Re: Taxonomy of supernatural beings

> As I understand them, Ainur are gods.
> Elves depends on what kind you're talking about.
In connection with Ainur, I mean of course Tolkien's elves.

> 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.
Elves and men are called "children of Eru".
Al-Lah created two paradises,
one for men and one for jinns.

Of course, there are differences between elves and jinns.
Elves are more similar to men,
they even can interbreed with them.
Jinns have bodies from other substance than elves and men:
men were created from earth and water,
while jinns from fire and air.
(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.)

> Well, I guess we'll have to agree to disagree. I see
> no difference between what you call Gods and what you
> call gods. (And to be honest, I don't see much
> difference between either of them and humans, either.
> They're just like us, only more so.)
It is said that when the time of the Second  Music will come,
the men will be equal to the gods,
but *here* in Ea, created by the First Music,
there is some difference,
even if it may be more quantitative than qualitative.
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.
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.

> Who says the Big Bang was all that big or important an
> event? Expand the view such that our universe is one
> little dot of light in a matrix of millions of similar
> dots. It's winking on or off doesn't much matter.
Once I watched the New Year fireworks.
The rockets were exploding
and the sparkles were creating shining spheres.
Then the fireworks ended and the sky was full of stars,
seemingly motionless, but only due to the huge scale.
Then I came to the comprehension what our universe is,
and what the purpose of Big Bang was.

      P.A.

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