At first you be like “wow, this girl is incompetent. Trying to figure out how to rewrite what she’s told to best benefit herself probably!” and then you find out what’s going on and it’s just worse-
Artificial Incident
At first you be like “wow, this girl is incompetent. Trying to figure out how to rewrite what she’s told to best benefit herself probably!” and then you find out what’s going on and it’s just worse-
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You ain’t seen nothing yet, Keilie. Imagine how your divine patron will look when he hears about this.
Unless the deity in question is really prone to metaphor and imagery, the notion you have to interpret their exact given words is a STAGGERING show of arrogance. Worse, in this case it appears to be unthinking arrogance.
I wonder if the newest ‘oracle’ is at least in part him telling her to cut out the interpreting and get to straight sharing. Or else.
He’s not very good at what he does, so he may not have caught on to what his followers have been doing – yet.
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If I understand it Correndel has either been very vague and symbolic with his oracles, or he has been direct but his clerics are like ‘but what did he REALLY mean’ and end up twisting it out of shape. With any follow up oracles to correct it getting the same treatment and making it worse.
Part of the latest oracle would include ‘Stop being such prudes’ (per https://www.artificialincident.com/comic/wandering-home-11/ ). I wonder if he mentioned something about running into a dark elven adventurer, and telling his followers to ‘kiss and make up’ with her to avoid further trouble.
That would explain last page’s flustered reaction and blushing if she is to take it literal.
I figure he was direct, but the high elves reinterpreted what he said to fit with their inflated egos and self-image, which are partially tied up in their tribal divine patron being ‘best god’.
Would not be surprised if this behavior by the High Elf priests bites them hard. When a god tells you “don’t make me come down there!” you better take it serious!
Hm, he has mentioned being hands off automation. What if his messages are just prewritten emails?
Interpretation…the bane of every simple concept ever
“Alright, listen up. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in it’s mother’s milk”
Right, we won’t serve meat and milk together
“No, I said thou shalt not seethe a kid in it’s mother’s milk”
Right, we’ll wait a half hour between eating them
“No, I said thou shalt not seethe a kid in it’s mother’s milk !!”
Right, we’ll use two sets of dishes, one for meat and one for milk
“NO, I SAID thou shalt not seethe a kid in IT’S mother’s milk !!!”
Right, we’ll have two kitchens, one for cooking meat and one for cooking milk
” *sigh* you know what Moses ? just do whatever you want to I’m going to take a nap until Shabbat”
Just for the record, I keep kosher and by extension so do the people I cook for 😉
But I don’t follow that misinterpreted one, there are many sects of Jew, mine says I can haz cheeseburger 🙂
My rabbi is strict kosher. But deny him a cheeseburger, and you’ll end up like the bad guys in Indiana Jones 1. 😉
That verse refers to a practice of sacrifice by the various tribes in the land that the Hebrews were going to settle in where they would offer up a goat kid boiled in it’s mother’s milk as a sacrifice to a fertility goddess
Exactly, and nothing else, but it was such a prevalent pagan practice that it was stressed repeatedly.
So i guess that means don’t boil your meat in its mother’s milk? Like, don’t have veal boiled in milk? Or don’t slaughter a calf then cook it in it’s mom’s milk?
A kid is a baby goat, so the line is even more specific referring to just one type of animal.
I hadn’t heard of this line before, but yeah… wow.
At it’s most literal it says to not cook a goat in the milk of the mother goat. I can see the extrapolation to not combine goat meat and goat milk at all, but to separate all meat and dairy to different different parts of the kitchen and separate dishes is quite the reach…
And yet I bet not even the worst case of interpretation gone wrong…
It was not so much interpretation but understanding what was initially said and meant but finding alternative answers to something that was clear and well defined when issued.
In the case of not keeping a written record of what was initially said the interpreter casts themselves in the role of lawmaker.
[scream internally]
What the priest tells the congreation, is not always what the God told the priest.
…I admit, I was assuming that she was not keeping the original text because then other people could call her on her self-serving BS, but based on what everyone else is thinking, I suppose it could just be stupidity.
Or maybe the arrogance is just her thinking she could keep getting away with this power play and not suffer any consequences from being “overzealous” in her “interpretation” of her god’s word.
Given how the High Elves have been using Correndel’s ascendency to pressure the other elf types, I’d definitely gone into these pages assuming Keilia was part of that – and thus manipulation or deception were probable. However this page reminds me of a quote (that I’m probably misremembering): “Saying others are bad at listening is a sign that you’re bad at communicating.”
If we accept what Keilia says as true, then either she can’t/doesnt want to understand/accept what Correndel is saying, or he’s being vague and unclear… or both!
But her idea that she just doesn’t write anything down… even if she isn’t consciously trying to manipulate or twist Correndel’s words for gain, it suggests that his actual oracles aren’t treated as important, and are essentially being disregarded. It opens the possibility that the “High Elf Agenda” can be pushed by someone else, with Keilia as an unwitting support/mouthpiece/etc. The writing may not even be hers at all!
That said, it could be funny if Yunn offers to SHOW Keilia what ‘receiving an oracle’ looks like… and the offer leaves Keilia all flustered at what she thinks is the idea of it.
Yunn (thinking): You know, if I made this public, it would completely shatter her claims of authority, and the high elves wouldn’t have the leverage to be able to pressure us into things anymore.
… then again, it could also lead to a war between the dark elves and high elves as the dark elf resentments of the last while boil over, and I’m pretty sure Lyrestra doesn’t want THAT…