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Earth-Trisolaris Organization (ETO)
The Adventists believe that humanity is so corrupt and evil that it deserves to be completely destroyed by the Trisolaran invaders. Mike Evans is the leader of the Adventist faction—in fact, his entire purpose of founding the ETO with Ye Wenjie was to ensure the destruction of the human race. The Adventists are headquartered on Evans’s ship Judgment Day, where they work to intercept Trisolaran communication from their Redemptionist counterparts. After Evans, the most prominent member of the Adventists is environmentalist Pan Han.
Adventists Quotes in The Three-Body Problem
The The Three-Body Problem quotes below are all either spoken by Adventists or refer to Adventists. For each quote, you can also see the other terms and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 21
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“I'm Raphael, from Israel. Three years ago, my fourteen-year-old son died in an accident. I had his kidney donated to a Palestinian girl suffering kidney failure as an expression of my hope that the two peoples could live together in peace. For this ideal, I was willing to give my life. Many, many Israelis and Palestinians sincerely strove toward the same goal by my side. But all this was useless. Our home remained trapped in the quagmire of cycles of vengeance. Eventually, I lost hope in the human race and joined the ETO. Desperation turned me from a pacifist into an extremist.”
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Chapter 31
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The second time I came to Panama was in 1999, to attend the ceremony for the handover of the canal to Panama. Oddly, by the time we got to the Authority’s building, the Stars and Stripes were already gone. Supposedly the US government had requested that the flag be lowered a day early to avoid the embarrassment of lowering the flag in front of a crowd…Back then, I thought I was witnessing history. But now that seems so insignificant.
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Adventists Term Timeline in The Three-Body Problem
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Chapter 16. The Three-Body Problem
...Shen had fought. They had spoken of warring sides in a conflict; they mentioned the Adventists and the Redemptionists, and though both groups wanted to bring the Lord to earth, each...
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Chapter 21. Rebels of Earth
...chorus of voices break out, calling for different next steps and again using those words “Adventist” and “Redemptionist.” Just as Pan is about to call for Three Body believers to incite...
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...actors—the Trisolarans—to come to earth and redeem society. Pan wants Ye to declare herself an Adventist, but Ye does not believe that the Adventist faction shares the organization’s overall mission.
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...to destroy it entirely. This total destruction, he reveals, is the true mission of the Adventists.
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Ye explains that the Adventist faction was started by a man named Mike Evans; she does not agree with Adventist...
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Chapter 29. The Earth-Trisolaris Movement
Within the group, there were two main factions: Adventists and Redemptionists. The Adventists hated humanity so thoroughly (due to wealth inequality, environmental destruction, and...
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The Adventists and the Redemptionists were always in intense conflict, as the Redemptionists believed that humans and...
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Chapter 30. Two Protons
Ye’s interrogation continues in transcript form. Ye explains that after the Adventists monopolized communication with the Trisolarans, she tried to build a Third Red Coast Base. But...
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