"As obnoxious as I think the Jesus people are, the biggest difference I can see is we'd be cutting open a lot more animals to look at their entrails, instead of wastefully throwing the entrails away to make dog food"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Cybren and
We all coulda gotten super into Mithras, though.
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Replying to @mssilverstein @arthur_affect and
Honestly I would have traded Jesus in for Glycon There's, I think, something kind of endearing about worshipping a snake puppet
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Replying to @Nymphomachy @mssilverstein and
Gnosticism get's a lot of shit since it's the go-to for genre fiction authors that want "christianity but weird" but come on who doesn't love a good demiurge
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Replying to @Cybren @Nymphomachy and
Yeah - I think the problem generally is that while people (like us, especially) like to spend a lot of time talking about complex cosmologies, the way religions become successful is spending more time stressing everyday good deeds.
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Replying to @mssilverstein @Cybren and
You get a bigger audience with a soup kitchen than a "and HERE is why the world is an evil illusion created by a blind god"
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Replying to @mssilverstein @Cybren and
I always liked how, when you get right down to it, the morally "best" faction in Planescape is the Bleak Cabal They have no grand plan to fix everything, they just run the city's soup kitchen and the homeless shelter
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Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein and
so they're basically the Followers of the Apocalypse?
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Replying to @Nymphomachy @mssilverstein and
The Followers are more proactive, I think, like the Bleak Cabal are pretty firmly set in their understanding that the world can't be "rebuilt" or even improved in any large-scale way
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
That's kind of the idea, that with Sigil being the fulcrum of Creation and all, everyone who genuinely has some kind of ideology about how the world could be better comes to the city to try to take it over and convert everyone to their beliefs for the greater good
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The *reason* the Bleak Cabal are able to be humane and compassionate to ordinary people is that they've given up completely on such a mission and strongly discourage even starting to think about the world in such terms Which is a, you know, bleak feature of the setting, but hey
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
The Bleakers aren't my favorite faction even though they're obviously the one I'd be in real life Kind of because by definition they're not suitable for player characters Like their faction weakness as written straight up makes them unplayable
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
I would absolutely and certainly be revolutionary league but mostly I'd spend my time on Planescape Twitter arguing about obscure historical events on Krynn
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