the truth about growth

From: Harald Smith (617) 724-9843 <"Harald>
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 1995 16:10:00 -0500 (EST)


  Hi--   

> Harrumph, I was referring to terms as "bionic" and "grow" so that
  the uneducated humans on the list would understand what I mean.   

  Always a necessary process, yet we know that uneducated humans, in   efforts to duplicate the dwarven processes, will take such terms and   erroneously use them, ultimately producing Chaos.   

> With "grow" I meant a process similar to the one used to "grow"
  crystals in watery baths from salts.   

  Surely our Quicksilver specialists will show that this is merely a   transmutation of substances and that there is no true growth in this   process.   

> The same process Tin Dwarves uses to create Nilmergs and Jolanti, as
  well as Gobblers and Gremlins (tho only after sending application form   56.a.Fe.378 to the Iron department to check that the ordering of a   Gobbler was correct - these are military material!).   

  Unless application form 99.00-Au57Fe was used by the Gold department for   the appropriate demonstration of the use of Gobblers to twenty-seventh   work cycle Iron dwarfs.   

> Yikes! THIS is heresy! Only heretics would allow this instantaneous
  and morally inferior unity with the Machine! Think that by this, a   mere level 4.8 could impersonate a full diamond dwarf if the correct   mechanisms were incorporated!   

  Clearly not. For it is well known that the original dwarf arm allows   for greater manipulations and applications than such repairs and thus is   closer to the ultimate use attained by a full diamond dwarf. The   artificial substitution, while allowing a given dwarf to achieve a   specific capability demonstrable by a diamond dwarf, clearly cannot   achieve the range of actions which a diamond dwarf can perform and thus   will always be inferior to the original.   

> This Harald "Smith"(!) is obviously an agent of a coming military
  coup instigated by the Instant Mechanisation heretics!   

  On the contrary, it is well known that this unit derives from and serves   as a mouthpiece to the resident decamony at the 1st Central Pelorian   manufacturing center, commonly referred to by humans as the Imther   Mountains (though this latter designation is clearly incorrect since the   majority of the manufacturing center lies beneath said rock quarries).   

> I think the Vegetarian heresy was started by Tin and Quicksilver
  dwarves. They argue that when you fix a machine, the first thing you

  correct is the most damaged part. The most damaged part of the World   Machine is obviously that of Growth.   

  It is clear that these Quicksilver dwarfs (with whom I agree did start   said heresy, just as they started the Openhanded heresy) have a mistaken   impression of how to repair the World Machine. Replacing the most   damaged part clearly does not fix what caused the damage in the first   place. Does it make sense to "grow" a new Spike when there are no   supporting beams to hold it in place? Clearly not. The repair of the   World Machine must take place following carefully architected plans laid   out by great leaders such as Kagozhim Gearmesher and others of his   generation.   

  Harald


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