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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=entonio@gmail.com
href="mailto:entonio@gmail.com">António Pedro Marques</A> </DIV>
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Quinn wrote (13-03-2012 15:44):<BR>> > The “Failed Jesus” of every
previous iteration is just one problem. What<BR>> > about iterations
*subsequent* to the one with the Incarnation? Either that<BR>> > is
the last iteration (which is nowhere suggested) or the subsequent<BR>> >
iterations are better than that one... and yet they also must have some
sort<BR>> > of Failed Jesus or Post Jesus rather than the one true Jesus
Christ. How<BR>> > can that be?<BR><BR>> There isn't a
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quite sure what you mean by that, but the passage describing the iterations goes
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style="FONT-STYLE: normal; DISPLAY: inline; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri'; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: small; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; TEXT-DECORATION: none">“As
the flower that comes is like the flower from which it came, so the universe
that comes repeats the one whose ruin was its origin; and this is as true of its
finer features as of its grosser ones: The worlds that arise are not unlike the
worlds that perished, and are peopled by similar races, though just as the
flower evolves from summer to summer, all things advance by some minute
step.”</DIV>
<DIV><BR><BR>> > Also, if ours is the final, perfect iteration... well, it
seems like it<BR>> > ought to be a little bit better, doesn’t it?
Really, the universe of Urth<BR>> > despite various SF horrors doesn’t
seem especially terrible compared to our<BR>> > imaginings of this one, or
even our history.<BR><BR>> Again, in our universe Humanity has *just* reched
the stage where knowledge, <BR>> including religious knowledge, becomes
globalised. It's quite different from <BR>> a universe which is long past
that stage. Either something good is to come <BR>> out of a globalisation of
our knowledge and values or it isn't. The latter <BR>> view is relativistic,
imo.</DIV>
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<DIV>It reached/will reach the same stage in past and future iterations
also.</DIV>
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<DIV>- Gerry Quinn</DIV>
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