Patera Inire

Jeff Wilson · 19 Jul 2010, 05:28 · from 2010-July.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at io.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 00:28:19 -0500
Subject: (urth) Patera Inire
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On 7/18/2010 10:34 PM, Lee Berman wrote:
> The Greek and Roman gods were associated with their respective empires.
> Greek and Roman civilizations were the creche and nursery of a now globe-spanning
> religion. If the Olympian gods were actual, real beings (as Wolfe believes they were)
> would we want to say that Zeus and Hermes and Vulcan etc. spent their immortal lives
> consciously working toward the goal of Christianity? That's why they promoted the
> Greek and Roman empires, because they knew it would lead to Jesus? Did Pas set up
> the Whorl because he knew it would lead to the ascendence of the Outsider?

Zeus and Pas might not, but Prometheus would like he did during the last 
divine regime change.

The old Autarch is a double agent for the Commonwealth and for Vodalus; 
Inire can do an even better job of hiding his true loyalties, and even 
the unlikeliest plot ot plan can go swimmingly with time travel 
suspending the laws of probability when the person carrying them out has 
already seen his success ensured.

-- 
Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
IEEE Student Chapter Blog at
< http://ieeetamut.org >

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