Jake spouting nonsense about Parable of the Sower

 Lauren's dad asks of Lauren on page 65: "Don't talk about this (meaning the danger the community is in) anymore." His rationale for this unfolds in the following pages. Lauren's dad believes that "it's better to teach people than to scare them," but the fact that he says this to Lauren means that he thinks all Lauren's done is scare Joanne. From Lauren's perspective we can clearly see this is false, though; Lauren's been speaking about what she believes to be true from what she has learned, and simply tried to break past Joanne's wall of denial. But clearly Lauren didn't chip all the way through, and Joanne then called on her parents to help her rebuild that wall. Nonetheless, what Lauren did was, to me, a raw form of teaching that her dad hasn't considered. Teaching people in this world without scaring them at all requires lying by omission and strengthening denial simply because of all the bad things happening.

 I wanted to offer a point for discussion about Lauren's God, which is the following: why does Lauren call her God "God"?  Here's my reasoning for asking this. The one constant feature of Lauren's bolded writing at the start of each passage is that "God is change". Lauren also acknowledges that most people around her have Gods that are represented as father figures or even just as some sort of being. I think most people would agree that the mental image of a God is much more likely of some sort of humanoid form rather than something so hard to visualize as the concept of change, which can't even be described as an entity. So why does it make sense to Lauren to call something so different by the same name? Here are some potential answers I have to offer: 1. "God" is the starting point for Lauren's thought. What I mean is that perhaps all of this thinking about the forces affecting the human experience that Lauren has done was originally ...

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