| From: | Nexx <nexx@********.NET> |
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| Subject: | Magic and the Church (was Re: Fwd: Into Africa I Go a Praying... |
| Date: | Sat, 25 Apr 1998 13:04:09 -0500 |
> From: Mark Ellis <mark@******.IDISCOVER.CO.UK>
> I put this one down to ethics. If spirits really are independent,
sentient
> creatures, imposing your will on them simply isn't a very nice thing to
do
> under most circumstances.
However, if you act like a shaman to the spirits you summon (asking them
to please do what you ask) rather than as a mage (commanding the elemental
to obey your bidding), then its not an ethical question, is it? If you
ask and they do it, it wouldn't be an ethical violation.
Does anyone think that some people might actually become, for lack of a
better term, Shamen for Jehovah? As in they understand their magic as a
gift from God, but also understand it as magic (rather than the one guy
used as an example in Awakening)? What sort of totem modifiers would he
carry? +2 dice to Healing, +2 to summon spirits of Man?
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Rev. Mark Hall, Bardagh
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aka The Human Tangent
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Three things that hide ugliness: good manners in the ill-favoured,
skill in a serf, wisdom in the misshapen.
Three things that ruin wisdom: ignorance, inaccurate knowledge,
forgetfullness. .
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