9.
MANIFESTATIONS AND OTHER THINGS
     EXCUSE ME FOR JUST A MOMENT, BUT LET ME PRETEND I AM GOD
TEMPORARILY.  I KNOW, I DON'T LIKE THE THOUGHT OF IT EITHER, BUT IF I
WERE GOD AND I WANTED PEOPLE (HUMANS) TO RECOGNIZE ME AND
RECEIVE MY LOVE AND HOPEFULLY RETURN IT, I WOULD HAVE BASICALLY
TWO CHOICES.  FIRST CHOICE: I WOULD HAVE IMPLANTED SOME "ROM" (READ
ONLY MEMORY) IN EVERY HUMAN BEING EVER BORN, WITH EXPLICIT
INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW I WANT TO BE RECOGNIZED OR WORSHIPED
ENCODED ON IT, SO THERE COULD BE NO DEBATE ABOUT HOW I WANT IT
DONE.  SECOND CHOICE: MAYBE I AM NOT SO RIGID, AND I DON'T CARE HOW
YOU RECOGNIZE ME OR WHAT YOU CALL ME, ONLY THAT YOU CALL ME.  OK, I
AM NOT PLAYING GOD ANY MORE.  WOO, THAT WAS CLOSE.
     I BELIEVE GOD CHOSE THE SECOND CHOICE.  I BELIEVE GOD HAS COME
TO MANKIND, MANY TIMES, AND IN MANY PLACES THROUGHOUT HISTORY. 
EACH OF THOSE TIMES, THE MANIFESTATIONS HAVE TOLD US WHAT WE
COULD UNDERSTAND ACCORDING TO OUR OWN LEVEL OF TECHNOLOGY,
SOCIOLOGY, PSYCHOLOGY, AND PHILOSOPHY.  THE MESSAGE WAS ALWAYS
BASICALLY THE SAME "TREAT ONE ANOTHER AS YOU WOULD LIKE TO BE
TREATED," BY PRACTICING A CONSCIOUS CONTACT WITH THE GOD OF YOUR
UNDERSTANDING, AND TRYING TO PRACTICE SPIRITUAL PRINCIPLES IN ALL
YOUR AFFAIRS TO THE BEST OF YOUR ABILITY.  UNFORTUNATELY, WE,
HUMANS GET SO EXCITED EACH TIME WE READ INTO WHAT THAT
MANIFESTATION SAID OR ADD TO WHAT WE THOUGHT GOD'S MANIFESTATION
WANTED US TO DO, CHANGING IT SO MUCH, THAT ONE MANIFESTATION
(JESUS) SAID TO FOLLOWERS (THE PHARISEES IN THE TEMPLE) OF A
PREVIOUS MANIFESTATION (MOSES), "YOU FOLLOW THE LETTER OF THE LAW,
BUT KNOW NOT THE SPIRIT OF THE LAW."  WE, HUMANS, ARE SO ANAL.  I
THINK THAT EVERY MANIFESTATION HAS SAID THAT AND PROBABLY WILL
CONTINUE TO SAY THAT TO US, EVERY TIME THEY COME. HENCE ALL
RELIGIONS AS THEY WERE ORIGINATED, ARE FROM GOD, AND EQUAL IN HIS
EYES.  NOW HOWEVER, HOW THOSE RELIGIONS ARE BEING PRACTICED
MAYBE QUESTIONABLE.  MEN HAVE CAUSED ALL THE SPLITS IN THE WORLD'S
RELIGIONS, ALL THE DOCTRINAL DIFFERENCES IN THE CHRISTIAN CHURCHES,
AND ALL THE RELIGIOUS WARS, NOT GOD. THOSE MEN (WHATEVER THEY
WERE CALLED {KINGS, POPES, PRIESTS, MONKS, OR MINISTERS} AND
WHATEVER THEIR {SUPPOSEDLY GOOD} INTENTIONS WERE) WERE
ULTIMATELY AFTER CONTROL OF THE CHURCHES' PROPERTY AND MONEY,
THEIR CHURCH MEMBERS' HEARTS AND MINDS, AND MAYBE A COUNTRY OR A
CONTINENT OR TWO.  CONTROL OR POWER IS ALWAYS ABOUT PROPERTY,
MONEY, AND PRESTIGE, NOT ABOUT SPIRITUALITY.