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I think this nails it in the head. Imo some of the participants here have little regard for the subject matter of the list. I'd especially like it if people here learned to distin…
19 Aug 2010, 01:31
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This kind of answers is precisely why people lose interest in following the list.…
19 Aug 2010, 01:17
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Lee Berman wrote (18-08-2010 19:02): The *Gaon* humans. For all we know she might have been the patroness of their whorly city.…
18 Aug 2010, 18:18
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James Wynn wrote (18-08-2010 14:58): Live by one's incomprehensibly bizarre quoting, die by the next guy's incomprehensibly bizarre quoting.…
18 Aug 2010, 14:19
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Lee Berman wrote (18-08-2010 12:58): This I think is worth exploring. - When Severian goes to Yesod, Valeria remains in his place for decades. Why would this be tolerated? We're…
18 Aug 2010, 13:36
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Lee Berman wrote (17-08-2010 13:38): For the umpteenth time, temporality across universes is meaningless. Earth can be both in Urth's 'past' and 'future'. If you like it, Briah g…
17 Aug 2010, 12:55
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'So THAT we know what it is that you think is not true?'. It was an answer to your question of why you're being asked to explain something you don't think it is true. David Stoc…
17 Aug 2010, 12:08
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I also think Mark is right. Not because I believe in some sort of control, but because this isn't a chatroom. I guess the idea here is that messages should present novel content,…
16 Aug 2010, 22:36
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James Wynn wrote (16-08-2010 16:22): That's interesting. But how are the mudball creatures from Briah(2i) going to be enlightened by a human Christ? Well, one might posit no civi…
16 Aug 2010, 15:35
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Gerry Quinn wrote (16-08-2010 16:27): I find that likely, but apparently moist others don't.…
16 Aug 2010, 15:29
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James Wynn wrote (16-08-2010 16:06): That's tenable, but I don't see God leaving so many of his creatures to waste. (It's the catholic God I'm thinking of, because we are explici…
16 Aug 2010, 15:11
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Gerry Quinn wrote (16-08-2010 15:48): Yeah, not terribly late in geological terms, and the drowning of Urth and the new beginning makes it perhaps not too late in cultural terms.…
16 Aug 2010, 15:08
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James Wynn wrote (16-08-2010 15:22): Not answering back, only asking.…
16 Aug 2010, 15:03
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Ryan Dunn wrote (16-08-2010 15:33): I don't think anything below answers it. He does resurrect some people, but not as part of a ministry. He doesn't even know that he's doing so…
16 Aug 2010, 15:03
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Jeff Wilson wrote (16-08-2010 03:20): I can even picture Hammerstone telling people to do some similar trick on him, just for the kicks. In that she's not blonde... we know so li…
16 Aug 2010, 14:21
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Ryan Dunn wrote (16-08-2010 15:03): Why? If a Severian-like fellow appears here on our Earth some one hundred thousand years from now, in what way will he be a fake Jesus? Agai…
16 Aug 2010, 14:12
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Mo Holkar wrote (16-08-2010 10:53): Biological species on the Whorl need not be the same as here. It's perfectly possible for there to be a genetically close relative of gulls the…
16 Aug 2010, 14:02
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Lee Berman wrote (16-08-2010 14:41): It's unnecessary cruelty to an innocent human being. Not the kind of thing that makes sense for me coming from the Guild. Not at all.…
16 Aug 2010, 13:58
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Ryan Dunn wrote (16-08-2010 14:31): My problem isn't heresy. *If* there weren't parallel universes to Briah, one of which supposedly is our own, then it would all be more than ok…
16 Aug 2010, 13:53
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Lee Berman wrote (16-08-2010 13:56): The short answer is that there wouldn't be a Catholic Church. But if for the sake of the argument one were possible, then I think it would be …
16 Aug 2010, 13:44
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Lee Berman wrote (16-08-2010 13:32): I must admit that when I first read 'Incus is a woman' I thought it was an interesting idea. But James's explanation of his theory made me go…
16 Aug 2010, 13:36
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David Stockhoff wrote (16-08-2010 12:49): It's not a problem with the Jesuses, it's the world that doesn't live up to them. The idea is that ultimately there is free will, and Go…
16 Aug 2010, 13:18
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Jeff Wilson wrote (16-08-2010 03:25): If only we could get other people to tuse sensible quoting, such confusion would not occur. I can't understand what the difficulty is.…
16 Aug 2010, 11:10
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Jeff Wilson wrote (16-08-2010 03:33): None, as I've said.…
16 Aug 2010, 10:51
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It's the seal of the god Pas, who created the Whorl, not the seal of the monarch Typhon, who built the Whorl.…
16 Aug 2010, 00:40
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I think people go to great lengths to interpret what Severian says about births and children in Matachin tower. As far as I read it, he simply says that they deliver, nurse and kee…
16 Aug 2010, 00:35
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So we know what it is that you think is not true?…
15 Aug 2010, 22:58
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Sorry, my 'would' wasn't meant to use the conclusion to cast doubt on the interpretation, it's just that we're discussing a hypothesis. If you do it often, it devolves into comed…
15 Aug 2010, 15:21
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It would be breaching the 4th wall. One needs a little fun every now and then. But in fact I think Wolfe would merely say he was given the key to *a* room if the number had no s…
15 Aug 2010, 13:25
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I don't think so. It's just that in your life and yourself you've immersed in context. You automagically do all the corrections and substitutions and inferences and what not, so …
15 Aug 2010, 01:31
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I'll just repeat what I said earlier: I think there's a Jesus in any universe, and I think it's as good a Jesus no matter where. The Jesuses will differ in their accidentals beca…
15 Aug 2010, 01:24
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Is. I have trouble with different identical chrisos.…
15 Aug 2010, 01:01
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I think so too, but I don't know that I could defend it.…
15 Aug 2010, 00:57
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I can only feel happy for you that you're in good terms with that angle of life :) (I gather it's 'on'. 'In' soudns better to me.)…
15 Aug 2010, 00:49
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And those are other ways out for scientism, albeit uncomfy ones. I certainly agree they may be appealing, but personally I find them unfulfilling.…
15 Aug 2010, 00:35
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Sure thing, I's not saying Yesod shouldn't have energy, I's saying 'hyperspace' shouldn't. (And that *because* Yesod has it, Yesod doesn't look like hyperspace.) But I'm ready to…
15 Aug 2010, 00:31
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I'd even venture that it isn't heretical to suggest that there may be other things beyond God. It's just that, from our vantage point, there's only God. God is our singularity. I…
14 Aug 2010, 21:20
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It doesn't, because it posits something extraneous to the universe(s) and hence not accountable to observed processes such as space, time and causality. Or as it's usually put, '…
14 Aug 2010, 21:16
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Fakes or not, they're matter an energy in a 'place' that should have neither unless they're 'travelling in hyperspace'. Though I guess you can say they're ships or animations on …
14 Aug 2010, 21:01
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I can't help feeling that the question of who is who is just not very interesting unless 'who' turns out to be someone we know for more than 2 pages. (Corollary: if his mother is…
14 Aug 2010, 20:58
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The last columns look like check digits, but there's an infinite way those could be computed.... 3 to 5 is 2, 4 to 6 is 2, but who can guess what that means. The first 3 columns…
14 Aug 2010, 20:52
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I don't think anyone would make such a connection.…
14 Aug 2010, 19:24
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Jeff Wilson wrote (13-08-2010 21:33): I beg your pardon?…
13 Aug 2010, 20:41
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Lee Berman wrote (13-08-2010 20:43): I think any Incarnation will be equivalent, no matter the Briah it appears in. It's the rest of the Briah that may live to a higher or lower …
13 Aug 2010, 19:49
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Jeff Wilson wrote (13-08-2010 18:07): The Hierogrammates may not have complete control over Yesodian time and/or space.…
13 Aug 2010, 18:56
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David Stockhoff wrote (13-08-2010 01:52): I have my doubts that Master Ash belongs in the same universe or at least planet. His explanation of why he daren't leave the house sure…
13 Aug 2010, 18:53
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Ryan Dunn wrote (13-08-2010 16:39): At certain points it isn't clear to me why Briah should be equated with Urth. We're told there's hoomins out there in other planets.…
13 Aug 2010, 16:20
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Lee Berman wrote (13-08-2010 07:52): I don't even think it matters much. Certainly the whole purpose of the New Sun is to give Urth's humans a chance to create some kind of Hiero…
13 Aug 2010, 14:18
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Lee Berman wrote (13-08-2010 05:04): Nothing at all. I'm trying to explain to you why some of your contributions haven't been well received by some. I was under the impression yo…
13 Aug 2010, 13:50
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(I should have worded it 'How is the multiverse structured?'.) I find it likely. If, as Lee thinks - this time I think I'll present it correctly - universes twice removed from B…
13 Aug 2010, 01:01
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