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> Ttrotsky wrote:
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> > The key issue is that the germ theory isn't actually true
> > in Glorantha - disease really is caused by evil spirits
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> I knew that was true for animists and theists, but is it also true for
> sorcerers? They might say unbalanced humors, but I thought they would think
> "evil spirits" was just more foolish pagan superstition, and would have some
> kind of purely materialist view which would be true for themselves -- which is a
> practical reason for the (I had thought general) observation that sorcerers are
> good at curing sorcerous diseases but not animist ones, and vice versa...
>
This like saying that communists don't believe capitalism exists. Sorcerers know that evil spirits are real. They just don't work with them and have trouble even interacting with them.
Mike