FORWARD. This morning Jesus took my mind on a trip—He connected the dots for me.
When I woke up at 4:30 a.m. Jesus started talking to me (in His Jesus language) about singularity, s.i.n.g.u.l.a.r.i.t.y (“THE VERY”). I quickly saw (in part) why Jesus had previously led me to get a burger and fries with Jeff Beck (and Matt Hermanski) in Manti at Millers Drive In.
It was so that I could eventually get my eyes on the article:
“There Is One Duality Running Through All of the Exact Sciences”
Then, when I woke up this morning, Jesus—with the Holy Ghost (and I imagine lots of angels)—used that article to do the MASHup featured below.
What you and I read below is a very important concept for those who Jesus has chosen (“early adopters”, they) to wittingly build virtual/physical WORLDs in the JesusVerse (not the Metaverse).
In short, Jesus intends to have me read the following many times in the weeks and months and years to come—to give me understanding as to what He is doing as He builds out My Jesus-Greg WORLD (and Zion)… and I help.
This piece plays with a deceptively simple idea from David Ellerman: that there are two kinds of questions we can ask about reality—
We humans are exceptionally talented at the first. Give us five minutes and we’ll build categories, draw boundaries, assign labels, and form a committee to guard the labels.
And then along comes Jesus Christ—who seems almost professionally committed to messing that up.
He eats with the wrong people. Praises the wrong hero in His own story. Answers clear questions with confusing stories.
When asked, “Who’s in?” He responds with something like:
“You tell me—who acted like it?”
It’s as if He’s less interested in our tidy boxes and more interested in whether we can actually see.
We keep bringing Jesus our carefully sorted piles—sheep here, goats there, good people on this side, bad people on that side—and He keeps quietly rearranging the room while we’re not looking.
Or worse (and better), He hands the sorting back to us and asks a question that makes the boxes fall apart.
These are yes/no, inside/outside questions:
This matches the mindset of many religious leaders in Jesus’ time—clear categories, clear boundaries.
These are relational, deeper discernment questions:
Jesus often moves people from Its → Dits.
From: “Is this person a sinner?”
To: “What truly distinguishes a repentant heart from a prideful one?”
The Kingdom of God is not just about who is in or out, but about learning to see the true distinctions—between love and indifference, humility and pride, life and death.
By David Ellerman
For over twenty years, Ellerman worked on the mathematics of partitions—ways of dividing a set into non-overlapping groups.
This turns out not to be narrow at all.
It is one half of a fundamental duality appearing across:
The other half is the much more familiar mathematics of subsets.
Subset Questions:
Partition Questions:
Its = existence (yes/no)
Dits = distinction (same/different)
Classical physics assumes everything is definite.
Quantum mechanics introduces objective indefiniteness:
Superposition can be seen as indistinct states.
Measurement refines the partition.
Quantum mechanics becomes the physics of distinctions.
Examples include:
This idea says there are two basic ways to understand the world.
One way asks:
“Does something exist or not?”
The other asks:
“Are two things the same or different?”
Scientists have mostly focused on the first way, but the second way may be just as important.
Understanding differences and distinctions can teach us as much as understanding what exists.
Traditional theology often focuses on the “Its” side:
But Jesus repeatedly emphasized transformation through discernment:
This suggests divine action is not merely about selecting from what already exists, but about bringing clarity into being.
The Kingdom of God becomes a process of illumination.
The idea of singularity connects naturally to this Its/Dits duality.
In physics, the Big Bang is often imagined as a state with no distinctions yet—everything compressed into one.
Creation then becomes the unfolding of distinctions.
Spiritually, this parallels divine unity:
Reality begins in unity and unfolds through distinction.
Either way, singularity marks a boundary where ordinary understanding breaks down.
Science has mostly explored what exists (Its).
It has barely explored what distinguishes (Dits).
And that missing half may be just as fundamental.
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