you don't intemperate them, you either accept your belief, and tell the
infidel he is wrong or you convert to his belief and admit yours is wrong.
You either except the belief of your culture or you don't. do I think that a
dragon is eating the moon, no, so I don't except it as truth, but some
people might.
Ken
Gygax is to Gaming what Kirby was to comic
Alas poor Elric I was a thousand times more evil then you
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From: "contracycle" <gamartin_at_...>
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> > If I HeroQuest, I see through the vision of HeroQuest. I look at
> > the sun, I see Elmal. I look at the storm, I see Orlanth. I look at
> > Kero Fin, I see the great mother. The earth beneath my feet is
> > Ernalda. But only if that is my expectation.
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> People have been urging that the term relativism should not be
> employed in this regard; may I ask what term you would use to
> describe the above behaviour.
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> > So is one vision fake? If so which? Or are both true? The answer,
> > of course, is yes. Elmal is the sun is my truth, Yelm is the sun is
> > your truth. Both are provable, through the heroquest. The quest
> > challenge allows us to prove which is more true - you bid your
> > faith in Yelm against my faith in Elmal, and the winner is proved
> > correct. If enough people take part, beliefs can be changed. This
> > is part of the hero wars.
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> Question as per above. How am I supposed to interpret myths that
> make contradictory claims?
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