yeah, you're right. saying " no other way" in my original post was too strong, i didn't mean it quite the way it could easily be perceived, but i should have used more conservative wording.

And, now that you have explained your theory (albeit condensed), it doesn't seem as abstract as i had imagined it to be.

I personally don't even know if there really is a God, a higher self, anything. For all i know this big bang was initiated by the collapse of a star in a parallel universe and we are just here along in our own existential hell with no hopes of salvation and only a final death to look forward to. My point: that I'm not nearly as religious as my point of view comes off as. I argued from that point of view because I'm fairly well oriented in medieval philosophy and the (alleged) nature of God was a very exhaustively and intricately covered topic in that time period.

I appreciate the dialogue as well. peace.