Religion
"...a muttered prayer to Father met minimum requirements." (p. 39)
This confirms that the "Father" figure is indeed regarded and addressed as a patriarchal deity. There is a "Father chapel" on p. 24 in CHAPTER IV. I instead identify with the impersonal but omnipresent and all-encompassing Cosmos invoked in the Stellar Union.
Emotional Life
"In early adolescence, a Whitley nearly always got a crush on an older Trevor." (p. 37)
All the Trevors are genetically identical, as are all the Whitleys, so surely a crush on one older Trevor is a crush on all of them? Or the next best thing?
Sleep
"Normally you slept about four hours out of the twelve between a sunset and a sunrise, but huntresses could go for days on birdnaps." (p. 38)
Human and other physiologies adapt to different planetary periods as on Avalon colonized by human beings and Ythrians in the Technic History.
Food
Mammals - or should we say mammaloids? - have not evolved on Atlantis. Birds - or ornithoids - of different sizes are variously domesticated, hunted, eaten and ridden.
4 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
I wonder if that brief muttered prayer to Father was a version of the Pater Noster> It begins with "Our Father," after all.
And I still thik "Cosmos" would be too remote, abstract, bloodless, etc., for most people to take seriously as a god.
BIRD NAPS? Not cat naps on Atlantis, I see!
Ad astra! Sean
Sean,
But we are the conscious part of the All. We contemplate it from within, not from a distance.
Paul.
Kaor, Paul!
I disagree, because the cosmos is not the ultimate source of reality and meaning. Only God, the Creator of the cosmos, can be the Ultimate.
You seem to be coming close to repersonalizing merely natural things, reversing the depersonalizing of nature brought about by Christianity.
Ad astra! Sean
Sean,
By the cosmos I mean the totality of reality. It is not a single person but incorporates every person.
We are coming close to circular arguments again. IF you believe that ultimate reality is a person (or three persons), THEN you believe that only that person (or persons) is ultimate.
If a mystic talks about oneness with God, then I think that he is talking about an experience of reality although I would not put it that way whereas, if an Evangelical talks about his understanding of the Biblical deity, then I reply that I do not believe that such a being exists or can exist so "God" is ultimately ambiguous.
Paul.
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