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From: harwood@cvl.UUCP (David Harwood)
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Subject: Re: Re: Re: the location of the Temple Mount
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Date: Thu, 2-Jan-86 12:19:38 EST
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> > [David Harwood]
> > 	I'm a Christian, not a Jew, but I would propose building
> > some day the Third Temple in stationary orbit above Jerusalem --
> > to be a visible star of the civilization of peace on Earth, a sign
> > of hope for all those who see it.
> -------
> Sorry, David, but geostationary orbit is only possible above locations
> on the Equator, at least according to the currently accepted laws
> of physics.  If you could build such a temple above Jerusalem, you
> might even make a believer out of me!
> -- 
> Bill Tanenbaum - AT&T Bell Labs - Naperville IL  ihnp4!ihlpg!tan

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	Obviously I can't 'locate' the Temple 'steeple' if I
can't first 'locate' the city :-)
	Of course, the NT account of Ezekiel's vision of the New
Jerusalem 'locates' the City in heaven, so let's lift up the New
City of Peace as well.
	 (And throw down the Orbital Battle Stations of the
'Superpowers' of this world, who would indefinitely secure an
incredible and unjust 'peace' with probable horror, with threats
of horrifying retaliation against the innocent, while exploiting
the misery of the poor, poisoning our only an common planet,
profiting by mercenary violence all over the world -- religiously
appealing to the 'necessary evil' of an abomination whose ungodly
light would leave our planet desolate.)
	I already wrote that the NT account is of a supernatural
Temple, although I would foresee the orbiting Jerusalem as well.
Anyway, Bill, thanks for the physics lesson.
					David Harwood