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Jeff Wilson wrote (02-07-2010 18:16): But it's far above enough that I think it can be described as being rising over his shoulder (http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3012885/Var/AS17-134-…
02 Jul 2010, 18:47
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David Stockhoff wrote (02-07-2010 17:24): You draw a vertical line, it *is* over the shoulder. If you then picture the planet rising in an arc, clockwise, it doesn't sound far of…
02 Jul 2010, 17:00
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Ryan Dunn wrote (02-07-2010 05:26): Well, I can see how the earth could be described as being over his shoulder and how the 'faceplate' seems to be made of gold. The staff can be …
02 Jul 2010, 15:14
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Ryan Dunn wrote (02-07-2010 05:34):…
02 Jul 2010, 14:52
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I'm confused as to why you don't write your remarks below the part of the message whcih they address. But I didn't say evil masters can't have good servants. I said that in the …
01 Jul 2010, 23:53
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Only the jews, a very small part of the world's population, worshipped the God of the OT as such, and they certainly went to end talking about his wrath, jealousy and favouritism…
01 Jul 2010, 23:34
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I mean, it's not the parallel between BNS and gnostic christianity that fails, it's the parallel to a BNS in which an evil Tazdkiel had wide moral control over mankind, such that…
01 Jul 2010, 23:06
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But what they consider is that the demiurge is antagonistic to God. They do not consider the demiurge to be God, and those who they see worshipping God are not worshipping what t…
01 Jul 2010, 22:52
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Jerry Friedman wrote (01-07-2010 20:06): I don't think so. I think it's very different if nothing else in terms of scale. You can hardly say the Inquisition had domain over the U…
01 Jul 2010, 19:20
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John Watkins wrote (01-07-2010 19:09): Could you elaborate?…
01 Jul 2010, 19:10
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John Watkins wrote (01-07-2010 18:22): Natural disasters aren't ever considered benign. They may be considered part of some higher purpose, but that's not what we're discussing h…
01 Jul 2010, 18:05
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John Watkins wrote (01-07-2010 18:08): But the point I brought up is independent of whether the evil power was created by God or bred by whoever.…
01 Jul 2010, 17:12
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I honestly think top-posting usually isn't helpful - maybe it's early afternoon drowsiness but I can't grasp your point. John Watkins wrote (01-07-2010 16:31):…
01 Jul 2010, 15:43
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John Watkins wrote (01-07-2010 13:18): Afaict 1 and 3 are just points in a continuum. Unless you push 1 further and make it so that Tzadkiel has no will at all but God's will. In…
01 Jul 2010, 15:14
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Jeff Wilson wrote (30-06-2010 16:04): There's that thing about only God being creator.…
30 Jun 2010, 16:32
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Lee Berman wrote (30-06-2010 13:37): Just what a god (in the polytheist sense) and other preternatural being is may not be easy to define in words, but nonetheless I think the di…
30 Jun 2010, 14:20
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Roy C. Lackey wrote (30-06-2010 05:32): It's prtobably time to point out, if it's news to anyone, that -dule means 'slave'. The name 'hierodule' may look impressive but doesn't i…
30 Jun 2010, 14:07
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Jeff Wilson wrote (30-06-2010 01:41): I think it can be economically explained by their simply not knowing who the father was.…
30 Jun 2010, 14:03
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Idas is supposed to be an undine or something and they don't seem to be very proficient in the arts of shapeshifting.…
18 Jun 2010, 22:23
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I just find that Agia is the single most important character in the whole story and precious little is known about her. Maybe Wolfe's hints are not in the sense of her being a ro…
18 Jun 2010, 22:17
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Ryan Dunn wrote (18-06-2010 16:44): Not necessarily - 'betrayed' as in the way something you rely on ends up being counterproductive. In this case, putting her in a disavatageous …
18 Jun 2010, 15:59
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Again generally speaking, most pre-modern christians believed in the existence of supernatural powers. There wasn't nor isn't anything heretical about that. The thing is that chr…
19 May 2010, 22:41
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Church Fathers did not in general make a point of saying pagan gods didn't exist. I don't think any considered them divine, but instead of angelic nature, though either fallen or…
19 May 2010, 14:33
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