You persist in making unwarranted assumptions. <br>Tzadkiel says, and I doubt you'll claim he's lying in this case, that he made a probabilistic guess about Severian, which did indeed turn out right. Ergo, even a Hierogrammate's foresight is not perfect. <br>
If you intend on making unusual claims about various properties of the Hierogrammates, be it angel-hood or omniscience, please substantiate them with some references.<br><br>Paul<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 2:36 PM, b sharp <<a href="mailto:bsharporflat@hotmail.com">bsharporflat@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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Dan'l Danehy-Oakes posts:<br>
>When you come right down to it.<br>
>Isn't what the Hiero-Foos are doing,<br>
>the same thing Mr. Million/Maitre/Number 5 do,<br>
>only on a cosmic scale?<br>
<br>
>Rather than warping their own children to ensure their own repetition<br>
>they are warping entire cosmic cycles to do so.<br>
<br>
>If what the Line of Millions do in "Cerberus" is wrong,<br>
>then what the Hiero-Foos do is insanely wrong.<br>
<br>
Hah! DDO, you'll get no argument from me. Personally I tend to value<br>
the results of natural selection over carefully planned and engineered<br>
products.<br>
<br>
But forced as I am to play Angel's Advocate I must say no, the Hiero-foos<br>
are superhuman and know just what the results of their tampering will be. Mr.<br>
Million was human (originally) and (obviously) did not know what the results<br>
of his experiments would be. Gosh, his offspring are so much meaner than he<br>
is. I guess nurture matters after all ;-).<br>
<br>
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