Posted by MickCollins. at wkstn4-85.lxr.georgetown.edu on April 03, 2000 at 16:34:37:
In Reply to: Wasn't Bethany the "stand in" christ, and then she posted by Darth Dobbin on April 03, 2000 at 13:58:15:
: became a Mary figure when the Metatron touched her belly and gave her the "real deal" 2nd coming bun in the oven? ::::::
Metatron just said her pipes were clean,If I remember correctly, if he said she had the second coming in the oven, I think that is very cheesy. I just remember him saying her womb was now ready for egg deployment.
: My whole take on it was that being "the christ" is a role that gets passed from "owner" to "owner," in more or less degrees.::::::
Wow, that is really far out. No sarcasm. Where the hell did that come from? Just because she shared some DNA does not mean she is the Christ. And she shared Mary's DNA, a nice chunk of code, but Jesus got most of the Mojo from his Pappy's side. There was only 1 Elvis and many impersonators,only 1 Jesus. And it is implied God is in all of us, so we are all Christlike.
:: In DOGMA'S cosmology, it seemed that JC was the 1st "full blown" messiah, but his scions have been keeping the flame, and in part, the super-powers, up until Bethany and her progeny.::::
Nope. That would assume Jesus had kids,did not happen. Bethany was realted through Jesus's brothers,who were the children of his Mom and Joseph. Jesus's line of descendansy walked out of the tomb with him. Bethany has Mary in her,not God in the sense Jesus had. So that sinks the argument, El Photoshopo.
: Dunno. There was also a big angle on the whole "observer created reality" aspect that made any one "definition" or aspect of faith only accurate according to the relative position of its proponent. Which is to say that the golf club was "holy" because of the brute power of all that ambient faith, which according to its edicts, granted the power of belssing to the clergy. ::::::::
The Cardinal,moron that he was, was a believer and the blessing put his faith into the instrument. Since he had pure faith, it made the club Holy and a smacking device for balls both dotted and white or Evil.
: Wasn't that the whole point of the Plenary Indulgances being central to the plot? That "dogma," although man-created, becomes concrete and a "fact," and leaves "artifacts" of past paradigms, or paradoxical "rulesets" that must be obeyed because of the reflexive nature of faith? (What you hold true on earth, etc?) ::::::
The Indulgence becomes real because we put our faith in the Dogma and give it strength. Faith moving mountains and whatnot.
: Unrelated point.. You know who I miss?
: Kim. Send her warmest regards from the board, anybody who sees her. :::
I miss stories of soiled corduroys.
-Heel.