Standard Wolfean Riddle

António Pedro Marques · 15 Aug 2010, 01:24 · from 2010-August.txt.gz

This is the message as the crawl holds it, before anything here touched it. What the conversation shows has been through ingest: transfer encodings decoded, attachments dropped, quote markers repaired, and the archiver’s ? resolved into quotation marks and dashes. Those repairs are judgements and some of them are wrong, which is what this page is for. Email addresses are obscured here as they are everywhere else on the site, so it is before our repairs rather than byte for byte.

From: entonio at gmail.com (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ant=F3nio_Pedro_Marques?=)
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2010 02:24:07 +0100
Subject: (urth) Standard Wolfean Riddle
In-Reply-To: <4C65A642.4090900 at gmail.com>
References: <SNT123-W6197C26BEFD9A437D4C725CF980 at phx.gbl>	<4C65544B.7080301 at gmail.com>	<0542F1EE-1D99-4671-9E9E-B80B19CF8C11 at liftingfaces.com>	<4C658AD6.5020902 at verizon.net>
	<4C65A642.4090900 at gmail.com>
Message-ID: <4C6741B7.70908 at gmail.com>

James Wynn wrote:

> Presumably, the Briahs (n -/+) remain in sync because they are compelled
> to by their approximation to each other. So there will be similarities
> between Briah (n -/+) that make no internal sense. There might well have
> been a Catholic Church with nearly the same rituals (and an American
> moon landing as well) even though there was no Jesus to influence the
> next 2000 years of history.

I'll just repeat what I said earlier: I think there's a Jesus in any 
universe, and I think it's as good a Jesus no matter where. The Jesuses will 
differ in their accidentals because the universes are different, but there 
will be good enough Jesuses for all. In this view, of ourse, the Conciliator 
is no Jesus, rather a red herring (combined with the stated fact that some 
universes are better than others) to make believe some universes' Jesuses 
are better than other universes' Jesuses. They aren't. The Jesuses are all 
good. It's the universes that may not always live up to their Jesuses.

And each Jesus said something equivalent to 'Thou art Peter, and upon this 
rock I will build by church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against 
it'. But in some universes the original church may have disappeared from 
sight. And any other attempt at building a church won't be endowed with the 
same grace.

An unofficial mirror of a public mailing list · about & removal requests · download the archive · before the list · original archive at urth.net