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Alice Grove MCDLT - THE END...?
Tova:
I'm no theologian, but there are other concepts of gods, no? And I think there are those whose gods walk among us.
avij:
The reason why Sedna might fancy a plant arm: http://www.alicegrove.com/image/146220974069
Neko_Ali:
Well, it's possible that they have some low level of regeneration. We know it exists, Ardent regrew his delightful tail after losing it. Alice seems almost fine after having her head partly crushed by Church. Also, for being more than 5000 years the super soldiers all are pretty youthful looking. That speaks to me that they have some level of cellular regeneration to stop the aging process. So I'm guessing that it's not outside the realm of possibility that Sedna could regrow her arm, it just might take a while to happen or require a lot of entropy that she doesn't want to burn. Not when there are alternatives. Besides, cool freaky plant arm.
retrosteve:
--- Quote from: Method of Madness on 19 Jul 2017, 18:09 ---
--- Quote from: TheEvilDog on 19 Jul 2017, 17:49 ---Only if you believe in gods.
--- End quote ---
What does belief have to do with it? I don't believe in gods, but if I saw a sufficiently powerful being, that's probably what I'd call it.
--- End quote ---
And you'd be making the same mistake as the Peruvians made when the Spanish Conquistador Pizarro arrived with better technology. They called the Spanish "Children of the Sun" and were so dazzled that they failed to object when their king Atahualpa was kidnapped, and despite the outrageous ransom being paid, was arbitrarily killed anyway.
You want to go mistaking good technology for godhood, please don't be my leader.
derech:
There's often/usually some sort of large conceptual chasm between The God and a god, although perhaps that only depends on whose pantheon is being looked at by whom, and when in what circumstances. "Obviously" since in the natural universe everything comes from something (there is entropy, if you wish) God would have to exist outside normal spacetime. An all powerful creator of all would have to exist in a place where things (including their self, the place, and what its made of) come from nothing. And also be able to move into another place where they don't and can't come from nothing. This is seemingly somewhat akin what Laridia suggests to some extent, apparently without an ability to embody/unembody without changing the nature of what has been unembodied/embodied. At least when it comes from moving to/from the inner reality.
As is so often the case though, how some person or group thinks about something isn't in a vacuum, it's shaped by such things as their knowledge, experience, intelligence, wisdom, and ability to make connections and extrapolate. Perhaps someone can't tell the difference between super-powerful and godlike (or between science and magic) at a given point through mere observation, but if there's a difference to be had, it doesn't mean nobody can make that differentiation.
While we might think only the modern and sophisticated could possibly understand such as a handheld calculator (TI 1967) yet it might instead easily be identified as a created tool by most any conscious cognitive self-aware being with the equivalent of at least a double-digit IQ. If you've ever seen a cannon (fire lance, 1132) in use, you probably get what sort of item an automatic rifle is even if you've never seen one. If you've ever seen a Canon in use, you might just understand the concept of photography (circa 500 BC and before, earliest surviving photograph 1826 AD). Magic may be a word used to describe science somebody doesn't understand or can't conceptualize, but at least in our physical reality, there is no such thing. (Not in the sense of casting spells using mana and so on.) You might still, after being transplanted to another reality which contains such unnatural nonphysical things, recognize what a wand pointed at you might do, even if you'd never seen Wizard of Oz (MGM, 1939).
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