27.10.05
Skipping writing night again
Work was rough again, so I'm not posting in the story tonight. Instead, a little reader response! Here's a snippet from an email conversation I had with George Beavis, my mom's cousin:
...Teaching ethics to the Gods pulled me up short - "grabber". Are you familiar with existentialism? ... So, your line "teaching ethics to the gods" really startled me and raised all kinds of questions for me (i'll go back and read more later) like why do the gods not have ethics? Maybe the gods are right and our ethics are just self imposed customs/strange ideas of the backward natives?
The idea behind the teaching of the ethics to the gods was that previously, the gods did not need ethics. They behaved more mindfully - every action was intentional, and since they didn't have the binding of flesh and matter to channel them into behaviors, they didn't need an ethical code to suppress certain animalistic or selfish behaviors and promote a more altruistic minds.
Humans, and material life in general (in the context of the story) created a bit of problem, since their very physical nature was carved from the heart of the primal selfish god. However, since the gods who had created life were not trying to mold little altruists but rather create a self-sustaining and anti-entropic environment to counter the danger of Baod consuming all minds.
It was the people of the world (along with the demi-gods that lived among them) who created ethics as a method to keep them in harmony with the altruistic gods, with whom they wished to commune.
Does that make any sense?
...Teaching ethics to the Gods pulled me up short - "grabber". Are you familiar with existentialism? ... So, your line "teaching ethics to the gods" really startled me and raised all kinds of questions for me (i'll go back and read more later) like why do the gods not have ethics? Maybe the gods are right and our ethics are just self imposed customs/strange ideas of the backward natives?
The idea behind the teaching of the ethics to the gods was that previously, the gods did not need ethics. They behaved more mindfully - every action was intentional, and since they didn't have the binding of flesh and matter to channel them into behaviors, they didn't need an ethical code to suppress certain animalistic or selfish behaviors and promote a more altruistic minds.
Humans, and material life in general (in the context of the story) created a bit of problem, since their very physical nature was carved from the heart of the primal selfish god. However, since the gods who had created life were not trying to mold little altruists but rather create a self-sustaining and anti-entropic environment to counter the danger of Baod consuming all minds.
It was the people of the world (along with the demi-gods that lived among them) who created ethics as a method to keep them in harmony with the altruistic gods, with whom they wished to commune.
Does that make any sense?
// posted by Wray Davis @ 9:53 PM 
