From: "Andy Robertson" 
Subject: Re: (urth) Typhon as Silk?
Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2003 08:49:27 -0000

I am sorry, but this is reason, and divine charity knows nothing of reason.

As for Typhon doing all this - bankrupting the Earth, killing thousands,
wounding the Sun - those called to be God's scourge have traditionally acted
in this fashion.

And so have some of God's principal servants (read the Old Testament).

Often, the servant weilds a scourge.

The end of Typhon's evil is a significant good, at least within the
gene-centered  / volk-centered  /  reproductive-success-centered Old
Testament scale of values  - a tremendous expansion of the human territory
and population - a new Promised Land.

It seems very much in the character of the Increate, to me, that Typhon
should be redeemed.

    hartshorn


----- Original Message -----
From: "Roy C. Lackey" 
To: "urth" 
Sent: Saturday, March 15, 2003 8:32 AM
Subject: (urth) Typhon as Silk?


> Don wrote:
> >I would add in reply to Roy that Typhon being
> >the baddest man in the galaxy actually furthers my thematic argument of
> >his redemption.  Silk is arguably one of the best men in the galaxy.
> >If they are the same person then, in addition to it being highly ironic
> >(almost reason enough on its own), it is also the ultimate expression
> >of the power and the Grace (in the theological sense) of the Outsider.
> >Compare that to the ham fisted approach of the hiero's in dealing with
> >the situation.
>
> Unless you are willing to posit the Hierogrammates their own third-party
> agenda, were they not angelic agents of the Increate?
>
> As for your "thematic argument" for the "redemption" of Typhon, even as an
> unbeliever I have a hard time swallowing that. Let's see: Typhon
bankrupted
> Urth's remaining natural resources (mostly to massage his own ego); by
some
> accounts he caused the wounding of the sun (leading to the passage of the
> New Sun and the deaths of millions); he ordered the kidnapping of tens of
> thousands of people, brainwashed them


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