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Subject: Re: is not not is Asgard - (nf)
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Date: Sat, 8-Sep-84 21:02:00 EDT
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/***** trsvax:net.comics / pur-phy!dub / 12:04 am  Sep  7, 1984 */
[edited for brevity]
But after looking at Asgard we see that something is wrong.  
They continue to fight with swords and mystical hammers 
(effective hammers, but still just hammers.)
They haven't advanced in technology.  They are basically back
in the Middle Ages and it would seen that their culture is 
stagnant.  Doesn't this strike you as odd?
/* ---------- */

Not really.  Asgard has one BIG thing going for it that we don't:
Magic.  When you're as powerful as Odin or his "sons" and "daughters",
then who needs machines?  Magic isn't an answer to everything, but the
culture they have is (partially) a result of the fact that they have
magic and (to some extent) have not felt a need for machines.

				IV  (aka John Elliott IV)
				Tandy Systems Software; Fort Worth, TX
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