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Who Attacked Arctis Tor, and Why
raidem:
--- Quote ---Gotta take issue with this interpretation, my brother:
A threshold is established by the beings that inhabit a space (structure/building whatever). I see no evidence--in the DV at least--that a world sentience/personification of the earth even exists, and in the RW posit that, if it does (big if), it's some form of "collective consciousness" of which all living inhabitants are a part (while ironically being unconscious of it, for the most part).
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Your entirely right to take issue with the interpretation. In particular the part about Mother Earth. When I wrote it, I considered who would be that 'person' who is allowed to invite. I disagreed with any one mere mortal as having the ability to give permission to an entity to completely come over without any loss in power. So, I made a guess as to what entity could play that part.
That said, it is obvious that mortals do get a privileged position in being able to summon things to Earth.
Al-Hajj Bilal Ammar Jihad:
--- Quote from: raidem on February 28, 2015, 12:04:13 AM ---Your entirely right to take issue with the interpretation. In particular the part about Mother Earth. When I wrote it, I considered who would be that 'person' who is allowed to invite. I disagreed with any one mere mortal as having the ability to give permission to an entity to completely come over without any loss in power. So, I made a guess as to what entity could play that part.
That said, it is obvious that mortals do get a privileged position in being able to summon things to Earth.
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Sometimes certain mental associations give me the creeps. Your post reminded me of a short-story I read in one of the old SF pulp magazines back in the 60s or 70s. I remember neither title nor author.
Theme was that a guy on a psych ward in, I think NYC, and who thought he was Napoleon actually was Napoleon--he'd been whisked from his own time and place and a delusional lookalike from the mid-20th century who thought he was Napoleon was sent to replace him on the battlefield. At Waterloo.
A disembodied voice explained to him, as he sat on his bunk at night in the locked psych ward that humans were merely the pawns in an eternal game played between all-powerful factions identified only as "the Red", "the Black" and "the White". One of them made the switch as a gambit to alter history, thus furthering its own position vis-a-vis the other two. These three factions controlled all reality, all power, and formed a collective consciousness that for all practical purposes was "God" to the poor ignorant humans with whom they played.
Napoleon finally demanded to know these "Red" "Black" and "White" puppet masters. The voice replied, "It will drive you mad." Napoleon repeated his demand. The voice told him, "Walk to the door."
He did, but for several minutes he saw nothing. Then he looked closer, and saw a black ant crawling on the door. Napoleon went mad.
Later he was "cured" of his delusion and released. And the game went on...
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