(urth) An Old mystery ...

[John Watkins]

You pretty clearly do mean astrological though, don't you?  Otherwise
what's the significance of the "scorpion"?



On 12/4/08, Son of Witz <sonofwitz at butcherbaker.org> wrote:
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>>I think you mean Easter, and I'm not especially impressed with the
>>correspondences between, well, ANYTHING and astrology, because
>>astrology is so deliberately ambivalent that it quite literally can
>>correspond to anything.  That's kind of its purpose.
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> *smacks forehead*
> I meant AstroNOMICAL correspondences.
> I'm talking about the ACTUAL movements of the sun here.
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>>> So how do you feel about your myth being 'flattened' into a mere
>>> mechanistic universe with ignorant inhabitants who must anthropomorphize
>>> their life sustaining solar body as a Diety?
>>>
>>> Some Catholics say the sun does that because Christ did that.
>>> but surely there were Astronomers charting this out before Jesus.
>>>
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>>It is not every day I have the chance to quote Susan Cooper in an
>>enlightening manner, so I will do so now.  "But not before God."  If
>>Christians are right about Christ, then His incarnation and sacrifice
>>were part of a plan forged outside of time itself, so the echoes of it
>>in nature (solar occurrences, the turning of the seasons, butterflies,
>>parthogenesis) predate not the Plan, but only its Occurrence.
>>
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> yeah, that's cool.
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