...s/he/it would have to be absolutely at peace whether I, you, or anyone believed, disbelieved, or was somewhere in between.

A circle of infinite radius is centered everywhere.

Therefore who you see, what you think you hear and not just who you think you are, IS who you are. But, obviously, not in the way you think.

Now...who is the moron, once again? Who's out of their ever-lovin' mind?

...and why do they insist on staying THERE?

...but I lost nothing here. I fumed and raged at ignorance and made a point or two.

My needs are simple.

The wants and needs of others, however, are wayyyyy out of whack. We want cookie-cutter saints in positions of authority, as if perceived "sainthood" is some sort of indication of good judgment.

Saints in the churchy, contemporary sense just piss people off. Put those jackasses in power and you get Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell. It's not entirely their fault; they want to be assholes, true, they just would like us to label how they view their jobs differently from the way that we do. But we obviously WANT irrepressible assholes in positions of authority.

Put Eric Schaeffer in a position of authority and you will transform the society for the better. One can not be an honestly flawed and vulnerable human being and not bring something helpful and valuable to the table of leadership.

For example, take these 700 Clubbers who worship the ground that Pat Robertson walks on. They SAY they believe in a loving and Almighty God, but do you think for one instant that any of them would be willing to drop their guard, even for an instant, and look at reality from a different perspective?

Yet it is precisely BECAUSE they will not become vulnerable and allow what IS and always WILL BE (in their own minds, mind you) to protect them that they live in such horrible fear all the time. And why should they not? They have a terribly inferior protector in charge of patrolling their boundaries!

Enter Eric Schaeffer who just lets it all hang out, good and bad; he only asks that you accept him as he is and not judge him based solely on contemporary set-points.

Of course based solely on contemporary ideas Eric Schaeffer looks like a spirting putz in your morning cornflakes -- but since when do contemporary ideas benefit anyone but those who sell reparations for post-application on (yep, you guessed it) contemporary ideas?

What are some of the contemporary ideas/paradigms of recent culture?

1. Boogie fever. Thought to be an antidote to the post-Vietnamization of American culture. Lead to the rise of the BeeGees and miles of self pitying love songs and ballads. And alot of crappy dancing and uncomfortable clothing.

2. Trickle (and dribble) down economics. Thought to be an antidote to the abject laziness and depression of a society traumatized by an entire decade of racial tension, murder and mayhem, followed by a decade of nihilistic screwing around. Lead to the rise of the Republican Party, neo conservative "thinking," rampant pot-smoking and drug abuse, the rise of the Fourth Reich and the advent of a whole new low in national and global leadership not seen since before the Magna Carta in 1215.

3. Eric Schaeffer McShufflism. This is where a lost and angry set of psuedointellectuals project their anger, guilt, blame and shame for what has become of their lives in a post 9/11 world on the personal behavior of a madman turned artistic dilettante, Eric Schaeffer. Coupled with their microwaveable and sugar-coated lives, their insulation from anything like a viscereal reality and their early educational experiences in front of a television set that pictured a large yellow gooney-bird and an androgynous purple dinosaur, they portend to know what "art" is, what "values" are important, and what behaviors lead to the success of the human species.

Reject Eric Schaeffer as an artist at your own peril. It will lead to a worsening of global warming and your untimely death before a firing squad of your OWN peers.

...I think he is and was an insufferable over-aged adolescent foisted on an American people too stoned to care about higher order thinking skills and proper public education.

Glad the overgrown piece of cowboy hat wearin' hard tack is off the airwaves. I feel sorry for his rocking horse.

But I'm not changing my mind about Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson. What an insufferable duo of shake-down conmen. Their CIA handler should be taken out to lunch at a patio restaurant in downtown Baghdad. If there are any left.