which is the Italian word for God. He did the comparison with the hypothetical source of the alternative; he compared DIO with DIAVOLO and counted the "circles," but the designated alternative of the main path wasn't the devil; it was UFO -- the three-letter international acronym that is used in Italy as well. By comparing DIO with UFO, Father Totti would have learned much more about the symbolic structure of the language that God designed to utter a wordt about the Venn diagram, but Totti was a priest and was naturally biased toward favoring God as the source of the paranormal event that took place in the monastery. Despite that, he was doing remarkably well. Especially the link between the defining three points of a unique circle and the word DIO and GOD based on the Bible/Elements comparison was very good. And it becomes better when Father Carlo Totti hits the Bible -- as he is about to do right now . . .
God didn't say much about Himself in the Scriptures, but it was enough for Father Totti to recognize something that he couldn't notice before.
Revelation 22:13 (International Version)
I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.
Taking into account the defining three points of a circle, Father Totti divided God's self-description into three parts:
Code:
D. I am the Alpha and the Omega
I. I am the First and the Last
O. I am the Beginning and the End
God was clearly into the opposites, but also possibly into the "unlike any other" questions that litter various IQ tests.
The "logical" conjunction AND favored the O (circle) relation with the point of origin being also the point of destination. We begin the journey at the North Pole, walk south and end the sightseeing tour at he same point. The proof that the earth is not flat and doesn't have the end is complete.
But things were not that easy with the English version:
Code:
G. I am the Alpha and the Omega
O. I am the First and the Last
D. I am the Beginning and the End
Father Totti could never explain the logic that made him to realize that Dio and God are two different words with the same meaning and that the question should be formatted accordingly.
Code:
GOD: I am the Alpha and the Omega; I am the First and the Last; I am the Beginning and the End.
(The switch from the parallel to the serial view was questionable by scientific standards -- it smelled after a manipulative speculation in order to reach the desired conclusion -- but the shuffling occurred within the pages of the Bible, not in some PhD thesis, and there was a permissible argument after all.)
But the view change that re-formulated the question didn't make it easier. To which opposites out of the three does the word GOD relate the best?
Father Totti didn't know. He could see similarity between a geometric figure called "the circle" and the letter O with its application to the word GOD and DIO, but for some reason, he couldn't relate the circle to another symbol that folks use for communication: the number 0. The change from GOD to G0D was essential for kicking the door to the Heavens open. Father Totti clearly needed more time to organize his thoughts.
Next: God knows what.