mankind

Kieran Cleary · 29 Nov 1999, 12:21 · from urth-v0028.mbox · original

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From: "Kieran Cleary" <kierannwn at tinet.ie>
Subject: Re: (urth) mankind
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1999 12:21:26
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Carefully plucking the avern....

Alex David Groce wrote:

>>but Ragnarok really is worse than the floods<<

IS it? According to Ash, the majority of humans are eventually airlifted to
safety by friendly cacogens. Creeping winter is a little more prosaic as an
end-of-days scenario, but avoids gigadeath.

The only people (hypothetically) complaining about Ragnarok are the hieros.
The hieros are just teleologically ensuring their own survival, attempting
to make the snake bite its tail. They don't even know if the humanity of
Urth are the ones who will eventually become themselves, but are willing to
drown most of them on the off-chance. With scruples like that, who wants to
be semi-divine?

Kieran Cleary

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