AtD translation: invested in, invested by

[David Morris]

Well, if time is endowed with agency, then all its adherents, those enslave
by it’s theories, are “invested by” time.

David Morris

On Mon, Feb 1, 2021 at 1:59 AM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> That's the first one. What about the second?
>
> I found this in the OED, seems appropriate:
>
> 5. Military.
> a. transitive. To surround (a town, stronghold, etc.) with a hostile
> force, so as to cut off approach, escape, communication, or aid.
>
> On Sun, Jan 31, 2021 at 11:41 PM David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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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>>>
>>