[UA] Culture of The OU

[Brian Nisbet]

On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 01:02:13PM +0200, Will wrote:
> Brian Nisbet <lir at lspace.org> a écrit :
> > 
> > Why is alpha and omega strange?  It's one of the most constant themes in
> > Judeo-Christian teaching.  "I am the Alpha and the Omega says the Lord" -
> > "I am the Beginning and the End".  The theory is that God is all and at
> > the time the Greek letters would have been the educated way of explaining
> > that.  A hell of a lot of christian imagery has the alpha and omega in it.
> 
> I stand corrected. I associated alpha and omega with greek (and hermetics)
> symbolism. My knowledge of christian "history" is, well, more like abysmal :)

The advantages of a) being Irish, b) having a catholic mother and c)
having a protestant father means that I've had a grounding from a very
early age that's been built on.  I wouldn't claim to be an expert, but I
can hold my own :)
 
> Also, do you think the IC uses some agents as some kind of Human Resources
> department and/or headhunters?

Hmm, I really don't think so.  The quest to become a member of the IC
relies purely on the individuals need to become a god, basically.
Everyone in the world starts out at the same point, at birth, nobody gets
a head start, nobody gets a helping hand.  The things that you do and the
things you find out are up to yourself.  If the IC are going to interfer
then it's going to be, at the most, through avatars who maybe prod here or
there, but they certainly wouldn't choose someone to become an IC member,
that's up to the person.

B.

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