[UA] [OT] Re: Religion...

[Nick Wedig]

>On the other hand I have a complete inability to understand Faith and Religion
>in general. Fortunately enough it has nothing to do with my understanding of
>spirituality, but it still means there's a whole, broad field of experiences
>I will never get to live. I'm therefore very likely to use religious aspects
>in my games, to try to understand them better, or to play religious chars.
>It's quite hard to get the proper feeling for it. I think Mage and UA are 2
>perfect games for that. Since we're not on YAWoD-ML, I'd stick to UA: most
>OU players seem to be too egocentric to really be part of something bigger
>(except more often than not unwillingly being part of the OU), to really
>follow anything else than their own instincts and agenda, and to share anything
>else than a good blast. 

I'd imagine the OU as being comprised of those out for their own hides (Dirk Allen, Alex Abel, etc) and those looking so much at the big picture that the little details (like a few human lives) are negligible (the House rep from the main book, the Order of St. Cecil, the Cult of the Naked Goddess, etc).  Normal human life is balancing the big picture (higher ideals, religion and philosophical beliefs) with the small picture (looking out for yourself, etc) which tends to be unbalanced one way or the other in OU members.

>On the other hand there's obviously plenty of
>opportunities for avatars/godheads/archetypes to be "religiously tainted".
>What I always wanted to know, but can't really imagine is: what happens to
>the very religious avatar who ascends, only to understand that the reality
>is completely different from what his religious credo said? Would he still
>think it's a test, and stick to his guns? Or would he suffer strong disillusion
>and go directly to the House of Renunciation? Or would he ascend as a slightly
>different archetype (not "The Saint" but "The disillusioned believer")?

Once he's in the IC, the humanity is more-or-less burned away (or rather, stored in a back closet of the universe until booted by a godwalker) and just the archetype is there, and the archetypes are going to be religiously unspecified (that is, you may have an archetype of the Priest, but it will be open to Priests of any religion, not just Christian priests or Buddhists or whatever) though they could still be associated witht he idea of religion in general.  After being booted through the House, religious conversion seems likely (especially if ascended as a religious archetype like the Priest) though not necessary (possibly, his mind could warp the visions of the Statosphere into visions of heaven and the like).

Mr. teapot
fundamentalist agnostic

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