Monotheism is simply the theory of cosmological singularity in disguise. Pantheism, of which dualism is a special case, is simply the reification of humankind's motive drives held below conscious awareness. That's how I'm modelling contemporary religion and spirituality, anyway, and it seems to be working for me.

The godhead is at the root. The godhead, in order to achieve a sense of awareness and identity, must attempt to create its equal and then, further, attempt to commune with it. That creation and that communication is ongoing in temporal reality, or space-time, if you like.

It does appear, as sidebar, that God takes His/Her time in making a point, no?

The philosophical problem occurs when one deduces that in order to be the godhead, the quality of absolute perfection must follow. But I'm not yet certain that this is an absolute requirement...survivorship can connote a certain level of perfection above and beyond one's creation. The dimunition, or dilution, of perfection can be clearly seen all over creation. The concern that the godhead could expire and, therefore, be ungodlike, is really a moot point. Godhead is several orders of magnitude beyond us in creation so I'm sure that the rumors of god's death have been greatly exaggerated. And I say that for the specific reason that a godhead could not exist in time and space, but in a place of forever-ness where the only time that is real is right NOW.

It has been NOW for several billions years, I suspect.

This escapes the problems of perfection and survivorship in one fell swoop. It doesn't escape the problem of equality, however. God's intention that we, collectively, be equal to Him can not be met unless God has no flaws and thus endures forever.

The duality, or the fracturing of Now into pieces of space and time can not help but naturally follow from a conjoint need of the godhead to create awareness and, at the same time, for that awareness to experience limitation, or limited recursive capacity. This we humans experience as fear. The more we embrace and indulge our fears, the more fractured our own reality becomes. And driving this fear, if my reasoning and induction is correct, should be both our fear of scattering ourselves into nothing, or of rejoining the godhead. Too much communing or too much disharmony. Both prospects should strike fear into our hearts' equally.

Satan does not exist. Satan was made by mankind to operationalize the explanation of our communal fear and what that fear drives us to do.

So we have the ultimate reality of monotheism preserved and the subordinate reality of time and space preserved as well, explaining the appearance of duality, and more, in terms of an "unreal" reality. And even this can be explained as the temporary nature of manifestations that fall down the sinkhole that is "time" and "space".

...I just didn't know there was a "profile" section that had to be filled out on the account. It obviously defaulted to "single" and I never bothered to correct it.

I hardly ever use that account, anyway. I've probably used it more since this snivel-fit erupted than I ever have before.

Why is it so hard to believe that a woman could actually meet and fall in love with me? A fellow such as myself? A fellow who finds Eric Schaeffer to be at times brave and at times shallow as a mud puddle? I find that beautifully human and reassuring.

What is less reassuring is knowing that there are these skalliwags and hulligans who delight in pointing out that our flaws actually make us subhuman, or somehow diminished as people. Therefore we deserve no dignity and no respect.

This is 19th century Victorian claptrap dreamed up by fools looking to bully other people around, and still finding use among the brownshirts and the pseudointellectuals of our time.

Destructive criticism is a curse, a pox, on our land. It is not the way this country started and it is not what makes this country great.

Love and tolerance, at one time, was our agreed upon code. It had to be. Our perennial godfather, Thomas Jefferson, knew he was a flaming hypocrite. Hamilton only thought he wasn't a hypocrite...he was just as flawed as anyone in his own special way(s).

...as you may know, or may learn, compliments are few and far between in the blogosphere...so thank you very much!!!

...he rarely says things that I agree with.

But I can't abide with the "scorched earth" policies involved in race relations. I think they backfire.

If Imus can live at his current economic level, I'd say ending his career wouldn't be a death sentence. But "kill whitey," retaliations will not solve this problem. We've tried that before. Killing MLK, RFK and JFK didn't work, either, as will soon be demonstrated with crystal clarity.

Far more effective would be to watch Imus TRY to keep his career afloat as every counter-racist watches him like a hawk for the rest of his life.

If we get him fired, everyone sits on their hands, "nuff said." We keep him in everyone's face, everyone sits up and takes notice until real changes take place.

I guess in some ways my solution could be more cruel to Imus than to just give him an "F" and send him home. But the karma to the anti-racism cause is much better and I can see where it might actually help to have a burr in the side of the complacent.