Standard Wolfean Riddle

James Wynn · 16 Aug 2010, 16:14 · from 2010-August.txt.gz

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From: crushtv at gmail.com (James Wynn)
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 11:14:52 -0500
Subject: (urth) Standard Wolfean Riddle
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  On 8/16/2010 10:35 AM, Ant?nio Pedro Marques wrote:
> That's interesting. But how are the mudball creatures from Briah(2i) 
> going to be enlightened by a human Christ? Well, one might posit no 
> civilised creatures in any Briah are muuuch different from humans. 
If the beings in another iteration are sufficiently different from 
humanity that they could not be called human, then I suppose different 
rules would apply just as they do for in our world for whales and angels.

Perhaps in some iteration humanity is unfallen and innocent. In others, 
they are wise as gods but lacking any self-consciousness. Once you get 
to that point, the bets are off.

(Not that I suppose Wolfe ever considered such a question)

u+16b9

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