On Jul 16, 3:40=A0pm, Wild Monkshood <Wild_Monksh...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Wild Monkshood wrote:
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> > Freakzilla wrote:
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> >> It wasn't Paul who was the master of religious manipulation, it was
> >> Jessica who was an adept of the Panoplia Prophetica, the infectious
> >> superstitions used by the Bene Gesserit to exploit primitive regions.
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> > =A0 =A0 You're not quoting, so that makes it difficult to know what
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> > specifically responding to. However, just because Jessica was adept at
> > religious manipulation doesn't lessen Paul's talent, natural or
> > otherwise, in this regard. I don't recall her ever being described as
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> > "adept of the Panoplia Prophetica". Wouldn't that require she be a
> > member of the Missionaria Protectiva? That was never indicated that I
> > know of, but I will concede that she knew something of their methods.
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> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 Just wanted to add that Jessica wasn't even a Reverend
Mo=
ther circa
> Dune, but was a B.G. Adept. I would imagine that to be either a member
> of the Missionaria Protectiva or an "adept of the Panoplia Prophetica",
> would require the Agony or a more elevated rank than B.G. Adept. I could
> be wrong, though. Do you have any idea where that was in the text?
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"Matters cannot be allowed to continue in this way," the leader of the
Bene
Gesserit delegation had argued. "Surely the signs of decay have not
escaped you
-- you of all people! We know why you left us, but we know also how
you were
trained. Nothing was stinted in your education. You are an adept of
the Panoplia
Prophetica and you must know when the souring of a powerful religion
threatens
us all."
~Children of Dune
To me that would insinuate that Jessica was trained to work in the
Missionaria Protectiva.
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