From: Godzilla's Home Boy (glidedw@sfsuvax1.sfsu.edu)
Date: Mon 04 Oct 1993 - 21:48:43 EET
To Geoff gunner:
while I agree that moving from one place to another, ie to the spirit Plane would be trouble, invoking einstein in relation to a magical world is risdiculous. magic assumes the absence of science. fire burns as an expression of s fire spirit, and not from combustion. The mechanics are the same, and as guaranteed. This explains why a fire starting spell will work as well, as a flint and iron combination or a bow and arrow kit. magic is the high end of technology. That you have to involve mythology, means that the use of technology can have side effects, that with technology you don't see as easily.
I recently saw an article that claimed that if we changed all businesses to the model used by The body shop, we'd still have problems. There is a physical rainforest, et al damage, from using technology the way we do. the collateral effect, over generations will change our mythology. RQ seems a way to confront the changes of science and tech on our personal myths, by designing the everyday world of the mythical, in terms that make sense in dreams. The rules mechanics are a systemitization of our dream counterparts. Using too much, such as modern physics, calls into question the reason that magic is assumed to work. Einstein plays no part in my games. To think that you can't go faster than light, when light itself is a person, having form, is hard for me to deal with. What if the personage of Light, which is the barrier, gives me permission to exceed itself? then I just do so.
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