(urth) Appearances of Inire

[John Watkins]

I don't agree.  With 1), everything Tzadkiel says can be taken as the Word
of God.  With 3), everything Tzadkiel says can be taken as being said with
good intention.  Great gulf fixed there.

On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 8:29 AM, <brunians at brunians.org> wrote:

> There is no meaningful difference between one and three.
>
> .
>
>
> > Right.
> >
> > Although now I will say such a thing.  Tzadkiel presents himself not as
> > the
> > Outsider but as His agent.  Arguably the most important question of the
> > series is whether Tzadkiel is lying.  I think there are in fact three
> > options:
> >
> > 1)  Tzadkiel is, like a Christian archangel, more or less in direct
> > contact
> > with the will of the deity.  Thus he/she is to be completely trusted and
> > is
> > a more or less incontrovertible moral authority.
> > 2)  Tzadkiel is a creepy insectoid alien thing and a liar.  The
> > pretentions
> > of religion are a means of controlling the human race.
> > 3)  Tzadkiel is a "higher" being in some meaningful sense but remains
> > metaphysically removed from the divine, like the angel in "The Cock and
> > the
> > Angel."  His/her belief in the Increate and desire to do its will is
> > sincere, and to that end he/she is just doing the best he/she can, but
> > like
> > the angel in the story Tzadkiel remains fallible and infinitely removed
> > from
> > the mind of the Increate.
> >
> > I go back and forth between 2) and 3) myself.
>
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