On deity shapes

Dialogues on Checkerism

Wise man, in the drawing excercise you asked us to depict our favourite deity. Some of us drew the same gods, but we drew them very differently. Shouldn't we all see the same gods, and shouldn't we all have drawn those gods the same way?: Are you the same as your fellow students?
In some ways I am, but in others I am different.: What makes you different from your fellow students?
My family, my parents who raised me, my history, the town where I used to live, they all shape who I am. Those all are different from the other students, which makes me different from them.: Therein lies the answer to your question.
Me being different from the others causes me to depict gods differently? Even when the gods themselves are the same?: Who we are and what we know, influences everything... including our depictions of deity.
But we all see this chair the same way; why should deities differ?: How is it that you compare a deity to a chair?