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A thought About Butters
Arjan:
While the whole book is about how a king should rule and the legitimation of kingship. https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/159564753.pdf
Feral Plum:
Ignoring if Butters is one of the Three Kings - appropriate around Christmas - Butters has Faith, There Sword of Faith, a 140+ IQ, And an intensive introduction to the theory of magic by Bob.
Waldo Butters is capable of being more powerful than any typical Knight of the Cross. Also, all the clued-in folks know Butter is a Good Man. So he has an immense amount of trust. When he bargains or testifies, he will be believed. In a chess analogy, he is a pawn which has crossed the board. He is in a stronger position than Harry. I smell a set up.
Mira:
--- Quote from: Feral Plum on November 28, 2020, 02:50:31 PM ---Ignoring if Butters is one of the Three Kings - appropriate around Christmas - Butters has Faith, There Sword of Faith, a 140+ IQ, And an intensive introduction to the theory of magic by Bob.
Waldo Butters is capable of being more powerful than any typical Knight of the Cross. Also, all the clued-in folks know Butter is a Good Man. So he has an immense amount of trust. When he bargains or testifies, he will be believed. In a chess analogy, he is a pawn which has crossed the board. He is in a stronger position than Harry. I smell a set up.
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The greatest strength Butters has in my opinion, is an open mind.
Wicked Woodpecker of West:
--- Quote ---The point is these stories were invented with a purpose. Legitimizing the absolute rule of the king. Making rejecting that rule not just a crime against the state but one against god himself. They did not have the technology and the organization but this is the legitimation, the underpinning of totalitarian rule, of the absolute monarchy.
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Absolute monarchies which never reached level that could be called totalitarian maybe aside few short periods in Russian tzardom, evolved way way way later than most of dynasties, and kingdoms. And squabbling with kings was common thing for all medieval period - without rejecting system itself.
forumghost:
--- Quote from: Mira on November 28, 2020, 05:24:34 PM ---The greatest strength Butters has in my opinion, is an open mind.
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Butters greatest strength is having Jim love him too much and you know it.
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