Tzadkiel/Melek Taus

James Wynn · 09 Jul 2010, 19:13 · from 2010-July.txt.gz

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From: crushtv at gmail.com (James Wynn)
Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2010 14:13:48 -0500
Subject: (urth) Tzadkiel/Melek Taus
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On 7/9/2010 1:56 PM, Lane Haygood wrote:
> hy are we viewing the flood as "bad" or as a punishment?  Floods,
> even non-divine ones, are capable of destruction, sure, but they also
> renew and refresh and carry things to new places.

Knowing that the flooding of Urth is "bad" would require knowledge of 
what happened to all those people who were transported to other planets 
in Master Ash's timeline. Also, what the standard of living became on 
Urth before the remnant of Urth's population was transported? 
(Presumably the population became quite attenuated, otherwise people 
would reproduce faster than they could be transported). Also, what 
happened in Ushas afterwards.

There isn't really enough information in the story to discover whether 
the flood was "bad". A lot of people died, yes. A lot of people died in 
the 1944 invasion of Normandy and the subsequent months.

u+169b

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