Fairies and Wolfe

David Stockhoff · 02 Apr 2012, 13:58 · from 2012-April.txt.gz

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From: dstockhoff at verizon.net (David Stockhoff)
Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2012 09:58:42 -0400
Subject: (urth) Fairies and Wolfe
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On 4/2/2012 9:05 AM, Lee Berman wrote:
> I agree with David Stockhoff's assessment that godly beings have a hand in their
> own creation in BotNS. But I see this as Wolfe's extrapolation of the principle
> that God created man in His own image. If God is alpha and omega it makes a sort
> of circular logic that Man created God in his own image.

Possibly irrelevantly, I have my own ideas about that word "create." I 
don't think Wolfe believes God created Man at all, but rather that he 
brought about human evolution by the very sort of invisible, 
incremental, independent forces that are dramatized in BTNS and 
clarified in UTNS. He is the Increate---the only uncreated being---not 
the Creator. He does nothing but /be, /and matter is attracted to him, 
inevitably organizing itself in his image.

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