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To: Brumar89 who wrote (60733)	10/18/2014 3:15:04 PM
From: 2MAR$	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 69300

" Pestilence reduced the population, unsuccessful military campaigns increased expenditure and taxes while resources diminished and the entire Roman fiscal system crashed. The world showed few signs of hope during the time of Plotinus, which could explain why the ideal and eternal world of Platonic ideas was an appealing refuge. This shift of attention from the Real World to the Other World was also adopted by pagans and Christians alike whose philosophies revolved around the idea of an eternal and heavenly afterlife" Why did you skip the more important revealing part? Such an evasive cherry picker its almost your DNA to dodge & deflect, you left out the most revealing part of the essay? The neo-Platonic philosophers were the instruments for giving that clear rationalized view of an ideal etherial realm after death, not even a simple Jewish rabbi could have ever imagined. This would be going back 300yrs easily before,also ethics & morals with pure focussed dedication to the search for wisdom. Unfortunately 'wisdom' was depicted as a goddess Of course this proto-Jewish cult spread fast, it was tailor made for that world of destruction, chaos & impending doom, the old religion & god wasn't fairing too well was it? It was time for a face lift and break out that last card in the deck, the new "Messiah" has come, which they're waiting for right now over in Iran, "The Twelfth Mullah".