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>>>>> >>>Take the rain god. Water falls out of the sky; there it is, doing it
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>right now.
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>>>>>> >>>What more proof of the existence of a rain god could you possibly need?
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>[snip]
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>As a counter argument, I have this quote form a first century Roman:
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[snip M Antonius Enculpus quote]
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>So, maybe many people "knew" that gods existed, but at least
>one "knew" that they didn't.
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Oh, indeed, but this isn't so much a counter-argument to what I was
saying, which (in context) was that Gloranthans aren't so different from
ancient real-world humans in their beliefs. It was argued that
Gloranthans are different from ancient RW people in that the latter
needed faith to accept the existence of gods, but the former do not. I
argued that they both need the same amount of faith (and that that isn't
really a lot). To fit Enculpus into this model, all I'd have to do is
demonstrate that there exist people on Glorantha who similarly doubt the
existence of gods, and believe that 'the dead below have become bones
and ashes, nothing more'. Which wouldn't be hard :-)
-- Trotsky Gamer and Skeptic ------------------------------------------------------ Trotsky's RPG website: http://www.ttrotsky.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/ --__--__--
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