Dayzatari!

From: Alex Ferguson <abf_at_cs.ucc.ie>
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 08:13:08 +0100 (BST)


Peter Metcalfe:
> >To be more precise, I'm saying they're Mystic Materialists, not
> >pure-strain one or t'other.

> I would dispute the label of MM. I think the Dayzatari are pure
> mystics and the Buseri are neither materialists nor mystics. They
> do acknowlege that stars have spirits according to the GRoY (Ivory
> Pages p84) which would be a characteristic of theistic worldview.

Hey, I'm just quoting The Man, you don't think _I'd_ make up as bogus a label as that, do you know? (OK, it's happened.)

Before this gets more 'tis-'tisn't-ish, I should probably mention that this statement preceded FGS "reorganising" the Dayzatar cult, hence my equivocation over Buseri/Dayzatari.

But at any rate, I'm ascribing the (part) Materialist philosophy to whichever bunch of bods it is this week who do the Starseeing, the tedious mathematics, the Measuring, and what-not.

> The statement that Buseri do a Henry Fordesque turn and say
> 'mythology is bunk' is news to me.

Wouldn't life be boring without a surprise or two?

I carefully didn't say "Buseri"; it was originally presented as a "Dayzatar cult secret". I believe that particular example was of whether there was ever a time when the Sky Dome wasn't "broken" in the way it is at present. How far this take such revionisism I don't know, but I suspect they're pretty spaced out about it...

> Buserium are pretty much these days a stand-alone cult that observes
> the Heavens whereas the Dayzatar dotards are mostly found collecting
> cobwebs in Yuthuppa.

Well, I think there's some sort of notional organisational connection between the two, but I won't pretend to have any illiminating suggestions as to how. Perhaps "these days" is a good choice of words, though; the two may well be "evolving apart".

Slainte,
Alex.


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