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Subj: Or wrong there.
Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2017 at 10:10:47 pm EST (Viewed 2 times)
Reply Subj: Right there.
Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2017 at 06:18:29 pm EST (Viewed 481 times)



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      Some of it may stem from the Renaissance's clerical suspicion of science as "replacing God".



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    Kind of. The way I read it, any science or discovery from a religious standpoint is evil because it carries us further from the simple life of the Garden of Eden, and therefore sinful.


That's overlooking the massive contributions to science, medicine, and astronomy that churchmen have made throughout history. The monastic comunities were ideal places for research; in the Dark Ages they kept alive literacy, pharmacy, engineering, mathematics, and a whole range of Linnean biology stuff. Every Western European and most Eastern European schools and universities were initially religious foundations. Many Middle Ages scientists were supported by the church (and often granted clerical rank).

The anti-science camp really only came in on two issues, centuries apart. The first big argument was about where the centre of the universe was; Gallileo posthumously won. The second, centuries later, was evolution, and that split Christians into those who believed evolution contradicted a literal Biblical version of creation and those who were delighted to learn more about how God had pulled off this creation thing. The real schism came about when the church became more and more out of touch with the sciences that some of its members had once pioneered.

But that's only one facet of a very complicasted argument, where for every expert there is an equal and opposite expert.


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      "Doing her job" implies someone gave her a job?



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    Someone did. I had an in-progress tie-in somewhere that implied it was a former Chronicler of Stories that took her out of humanity and placed her in this role, so that he/she/it could stop focusing on repairing the stories.


We've not see it in-continuity yet, then? I worry sometimes how much of this PV stuff I've forgotten.


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      The Hood tends to less comfy cushions.



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    I don't know, that throne is pretty fancy.


It's specially designed to be ambiguous, actually. Is it a throne? Is it just a really nice chair? What is he trying to say with it?


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          Liu Xi can take some comfort in knowing that she is no less picked on than many others including many of her friends. Indeed, she is fortunate that much of the Hood's agenda for her is discernable.

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          She's probably irritated that all of the plots she's in involve her losing her clothing.

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        That may be a general side-effects of appearing in Untold Tales.



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    She's only frustrated about it because it happens to her pretty regularly.


It's a problem for characters whose powersets include them surviving some fairly radical transformations.

I suppose in the most recent case she might have also borrowed 1/3 of the Doomherald's pants, but as I see it that reconstruction thing is very tricky anyway.






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