H'mmm

Gerry Quinn · 18 Nov 2011, 14:27 · from 2011-November.txt.gz

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From: gerry at bindweed.com (Gerry Quinn)
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2011 14:27:20 -0000
Subject: (urth) H'mmm
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  From: Lee Berman 

  >Marc Aramini: It's not that they grow up to be animals, its that they hybridize 
  >with a genetic template to survive and pass on the conjoined genetic material, 
  >something which IS seen in the mating of inhumi....vegetable become animal through 
  >transubstantiation, the meaning of the eucharist: grapes become blood.
   
  I'm completely with Marc on this. Brilliant analogy. The connection between inhumi and 
  lianas (and trees and Neighbors) is primarily spiritual. There is a biological connection 
  implied because the entire Sun Series has a devotion to the premise that there is a 
  scientific level of understanding to all spiritual things. Think Dr. Crane's burst blood 
  vessel explanation for an epiphany. Crane may be right but he misses the point: the flesh 
  participates in experiential events but the spirit is what matters most.
   
  It is unfair to try to pin Marc down to explain the specifics of the biological connection 
  between vines and inhumi when the text obviously doesn't supply them. This is akin to the
  dismissive strategies of our resident Atheist Warriors in here. If there is no hard science
  explanation for something, it doesn't exist.
Marc 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.
- Gerry Quinn
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