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

[William Keith]

On May 3, 2007, at 3:13 PM, JL Hatlen Linnell wrote:

>> 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.

[snip]

> 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.

Yes.  Of course, what I thought it was obvious I meant was, "among 
those species under Jordi's portfolio," or "among nonsapient species," 
or "beasts" as opposed to "animals," with the former's connotation of 
nonhumanness, or "barring humans, whose removal would be an entirely 
different sort of move in the War," or "in order to make the world 
around humans dramatically worse as they lived there"... but perhaps 
none of those was clear from context.

> Which celestials see themselves as
> having a stake in a continent's bees, and how might these stakes play
> out politically, spiritually and gameably?

Any that have a stake in humans, though Jordites would too, and if it's 
infernal interference there will probably be a traditional Archangelic 
opponent on the other side.  Of course, there is one other Archangel 
who would be intimately concerned with this no matter what.

See, personally, I use Bees as a synonym for Novalines.

William