What's So Great About Ushas

Paul B · 11 Jul 2008, 19:13 · from 2008-July.txt.gz

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From: pb.stuff at gmail.com (Paul B)
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 15:13:47 -0400
Subject: (urth) What's So Great About Ushas
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Took the words right out of my mouth, you did.

I did go back and read over the previous 60+ posts of "Ushas", about the
only thing mentioned as evidence was Tzadkiel's statement that the agonies
of Urth will be "offered to the Increate".  (Doesn't that sound sorta
barbaric, incidentally?)  And here I was all set to ask whether the
Hierogrammates even mentioned the Increate, heh.  At least they also seem to
believe he exists.

However, there's a leap between this and saying they're privy to his Plan,
hey?

Paul


On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 2:54 PM, Dan'l Danehy-Oakes <danldo at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 11:34 AM, Jeff Wilson <jwilson at io.com> wrote:
>
> > That was pretty much the discussion in progress just before you arrived.
> I'm
> > not convinced that God has no part in a plan involving the White
> Fountain;
> > as the omnipotent, omniscient creator of the universe, He is responsible
> for
> > its content and as such He kills everyone and destroys everything that
> > passeth away. How he implements His will and whether the intermediaries
> are
> > servants, sock puppets, or dupes is what we are sorting out.
>
> Well, there's a further point here: one can claim that *any* action, by
> *anyone*, is part of God's Plan. To do this is to create moral anarchy
> for humans -- "Yes, I killed six million Jews,  but that was part of God's
> plan, so it's okay." No, I don't think so; the only way to theodicize this
> is
> by assuming an extreme Calvinist-predestinarian stance.
>
> The only way to say that the Hiero*s don't share the same moral
> burden as humans is to say that they have direct knowledge of
> God's will. This is the justification for the Israelites' slaughter of the
> natives of Canaan -- "God said so," which trumped "Thou shalt
> not murder."
>
> So to justify the Hiero*s' actions, to say that their plan that involved
> the slaughter of Urth's billions, was morally OK, means that you have
> to present evidence that they have a direct knowledge of the will
> of the Increate, which I do not see in the text.
>
> --
> Dan'l Danehy-Oakes, writer, trainer, bon vivant
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