Limited Good Choices

Ryan Dunn · 13 Aug 2010, 02:59 · from 2010-August.txt.gz

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From: ryan at liftingfaces.com (Ryan Dunn)
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 22:59:02 -0400
Subject: (urth) Limited Good Choices
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On Aug 12, 2010, at 10:37 PM, Nicholas Jost wrote:

> One of my beefs with the list is not trimming sources.  If you look in the archive there was the assumption in a post that as people moved "up" towards Yesod that choices would be limited.  Nothing in the text or Catholic theology supports such silliness.

Nicholas, would "heaven" count a place Catholics "ascend" to? If heaven is a metaphor here, after all Severian uses "divine year" as a universe rebirth, then how interesting that in BotNS, humans created the Gods in their own image, and those Gods (hierogrammates) ended up shaping a subsequent iteration of humans, in a reborn universe.

...ryan
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