Lupiverse(es)

Lee Berman · 14 Mar 2012, 12:37 · from 2012-March.txt.gz

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From: severiansola at hotmail.com (Lee Berman)
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 08:37:51 -0400
Subject: (urth) Lupiverse(es)
Message-ID: <SNT123-W60A25BD71304F95B5E958CF590 at phx.gbl>

>Jeff Wilson: Earth has had several 8 figure atrocities in the last 
>150 years, and the extinction of the human race is still do-able.

Yes, but Earth's population is in the 10 figures. Anthropological
estimates suggest pre-civilized humanity died at a rate of up to
25% from warfare/violence. Accuse me of optimism if you like but I
think getting it below 1% is a great accomplishment. This is arguably
the mose peaceful time in human history.

>Humanity is scattered beyond the ability of Urthlings to wipe them out, 
>and there may not even be 8 figures of Urthlings left.

"Scattered across 10,000 worlds.." right? Still I wonder. We don't seem
to encounter any of these humans from worlds other than Urth (maybe
Typhon?). Or if we do, they are evolved to the point that we may have 
difficulty calling them human, like Typhon, apports, B and F, Father 
Inire and the Cumaean, Neighbors and Inhumi.

Anyway, all a moot point.  The morality displayed by Wolfe's Increate (put
into action by his demiurgical servant Tzadkiel) suggests that genocide is
not necessarily a bad thing, if done for the right reasons. Same for the OT
God, of course.

It would seem there are far worse actions than mass slaughter of humanity.
The funny thing is that in both the OT and in BotNS, it is difficult to pin
down exactly what was so wicked about ante-diluvian earth and Urth.

Was it idol worship? Human sacrifice? Witchcraft? Mating with demons and producing 
monstrous offspring? Pedophilia, incest and other sexual deviance? All these are 
hinted at in the OT and BotNS but no clear reason is given for the need to wipe out 
99% of humanity on a planet.

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