circularity

[Paul Mackin]

On Sun, 31 Dec 1995, Paul DiFilippo wrote:

> 
> 
> Anyone interested in stimulating pop science should check out
> Frank Tipler's THE PHYSICS OF IMMORTALITY.  Among other head trips,
> he deals with the notion of the dreaded Eternal Return, rather
> effectively, I thought, proving it unlikely. Wonder if TRP
> is thereby soothed and comforted...?

And what can be said about Greco-pagan _circularity_ can no doubt be
also said about Judeo-christo-islamic _linearity_, at least in the
R.C. version, which includes resurrection of the body at the end of
time as an article of faith. Physics doesn't do it. You need devine grace,
or forget it.

By picking up so much along the way from the so called pagan religions,
Christianity takes on a sort of honorary circularity. Birth, death,
rebirth or resurrection. A circularity of one revolution. 

Oh hell, it's an idea.

					P.