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The Board removed Thomas Jefferson from the Texas curriculum, “replacing him with religious right icon John Calvin.”
As one poster said, who's cares, what difference does it make? We play imagination games and avoid reality. ..
originally posted by: zazzafrazz
a reply to: Elementalist
Should you be getting your knickers in such a knot over a thread I said I didn't agree with in the OP but thought the kookiness of it would be enjoyed by ATS in errr SKUNK WORKS.
Calm Down.
ETA
As one poster said, who's cares, what difference does it make? We play imagination games and avoid reality. ..
Giving one of the largest thought out responses in the thread, One might suggest you do
originally posted by: the2ofusr1
Isn't the Anti-Christ supposed to change the time or date or something like that ? :>)
originally posted by: UMayBRite!
If you are fool, its better to keep quiet than open your mouth and remove all doubt.
This line of "reasoning" is a perfect example.
There was a very strange book written sometime in the late seventies by the science fiction writer Philip K Dick. It's called Valis, and it really is the oddest, most exasperating book I've ever read. On the one hand it is clearly autobiographical, containing details about Dick‘s own life, his failed marriage and his nervous breakdown, on the other there are fantastical elements in it which might be describing something that had actually happened, but might just as easily be science fiction conceits. I won't go into the plot here, except to say that there is a single line he repeats over and over again throughout the book, always in bold, always in capital letters. THE EMPIRE NEVER ENDED - he says, like that - THE EMPIRE NEVER ENDED.
He's talking about the Roman Empire.
In some form or another, the Roman Empire has continued to flourish, long after its apparent demise, taking on various disguises. In fact, he says, the time between the era of the early Christians in their on-going spiritual war with the Roman Empire and now - the time he was writing in, the late seventies - is false time. That era and this era are beginning to coalesce. These are - the times we are living in now - literally apostolic times.
This of course may be just a science fiction conceit, a plot device to keep the novel going. Or Dick may have believed that it was true. Who knows?
I suspect the latter.