From: Alex Ferguson (abf@yeats.ucc.ie)
Date: Fri 23 Apr 1999 - 22:17:09 EEST
Simon Hibbs:
> For example chaos can destroy something so completely that nothing
> remains, no residue exists in heaven, earth or hell. It is as though
> that thing never existed. This to me seems self evidently unnatural.
> Even death merely seperates the living from the dead.
Of course, simply because someone no longer exists on heaven, earth or
hell is not proof per se that they were destroyed by (what would be
seen in cultural terms as) Chaos. Some different possible takes/
circumstances:
Theist/naturalist: He was eaten by chaos.
Mystical:
He was Liberated from the mundane world into a higher state of being;
or:
A misuse of great mystic powers caused his annihilation.
'Materialist':
He simply dispersed, being dead, and not having his soul trapped by
pagan demons.
Whatever these are 'natural' things to happen, in the morally
judgemental sense of the word, certainly is culturally determined.
Cheers,
Alex.
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