RE: Is this a contradiction or am I reading it wrong? Genesis 5:28
March 31, 2023 at 11:20 am
(This post was last modified: March 31, 2023 at 11:23 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Why should magic book have a problem with fantasy worlds? Worlds either intended or winnowed down by eliminative processes to be those which are adaptable and reinterpretable? That's their utility, after all. The adam and eve story, for example, is pure fantasy. It's actually not one story but many stories jumbled together. Even if we believed that each individual author of each individual representative of the set of stories which eventually becomes the version in a magic book had a specific and singular intent, it would still not be the case that all of them had the exact same specific and singular intent. Crucially, the composite story with no actual specific and singular meaning is placed in a setting that is so broad and familiar, that even if we were to strip every supernatural element out of it - would still resonate as true or truth adjacent.
So, yes, because magic books both create and inhabit fantasy worlds - and insomuch as the magic book has survived, and survived in it's now-current form only because it can evade singular interpretations...I think it's safe to say that magic book both can and has meant whatever anyone has ever wanted it to.
That's the real tragedy of magic books. Whenever the people of a magic book decide to be shitty, they do so even though they could just as easily do otherwise.
So, yes, because magic books both create and inhabit fantasy worlds - and insomuch as the magic book has survived, and survived in it's now-current form only because it can evade singular interpretations...I think it's safe to say that magic book both can and has meant whatever anyone has ever wanted it to.
That's the real tragedy of magic books. Whenever the people of a magic book decide to be shitty, they do so even though they could just as easily do otherwise.
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