Re: Nature Vs Chaos

From: Simon Hibbs <simonh_at_msi-uk.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 14:40:23 +0100


Morgan Conrad :

>Have *you* read them lately? Quoting from the sacred texts you cite, the
>very 2nd sentence of "The Nature of Chaos" reads:
>
>"But the Gods War weakened that order, and admitted chaos into the world,
>where it still exists."
>
>Chaos is in the world now, brought there by the actions of the Gods, just
>like rain and storm and a moving sun are now in the world. Any distinction
>between one as "natural" and one as "unnatural" is completely arbitrary.

Chaos is in the world, but is not of the world any more than an infection in your body is a part of you. Your liver is also in your body, but is a part of you. Sorry to repeat myself from previous posts, but do you see the difference?

>"The battle against chaos is integral to the mythology of Glorantha;
>without it, the world as it exists is not understandable."

The battle against AIDS is integral to the life of a patient suffering from it on a bed in hospital. Without the AIDS infection that person's condition is not understandable. Does that make the AIDS virus a part of that person in the same way as his lungs? It's part of the way he is, but is it natural to him?

>Plagairizing DuPont (or Dow?), "Without Chaos, Gloratha itself would be
>impossible".

Glorantha came from chaos, but chaos does not come from glorantha, it intrudes into it from beyond. That's explicitly stated in the paragraph you quoted.

Simon Hibbs


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