From: Sandy Petersen (sandyp@idgecko.idsoftware.com)
Date: Tue 30 Jan 1996 - 21:21:03 EET
>To pick up Sandy's point and take it a bit further, many religions
>don't even improve the lot of their followers in any way at all.
Hold on here. _All_ religions improve the lot of their
followers -- this may or may not be an obvious heightening of
physical or mundane comforts, but at a minimum you are improved
because you are of the gnosis, or because you alone know you will
get to heaven, etc.
>The Shakers, who bred (or rather did not breed) themselves out of
existence
The Shakers, who are almost but not quite extinct, would
contend that their sexless lives are far more spiritual and
fulfilling than ours. And the same can be argued for most such
groups.
Ingo Tschinke
>I know the official statements of the Rokari church. But I think
it is one
>thing to have official rules and laws and what the churchman do in
reality.
Tap is a pretty obvious case, though, and is especially
anathematized and considered chaotic. I do not believe that the
Rokari are, by and large, hypocrites. Crank-minded bigots, maybe.
>Everbody knows Theoblanc the pious has used the forbidden spell
immortality
"Everybody".
BORISTS
1) The Borists are a secretive Cathar-like sect. Instead of a
2) The Borist view of Arkat is as follows (In Our Esteemed
Basically, the Borists believe the Arkati doctrine that
Peter M. and I have had a brief off-line discussion about
these fellows, and here is some of the stuff we've wholeheartedly
agreed upon.
complete caste system, they have only worshipers and priests, and
most pretend to be members of the Galvosti or Rokari sects in the
"real world".
Opinion): When Arkat went to Dorastor, he successfully killed
Nysalor and saved the world, but he was killed in the process. Gbaji
the Deceiver, (whom other faiths falsely know as Arkat) then came
out of Dorastor and set up the Dark Empire. Arkat's true
illumination was lost, and only Gbaji's vile contamination was left.
there is both a dark and a light side to Illumination. But, they
differ about which is which.
Sandy P.
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