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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=severiansola@hotmail.com
href="mailto:severiansola@hotmail.com">Lee Berman</A> </DIV>
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style="FONT-STYLE: normal; DISPLAY: inline; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri'; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: small; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><BR>>Marc
Aramini: It's not that they grow up to be animals, its that they hybridize
<BR>>with a genetic template to survive and pass on the conjoined genetic
material, <BR>>something which IS seen in the mating of inhumi....vegetable
become animal through <BR>>transubstantiation, the meaning of the
eucharist: grapes become blood.<BR> <BR>I'm completely with Marc on this.
Brilliant analogy. The connection between inhumi and <BR>lianas (and trees and
Neighbors) is primarily spiritual. There is a biological connection
<BR>implied because the entire Sun Series has a devotion to the premise that
there is a <BR>scientific level of understanding to all spiritual things.
Think Dr. Crane's burst blood <BR>vessel explanation for an epiphany. Crane
may be right but he misses the point: the flesh <BR>participates in
experiential events but the spirit is what matters most.<BR> <BR>It is
unfair to try to pin Marc down to explain the specifics of the biological
connection <BR>between vines and inhumi when the text obviously doesn't supply
them. This is akin to the<BR>dismissive strategies of our resident Atheist
Warriors in here. If there is no hard science<BR>explanation for something, it
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has referred to genetic templates, hybridisation and suchlike. It’s not
unreasonable or unfair to ask what he means by them. Or if he is actually
implying a ‘spiritual’ connection as you say, what precisely he means by
that. I don’t believe there are any ‘atheist warriors’ here,
although there may be some individuals who think any nonsense is equally good
when religion is being discussed.</DIV></DIV>
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