Summa Contra Hieros

Paul B · 14 Jul 2008, 19:38 · from 2008-July.txt.gz

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From: pb.stuff at gmail.com (Paul B)
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 15:38:15 -0400
Subject: (urth) Summa Contra Hieros
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You persist in making unwarranted assumptions.
Tzadkiel says, and I doubt you'll claim he's lying in this case, that he
made a probabilistic guess about Severian, which did indeed turn out right.
Ergo, even a Hierogrammate's foresight is not perfect.
If you intend on making unusual claims about various properties of the
Hierogrammates, be it angel-hood or omniscience, please substantiate them
with some references.

Paul

On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 2:36 PM, b sharp <bsharporflat at hotmail.com> wrote:

>
> Dan'l Danehy-Oakes posts:
> >When you come right down to it.
> >Isn't what the Hiero-Foos are doing,
> >the same thing Mr. Million/Maitre/Number 5 do,
> >only on a cosmic scale?
>
> >Rather than warping their own children to ensure their own repetition
> >they are warping entire cosmic cycles to do so.
>
> >If what the Line of Millions do in "Cerberus" is wrong,
> >then what the Hiero-Foos do is insanely wrong.
>
> Hah! DDO, you'll get no argument from me. Personally I tend to value
> the results of natural selection over carefully planned and engineered
> products.
>
> But forced as I am to play Angel's Advocate I must say no, the Hiero-foos
> are superhuman and know just what the results of their tampering will be.
> Mr.
> Million was human (originally) and (obviously) did not know what the
> results
> of his experiments would be.  Gosh, his offspring are so much meaner than
> he
> is. I guess nurture matters after all ;-).
>
>
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