Well said Steve, on both counts. And I especially enjoyed the return
of vulgarity.
Wot ho
Rob
- In ImmoderateGloranthaQuest_at_yahoogroups.com, "sacerdoteuk"
<steve_at_...> wrote:
>
> I used to argue this one a lot with Jon Quaife, and indeed Greg (in
> the dim distant past). It seems to me to come down to the same
> argument as used on Christians in the real world on the topic of why
> god hates amputees (http://www.whydoesgodhateamputees.com/).
>
> You can say that fanaticism or crop growing magic isn't noticeably
> different to just psyching yourself up, or watering your crops
> regularly. However, regrowing limbs, summoning lightning from the
> skies or flying most definitely are different. By any normal
> definition they are magic. Magic of the sort that doesn't happen
here.
>
> The argument seems to be that Gloranthans have magic, but they also
> have monsters and suchlike, which roughly balances out, so that
people
> are much the same as they are on earth. This strikes me as a pretty
> meaningless statement, as there is no real axis of comparison for
> 'sameness'. That they live in cultures which are comparable to
Terran
> cultures is one thing, except that Terran cultures would never be as
> static as Gloranthan ones. Nor as traditional, nor as Diverse, etc.
>
> In an overall scheme, its about as useful as saying that everything
is
> the same as everything else. Which is tautologically true but
> meaningless and lazy. And no fun.
>
> So fuck 'em. In my Glorantha fireblades flame, limbs regrow, the
gods
> are always peering over your shoulder, and the races of the lozenge
> are only as similar to us as my feeble imagination forces them to
be.
>
> And you're all a bunch of cunts.
>
> Cheers
>
> Steve
>
>
>
>
>
>
> --- In ImmoderateGloranthaQuest_at_yahoogroups.com, "Mark Galeotti"
> <markgaleotti_at_> wrote:
> >
> > --- In ImmoderateGloranthaQuest_at_yahoogroups.com, "Sam Elliot"
> > <samclau_at_> wrote:
> > >
> > > By you. Not by me or I suspect by lots of others.
> >
> > Well, not just by Daniel; FWIW Greg has said the same thing.
> >
> > All the best
> >
> > Mark
> >
>