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Re: Taxonomy of supernatural beings

From:Padraic Brown <elemtilas@...>
Date:Monday, September 23, 2002, 22:17
--- Pavel Adamek <pavel.adamek@...> wrote:

> I mean of course Tolkien's elves.
In that case, they are certainly not jinns. Just very long lived children of Earth.
> > If you want to call them jinns or demons, > > I suppose that's your prerogative. > > Both elves and jinns are described as > species comparable with men.
Indeed. "I am better than he; Thou did create me from fire, him from clay."
> (So the paradise for jinns will probably contain > rivers and lakes of fire instead of water, > and I assume that the paradise for jinns > could be used at the same time as the hell for men > and the paradise for men as the hell for jinns.)
Assuming both Man and Jinn receive some kind of body they're used to in paradise!
> Of course, even now we can create our own universes > and we do create them and enter into them every > night, > but these private worlds are very inferior to the > Common World.
Who's to say? Are you sure the universe you dreamt last night didn't have a life of 60 billion years?
> I can fly there and walk through the walls > and nobody can stop me if I want to do anything > there, > but I am not skilled enough to create it complex and > keep it stable.
How do you know it isn't stable somewhere you just can't get to as of yet? Padraic. ===== raps il tenós mathin la ngouerma; mays comez le nces il luchets le secund. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New DSL Internet Access from SBC & Yahoo! http://sbc.yahoo.com

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