[Dragaera] The 17

[tom sausman]

That frame of mind, to me, is only if you are all-knowing, a mistyic (?) 
and what not, how did the Serioli in Dragon knew that Godslayer was 
gonna come but after all the gods were agaisnt them.

Maximilian Wilson wrote:

>On 8/11/06, tom sausman <inuyashadontask at netscape.net> wrote:
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>> Remember, the Serioli don't seem to view time as a linear progression.
>>Much like Devera.
>>             Is that impiling that Serioli can "time jump" like Devera?
>>Because the Serioli aren't speical such as Devera, can someone explainhow
>>someone can view time in a mutiple space if there are only in the present?
>>Nevermind I just confused myself.
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>I don't think viewing time non-linearly requires the ability to
>time-jump. It just requires a certain frame of mind in which things
>which are going to happen, effectively have happened, whether in the
>sense of Gilbert and Sullivan's /Mikado/
>(http://math.boisestate.edu/gas/mikado/webopera/mk212d.html) or in the
>sense of the Book of Mormon prophet Abinadi
>(http://scriptures.lds.org/en/mosiah/16/6#6) or Calvinism or in some
>other sense. It's just a very relaxed way of looking at causality. Now
>it's certainly possible that the Serioli are able to interfere with
>the past/present in a Devera-like manner, but the point is that the
>Serioli in /Dragon/ needn't be particularly bothered by the fact that
>Godslayer was just created, since to him, it was going to be created
>all along and could certainly have been counted as part of the 17.
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>-Max Wilson
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