Hmmm, so will he use an FOPEN to begin the process.     :-)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wirt Atmar [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Monday, December 31, 2001 3:11 PM
> To:   [log in to unmask]
> Subject:      Re: OT: "2001" Explained
>
> One person wrote me privately the following, and I thought it interesting
> enough to pass on. I'm always impressed by the wealth of knowledge in this
> group.
>
> =======================================
>
> >Zoroastrianism is a religion of man as God and is still
> >practiced primarily in India today, but many of its early ideas and
> ideals
> >were absorbed into Christianity
>
> Zoroastrian ideas may have been absorbed into ancient Judaism, long before
> the birth of Jesus, and thence into Christianity.
>
> The Israelites, of course, were living in exile in Babylon from roughly
> 586
> BCE to 538 BCE, when they returned to Israel after the Babylonians were
> themselves conquered by Cyrus the Mede, ruler of Persia. Cyrus was a
> Zoroasterian. Some scholars believe that the concepts of the struggle of
> good vs. evil, and a person born of a holy seed to redeem the world, did
> not begin to show up in Jewish prophetic writings until after the Jews
> were
> exposed to Zoroastrianism.
>
> ========================================
>
> The notion of one true God, a Devil, a virgin birth, a coming Savior,
> redemption and resurrection into eternal life are also all part of
> traditional Zoroastrianism, a religion that emerged 1200 years before
> Jesus.
> Modern Zoroastrians write the following:
>
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>
> Faith, and Hope in the coming of the Saoshyant (Saviour) has sustained our
> religion through the centuries. We firmly hope, and pray, that Ahura Mazda
> sends the Saoshyant to the earth to defeat evil and further righteousness
> (Ashoi). The Zarathushtri religion was the first to proclaim that Ahura
> Mazda
> will send the Saoshyant, born of a virgin, and many other religions took
> on
> this belief.
>
> We firmly believe that when the Saoshyant comes, the final spiritual
> battle
> between the forces of good and evil will commence, resulting in the utter
> destruction of evil. Ristakhiz, the ressurection of the dead will take
> place
> - the dead will rise, by the Will of Ahura Mazda. The world will be purged
> by
> molten metal, in which the righteous will wade as if through warm milk,
> and
> the evil will be scalded. The Final Judgement of all souls will commence,
> at
> the hands of Ahura Mazda the Judge (Davar), and all sinners punished, then
> forgiven, and humanity made immortal and free from hunger, thirst,
> poverty,
> old age, disease and death. The World will be made perfect once again, as
> it
> was before the onslaught of the evil one. Such is the Frashogad
> (Frasho-kereti), the Renovation, brought on by the Will of Ahura Mazda,
> the
> Frashogar.
>
>     http://members.ozemail.com.au/~zarathus/tenets33.html
>
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>
> Wirt Atmar
>
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