It’s a bit quirky, but something I really enjoy doing is attacking viruses, malware, unwanted programs, and repairing computers, plucking out all those nasties and forcing them back into service. It’s like a treasure hunt, a riddle to be solved, and I take great satisfaction in seizing control. Good thing too, since I am always on machines half dead, limping along, weighed down with so much garbage they can hardly function. I am absolutely neurotic about computers, they satisfy my obsessive-compulsive need for organization and control.
It’s a great analogy for people. I so want to grab a few of them by their file system and shake the darn malware right out of them. This little bot here is hogging all your resources and leading you astray. And that virus you have won’t go away because you just keep letting it duplicate itself! Worse yet, you just keep downloading the same things, over and over again….
Some people are so darn scattered, they would sure benefit from having their hard drive defragged. Those neuron and synapses seem to be firing, but they’re just firing randomly and don’t even make sense anymore. Plus it takes you forever….
Alas, people are not computers. I am keenly aware of this. No matter how badly I want to grab their little keyboards and give them a good talking to, life just doesn’t work that way.
It’s a bit sad to me, we’re losing control of our devices, the human kind but the technological kind too. I used to be able to go through a system with some ease, but today if you hand me a phone, it’s kind of like an automatic transmission. I really can’t do anything with that, not only does it refuse to surrender to my will, it has a darn tracking device in it. Eww..
See, there's this thing called biology... 
That was just too many great analogies to count IB. Well done.
Couple of hard drive’s I’d like to reformat while we are at it.
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Great! And truth–if I think computers are beyond my understanding (which they are), humans are even more complicated. Good thing I’m not God!!
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My inner nerd just snorted and pushed up her glasses. I’m pretty sure that’s equivalent to raising a glass.
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Excellent!
We all actually are programmers. We all actually are database analysts. We program our children, to some extent. Our schools program us, to some extent. We program each other, to some extent. Unfortunately, our programs have lots of bugs, and the data we eacg choose to process is horribly skewed. So we becomes slaves to sin.
To free ourselves, to perform as we should, to throw off the bugs, to properly understand the difference between good and evil, what must we do? We must accept Jesus as our savior and let Him renew our minds, that is, reprogram us and clean up the data we put into our heads.
Bet you can guess the applicable Bible verses.
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LOL! Amen, Tom 🙂
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Great post! Love the comments. I’ve passed a thorough physical exam by my new primary care physician. She seemed a bit concerned since she couldn’t detect any reason to prescribe me any meds-that’s how they bring you back every 3 months or so to make sure it’s not toxic and/or gets other bodily functions off. She asked if there’s anything I’m concerned about? Nope, just my brain functions, I need to defrag it, could she do that? She wants to send me to a neurologist! I said no thanks. So she’ll give me a little paper test when I return to get to the bottom of my concerns. I think I just need a hard reboot!
Pass me my Bible please….I’m looking up the verse about how our inner man is renewed daily!
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LOL! Be blessed in your good health. 🙂
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Amen! Hiking and walking are my remedies to fight off illnesses!
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Amen! I call that walking with the Lord, because often we’re out exploring His creation and it just refreshes and renews the mind and body.
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Amen!
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A good friend of mine wants to write a movie script pursuing that very image–an allegory of sin as a computer virus and Christ as the repairman who has to enter the hardware virtually to defeat the virus. J.
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Great post IB, just sorting thoughts here,, if I try to sort though this I seem to find that the next generation of computer makes the last one obsolete, the new programs won’t run on the old, nor the old on the new, so are all computers flawed? One does a specific job very well, but fails at most others, some do many things well, but use a lot of power, and are too big, some can be flashed with new commands, some have learning disabilities so it seems, but do what they do without conflicts , sounds just like humans doesn’t it? I have a poor memory so have to figure things out over and over, which has made me very good at figuring things out, C S Lewis remembered everything, but struggled with creative thought, his mind was so very good, but was he any more brilliant that someone who had little memory, but could create great masterpieces of music, or the one who has human social difficulties, but can understand animals like no other? So we all are flawed, or are we all just different,? Ah, but we may be flawed in a perfect way, enabling us to have the opportunity, the privilege, or choice, or a degree of free will, and in that “flaw” we are the perfect creation to , to , I want to say play the game of life, but it doesn’t fit totally as the prize doesn’t allways go to the Swift, or the ,,,, but the one who accepts their place, their weakness, and asks for, and accepts help with that most discouraging flaw, imperfection, that entered humanity with one bad choice after another. Without that flaw, that virus, that bug, how would we all deal with humanity? So then that would be our flaw? Robots , and do robots love, or hate, or have any emotions, shoot that might not be any fun! If God is indeed the God of Love, He certainly enjoys emotions as we do, and that , I love! Oh viruses, yeah, they sure set us in our place don’t they, as does age, wars, wealth, poverty, bad hair, good hair,,, etc ad-infinitem, however that is spelled,,. The test, yes, we know our strengths, it’s our weakness that gets revealed, like my weakness for using too many words? Yes, gotta figure it out every time!
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LOL! Great comment. I really like how your brain works.
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Ha! If anyone can defrag a human you can IB. I love your little ending with the great smell of old books.
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