Seven Ages - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

littlemanpoet · 05-28-2002, 02:08 AM

I heartily accept your corrections, Aiwendil. My guesses were off the top of my head instead of looking it up. Lazy me.

Who says there were no Hobbits on the ark? [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] Just because Noah never saw them doesn't mean they weren't there. Now there's a strange fanfic/fantasy for somebody to pickup on...

I guess I don't have a problem with there being more than seven ages, seeing as it has now been pointed out that we're in at least a 9th age if you count the ones before the sun.

Child, my doubts about an additional age have to do with my theology. I guess I could be all wet and there may be many more. After all, most Christians' attempts to guess or predict the "End Times" have been just plain wrong. There has been a new theory for virtually every generation of the Church; all wrong. The ones that are current now are probably just as wrong.

If there is to be yet another age after this one, I seriously think it would have to be either extraterrestrial or post-cataclysmic with a return to mythic pre-conscious ways of being and thinking.

05-28-2002, 02:08 AM	#21
littlemanpoet Itinerant Songster Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: The Edge of Faerie Posts: 7,066	I heartily accept your corrections, Aiwendil. My guesses were off the top of my head instead of looking it up. Lazy me. Who says there were no Hobbits on the ark? [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] Just because Noah never saw them doesn't mean they weren't there. Now there's a strange fanfic/fantasy for somebody to pickup on... I guess I don't have a problem with there being more than seven ages, seeing as it has now been pointed out that we're in at least a 9th age if you count the ones before the sun. Child, my doubts about an additional age have to do with my theology. I guess I could be all wet and there may be many more. After all, most Christians' attempts to guess or predict the "End Times" have been just plain wrong. There has been a new theory for virtually every generation of the Church; all wrong. The ones that are current now are probably just as wrong. If there is to be yet another age after this one, I seriously think it would have to be either extraterrestrial or post-cataclysmic with a return to mythic pre-conscious ways of being and thinking.