From: Alex Ferguson (abf@yeats.ucc.ie)
Date: Thu 22 Apr 1999 - 02:58:51 EEST
David Lucas:
> This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
Naughty. ;-)
> It is necessary to agree as Gloranthan lore what Chaos (or whatever names
> you call it) looks like. What triggers the Stormbull Sense Chaos and when?
Chaos! And what's Chaos? Why, that which triggers the Stormbull Sense
Chaos, of course! ;-) OK, OK, hold the flames, I do think it's
more-or-less Reproducible in its working, so it does identify a
class, however ad hoc, of 'choatic nasties'. But not necessarily
one that has a coherent philosophical or cosmological basis.
> Whether mainstream Orlanthi *believe* you can be is an
> important social question. Whether there are circumstance where trusted
> indicators (e.g. showing up on Sense Chaos) cease to detect you is a matter
> of physics.
I hardly think 'physics' is a useful descriptor here, but certainly,
there are such circumstances. Proof by example: Illumination.
(So if you don't 'detect' as Chaotic, and the Storm Herd Human (!?)
thinks you obviously are, anyway, this is ipso facto proof that
you're Illuminated, and therefore deserve the _extra_-nasty treatment.)
> The single biggest issue is what Sense Chaos senses, since it seems to imply
> an objective definition.
One could argue that it detects Chaos _mutations_ (sufficiently broadly
defined), if that helps any.
Cheers,
Alex.
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