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  "thread": {
    "id": 6655,
    "subject": "Doctor of Death Island and Cancer",
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    "first": "2014-09-06T13:46:19+00:00",
    "last": "2014-09-06T13:46:19+00:00"
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      "message_id": "<CAF1072xBk29UAMPJg-Z75XJRZsh-Yy+MCHbVKCp2WFeWd1ssMQ@mail.gmail.com>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Marc Aramini",
        "address": "marcaramini at gmail.com"
      },
      "date": "2014-09-06T13:46:19+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth)  Doctor of Death Island and Cancer",
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          "text": "A real quick note: it is thematically important that Alvard is dying of\ncancer when he is frozen - cancer is a kind of unlimited cell growth where\na cell line does not stop replicating when it should - a very literal\nattempt at unfettered life and immortality which kills the larger\norganism.  The immortality of the individuals in society has also killed\nits host, humanity as a whole.\n\nAlso, when Alvard's Bible asks \"Who is the Son of Man?\" the dominant\nChristian zeitgeist and the prophecy of Daniel and the Ancient of Days\n would have us believe this refers only to Christ, but in reality it is a\nterm which in its original Jewish sense was meant to differentiate that\nwhich was mortal and in need of repentence from that which was divine or\nangelic, immortal and timeless.  Here, the children of men have put aside\nthat mortality in theory, but they are still dead and dying - they just\ndon't know it. Christ's use of the term came to represent a Being\nboth fully human and fully divine, who would even be subject to the\ntemptations of the flesh and the threat of death and suffering."
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