Rayati honored friends. I have just visited a "super social bookmark" sort of site where they discuss other sites that have caught their attention. They were having a discussion about this Chapel of Our Mother God. It all struck my inexperienced-in-these-places mind as rather odd; they all seem to be a particular sort of person, and I am not sure how representative they are of Outlanders in general. The ambience of their site has been compared by Wikipedia to that of "a good university", and certainly many of their comments were not unintelligent - although completely locked within a particular framework. Their reaction to this Chapel was one of incredulity (sometimes expressed by a set of initials which apparently invokes the procreative act). Finally they settled on the idea that we are "roleplaying" which seemed to make it all all right in their minds. No one questioned the probity of "roleplaying" with religion. Taking religion seriously seemed to be outside the boundaries of their thinking. It made me wonder what they would make of the recent Easter Egg article. "Do these people really think the world hatched from a giant egg?? Are they completely ignorant of astro-physics or is this a roleplay based on the Eggworldverse?" One might be tempted to reply teasingly "Why a giant egg? It might have been a very small egg." The truth is, of course, that the World-Egg is neither large nor small, since size is a quality of physical objects and the World Egg precedes all physical manifestation. And while we are by no means ignorant of astro-physics and its ability to explain (provisionally) certain functions within physical manifestation, the whole point of our thinking is the belief that Intelligence, Archetypes, Symbols are not a late development (via the accidentally-evolved human mind) of matter, but are its underlying cause. That is what all humans have believed before the irrational faith of the modern West that a closed system (physical manifestation) can have its cause and explanation within itself. To which our friends, I imagine, would reply WTCC? (What The Chryselephantine Cantaloupe?). Or something of that order. Blessings to you all, Sakura