“The Seneca Effect (“Collapses are the way the universe gets rid of the old to leave space for the new”) is based on Seneca’s quote: “growth is slow, but ruin is rapid.” Seneca wasn’t necessarily encouraging the idea but pointing it out. Yet this notion was used as CHRISTIAN justification of wiping out Native Americans - especially by a church court in Spain 1500’s. The Seneca Native Americans are considered to be named after Seneca. It’s interesting that the US government organization (federal & state) is based on the Iroquois Confederacy uniting five nations: the Mohawks, the Onondaga, the Cayuga, the Oneida and the Seneca.
Lucius A. Seneca (b 4BC Spain, d Rome) met Paul (Saul of Asia-Minor/Turkey) in Greece 52 AD. Some interesting & relevant Seneca quotes:
- “Time discovers truth.”
- “Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful."
- “God is near you, is within you, is inside you.”
- “The worse a person is, the less he feels it.”
- “Everything hangs on one’s thinking.”