Re: Truth & Proof

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From: Nils Weinander (nils_w@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed 04 Oct 2000 - 13:23:53 EEST

Phil Hibbs:
>
> Nils:
> >There is no mystic otherworld,
>
> It refutes it's own existence fairly effectively.

:-)

In a way, one could speak of a mystic World, which is
neither Other- nor not. A major point is that the whole
setup with mundane world and otherworlds is a big lie
according to the mystics. The trouble is that once you
reach the "mystic world", you disappear from the others
and they disappear from your view.

> OK, draconic = above

Hmm...

> , void = below,

Where does that put the threeways intersecting Underworld?

> east = ... where does Vith live?

Now that's a tricky question. Vith lives on Vithalash, but what
that means otherworldlywise is quite confusing. As deities, do
the High Gods live in the theist otherworld? As mystics, are
they Somewhere Else?

> Or
> should I give up on the cubic intersection model?

Heavens no, it's way too neat to just dismiss. I'm just being
nitpicky...

Alex:
>
> It may roughly fit the
> Kralori worldview: they certainly see themselves as being the perfect
> balance of a host of opposed principles.

Interesting!

> They'd equate the
> Vithelan mystical 'Otherworld' with nihilism, broadly speaking,
> I think, rather than saying they don't have one.

Quibbles as to whether a non-place is an otherworld, but
apart from that, I agree.

> Also I feel obliged to point out that the Lunars _do_ have a mystical
> otherworld, of a sort at least.

They do?
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