Re: Another story finished, another few words added

On Tue, 22 Jul 2003 06:34, you wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 11:39:04PM +1200, Wesley Parish wrote:
> > fellow-worshippers and are inclined to go along with "conversion" as an
> > enriching experience, not an alienating experience.  In this they are
> > quite unlike their cousins the Lakhabrech, who regard Christian worship
> > as something Lovecraftian in existential horror.
>
> Ooh, I like this :)  The Lakhabrech are predators, right?  (Or do I have
> them confused with somebody else?)  A religion of submission and waiting
> for one's reward in the afterlife could indeed be a creeping horror to
> them!
Yes, Lakhabrech _are_ predators.  But they've got a prohibition against eating
speaking beings.  So when the Christians turn up among the Earth starship's
crew with a god-man who offers himself for the sins of the world and offers
his followers his symbolic flesh to eat and his symbolic blood to drink, the
Lakhabrech kind of freak out.

That's the sticking point - mind you, the character I've made for my fictional
religious experimentation, tries Buddhism at one stage, and since she is
Lakhabrech, she comes down with severe anemia and has to be forcefed at some
stages.

Conculturing is fun!

Wesley Parish
>
> Amanda
--
Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?"
You ask, "What is the most important thing?"
Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata."
I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people."

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