Re: Re: Inora/Whitey

From: Light Castle <light_castle_at_...>
Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 15:19:10 -0400

I think I've been swayed to the idea that even if Chris's view of the otherworld is right, it still allows us to not know our god isn't where she is supposed to be. :)

On Sat, 2005-25-06 at 18:50 +0100, Tim Ellis wrote:

> The thing is, generally how would you know? If you have always treated
> this particular spirit as a god, how can you tell that the false home
> you are experiencing is more hostile than the "true" one would be. To
> determine that you'd have to be able to visit the "true" home in the
> correct manner and see that it was easier - and if you could do that you
> wouldn't be using the misapplied worship in the first place.

Excellently put.

> Using Chris's example that, for sake of argument Inora is a spirit and
> you are a theistic misapplied worshipper. When you visit her home on
> the otherside you find it is a hostile and difficult place to visit, but
> that is because our mythology of Inora tells us that she lives in a
> hostile and difficult place (since that's what we always experience when
> we try and visit her...).

This makes perfect sense to me.