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--[[File:Noblelogo.png|30px]]'''<span style="font-family: Square721 BT; color: MidnightBlue; font-size: 7.5pt;"> <big>/ /</big> [[User:Stryker117|<span class="nounderlinelinks" style="color: MidnightBlue;">STRYKER</span>]]''' &nbsp; <span style="color: SteelBlue;">[ [[User talk:Stryker117|<span class="nounderlinelinks" style="color: SteelBlue;">COM</span>]] | [[Special:Contributions/Stryker117|<span class="nounderlinelinks" style="color: SteelBlue;">LOG/M</span>]] | [[Special:Editcount/Stryker117|<span class="nounderlinelinks" style="color: SteelBlue;">LOG/S</span>]] | [[User:Stryker117/Adopt-a-User|<span class="nounderlinelinks" style="color: SteelBlue;">AAU/HUM</span>]] ]</span></span> 19:38, 1 November 2010 (EDT)
:It's possible that "next stage of life" just means the next forms of sentient life. -- [[User talk:SFH|SFH]] 19:46, 1 November 2010 (EDT)
:It's possible that "next stage of life" just means the next forms of sentient life. -- [[User talk:SFH|SFH]] 19:46, 1 November 2010 (EDT)
== Philosophy ==
The word "mantle" has been used in philosophy before. Google results turned up "The first known atheist who threw off the '''mantle''' of deism, bluntly denying the existence of gods, was Jean Meslier, a French priest who lived in the early 18th century" and "In an effort to honor Socrates' memory, Plato took up his '''mantle''' and his cause..."
Comparing with the Forerunner "Mantle"... This seems to be more of their philosophy in general than a specific component of it. The Forerunner's mantle appears to be the philosophy of guardianship - that they should protect life. This makes their decision to create the [[Halo array|ultimate superweapon]] more than a "last resort", but showing a civilisation so desperate for their belief in guardianship to prevail that they must sacrifice many of them along with themselves in order to protect at least some of them.-- [[User talk:Forerunner|Forerunner]] 18:45, 10 December 2010 (EST)
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