12-22-2019, 10:50 AM | #1 |
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Whats it like for WordBound of 'Completed' Words?
What do you think it was like for wordbound of The Abolitionist movement, the Underground Railroad, the Liberator Newspaper, etc when Slavery was abolished?
On one hand they must have been giddy but also feel pained because their word would soon die without something to oppose. |
12-22-2019, 02:38 PM | #2 |
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Re: Whats it like for WordBound of 'Completed' Words?
This is why having a Word for something that is likely to end is a poor idea, and having too many Word-bound on related subjects is a poor planning by the Seraphim Council.
The way out of that trap for an individual celestial is to expand their Word to a more abstract concept that includes the old Word. If there are several Word-bound on closely related subjects, they'll be competing for fewer expanded Words, and some will lose out, and then die.
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12-23-2019, 04:40 AM | #3 |
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Re: Whats it like for WordBound of 'Completed' Words?
Hi everybody,
like johndallman said, I doubt, that the Seraphim Council would have bestowed Words, that - on the temporal axis - had a very good chance to become obsolete in the foreseeable future. And if it had, I assume john's explanation about what would have happened is valid, in my opinion. That left aside, I think, that the Seraphim Council would have rather bestowed the - more broad - Word of Liberation, or, perhaps, Abolition of Slavery in a wider context, whose holder would have been and probably still is closely watched by Judgement, because of being conceptually dangerously close to Freedom. I think, it is good to keep in mind, that the Seraphim Council usually tries to bestow Words that apply, as much as possible, globally. In that view, the Seraphim Council might very probably even have refrained to bestow any Words in this particular venue at all, because of that very reason, leaving it to angels of the Wind, Fire, Destiny, and the occasional angel of Judgement, to combat slavery and all that it entails. Best regards, M.
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12-24-2019, 09:34 AM | #4 | |
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For the Underground Railroad, I dunno, I suppose there might be an angel of Wind with the word of Moral Smuggling. But honestly it's a bit of modernist thinking that Heaven opposes slavery as slavery. The abuses it commonly leads to yes, but all the Abrahamic religions depict a God who seems OK with the general concept. There could perfectly well be an Angel of Slavery working to promote it's proper forms. Doubtless opposed by demons in the service of the Prince of Democracy.
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12-25-2019, 01:03 PM | #5 | |
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Re: Whats it like for WordBound of 'Completed' Words?
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Chains shall He break, For the slave is our brother, And in His name, all oppression shall cease. A statement like this would be at the core of an Angel of Emancipation, whatever the time and place.
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01-16-2020, 06:53 PM | #6 | |
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Probaly not really like either one, but empathize a bit more with the first? Or how would the Angel of Traditional Gender Roles Feel about say Lilith, or Angels of the Wind or Creationers? |
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01-17-2020, 10:50 PM | #7 | |
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The Angel of Slavery may very well work with the Angel of Liberation all the time, for just that reason. It's not his job to promote his word, but to make it work *as God intended*. If too many slaves on Earth are stuck in forms God doesn't approve of and which can't be reformed into proper ones, he's all for liberating them.
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02-21-2020, 06:55 AM | #8 | |
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I would imagine they haunt reenactments and historians. Maybe this is why we think bone corsets and hoop skirts are so bad? The remaining demons take every possible chance to inflict their pain. Expanding their word philosophically is a good idea, but sometimes difficult. |
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03-22-2020, 08:58 PM | #9 | |
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And there are things short of a classic established church that resemble one in a wide variety of other countries (e.g. cases of religions other than Christianity, state financial support without official status, official status without state financial support, various specific privileges, various ceremonial and symbolic supports). It seems likely that the Word of Disestablismentarianism would conceptually cover efforts to eliminate those things, too, and the the demon is a fan of, for example, the Freedom From Religion Foundation. The real by-the-book example isn't Stale Bong Water (he's just trivial), but the Demon of Buggy Whips -- who died from Word decay, per the GMG, p.31. Per p.29 of the same book, celestials who are dying because their words are dying are sometimes saved by their Superior taking them to the Seraphim Council/Lucifer to get them unbound.
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03-12-2021, 05:03 AM | #10 |
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Re: Whats it like for WordBound of 'Completed' Words?
I'm going to be a bit NSFW here, but, well, I'm also going to speak from personal experience.
Not all slaves are involuntary. I can testify to this from personal experience. Sadly, I lost her four years ago to throat cancer. You don't _get_ throat cancer at 44, but she did. And unfortunately, not all voluntary slaves remain so, because this world sucks. There will always be something for the Angel of Emancipation to do... even if it's only parceling out people who need to be slaves to the people who will support them best, even if said slaves won't help themselves. Ironic, no? |
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