From: Michael Straight <straight@email.unc.edu>
Subject: Re: (urth) Ex-lurker
Date: Tue, 6 Apr 1999 11:13:49 

On Tue, 6 Apr 1999, Roy C. Lackey wrote:

>     "...the Outsider had assured him that his regard for him was eternal and
> perfect, never to be changed by any act of his, no matter how iniquitous or
> how meritorious."
> 
>     Now _that_ is predestination, pure and simple. FWIW

Predestination?  It sounds to me more like a promise.  The Outsider
doesn't say, "I've seen the future and I know you're not going to do
anything bad enough to make me stop loving you," but "I'll love you no
matter what you do." 

-Rostrum


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