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the fact i am studying it could cause me to be seeing things !
Ha! Welcome to the world of academia.
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Maybe his loop will stop when the world is ready and reordered its prinicples.
This is an interesting thought. If that's the case, though, his personal quest is dependent upon the choices of others, which I don't think is right. So, instead, maybe his quest isn't necessarily to find and then save the tower, but rather save the tower by having an impact on the world. By first redeeming himself, he can then know how to redeem others and, by extension, the world. Saving the tower an individual at a time. Maybe he draws a new three every time, giving them the chance at redemption. And once the right people have been redeemed, the tower begins to recover. Although, I think this line of thinking probably belongs in another thread.
When it comes to the world having moved on...
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I think the portals already existed but only to people like the Manni who maybe could be 'trusted' with this kind of thing.
You're probably right on that. Because in the passage I quoted a few posts ago, the Old Ones put the guardians there to atone for the wrongs they had done.
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oh, oh, I just thought of something. The very name of the Guardians...Guards are there to keep things out (or in). I think the injection of evil into the world had to have come from the portals and the guardians were set by the Oldies to keep it at bay. But they didn't work.
Ahh yes of course good point.
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Some said the guardians were the last act of the Oldies before they hanged themselves with pride in attempt to atone for wrongs they had done to each other and the earth. What were those wrongs? If the portals were always there, but only known of by people like the Manni, maybe the Oldies let the secret out.
It could be something to do with ther war machines that FArson is trying to use against th Afffliation in W &G?
As far as John Farson goes, he may be a disciple or a symptom of whatever was let in. He was trying to bring a new order to the world (democracy). He was most likely a symptom....like the final seal being broken or something. I agree.
Isn't Rousseau opposed to Kant? Aren't they usually opposites? I think in the sense that he might be an Enlightenment Philosopher? So, if Kant's idea of choices and radical evil started the moving on process, perhaps Rousseau's belief in a return to nature is reordering of principles the world needs. That might be an odd/incorrect juxtaposition, but there it is nonetheless.