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Perhaps I can respond to a couple of post replies here at once. Criticism is, of course, welcome, since it can possibly clarify thought. I see the nexus of God/nature as good, since individual substances and essences are replete with Value. How is this more than an assertion? Because laws that are c...

I think God may be the Whole of Nature because that wholeness is the only way to be Values. That is, vision of the Good requires, perhaps, identity as each individuality, each set of relations, and the whole. As we know, whole systems are jumps in order and kind, and I'm suggesting God may be the Go...

Could it be that God is the generality that gives individualities their optimal power as individualities? Take time, for instance. The being of a thing is identical with its time-manifestation, but neither the being nor the time is isolable. An entity, such as a star, exists within larger whole syst...