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The Living Force
Recently I started combing the Historical Event Database thread and found the Northumbrian scholar Alcuin, later canonized as Saint, who invented the first question mark, which looked not at all what is being propagated today. That immediately grabbed my attention. Check it out:
Doesn't it look like a striking comet? Coincidence? Like if Alcuin observed a great upheaval in a country [Adoptionist heresy for example] and was pondering about it - "Will the wrath of God strike these misguided people?" - and put a peculiar sign after that mass of text, maybe meaning possible target for a cometary strike? Then he started using the sign as a common question to the universe:
- "Who knows?"
- "What will God decide?"
- "What will be the fate of this matter?"
Alcuins sign feels like a question posed toward the universe by placing fate into the hand of [his] God.
Doesn't it look like a striking comet? Coincidence? Like if Alcuin observed a great upheaval in a country [Adoptionist heresy for example] and was pondering about it - "Will the wrath of God strike these misguided people?" - and put a peculiar sign after that mass of text, maybe meaning possible target for a cometary strike? Then he started using the sign as a common question to the universe:
- "Who knows?"
- "What will God decide?"
- "What will be the fate of this matter?"
Alcuins sign feels like a question posed toward the universe by placing fate into the hand of [his] God.
