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The
saga so far... Three NI readers are in communication with
a spirit entity called Nil who claims to have co-written the Upanishads
and stormed the Winter Palace.
You
said Bill Clinton had a basic design fault. You make it sound like
there's a great Henry Ford up in the sky, twiddling with the knobs
on the production line.
There
is a Henry Ford up in the sky but I'm afraid he doesn't have
as much clout up here as he did before his last incarnation. He's
currently serving a three-millennia sentence for wilful disobedience
to the Second Universal Law of Cosmic Balance. You see, when the
germ of the idea for the car was first planted on Earth, it was
intended to run on water. For most of the nineteenth century people
were working on steam cars, like Robert Trevithick in England. But
Ford somehow managed to make the world worship his foul-smelling,
dirt-puking machine and it's going to take a good few decades more
before the original design makes a comeback.
But
Ford didn't invent the car on his own - there was Daimler in Germany,
Levassor in France...
Walking
encyclopedia, aren't you?
...
it's the power of science, that's all. It sweeps everything aside.
It's unstoppable. That's why a human will have been cloned by the
end of the next decade.
Nothing
is unstoppable. The Tyrannosaurus Rex was considered pretty unstoppable
in its day, and look what happened to that. And I assure you the
potential for spiritual growth towards the Light when you were incarnated
as a T-Rex was pretty minimal - things are a sight more interesting
now.
You're
squirming off the point about the march of science.
Which
is that humans have to take responsibility for their actions. Ford
is carrying the can for putting his own ideas and wealth before
everything else - and, worse, for persuading himself that he was
doing it for the good of the common person. Sad, really, since he
did have his redeeming features. Did you know he commissioned a
boat in 1915 and sailed to Europe to try to persuade Britain, France
and Germany to stop the First World War? The American belief that
the world will jump to attention when it calls is occasionally quite
endearing.
And
while Ford was sailing his boat over to the killing fields of France,
where were you?
You're
trying to catch me out, aren't you? I've already told you I was
a Bolshevik in that incarnation. Actually in 1915 I was skulking
in St Petersburg, trying to avoid being sent to the front. I could
see the War was pointless, just emperors playing battle games with
working people as their counters, and I was damned if I was going
to fight for the Tsar in some squabble with his royal relations.
Who
was it who said that the twentieth was the century of world wars
but also the first time in human history in which the idea of militarism
was effectively challenged?
The
New Internationalist, if I'm not mistaken, which has always
been a favourite in incarnation waiting rooms up here. I particularly
liked it in the early years before it was adopted as the house magazine
of the UN in the early 21st century and started being translated
into 38 languages. At that point I felt it lost some of its naive
charm.
Next
month: a stitch in time saves Albert Einstein and unveils the
future CEO of the world.
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