AtD translation: invested in, invested by

[David Morris]

All of the listed groups have ideological investments in different concepts
in which Time is a Prime mover and unchangable.  If Time can be manipulated
then their entire world views are at risk.

David Morris

On Sun, Jan 31, 2021 at 8:21 PM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> P452.6-12   The conferees had gathered here from all around the world,
> Russian nihilists with peculiar notions about the laws of history and
> reversible processes, Indian swamis concerned with the effect of time
> travel on the laws of Karma, Sicilians with equal apprehensions for the
> principle of vendetta, American tinkers like Merle with specific
> electromechanical questions to clear up. Their spirits all one way or
> another invested in, invested by, the siegecraft of Time and its mysteries.
>
> In what senses are the two "invested" used, especially the second?
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