From: Nick Brooke (100270.337@CompuServe.COM)
Date: Tue 08 Jun 1993 - 20:02:14 EEST
Carl Fink refutes my theories, saying:
> Greg has said that the God Learners invented the runes we're all
> used to. Various cultures had runes before the GLs, and the Kralori
> and Pamaltelans still don't use exactly the runes the God Learners liked.
What I'm saying is that, before Newton, there was still Gravity. The God
Learners recognised that wherever they were looking they saw the influence
and effect of the Runes, and were able to formulate lists and pentagrams
and periodic tables of them. But that doesn't mean that, before the GLs
worked out how the Runes worked, they didn't work that way. And it doesn't
mean they created any Runes, any more than Einstein created new laws of
Physics. Stick with the Scientist metaphor and the GLs are easier to
understand (even if they shouldn't be). Is that any use to you guys?
Incidentally, I'm pretty sure this discussion of Runes ought to move to the
Daily. I'll not be posting anything else to this list that isn't
RQ4-related, and hope you guys will follow suit. If the present volume of
mail persists or increases, I'm going to have to un-subscribe myself...
Nick
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