GR 'Streets' (death and/or afterlife)

Paul Mackin paul.mackin at verizon.net
Tue Apr 22 10:29:32 CDT 2003


On Tue, 2003-04-22 at 10:50, David Morris wrote:
> 
> I don't have the book with me just now, but th HQ seems a good topic to
> discuss.  Can you give the page number?


p. 747 if Terrance doesn't have his book handy. 
P
> 
> --- Terrance <lycidas2 at earthlink.net> wrote:
> > David Morris wrote:
> > > I strongly disagree with this last sentence, although I hear it repeated
> here from time to time.  It DOES parse, and it was meant to parse.  I don't
> mean the book as a whole, but individual sections, like this Hell section, are
> consistent and nailable, even in the details.  Not that you have to...
> > 
> > NOt that you have to, but how about that Heresy Question? 
> > 
> > "Others see a Gnostic or Cathar symbol for the Church of Rome, and this is
> generalized to mean any System that cannot tolerate heresy: a system which by
> its nature, must sooner or later fall. We know by now that it is also the
> Rocket." 
> > 
> > Lots of Heresy questions in this big book, but this one, it seems to me, is
> the one being debated in the episode under consideration.
> 
> 
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