Alex Hall

@corsiKa rlly? I'm not aware of any ranks of how well sarcasm is carried off (depending on whether it could fool someone). If plausibility ranks a higher sarcasm score for you, okay, ha ha.

Ok. I suppose I'm musing on any differences between necromancy as it may usually be employed in fantasy versus resurrection, and any rank of power associated with either. I don't personally have a lot of fictional reference on that. And thanks for clarifying the implications (which is what I thought you meant, but you never know).

@corsiKa I don't know whether you're being ironic. Hypocrisy of the kind we imagine with these speculations and at this level is in my imagination plausible. It is at least easy to allege hypocrisy in such grave matters in so many real life circumstances and organizations.

@Separatrix I don't even know what I meant by my last sentence about "whoever is doing the resurrection" anymore, and the "what's in a name" metaphor doesn't clarify anything for me, whatever I meant :p This is the only thing I think I can have meant, omitting my own last sentence which confuses me: if someone has the power to put a spirit (assuming the existence of spirits) back into a corpse and animate it, they'll have the power to create a spirit and body from dirt, too. Power over life is the highest rank of power, in my imagination.

Holy resurrection enacted by whom? I don't imagine a force capable of bringing anyone back from the dead is necessarily limited by how intact a corpse is. I imagine the only requirement is dirt, irrespective of the source of the dirt. So whoever is doing the holy resurrection, it would be more "plausible" to me if they were someone less than a god.

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