Typhon as Silk?

Lisa Schaffer-Doggett · 16 Mar 2003, 00:32 · from urth-v0303.mbox · original

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From: Lisa Schaffer-Doggett <harlekin at earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: (urth) Typhon as Silk?
Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2003 16:32:11 -0800
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On Saturday, March 15, 2003, at 12:32 AM, Roy C. Lackey wrote:

>
> Unless you are willing to posit the Hierogrammates their own=20
> third-party
> agenda, were they not angelic agents of the Increate?
>

Though we tend to disagree on most things involving this series Roy, I=20
value your point of view and I'm constantly amazed that you anticipate=20
the stream of my arguments.  This is exactly what I posit.  I think the=20
Hiero's are cloaking themselves in the name of the Increate and that=20
their guesses as to His (I use that guardedly) will are only slightly=20
more insightful than our own.  After all, they are ultimately our=20
creations.

> As for your "thematic argument" for the "redemption" of Typhon, even=20
> as an
> unbeliever I have a hard time swallowing that. Let's see: Typhon=20
> bankrupted
> Urth's remaining natural resources (mostly to massage his own ego); by=20
> some
> accounts he caused the wounding of the sun (leading to the passage of=20
> the
> New Sun and the deaths of millions); he ordered the kidnapping of tens=20
> of
> thousands of people, brainwashed them and doomed generations of their
> descendents to being his worshipful playthings on the _Whorl_; he
> slaughtered people wholesale ("I watched him kill a thousand once. Men,
> mostly." -- Kypris, LS1:12). An omnipotent Increate/Outsider
> permitted/ordained all that suffering, balanced the cosmic scales on=20
> the
> backs of the innocent, just to save the soul of one evil miscreant who=20
> never
> contributed a dime's worth to his own salvation or was made to suffer=20
> in any
> way for the evil he had done? Is this the same Increate who kept Moses=20
> from
> the Promised Land for the moral equivalent of a parking ticket?
>
>
Hartshorn's reply is as good as anything I might have said.   I would=20
only add that this mercy is the essence of Christian Grace.  It is by=20
its nature undeserved.

Don

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