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(1) See the earlier post by Leah, which, along with one of her followups on the same thread, was critiqued at length. Note: I actually do have a degree in Physics, unlike some on the Netjer boards, and can say with no little authority that neither "forces" nor "energies" are capable of any sort of awareness or purpose. When, in the making of a metaphor, the essential quality of that which is implicit corresponds to no analogous property of that which is explicit, one has made a bad metaphor. To argue otherwise would be to argue that the reader is obliged to do the writer's work for him.
(2) This doesn't even make logical sense. To say that a concept can't be oversimplified, by definition, means that no explanation which one would give of it, would ever be too simple to explain it in a useful fashion. Such a remark would indicate that the object of one's comments is exceedingly simple, not exceedingly complex.
(3) So, let's see it! Much commentary is seen here of the complexity of the belief system, but none of that complexity is ever actually seen. All that the reader is offered in this regard, is one vague allusion after another.
(4) And how much freedom of choice does a "cog in a wheel" have? Not merely does the "netjer as forces" camp offer no explicit explanation of their ideas, but they don't even succeed in creating coherent metaphors. Here, we see the New Age game of sounding profound by keeping one's commentary meaningless being played.