hmmmm...
Well, as this forum is for things other than PS, there's bound to be things in it "other than PS." I'll just amuse myself then with my musings........
(Mark, you can axe this if ya want)
True, varying opinions on anything leads to chaos of such at times...and more ideas (I like!). What the cosmos consists of,
imo only, is a truly random chaos...no set of *identically* and infinitely repeating pattern (see the film "Pi" if ya want to know how finding the mathematics behind everything in the universe will just drive you mad)...even though science is trying hard to find that it is, it has a serious need for predictablilty and has always preferred this, and so are religious philosophies requiring this... ie.,
imo, there is nothing in nature repeated perfectly/ identically...it's all in flux, changing. Not even what humanity constructs is immune to change. I view all religions as "man made." This goes entirely against any religious philosophies of everything recurring endlessly in a pattern of identical sameness, reincarnation, etc,
imo....thus the rereading of history as going to repeat exactly as before in a loop by some, and thus supposedly enabling those of "prophesy" to just remind us that nothing is new, it's all just a big rerun, because they've "viewed it."
I guess the idea of change is steadily resisted, still, (and people still want vengence upon those who bring up differing ideas = be gentle with a man's faith, it's all he's really got.....) even while philosophies waltz around it saying they embrace change they negate it in the same breath, and that humanity likes to impose patterns unvaryingly upon the cosmos so as to feel everything "safe" and "predictable." I find it interesting how hard humankind tries to "organize" everything into little compartments of what it finds comforting to it....and the enormous investment in efforts to make possible to "explain" anything and believe in anything one wishes, being both correct and incorrect all at the same time. [confused] We are certainly most skilled at that...ages of practice.
So....is it all *exactly* a rerun? If it is, we will see the Ark unearthed and everything written about it demonstrated as fact. Plenty more of death and destruction. Better party while ya can then. 8}
I guess I would be the raven then that would argue with God that treating humanity like this is a horrible game foisted upon beings who being frail and imperfectly made to begin with -- and the responsibility for that lies with God then, so do not deserve this harsh revengeful treatment.
The raven debates Noah and questions God ... it is written... and yet God puts up with it, even favors the raven, perhaps showing a sense of mercy and humor at least?
Well,
imo, I see no evidence that anything that has happened before is "exactly" like anything else. Nor do I see all the "prophesied" upcoming events unfolding "exactly" as said... but you can "see" whatever you want into anything, (and in remembering the enormous interest organized religions have in seeing their own views expressed/come true to control others is wrought with schemes and workings to arrange for scripted outcomes/self fulfilling prophesies -- as in the papal prophesies,
imo -- and if you choose to believe in that then you better party now because there's only one Pope after this current one, according to St. Malachy, and 'Pope Peter' of Rome is gonna be the antichrist/very bad news...better pack yer bags).
Since there's never going to be any one consensus about any of it I guess I'll just listen to what my dear ol' dad and mom "predict" about the future = It's always gonna be there, but you're not, so make the most of it. 8D
The Ark of the Covenant? 
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