Salutatio Frank!
19-Jan-98, Frank Masingill wrote to Richard Meic
          Subject: Universes
 RM>> Does time have to have a beginning?
 FM> If you listen to St. Augustine, a firm devote of Plato the answer
 FM> is a resounding yes.  For him it had to begin with the beginning
 FM> of the world, whenever that was.  Of course he was not quite as
 FM> open as Plato was in the myth of the Timaeus because Plato did not
 FM> think anything was absolutely FOREVER and the world, given a spin
 FM> would at some point run down in one direction and have to be
 FM> started again in another.  The symbolism of "eternal recurrence"
 FM> was not far down the line but Augustine's acceptance of the
 FM> Christian theophany would not permit THAT!!  Nietzsche gave it
 FM> LOTS of publicity - eh, Day?
Sorry, Frank I really don't give a %#$& what Augustine's opinion was, or
any of the past philosophers.  I DO care what YOUR opinion is, though. 
:)
 Dicere...
 email address (vrmeic@spots.ab.ca) 
Richard Meic
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