Rumors of death and divination.

From: bjm10_at_cornell.edu
Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2000 18:11:33 -0500 (EST)


> >RQ is _dead_
>
> Not until my last copy falls apart it ain't....

Hear, hear! I challenge anyone who wishes to force my RQ to die to meet me as a gentleman upon the appropriate field--bring a physician.

The previous statement was utterly daft and intentionally so. No game is "_dead_" until such time as nobody wishes to play it anymore. Likewise, so long as somebody wishes to play it, then the game cannot be forced to be "_dead_", no matter how much fanboys of the alleged replacement might wish it to be so--unless said fanboys wish to take utterly daft measures to ensure such "death".

> a) that different cultures tests will give different results?

This is what will happen, because different cultures will ask different questions, even if they seem to be speaking the same words. I've had some first-hand experience with this even regarding things like the weather and people from different parts of the USA. When is it "hot"? When is it "cold"? It all depends on your frame of reference. There is an objective reality out there, but it is meaningless in and of itself. Context provides meaning, and context is social. Is Orlanth a god or an antithesis of a god? Depends on how one defines god.

> b) that there isn't some actual reality that the various rituals are
> tapping into?

There is certainly some "actual reality", but what does that reality mean? Where does the meaning come from?


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