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I was thinking about your response and I got to musing about a parallel universe where J.R.R Tolkien had written the first two books of the Lord of the Rings series, with people eagerly awaiting the conclusion.Jung was the arguably wayward son of a Lutheran minister who devised a very interesting theory. That theory has currency because it helps explain how it is that cultures and civilizations, seemingly far removed from each other, can still have mythologies, beliefs, etc., with essentially common meanings and motifs. Another decidedly wayward, because avowedly anti-Christian, son of a Lutheran minister, Frederich Nietzsche, a master of Greek philology and fierce critic of St. Paul, claimed that Christianity, for instance, is "Platonism for the masses." As I said in another thread, some apostate stories are interesting, including those of ex-Christians.
At any rate, the largely unresolved issue, to my mind, is the difference between "imitation" and "replication."
Well, articulately said, but some things, to me, are not quite so black and white: paradox is found in nature, and certainly in the scriptures. For instance, though plenty of people would have us accept that Judaism and Christianity fit together as hand in glove, the latter being the "fulfillment" of the former, those two religions have, speaking doctrinally, been at war for 2,000 years.
Imagine that a number of years passed and Tolkien himself was long gone, without concluding his master work. Christopher Tolkien suddenly released a book called "The Return of the King", and claims his father had penned it.
The readership is split!
Some people claim that the proposed final work contains many elements of the first two books and brings the threads together to a conclusion only the true author could have foreseen. Others pour scorn on the publication and claim that either it was only intended as a two part work, or else is only properly understood in the light of another book by a different author...
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