Stories, Maths, Politics and Board Games

Stories and numbers seem intertwined in a confusing way. That one should come from another seems odd, but they do have some things in common. Stories involve change, and our earliest lessons in maths teach us how to change numbers. Politicians, game designers, and many other workers in the world require some skill at translation from one to the other, yet I wouldn't know where any of us learned how to do this.

Short Story: The Expedition and the Time Shadow

Nakkie stood shoulder to shoulder between five other men. One of them was Simon from his own team, another looked like a builder from the third construction team, and the other three were cavers. They had been herded into the square room by all of Crune's boys about twenty minutes ago, turning the cube they had spent the last two days putting together into a torchlit cell with depressingly black walls. A single cell, in the deepest of six caverns, sitting one thousand, two hundred and fifteen feet below sea level. That was a lot of rock between them and the sunlight on the brazillian desert above their heads. Not for the first time on this trip, Nakkie didn't like the feel of this.

Religious Duality

Duality is where a person behaves differently around different people. I've gotten the impression that most of us notice ourselves using it while growing up- you learn to behave differently around your teachers than you do around your friends, for example. It can appear common sense in some situations, but in others it may cause us to question whether we are being genuine.

Of all the relationships a person can have, perhaps the most far detached categories are people and God. We relate to people every day, and can choose to relate to God as well, but should we behave differently around the creator of the universe because we cannot see or touch Him?

I am not referring to whether we should respect God or not. That is a question for beliefs and relationship, not for duality. I am instead asking whether we should be behaving very differently to God during our conversations with Him compared to when talking with friends on the street.