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Old 03-18-2004, 04:10 PM   #4 (permalink)
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This reminds me of the Hindu story of the 'parade of ants'.

I forget the whole of it, but one of the Gods was feeling really full of himself and he was shown a long line of ants walking, and was told each of those ants was once a god such as he is, and is now a humble ant.

Now at the time I was reading it I assumed they were talking from an infinite time perspective, but it works equally well in an infinite universe perspective.

Of course the 'multiverse' is a great Sci-Fi tool, used by both horrible and great sci-fi writers.

One direction to go is if EVERY possibility could happen and heaven/hell is real, then shouldn't in some universe the devil have won the first battle and not been cast into hell?
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