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Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2003 7:44 am
by west
Well, it's just too bloody hard to say "Oh my He-who-is-without"
remember that dude from the clever "book of the beginning" note in Olip Forest?
Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2003 7:46 am
by sammigurl61190
What?? Now you've lost me!
Again! LMAO
Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2003 1:49 pm
by rklenseth
Sorry, I still don't agree. Jos is not generic for god in the English areas. God is the generic for god in English areas. Plus, through you argument you are pretty much saying that it would be alright for people to start saying "Oh my Unnamed Ones" even though the Unnamed Ones haven't been introduced to that given area.
Plus, I think .west.'s argument about generic names for gods only furthers the argument that Jos shouldn't be used anywhere else but where the Church of Jos exists. Did the Norsemen know about Zoarostrian and did the Persians know about Thor. Both are names for the gods that those too different people worshipped but both did not know the name of the other's god. They might have eventually through contact except the Persians were long gone before the Norsemen came to sail the seas. The generic name has to be introduced through IC reasons so Jos would need to be introduced to a given area by a person from Quillanoi or Siom or any other place that the Church of Jos has been introduced before it can become the generic name for god in that given area.
The whole Allah thing also furthers my argument as a regional and cultural name for god that has only become known elsewhere because the information traveled in one way or another to another area. People in Indochina did not suddenly started praying to Allah because they suddenly thought of it as a generic name for god before the name was even introduced to them.
I see the whole generic name thing as a lame excuse for why Jos could be used widespread for a god in other areas that it has not been introduced yet.
PD announcement on Jos as god
Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2003 2:41 pm
by g1asswa1ker
The PD has discussed this topic in the PD. We of the PD share Solfius' opinion. The Church of Jos in Quillanoi has been established a long time ago. But new 'Churches' or followers shouldn't refer to Jos as a God. It's not original any more, and, in fact, it's indeed a Capital Rule breach. Should it travel there by means of water or air and spread by word of mouth then it will be allowed. This will include any other location it spreads naturally too.
This a final statement on this thread from the PD