From: Nick Brooke (100270.337@CompuServe.COM)
Date: Wed 03 Jul 1996 - 03:43:39 EEST
Let's start this new volume with some good karma:
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I agree with pretty much everything Simon Hibbs said in V3 #1, FWIW.
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Ken:
>> 3. The Lunar cults are represented in Sartar by competent, sincere, and often
>> inspirational proselytizers of their faith.
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Ingo:
> Absolutly IMO. As I would like to make clear with my writing the Lunars
> undermine the virtues of the Orlanths through such impressing people.
And Ken didn't even see my performance as Octavian Suppositorius, Chief
Missionary of the Seven Mothers Cult in the Kingdom of Sartar...
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Peter M:
> [Moons]: Nick Brooke has proposed this for the Baboon PoV about the
> Red Moon. Whether this actually disproves the possession of a dirty
> mind, I cannot say.
Lunar missionaries talk about Peace, and worship something shaped like the
submissive buttocks of a baboon, commonly known as the "mooning position".
What's more, Lunar worship (when they all roll out their prayer mats on Full
Moon day) is *really* a ritual of exposing one's posterior to the world outside
the Empire, not directing worship towards the "moon"-shaped orb at its centre.
Ask any Baboon -- it's what they'll tell you! *All* human religion was learnt
from the Baboons.
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Pete M:
> Why are the Lunars good?
Read and believe "Talking to Moon Woman" from GoG. Then find another Gloranthan
creed that's equally optimistic, forward-looking, progressive, inclusive, etc.
All these "Chaos" arguments are misleading semantics, like smearing candidates
with the "L Word", accusing us of holding women in common, alleging Thyestean
Banquets and Oedipidean Intercourse, etc.
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Mike C:
I agree re: conscription, for the record. My point was that chaps in red cloaks
in "occupied" Sartar don't necessarily intend to oppress and enslave and deprave
the inhabitants, even if their superiors do. Does that make murdering them in a
cowardly and underhanded fashion OK? Or do you have to pretend they're Chaotic
also, to take the bad juju off your actions?
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Nick
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