Oannes

Antonin Scriabin · 20 Mar 2012, 17:42 · from 2012-March.txt.gz

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From: kierkegaurdian at gmail.com (Antonin Scriabin)
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 13:42:47 -0400
Subject: (urth) Oannes
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In that case, the statement "The same way that one group of humans could
have a better grasp of science, or economics, or poker," isn't true at all,
because we don't advance in our understanding of these subjects by
revelation.

"Third person omniscience" doesn't exist in real life; is it possible that
Silk is delusional, and that his theophany was some combination of
hallucination and wishful thinking?  I think so.  We are reading, after
all, a sort of belated account written by Horn, right?  What I am getting
at is that there is no narrator that arbitrates experiences here on earth
(religious or otherwise), and can tell outside observers (like Wolfe tells
the reader in *Long Sun*) whether or not someone has experienced a
revelation.  That having been said, there is real justification for saying
that one class of persons can have a better or more accurate idea of "the
infinite" than any other, if the only evidence is based in revelation.

On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 1:31 PM, James Wynn <crushtv at gmail.com> wrote:

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>>  *From:* Lee Berman <severiansola at hotmail.com>
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>> >  How could one group of humans have
>> > a better grasp of the infinite than another?
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> On 3/20/2012 12:07 PM, Antonin Scriabin wrote:
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> "To say that the unknowability of absolute truth renders all views equally
> valid is the silly end of relativism."
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> Not really, if you add the qualification "equally valid *on the topic of
> absolute truth*".
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> Unless The Divine is not a concept like Economics or Geography, but
> instead a Person like, for example, the Outsider who is not discovered or
> understood but instead reveals himself in finite ways to finite individuals
> as he chooses.
>
> J.
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