RE: Carmanian Duality

From: Alex Ferguson <abf_at_cs.ucc.ie>
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 1999 17:49:38 GMT

Loren Miller reiplies to Joerg Baumgartner:
> > I would expect that even in a culture obsessed with balance between
> > light and dark, there would be archetypes of light and archetypes of
> > dark without any attempt at balance except their coexistance. A devotee
> > of Idovanus would be balanced by a devotee of Ganesatarus (in whichever
> > form it pleases him to appear).
>
> This is an example of a Carmanian heresy known as Socialism. AFAIK the
> Individualists purged them out centuries ago.

Spoken like a true American. ;-) For my money, 'Individualism' (in this context) is a sufficiently whack idea as to be much more fun as a heresy, with the religious norm being closer to what Loren would characterise as Socialism, though probably not even as literalistic as that, since the balancing principle can exist elsewhere _in the world_, not necessarily in Carmania (or in the LE).

But I don't know much about Carmania, esp. not through play, so I'd not take my word for it...

Cheers,
Alex.

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