TBOTSS and colonialism

Andy Robertson · 01 Jun 2002, 19:49 · from urth-v0205.mbox · original

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From: "Andy Robertson" <andywrobertson at clara.co.uk>
Subject: Re: (urth) TBOTSS and colonialism
Date: Sat, 1 Jun 2002 20:49:38 +0100
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Jerry Friedman" <jerry_friedman at yahoo.com>
> >
> > No.  And this is part of the ambiguity.    Humanity is "responsible" in
> > the
> > sense that the inhumi get their patterns of behaviour from humans, but
> > humanity is not "reponsible" for the fact that the inhumi are psychic
> > and
> > physical parasites and that this is how the inhumi must and do act.
>
> True, but the inhumi aren't responsible for that either.

I think this is a meaningless distinction.    Their minds are not
responsible for it.   But the mind/body duality, even if it has some truth
for humans, has no meaning for an Inhumi.

Their minds *right down to their deepest souls* are no more than a genetic
ghost conjured up by their blood-drinking bodies as a chameleon-game to
facilitate more blood-drinking - a fake so deep that the poor minds
themselves believe it to be true, but a fake nontheless.

The only thing about them that is *not* borrowed is their genetics, their
bodies, and it is the only thing that can be meaningfully judged.

    hartshorn

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