In a message dated 12/8/03 12:43:45 PM Mountain Standard Time, dfsolley@comcast.net writes: >The disconcerting part of the Eerith belief, however, is that, >ultimately, all of the entities we see as gods are actually embodiments >of different facets of the Creator itself or of his absence. ""There's something you've overlooked." The ruler sneered at Feroze, "And what might that be." "That a facet of a gem is no less real than the gem itself." "Bah! I might have expected mystic claptrap from one such as you. Speak plainly or go away." Feroze sighed and gave the ruler one last chance, "The Everything is limitless, so no matter what part you look at, that thing is the center of creation. In acting as is best for the nation you have ignored the people who make up the nation. The nation is real, but its people are no less real. A single facet of a gem is no less important than the gem as a whole. Your nation was given to you as a shining gem. Ignore your gem's facets and it will darken."" In a message dated 12/8/03 12:43:45 PM Mountain Standard Time, dfsolley@comcast.net writes: >Rocks are rocks because they were created so. They fall as rocks, break >as rocks, and so on because they are rocks and, should they do >otherwise, then they are not rocks. "Things are as they are. A man is not a loaf of bread. Yet a man may eat a loaf of bread. Is the bread not then a man? Things are as they are, yet in changing things keep parts of what they were. As a loaf of bread is food for a man so the body of a man is food in turn." In a message dated 12/8/03 12:43:45 PM Mountain Standard Time, dfsolley@comcast.net writes: >"Have faith, old friend, and remain focused. Old debts and new >obligations-nothing more. So long as we do not seek beyond service and >righteousness, we will be within our place. The rest is in the hands of >the Creator." "How, then, should the Inquiry ["the Inquiry" = Exquaestio] act? The Inquiry should act in accordance with the ten virtues of Change, Dream, Exploration, History, Learning, Otherness, Pattern, Space, Thought, and Truth while acknowledging the limitations of Assumption, Capability, Communication, and Perception. As the Inquiry applies the virtues within the limitations it will find its place no matter how the place shall move. As it is true for the whole it is true for the part. Use the virtues, know the limitations and place shall be." In a message dated 12/8/03 12:43:45 PM Mountain Standard Time, dfsolley@comcast.net writes: >As the Eerith say "You cannot quantitate the transcendent. Gods do not >fix within the cages built for them by men." "The limitations of Feroze are not your limitations. Your limitations are not those of Feroze. You are not "lesser" and Feroze is not "greater." All things are simply different and that is how it should be." Jefferson http://www.picotech.net/~jeff_wilson63/rpg/ ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, send mail to celandra-off@phoenyx.net.
