[Glorantha] Beliefs about chaos

Si & Phil:

>1. You say that some acts are 'chaos crimes' and others
> >aren't and these are different from culture to culture,
> >even where exactly the same thing is being done. It's
> >the beliefs of the culture that are the important factor.
>
> I think you're the only one that is saying that belief is primary, and
> that is the straw man of which you were accused. Graham was talking
> about breaking a cultural taboo that is based on the actions of the
> founders of the Heortling culture in the Great Darkness, i.e.
> deviating from an established relationship with the otherworld that is
> fundamental to that culture's contribution to the fight against chaos.
> Not just belief in a mundane sense.

Right, but we can't ignore the fact that in Glorantha ANYTHING, even just an idea or a belief, can be inherently chaotic ...

Neither the hard relativism merely opposing such belief systems to such others in a neutral manner --- nor the deterministic POV can explain Chaos away ...

Chaos has no need of any other cause than its own, absolute, existence

Reducing it in any way to just some explainable deviation from some norm or other, which is of course something that actual Gloranthans are quite capable of attempting, is to fundamentally misrepresent (to oneself) the nature of the Beast, and fool oneelf into believing it can somehow be tamed.

Not so ...

Julian lord Received on Sun 21 May 2006 - 00:18:28 EEST