IN> Re: In-Nomine-list Digest, Vol 47, Issue 2

[JL Hatlen Linnell]

> Um. I think if you wanted dramatic effects, you'd get rid of the
> species that has made the most changes to the biosphere over the last
> ten thousand years or so, the ones capable of reading this mailing
> list.

I don't agree, especially from an Abrahamic/IN perspective.  Humanity
was given stewardship over the Earth, and is bound both by command and
necessity to its fruits and fauna.  Genesis also makes the case a few
times that the earth is without a great deal of /meaning/ without
humanity to experience its nature.  Getting rid of humanity would be a
massive change, but not a dramatic one, as nobody'd be around to
appreciate the drama - aside from the Elohim and the fallen.

To the extent that drama is dependent upon cognitive engagement, and
to the extent that /meaning/ is bound to soulful beings, the most
dramatic changes involve wholesale destruction of non-sentient beings
and objects.

Now, if we're simply talking about a /decimation/ of humanity...
That'd be meaningful and could be focused spiritually to ways that
benefit some celestial party or another.  If done correctly, it might
look like a Rapture or some twisted variant.


But Bees?  Bees' destruction is a massive blow to the Garden and its
remnants.  Their absence cuts at the propogative mechanisms that
directly sustain humanity.

Fun IN questions about the source of this destruction.  Is the
mechanism at the hands of human behavior?  What celestial/infernal
interference played a hand?  Or did vain arrogance lead humanity into
the simplest of infernal traps?  Which celestials see themselves as
having a stake in a continent's bees, and how might these stakes play
out politically, spiritually and gameably?

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jl hatlen linnell - jlhlinnell at gmail.com