RE: Useless memes

From: Vincent Campbell (v.p.campbell@stir.ac.uk)
Date: Thu May 18 2000 - 12:41:44 BST

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    From: Vincent Campbell <v.p.campbell@stir.ac.uk>
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    Thanks Bill

    There have been rumours about the third revelation for years apparently,
    precisely because the Church thought it too shocking to reveal. That rumour
    you head may be exactly right in terms of the content of the vision. What
    could be more shocking to the Catholic Church than the idea there might not
    be a Pope at some stge in the future? Tthe least worst scenario is that a
    Pope was killed, but it could also have meant the end of the Catholic
    Church, and it's understandable why they'd want to keep that one quiet!

    Vincent
    > ----------
    > From: Bill Spight
    > Reply To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
    > Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2000 6:18 pm
    > To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
    > Subject: Re: Useless memes
    >
    > Dear Vincent,
    >
    > > Take for
    > > example the recent "revelation" of the third vision of Fatima, which the
    > > Vatican now says predicted the assassination attempt on the Pope in the
    > > early 1980s.
    >
    > The Fatima children wrote a letter, inspired by the Marian
    > apparition, which was delivered to the Vatican. As I heard it, it
    > was supposed to be published in 1960 or something like that. It
    > was opened, but not published. (Has it been published recently?)
    > Anyway, in 1972 I heard that one of the prophecies in the letter
    > was that the throne of St. Peter would be vacant during this
    > century, and that was interpreted as an assassination of a pope.
    >
    > Best,
    >
    > Bill
    >
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