Re: Barbarian Adventures

From: contracycle <gamartin_at_...>
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 10:13:58 -0000

"Discredited" hypocrisy argument? Discredited in what way - it is one of the major tropes associetd with the Lunar empire.

> >So describe a post-mediaeval state, I would need to
> >know much more than merely the content of its dominant myth
> >- I need to know what it actually does on the ground.
>
> Since we are not talking about post-medieval states, but
> ancient societies in which the gods are real, the relevance
> of this to the topic is?

That I need to know what they do on the ground.

> No, you haven't made it clear that the material is valuable.

You are entitled to that interpretation.

> You've been complaining that the material is only applicable
> to psychology while making spurious objections to arguments
> that gloranthan myths are much more important than this.

NOT that they are more important that that one, tiny little bit.

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