The endpoint of this contemplation is,
you can take a holiday from �God� as a word, but
you cannot get away from the living reality of
influence and so, if Hartshorne�s right, you
cannot get away from the living reality of God.
Yet not any influence will do for God; evidently
God means Influence For The Good. Thankfully,
for those who spend their time thinking about
these matters, that opens the door for the
Contrary Character to enter, center stage.
Still you might talk ad infinitum on the rules
of all this and well conclude that in time
All Influence Serves The Good.
Naturally influence involves context and that
involves point of view. So it could also be that
you have to wait beyond time, maybe for
all time, for all influence to serve The Good.
But then that�s a long time to have to wait
unless there�s a portal nearby onto time
eternal.
