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Beermöther - Synthony

Terminal Cruise

Page Words Title Summary
A0 625 Pharmadigm The Center for Disease Control is called in when a drug trial goes bad.
A1 640 Erik When Robyn has a near death experience, her father's death is no longer a mystery.
A2 717 Soap Opera Stars It turns out that suns have sex-lives as well as planet-dwellers. Who knew?
A3 682 Avatar The eloah named Binah crashes a party at Aramel, and Talishi accepts a ride.
A4 641 Jerry's Case A little background on the next test subject, one Jerry Aspin, lately of the Colorado pen.
A5 683 Yeshua When the Judge of the dead makes a frowny face, that's not a good thing.
A6 683 The Hop Talishi is a brave yin, but a suborbital flight to the far north taxes her limit.
A7 731 Chokhmah Chokhmah proposes the first merger between elohim and nephilim, and it's not business.
A8 576 Mutation Jill's genetic studies prove the Pharmadigm screw-up can be passed along to her kids.
A9 691 Jill's Trip Binah shows Jill the entire universe and requests to have a very small thing...her body.
Page Words Title Summary
B0 675 Voice of Belial The prophet of Belial is troubled by Talishi's message of peace.
B1 768 Sunset Discourse Talishi is invited by King Gordiel to preach in the city of Aramel.
B2 603 Rewind Introducing one Lilith Gervasi, English Jew and Holocaust survivor.
B3 720 Old One Where Jill turned Binah down, Lilith gladly accepts.
B4 600 Disciple Talishi takes Princess Khondiel to be her first student.
B5 604 Prosecution Talishi is arrested and put on trial for preaching infidelity to the Law of Belial.
B6 676 The Mike Snafu Earl Roland watched the next drug trial himself, and it goes even more horribly wrong.
B7 658 Bustout The test subjects begin to make their escape from the Hanford site.
B8 574 Defense Khondiel attempts to win freedom for Talishi in a rigged trial.
B9 608 Sidebar Talishi makes a bargain with Belial, because Khondiel's life, not her own, is at issue.
Page Words Title Summary
C0 752 Vernita Bridge Jerry has a new-found talent for avoiding unpleasant law enforcement situations.
C1 635 Separate Ways The remaining test subjects split up into two groups to increase their odds of escaping.
C2 627 Belial Belial puts on Nephil flesh and gloats, Talishi says Bat-El already did it long ago.
C3 677 Khondiel Princess Khondiel and her Fallen Angels are ambushed by the Eyes of Belial.
C4 659 Buried Alive Jill and Mike discover their talent in a god-forsaken gravel pit.
C5 705 Egress Earl Roland's own lying eyes watch Lilith and Robyn make good their escape.
C6 607 Alliance King Gordiel comes to the aid of his daughter and the Fallen Angels.
C7 669 The Knot Khondiel impresses Talishi when one of her infamous plans actually works.
C8 698 The Swim Jill and Mike go for a late winter river swim, accompanied by bullets.
C9 614 The Drive Lilith offers the four others one more chance to turn around.
Page Words Title Summary
D0 732 House Calls Talishi voyages to House Larund and Antero, seeking aid.
D1 700 Truce Queen Firegem calls for a council of Royals in the Land We Know.
D2 683 Disposal Dr. Roland loads all the loose ends into a special plane that takes off but doesn't land.
D3 545 Sacred Pool Lilith's "Gervasi Crime Family" takes a hike that's out of this world.
D4 748 Aramel Belial marches on Aramel with his entire force. Khondiel and Talishi flee west.
D5 697 The Dream Princess Kari Stronghammer relates a strange dream to her parent, the king of Menkal.
D6 733 Flashback In Reality version 1.0, the Plumbers were not arrested at the Watergate June 17, 1972.
D7 688 Four Questions Yeshua Bat-El answers certain questions about the Land We Know, and the women therein.
D8 652 The Truth Talishi and Belial visit the West Lands by turns. The king prefers Talishi's language.
D9 735 Demonstroke On the nature and origin of the last winged dragon in the Land We Know.
Page Words Title Summary
E0 682 Yom Kippur North In Reality 1.0 Lilith Gervasi fought on the Syrian front of the 1973 Arab-Israeli War.
E1 613 Time to Split The Gervasi crime divides again, this time to entirely different worlds.
E2 736 Sealiah War comes at last between House Gerash and House Bellon, with Talishi caught in the middle.
E3 613 Council The Council of Royals in Alodra begins with the arrival of the Hamar delegation.
E4 671 Yom Kippur South Under an arrogant President Nixon, the Yom Kippur war escalates to World War Three.
E5 625 Road Trip Robyn and Lilith head back East on I-90 by car, and find interesting ways to kill time.
E6 661 Refugees Belial captures the city of Mandakar as Talishi and Khondiel struggle to escape Sealiah.
E7 649 Arrival In the castle of Queen Firegem, more royal delegates arrive.
E8 565 Intervention The Watergate break-in takes a completely different turn thanks to Robyn and Lilith.
E9 743 The Ride The Gervasi Crime Family crosses the Kingdom of Nath making for the Temple of El Shaddai.
Page Words Title Summary
F0 698 Rumbek Talishi and Khondiel flee to Rumbek as Sealiah Island falls to House Gerash.
F1 665 The Visitors The final delegations of royals arrive in Atria for the Queen's council.
F2 600 Reality 2.0 Robyn lays out the changes they wrought by interfering with the Watergate burglary.
F3 757 Hadal The Gervasi Crime Family nears the Temple of El Shaddai in Nath.
F4 702 Nine Mile Wall Belial gains the upper hand in the battle against the other Houses of Gorpai.
F5 691 Testimony The Council convened in Alodra by Queen Firegem begins.
F6 697 Cis-Lunar The Gervasi Crime Family meets up again, this time on the Moon.
F7 660 Lost Angel Talishi suffers an terrible and eternal loss.
F8 611 Luzea The royals have a midday meal and Luzea Cedarbranch incurs the wrath of the Queen.
F9 567 Taurus The Gervasi Crime Family get their first look at Taurus City, Selene.
Page Words Title Summary
G0 573 Interlude Kari Stronghammer confronts Telan Blackseed in his chamber.
G1 688 Deviation The Apollo 17 mission goes wildly off-script.
G2 708 Retreat Talishi evacuates west with the defeated Houses of Gorpai.
G3 649 Apollo Robyn encounters the Apollo 17 crew in the Taurus-Littrow valley.
G4 673 Baron Bayard Firegem attempts to "punish" Luzea Cedarbranch, and fails.
G5 692 Micro Lilith hires a software guru after interviewing legendary nerds from Reality 2.0
G6 674 Stronghammer The Queen proposes a union of kingdoms in the Land We Know to bring about peace.
G7 714 Eden As Talishi walks west, she reflects on the real Garden of Eden, which was in Gorpai.
G8 723 Ariel Robyn gives birth to Ariel, and Astrodyne gives birth to the Micro.
G9 684 Dragonthorn When Lord Blackseed expresses displeasure at the new Union of Kingdoms, Princess Stronghammer breaks protocol.
Page Words Title Summary
H0 717 Hunky Jill gives birth to a baby dirk, and Astrodyne ships the Micro-75 computer.
H1 748 First Deluge Talishi-Chokhmah remembers events that transformed the surface of Gorpai.
H2 627 Apostle Lilith attempts to heal a breach in a project that preceded Jerry by many decades.
H3 706 Desecration Princess Keri's poor choices reach the light of day, with far-reaching consequences
H4 658 Crowded Moon Apollo 18 was five guys instead of just three, and they had to jostle with Russians and Gervasi's folks.
H5 747 Second Deluge The final Five Houses emerge intact on Gorpai after a second world-spanning flood.
H6 693 Menkal War comes to the Land We Know with an invasion at the Sadl river crossing.
H7 689 Viking Carl Sagan tries to explain new images coming from the Viking Orbiter, and the Micro-77 comes out.
H8 580 Godspeed Sen. John Glenn and Aleksei Leonov meet up with Jill and Ambe in Taurus City and have a chat.
H9 720 Sala Talishi is welcomed by the one House on Gorpai that embraces her teachings.

Chapter I

Chapter I

Page Words Title Summary
I0 736 Binah's Lab Belial sends Field Marshal Ithuriel through the fold-door to examine Binah's workshop at Proxima.
I1 641 Cartel Robyn and Jill get bored, but quickly find something very interesting to do together.
I2 701 Charybdis A mysterious and deadly whirlpool appears in the ocean near New Zealand.
I3 687 Hybla-Dia With Yeshua in attendance, Talishi offers Belial his pick of one of a pair of her planets
I4 731 Conquest Lord Telan Blackseed, despite some setbacks, rapidly conquers most of the kingdom of Menkal.
I5 714 Liaison Jerry and Lilith get together, and Astrodyne ships the Micro-79.
I6 729 Colony The nephilim of Gorpai begin to move out into the Rigilkent system.
I7 728 Nath The war in the Land We Know expands to the kingdom of Nath.
I8 728 Brand Lilith gives birth to her own son, Brand, and Astrodyne rolls out the Micro-80
I9 701 Eggbeater The nephilim spread out into the great swarm of rocks between Rigilkent and Toliman.

J6 - AXIS OF EVIL

The Summit attendees read like a Who's Who list of America's mortal enemies.

For the Summit at Taurus City the People's Republic of China was represented by Special Minister Liu Chou-Lai, appointed and trained by the Communist Party solely for the event on the Moon.

The Soviet Union was represented by the platoon of cosmonauts Astrodyne had contracted to bring up the Earth delegations, including their old friends Aleksei Leonov, now a Field Marshal, and General Oleg Makarov.

The Islamic Republic of Iran sent five mullahs from the Revolutionary Council. The Soviets had to use only male pilots to bring them up, because they refused to get into a space vessel piloted by women. A dozen less prominent 'non-aligned' nations from Africa and Latin America, which fell neither within the Soviet sphere nor the American sphere, were also represented at Taurus City. What they had in common was a long saltwater coastline, and the gift they were soon to receive would be far beyond imagination .

The United States leaned on their closest allies to spurn the Summit, including most of Europe, the entire British Commonwealth, Japan, and Saudi Arabia. To Lilith's disappointment, the state of Israel also refrained from sending a representative. As a natural result of this embargo, the list of attendees from Earth read a little bit like a Who's Who of America's traditional enemies. But in a case of do as I say, not as I do, old John Glenn came up from the Taurus-Littrow base to keep an eye on the proceedings. Lilith warned him the US would probably receive a big fat nothing.

Glenn was most dismayed to discover the Summit would be televised globally, because this would instantly blow the cover off the Ford Administration's ongoing narrative, now a decade in the making, that only NASA was present on the Moon. The US would not broadcast the coverage, of course, but soon it would become common knowledge worldwide that elohim and nephilim existed, that there were two habitable worlds at Alpha Centauri, and that there was a staging area between them and Sol called the Land We Know. Americans would ask why President Ford had kept all of this hidden from them.

The answer ran far deeper than politics and was rooted in Protestant theology. Although he started as a Mid-west checked pants Republican, by the middle of Jerry Ford's second full term his cabinet was over-represented by Southern fundamentalist Moral Majority types. John Glenn's reports from the Moon put them in a constant state of future shock. Holding the Bible to be the inerrant, literal word of God, they didn't know what to do with the knowledge that their God was really a vast female alien made of dense nuclei in the heart of the sun, that Jesus was really the daughter of her and the devil, and that there were two other aliens, including one that ran around wearing the body of a Jewish woman.

There were anthropological considerations to take into account. From the long, sad history of the collision of colonizing European cultures with the more primitive aboriginal cultures in the lands they invaded, one could easily imagine Earth itself, in the aftermath of the arrival of an advanced alien civilization, becoming a sort of galactic "Human Reservation" utterly dependent on handouts and perhaps becoming a seedy haven for gambling or other pleasures that might be forbidden elsewhere in the universe. A cover-up could buy time to prepare the world for the shock and perhaps prevent such a post-contact malaise from taking hold. This would be a legitimate reason for the cover-up, but it was not the real reason.

There have always been those who seek to cling to safe and familiar things in a world that appears to grow more and more dangerous and complex every day. These relentless change represented a quantum leap in the world's danger and complexity. To those who sought to steer America's schools away from teaching evolution and "old earth geology" and towards a curriculum of a special creation of the Earth by God 6,000 years ago, the changes raised questions that their closed, self-contained, strictly biblical theology could never answer.

Chapter J

Page Words Title Summary
J0 637 The Ark Belial is arrested for trying to seize the Ark of El Shaddai
J1 606 Monopoly Astrodyne pushes out the Micro-81 and Mark Felton ends up in court
J2 637 Shyla & Brand Yeshua rounds up Shyla and her half-brother Brand after they fulfill a task for him
J3 699 Lael The first human colonists are sent to the Land We Know.
J4 707 Chayn Talishi rounds up Chayn after she delivers horses to the Roshites in Nath.
J5 Del Lilith rounds up her grandchild Del, a healer of wounded Roshites in Hamar.
J6 696 Axis of Evil The Earth delegations arrive at Taurus City
J7 - -
J8 - -
J9 - -

Chapter K

Page Words Title Summary
K0 - US delegation attends from Taurus base
K1 - Lilith rounds up Del
K2 - Beermother opens summit
K3 - Summit - Belial makes peace on Gorpai, Land We Know
K4 - Summit- Talishi pledges to make Gorpai spacefaring
K5 - Summit-El Shaddai to grant Jupiter, networking
K6 - Summit - Wormhole terraforming announced
K7 - Summit-Yeshua merges Fallen Angels with Gervasi Crime Family
K8 - Summit - Fold gate system, Belial demands ID Grid
K9 - Summit-Belial gives US bots, Mercury crawlers

Chapter L

Page Words Title Summary
L0 - Micro '82, early Beermother tracks recorded.
L1 - First ships orbit from Gorpai, eight Tradestars constructed
L2 - Impotent America Entranced LP released
L3 - Joy possessed by Hunky
L4 - Entranced concert
L5 - First Jupiter colonies, four Tradestars built at Jupiter
L6 - Jerry killed at concert
L7 - Europa, Lahatiel's family homesteads ice
L8 - Band arrested at concert, taken to DECON
L9 - Tanish/Terrel (Lahatiel, raid on homestead)

Chapter M

Page Words Title Summary
M0 - Interrogation of band at DECON
M1 - White Rock
M2 - DECON rescue part 1
M3 - Lahatiel takes Exiler away to save White Rock
M4 - DECON rescue part 2
M5 - Punisher incident at White Rock
M6 - Project Hope. Hunky/Joy issue identified
M7 - Beater starship gets underway
M8 - Jerry meets Yeshua on rim of Holy Mountain
M9 - Lilith tells Belial he's a dead god walking.


Chapter N

Page Words Title Summary
N0 - Lahatiel witnesses Lilith meeting Belial, awarded rank, wives
N1 - Lilith and Robyn to Mercury, attack bots
N2 - Lahatiel assembles Exiler crew
N3 - Lilith and Robyn steal bots, Robyn foresees Lil's death
N4 - Belial begins work on GIC segments, adding wings to Tradestars
N5 - Lilith dies in laser hit from Mercury
N6 - ID Grid moved from Europa orbit (Belial claims it's safer)
N7 - Robyn to Venus, bot delivered to Mark Felton
N8 - Exiler long-range combat with Beaters
N9 - GIC pieces transit LWK to Sol in form of 8 Tradestars

Chapter O

Page Words Title Summary
O0 - Hope taken from Venus to Earth
O1 - GIC assembled from smaller pieces
O2 - Victoria recruited to be Hope's mother, then possessed by Hunky-Joy
O3 - Exiler visits White Rock, Lahatiel turns against Belial
O4 - Azibeel and Abaddon depart GIC in task force aboard Exiler
O5 - Hope's childhood in LWK, transfers to Earth.
O6 - GIC arrives at Mercury, begins to assail Sol
O7 - Egypt invades Israel, Del reports for duty
O8 - American ships rendezvous with Belial
O9 - Del tasked to lead invasion of Egypt


Chapter P

Page Words Title Summary
P0 - Deep space patrol detects Belial's ships
P1 - Battle of Suez City begins
P2 - Orbital mines thin out invading ships.
P3 - Del chewed out by Colonel Adam and sidelined.
P4 - Dogfight gets Belial's ships in a row.
P5 - Suez to Galatea. Jill contacts Del, but Del's stuck
P6 - Taurus defense laster takes out invading ships
P7 - Avatar takes out Egypt tank columns. Del swims to Galatea
P8 - Belial takes out last fighter personally
P9 - Galatea to Deversoir, attack begins


Chapter Q

Page Words Title Summary
Q0 - Belial goes cross-country to Taurus City
Q1 - Del seizes Deversoir
Q2 - American allies die in bunches on Moon
Q3 - Del resigns from IDF
Q4 - Emperor reaches Fortuna rooftoop
Q5 - Joy aids emperor to find Ark and fold-door tunnel
Q6 - Abaddon scalded by steam in fight with Gordon
Q7 - Azibeel, uses Joy as a "hostage" to escape with father
Q8 - Joy's ship and ID grid destoryed after video of Joy's betrayal
Q9 - Azibeel limps to Mercury, tracked by Luna


Chapter R

Page Words Title Summary
R0 - Yeshua sends Joy back in time to stay out of trouble
R1 - Exiler crew assembles at Central after leave
R2 - Exiler quest commissioned by Yeshua
R3 - Raziel brieves Exiler crew on Belial's mission to Luna
R4 - Robyn briefs Exiler crew on Mercury GIC
R5 - Exiler takes on dependents
R6 - Exiler departs Central
R7 - Robyn uses reverse prophesy to tell stories about the LWK
R8 - Exiler travels to Atria, Alodra
R9 - Exiler dependents stay with Queen Firegem

Chapter S

Page Words Title Summary
S0 - Robyn departs for Nyduly, will meet Exiler later
S1 - More dependents stay with the queen
S2 - Exiler to Toliman, then Minos
S3 - Spies in Alodra are put to torment and death
S4 - Criminal released from Rhene prison
S5 - Eye of Belial sneaks across border
S6 - Destruction of Iron Dome, rebels crushed
S7 - Exiler takes Raziel to Palato
S8 - Raziel updates Belial on events at Selene
S9 - Raziel has issues with the Eyes of Belial at Palato

Chapter T

Page Words Title Summary
T0 - Exiler departs Palato for Proxima
T1 - Eye of Belial spy arrives at Palato via worm tunnel
T2 - Raziel has more issues woth the Eyes of Belial at Palato
T3 - Royals embark on quest to destroy Demonstroke
T4 - Victoria drives Hope to school, Mike to pick her up
T5 - Exiler goes through ID Grid to Proxima, Raziel suicides to protect their secret
T6 - Robyn abducts Hope from her backyard after school
T7 - Royals arrive at Glenah by sea
T8 - Victoria and Mike can't find Hope, call in Deputy
T9 - Exiler to Proxima Station, bed down for the night


Chapter U

Page Words Title Summary
U0 - Deputy Woody dies in a mine shaft
U1 - Robyn and Lilith sleep in mine shaft
U2 - Belial orders ship to Proxima via real space
U3 - Victoria and Mike follow out false trails
U4 - Field Marshal Ithuriel outlines FTL principles
U5 - Robyn tells Hope nothing but the truth
U6 - Star data given to Exiler, Ithuriel bids farewell
U7 - Museum of Hitler, Victoria sees aerial photo of footbridge
U8 - Exiler travels from Proxima to Sol
U9 - Hope and Robyn reach summit of End Dome Hill


Chapter V

Page Words Title Summary
V0 - Exiler reaches low Earth orbit
V1 - Mike and Victoria use Sacred Pool to go to the Land We Know
V2 - Balloon drop to orbit, Hope and Robyn
V3 - Mike and Victoria join quest, walk to Wazol
V4 - Exiler evades US laser with chaff, jumps to Venus
V5 - Wazol to Menkant
V6 - Freeball game begins, Robyn and Hope sneak off
V7 - Menkant to Rasal, meet Harek Goldstaff
V8 - Robyn and Hope search for Ark during Freeball
V9 - Royals divide up, older ones discontinue quest


Chapter W

Page Words Title Summary
W0 - Civil war comes to Family, Exiler flees station
W1 - Exiler flees to Mars, Hunky thinks ship destroyed
W2 - Goldstaff leads party to catwalk
W3 - Ark and dark blade mated, download to Hope
W4 - Mike crawls up underground cistern
W5 - Lilith and Robyn make love for final time aboard Exiler
W6 - Exiler arrives at GIC, taken aboard
W7 - Royals traverse catwalk, Victoria saves falling royal
W8 - Robyn and Lilith assigned housing as dependents
W9 - Selene fleet arrives at vicinity of Mercury (FTL)

Chapter X

Page Words Title Summary
X0 - Mike relates tale of trip to rim of Holy Mountain
X1 - Selenites tussle with Belial's fleet
X2 - Lilith and Robyn search GIC
X3 - Exiler dispatched to fight Selenites
X4 - Young royals descend from Holy Mountain
X5 - Hunky spots Hope and Robyn on camera
X6 - Selenites attack GIC itself
X7 - Robyn dies, but saves El Shaddai and Bat-El
X8 - Young royals arrive at Hadal from rear
X9 - Lilith captured, taken to CEC

Chapter Y

Page Words Title Summary
Y0 - Royals find and awaken Demonstroke
Y1 - Exiler refuses to return to GIC as ordered
Y2 - Hunky dies trying to possess Lilith
Y3 - With little choice, Exiler jumps to FTL blind.
Y4 - Final Selenite ship destroyed, Belial supreme
Y5 - Lilith kills Emperor in combat, reveals he is Azibeel
Y6 - Victoria fights Demonstroke in the air.
Y7 - Lilith takes command, GIC rigged for FTL...goes directly home
Y8 - Gorpai's ice melting, mountains are islands, Belial is dead.
Y9 - Victoria slays Demonstroke, afterlife for all ends

Chapter Z

Page Words Title Summary
Z0 - Robyn meets her father again, but this time she's there to stay'.
Z1 - Exiler finds a new system, moves toward Fertility.
Z2 - Elohim of harem finally contact El (Mastema aids prosecution to save his life).
Z3 - Goldstaff kills Blackseed in personal combat.
Z4 - Robyn and Erik reach the top of the Sacred Mt.
Z5 - Exiler crew settle Fertility, a Kansas planet.
Z6 - Immortal Del takes charge of graviformed Luna.
Z7 635 Nuptials Queen Victoria and Edik Goldstaff are wed, and Talishi attends.
Z8 714 City of God Robyn and Erik Lokken attain the ultimate destiny which awaits all things.
Z9 601 Fertility A pregnant Lilith finds the Exiler crew on Fertility with matching bellies, and joins their colony.

Z7 - NUPTIALS

The Temple of Belial, venue for the joyous wedding of King and Queen Goldstaff.

On craggy rocks looming high over the city of Eniph stands the Temple of Belial with high walls cunningly wrought of black stone and ironwork. Battlements piled upon battlements crowned towers leaping skyward from the shoulder of lower towers until the great pile reached a pinnacle that was the dark aerie of the downfallen Demonstroke. Black smoke continually belched forth from the innards of the temple and on the lowest levels could still be seen many instruments of cruel torment devised by Belial himself.

But Belial was no more, and on this day his temple was festooned with many brightly-colored banners and flags to mark the wedding of Queen Victoria to King Edik Goldstaff, monarch of the restored Kingdom of Kurgan. And Talishi harself was on hand to congratulate them and welcome Kurgan as a full-fledged monarchy like the four other kingdoms in the Land We Know.

A kingdom in name only, Edik said with some trepidation. The freelords and lord advocates of the late Saiph League speak of forming a parliament and drafting a charter to limit the power of the throne.

It will go well, Talishi said. There is precedent from Earth history. But sha had not come to interfere in Kurganian politics. What a contrast this is, to hold such a gay ceremony in Belial's craphole!

The people put up a good front, Lady Talishi, Victoria said. But I believe a dark undercurrent remains. All hope of an afterlife is gone to them. What do the people have to look forward to now as they wax old?

Talishi smiled and said, With Belial gone I have access to the learning of the others of my kind and I can share something with you now, for suns are mortal and face personal extinction even as you. But we have been thinking about it for a mu ch longer time and I believe we have found a satisfactory answer. Things which are verified exist. Things which are not verified, but are at least verifiable in principle, may exist. Things which are not verified may not exist. Things which are not verifiable, even in principle, can not exist. Do you accept all of these premises?

I do, Lady Talishi, Victoria said.

The afterlife is defined as consciousness after death. Consciousness is exclusively self-verifiable. No one else can verify your consciousness and you cannot verify anyone else's consciousness. Provisionally, therefore we can say that the afterlife may exist, because it is verifiable in principle by the person who is conscious of it, if it exists.

Very well, so far.

But if the afterlife does not exist, this is not verifiable, even in principle, because consciousness is required to make the verification that consciousness does not exist. Since the truth value of the proposition "no afterlife exists" is not verifiable, even in principle, and the negation "the afterlife exists" is at least not excluded, then the afterlife must exist, by the rule if not non-A then A.

Edik was not convinced. He said, Replace your proposition of the afterlife with being reconstituted as an aquatic monkepotamus on the third planet orbiting Arcturus and your proof still holds, Lady Talishi.

Not so, because one could send a starship to Arcturus III and interview that aquatic monkepotamus, so it is verifiable in principle. But the after-life consists of a purely intellectual existence which is not publicly verifiable. So it turns out we were wasting our effort to set up an afterlife for humans who died here in the Land. The Old One already made arrangements long ago, and it covered humans, nephilim, and elohim. But we never knew. Binah could not speak of it, Belial would not speak of it, and it is unwise to reveal more, lest I foster apathy in the living.


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