The secret of Mirkheim is revealed and:
"Thereafter came the year which God, or destiny, or chance had ordained." (p. 30)
Well, which was it though: God, destiny or chance? I suppose that that sentence is true but only because it includes "or" twice and covers every possibility. The point of the novel is to recount the events of that year, not to philosophize about ultimate causes. But some of us do contemplate ultimate causes. Philosophers clarify questions but do not agree about answers. However, questions that I had thought were philosophical have become physical: virtual particles emerging from vacuum... Chance.
5 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
Philosophies can never do more than propose possible answers to many questions and mysteries, some more likely than others.
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Ad astra! Sean
Of course the author is the God which determines the destiny of the people & things in the story.
Is that the answer to the "Problem of Evil"? God wants the story to be interesting? ;)
Kaor, Jim!
Actually, no. If I understand you correctly, and IIRC, the human narrator of "The Problem of Pain" was not satisfied/convinced by Ythrian New Faith solutions to the problem of evil.
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Ad astra! Sean
I should have put ;^) rather than ;) in my comment. Giving some hypothetical God such a human desire as wanting an interesting story is a rather tongue in cheek.
Kaor, Jim!
Well, I believe God is not a mere hypothesis.
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Ad astra! Sean
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