From: Alex Ferguson (abf@interzone.ucc.ie)
Date: Thu 19 Jun 1997 - 22:07:29 EEST
Oliver Bernuetz suggests that:
> In Glorantha the gods may be constrained by the responsibilities they
> feel towards their worshippers. They have so many individuals, nations,
> elements, etc. to be responsible to that they are severely constrained
> in what they can and cannot do.
> Just to forestall one potential criticism. No, I'm not trying to defend the
> Great Compromise.
I'd raise that as a point of agreement, not as criticism! I think that's
However, I don't think it's a view that anything like a unanimity of
very much how the Orlanthi view the situation, except they'd put it
more strongly; their gods have taken _oaths_ not to act, and if they
did, Extremely Bad Stuff would happen.
Glorantha cultures would sign up to. So even if it's true, it's not
True for the Dara Happans, the Pelandans, the Carmanians, the Kralori,
the Malkioni, the Brithini...
> What I want to know "objectively" is what happened in the past, a rough
> chronology of events.
I think that's understandable, an in a philosophical sense, I'd have to
agree that some sort of "objective history" must exist, for all reasonable
models of the universe (and maybe even for the Orlanthi one, too ;-) --
hey, put that thunderbolt down, you'll have someone's eye out with that!).
Trouble is, no-one is _ever_ going to agree on what it is. Gloranthans
certainly don't, and hashing it out on the Digest would be the dialectic
equivalent of a months-long root canal. This would have the two
ends of the Sobjectivist spectrum _really_ at each others throats, as
it seems to be what they most disagree about. Witness the fact that
it's what they very frequently end up arguing over, while the notional
topic is something entirely different. I comfort myself with the
thought that being resigned to the dim past being ultimately unknowable,
while somewhat unsatisfying in some respects, at least spares me the
brunt of the pain of _that_.
Cheers,
Alex.
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