Re: [WorldofGlorantha] Adept's questions on chaos

From: Peter Metcalfe <metcalph_at_o8qk-gHzOskFyQs4qsE6GvhUkCLkPyLsszF7s_M__9sX_lFi6cqb9r4zCGAclCH2wmd4Sw>
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 00:55:34 +1200

At 01:16 a.m. 20/04/2007, you wrote:
>In message <20070418222255.21784.qmail_at_QQqMS8u0l6bJMVNyCH-qolZnA6tuvKHHCadBkBWm_bWPfpolHMPKxOvDjdIEhpZlTynpYW62QaTrMx0v2prs-9vc5p_iOX7w3QJ4gwF5yBzt2quu7DBo.yahoo.invalid> Peter
>Metcalfe writes:

> >Saying that the borders are blurred does not imply there
> >is no objective test for chaos in glorantha. By the same
> >reasoning, one could argue that because some cancers
> >are hard to detect, cancer is not an objective concept.
>
>Doctors in the RW have a clear definition of cancer which,
>with training, anyone can apply. If we, or more importantly
>Gloranthans, haven't a definition of what a chaos feature is
>then that isn't an objective test for chaos.

But we do have an objective definition of chaos - a chaotic feature is pretty much definitive. Chaos is not a subjective phenomenon (and heaven help us if the sobjectivist debate breaks out again).

> >Except that this issue [of Chaos spreading] has been
> >addressed in the Cults of Terror.
>
>Which is of course a completely objective document, like
>everything else published about Glorantha.

And the problem with the Cults of Terror treatment is what?

--Peter Metcalfe             Received on Thu 19 Apr 2007 - 05:55:13 EEST

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