What God is to the Universe is what your mind is to your body

[Arkilogue]

   “Mater, the Latin word for “mother,” has given rise to the word “matter”….

   The Latin word for “father,” pater, gave rise to... “pattern.”

   Thus, [our circumstances] can be seen as coming from both a mother and father, the mating of
   matter + pattern.”

— A Beginner’s Guide to Constructing the Universe

As I have just demonstrated pretty comprehensively, using a non-biased resource purely on the subject of etymology (which you brought up), that is not true.

http://www.english-for-students.com/pater.html

Pater and patr are the root words for both Father and Pattern. They also have the same function biologically. The Father imparts imparts material pattern to complete the Mother's set, the matter of the Mother's body is used to grow the embryo.

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Little to nothing given the 13 billion year stack of universal order and snowball like accumulation of language/knowledge/culture in human development.

"We see plans within plans" Dune, Spice Navigator.

Why then, would seeing an underlying meaning here or anywhere else -mean- anything more than whatever underlying divine meaning resides in your taking a morning shit?  It becomes another term for "normal stuff happening".

Meh, not even fun crazy...boring crazy.  A deranged accountant..when I was hoping for a murderous clown.

On that note, did you know there are more bacterial flora and fauna cells in your body than human cells? You aren't the passenger, you're the ride.

It means what it means to those who seek it, answers only matter to those who ask good questions.

[Ravenshire]

You prefer to nitpick for eternity while I prefer you just spill the beans.

Father and Mother, Pater and Mater, pattern and matter.

Before the inflation of the BBT singularity, there was only pure matter in no pattern, no differentiation.

After the inflation, regular pattern is imposed on the matter of the universe which takes the regular and repeated basic unit shape of the atom.

(emphasis is mine)

Pure bullshit!
Mother:
Origin and Etymology;
Middle English moder, from Old English mōdor; akin to Old High German muoter mother, Latin mater, Greek mētēr, Sanskrit
Source

Father:
Origin and Etymology;
Middle English fader, from Old English fæder; akin to Old High German fater father, Latin pater, Greek patēr
Source

Pattern and matter?!?

Pater and patr are the root words for both Father and Pattern.  They also have the same function biologically. The Father imparts imparts material pattern to complete the Mother's set, the matter of the Mother's body is used to grow the embryo.

You are sooooooooo full of shit!

Origin and Etymology of pattern
Middle English patron, from Anglo-French, from Medieval Latin patronus
Source

Origin and Etymology of matter
Middle English matere, from Anglo-French, from Latin materia matter, physical substance, from mater
Source

So, you've got one that shares a root, and one that shares nothing. I share roots with my cousin, but I am not my cousin.

Or, perhaps you can show us a dictionary entry showing us the etymology that proves your point...

I won't hold my breath.

[Ravenshire]

See my edit.

http://carljungdepthpsychology.blogspot....er-or.html

http://www.matterandpattern.com/about-m-p/

A couple blogs vs. actual dictionary entries. Dictionaries trump blogs every time.

[Thumpalumpacus]

The topic as I understand it: If there is a God, what is it's relationship to the universe?  Op postulated God was to the universe like the mind is to the human body.

I've asserted that God is like the Father to a Mother and the universe is the womb and everything in it part of a developing life form.  I haven't gotten into why yet.

[fdesilva]

A person with their mind is able to control the hands etc. Thus from the perspective of the mind the body is in its control. So what if the Big bang and as such the universe is the creation of a Mind?  Our own existence is the best evidence that this is a possibility.

Analogy fail: My mind didn't create my body, my genetics and environment did.

Your mum created your body and at some point your mind took over its maintenance.

[Thumpalumpacus]

Analogy fail: My mind didn't create my body, my genetics and environment did.

Your mum created your body and at some point your mind took over its maintenance.

Yeah, you apparently don't understand the full connotation of "environment".

You apparently don't understand genetics, either. I arose as a result of the union of gametes from both a father and a mother. My mother nurtured my fetal form, but she didn't create it.

And as a matter of fact, after about nine months she got tired of this little leech and served it an eviction notice -- how's that for love?

[LastPoet]

Here is the downfall of religionists, they start with a conclusion, then cherry pick only the parts of the evidence that suits their conclusion. Kinda like building a house, starting by the roof.

[robvalue]

That can work, if the roof is very small. And you always stay in the middle of your house. Wearing some tiles as a hat, basically.

[Thumpalumpacus]

I have a small roof ... it's called an umbrella. So small it's portable and even folding.

[chimp3]

Do you know the etymological roots of the words "father" and "mother"

Do you know the etymological root of the word god? Without the literary devices of metaphor, analogy, personification, and anthropomorphism where would this god be?