@Peterike: one of the big Ten –do not covet. ah, ”period”. i guess the reasoning is so complex, so intertwined with the normal & healthy –even Godly one might characterize –ambition to succeed, that it’s better just to say, ”don’t do it”.

@Teresita: Spinoza the renegade jew thought that God was all in the mind, which proved rather than disproved his existence. In that sense, it has to be the same God, creating the free will which is the human nature of the mind, which human nature is of course quite likely to sooner or later screw up the mind, which screwed up mind is quite likely to re-focus itself on God in order to regain the non-screwed up state of being –until such time as the mind forgets again, at which time the mind’ll screw up again, at which time it’ll re-focus again, rinse and repeat. cycle breaks anytime so beware & don’t be in a bad state too much unless you like it that way (see criminal mind). Gnostic but solid, imho. No-spin Spinoza.