Yes, that seems quite fair. But, speaking as an "objectivist" I still don't see why "subjectivism" has anything to do with different peoples having different takes on the way things should be. Cults of Prax managed to include cult write-ups for both Aldrya and Zorak Zoran. Recent Solar and Lunar source material *could* have have been written in a way that was distinctive yet still consistant with the gods being real (but limited) beings.
Peter:
>Why do you think the World Council had the One True Mythology and
>not say the Kralori, Artmali or the Malkioni? If the Gods are
>so powerful surely all they had to do was to pop over to those
>various places and reveal the Truth to the myriad people of
If the theists' gods exist that hardly implys that they are worthy of worship or that we have any reason to believe that they know The Truth (pat. pend.).
Anyway, in the real world, people manage to believe in
a loving, omniscient, all-powerful divinty whose revelation
occured in a specific geographic and cultural context as
opposed to everywhere and all at once.
Pam:
>But what if I decide the objective nature of my Glorantha is to be
>subjective?
As far as this objectivist is concerned, more power to you! I (and, I'd guess, Carl as well) am simply saying that I don't personally enjoy that recent increase in subjectivity. I'd hardly want to impose my aesthetic principles on your Glorantha.
Carl:
>I call it "distortion of our viewpoint". If the myths contradict each
>other then SOME ARE WRONG. If you accept the primacy of logic you
>can't get around that. If you don't, we're wasting our time
>discussing this.
Uh-huh! Testify, brother!
(oh, wait, I'm not allowed to just say "me too! :-)
Uhh, I should just point out, again, that while I dislike facts contradicting, a cult's moral or emotional reaction to the facts hardly has to be the same as that of other cults. Yelmalians and Zorak Zorani can take different lessons from the Hill of Gold without one or the other of them dissappearing in a puff of logic.
Actually, in the good old days, back before we found out that the Pelorians thought the world was a lot older than 1,600 years, there was more room for cults to differ about facts. After all, one could simply chalk up differences to the problems mortals have understanding a world "before" time.
(of course, this is no big deal for people who aren't concerned about what actually happened, but are only interested in what the various cultures believe happened.)
Mark
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End of Glorantha Digest V4 #408
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