After all of the lore-drops from last night's session, something is still bothering me about a society based around consecution.
Who would want to have a child there?
I understand that most people in the dynasty are not consecuted, but there is a CONSTANT danger of your child growing up and waking up tho the reality of not being your child anymore: they are someone else's now, and you don't get to be their parents any more. How horrifying it must be when your child is reaching puberty.
It makes sense sociologically that the Luxon religion would encourage this process as being celebrated and divine, to perhaps lessen the pain, but still...
Do less-religious mothers escape to the countryside to give birth so their child's soul is safe and new?
Do more-religious mothers travel to Rosohna to attempt to 'absorb' a consecuted den-member?
TL-DR: Why have a kid in the Dynasty if their soul could belong to someone else?
I don’t understand why financially independent adults should gift each other things on socially determined days like birthdays, festival X or Y. Most of the time the item gifted is a waste in terms of utility or preferential utility (value something else worth the same resources/cost) to the person being gifted. Secondly I feel it cheapens the bond/relationship by adding pointless materialism to it. Thirdly, I’m not an expert on this but seasonability of demand is probably economically sub optimal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i46WtNRMelk
I came across this song a while ago, and searched around the internet attempting to find it's source. It doesn't come up whenever I use services like Shazam, and when I look up the name of the band and the supposed name of the demo it only leads to links to the youtube video and a last.fm page which includes the following description:
"One of the first metal bands from the Philippines, formed sometime in the early 70's and often regarded as forgotten godfathers of the metal genre. Formed by young occult fanatics Morrison Uchida and Eldritch Yokoyama, they released one known demo titled "Huling Sumpa" in 1975 and played a few shocking gigs before vanishing into obscurity. Some say that Morrison Uchida was arrested and sentenced to life in prison in 1981 or 1982 for killing three people and critically wounding eight others at a bar.
Last known lineup:
Ben Diablo - vocals Jesus Kalansay - guitar Mesias - guitar Bangkay - bass Madilim na Langit - drums"
Yet, I can find no other sources on the internet to corraborate this. The music in question is surely not from 1973, unless the band was unbelievably ahead of their time. In this time metal as it's known today was still in it's infancy, and the style of writing heard in the music wouldn't be heard until atleast the late 80's.
More anachronistic still is the style of vocals, harsh, guttural vocals like these wouldn't be used until the devolpment of death metal in the late 80's-early 90's. I theorize this particular song to date somewhere in the 90's, as it seems to be written in the subgenre of melodic death metal which came to be in the 90's.
I appreciate any sort of help to finding the source of this song, as I think it will be interesting to see if there is any validity to what the original post claims to be true. And if not, to give proper credit to the real artists behind the song.P.S: Who else thinks Wu Zetian was a total Badass?
Episode 200 had a TON of information, and honestly I forgot to post about this until listening to the fancast this morning simply because this little idea was overpowered by all the awesomeness which was Episode 200. But there was a little tidbit of info that made me realize that Troy's giantslayer is different from Paizo's official canonical world.
In episode 200, Grant's character mentioned that he was a follower of some. . .one? thing? connected to Terendelev (don't have time to relisten atm to be more exact). Then the party talk a little bit about Terendelev in character and out. They didn't want to spoil Wrath of the Righteous, which I'm about to do in the big back spoiler box. If it helps any though, this spoiler happens *before* the adventure even really starts.
>!Terendalev gets killed by a balor in session 1 of Wrath of the Righteous, giving her life to save the PCs! In the podcast, they talk like she's still alive.!<
Ok, so if you didn't read the spoiler that is all good, just suffice it to say there is strong evidence that the events of Wrath of the Righteous haven't happened yet in Troy's Giant Slayer.
Thing is, according to official chronology, pathfinder adventure paths are printed in chronological order. In fact, technically the year in game is supposed to coincide with our own: add 2700 to our year and you get the current year in Absalom Reckoning, so 4719 AR right now. Course you can play past games, they just canonically occur in the corresponding year of when they were published. Or at least *start* in those years, sometimes an AP covers a lot of time.
Finally my actual point: Giant slayer was published in 2015. Wrath of the Righteous was published 2013. Which means the former started in 4715 while the latter was supposed to have been completed by 4714. So if the 4th Mendevian crusade which, if I'm not mistaken, Sir Will took part in has started but not been concluded yet, this means the GCP has some interesting lore stuff going on in the background.
Either their giantslayer is happening early, and the events of Wrath of the Righteous will occur later, or they never happend and the 4th crusade has just been going on for several years longer than it should.
Or 3rd option: the pcs just didn't hear about the events of WotR and talked with outdated information. It does seemd like it was the players who talked about Terendalev. I can't remember if Troy said a word about it either way. In which case it may be that the players
... keep reading on reddit ➡Since everything is numbered, these are the Names of the countries/States and another Image link, tried to make borders of states, projected states, tribes and cultures that don't intersect with each other or just touch, although sometimes with the aid of fuzzy frontier type borders or war zones, sometimes vassals and autonomous regions are included and sometimes they are their own thing
I am on my third read-through and I am a little embarrassed and surprised that I did not notice this in my first two attempts. In the chapter "A Long-Expected Party", when Tolkien describes the fireworks he describes the dragon as follows:
>“ They all ducked, and many fell flat on their faces. The dragon passed like an express train, turned a somersault, and burst over Bywater with a deafening explosion.”
Do trains have another meaning than "a series of railroad cars moved as a unit by a locomotive or by integral motors."
It may have been a reference to the other meaning described above that of a caravan but I think the "express" part of it puts it closer to what we know as a train.
Isn't the comparison to a "train" a bit anachronistic and/or non-canonic? My first thought was that this was the narrator describing the firework in as we would understand. In that case, is the narrator a traveller from a time when trains existed? Trains are an invention of the industrial revolution; given that Tolkien did imagine Middle Earth and particularly the Shire as the utopian English countryside, not yet plagued by industrialization it is safe to assume that trains did not exist in Middle Earth.
Unless we have a time travelling narrator (given Tolkien's description of Middle Earth as Earth in a very ancient time) what was Tolkien's intention in using a non-canon and/or anachronistic term to describe the firework? Was it a simple oversight?
The reason this stuck out to me this time around was because it very abruptly broke my immersion. Here I am imagining the rolling hills; the English countryside; the big party tree; one score hobbits sitting around –the Grubbs, the Chubbs, the Burrowses, the Hornblowers, the Bracegirdles the Bolgers, the Boffins, the Goodbodies, the Brockhouses, the Tooks, the Brandybucks and the Proudfoots etc.; the fireworks and then out of nowhere I am imagining an express train!
Now that I think of it, is this supposed to be like foreshadowing for the Industrialization that we see when Saruman takes over the Shire as Sharkey?
I read an offhanded comment in a post today which noted that a couple of Reddit threads which addressed a similar question to OPs were a bit old, but that the third link was recent and a good read. That got me wondering. Those 'old' answers were obviously younger that this sub, and they're already losing authority.
Is influencing those who come after the best that any historian can realistically hope for while writing in his time?
Do you have to accept that certain things you write about, and terms or phrases you use, are going to sound bigoted or prejudiced in a few decades, in areas you have no reason to suspect society will become sensitive to?
TL;DR: There are a couple of cases where the author of the Book of Mormon thought he was quoting ancient scripture but was really just quoting Bible-based 19th-century vernacular.
The expression “eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die” as an idiom for hedonism has made its way from the King James version of the Bible into English vernacular (the Dave Matthews Band song “Tripping Billies” comes to mind as an example). However, most people do not realize that that phrase is actually a conflation of several verses that mention eating, drinking, and being merry but do not mention death
- 1 Kings 4:20—“eating and drinking, and making merry”
- Ecclesiastes 8:15—“to eat, and to drink, and to be merry”
- Luke 12:19—“eat, drink, and be merry”
- Luke 15:23—“eat, and be merry”
with a couple of verses that mention eating, drinking, and death, but not being merry.
- Isaiah 22:13—“eat and drink; for to morrow we shall die.”
- 1 Corinthians 15:32—“eat and drink; for to morrow we die” [clearly quoting Isaiah]
So what do we find in 2 Nephi 28:7? The popular but nonbiblical “eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die”—exactly what we would expect to find if the author of the Book of Mormon were drawing from 19th-century vernacular rather than Old Testament passages inscribed on ancient brass plates.
Another example of this is the idiomatic expression “weeping, and wailing, and gnashing of teeth,” rightly attributed to the King James version of the Bible, but based on a conflation of verses that mention weeping and gnashing but not wailing
- Matthew 8:12—“weeping and gnashing of teeth”
- Matthew 22:13—“weeping and gnashing of teeth”
- Matthew 24:51—“weeping and gnashing of teeth”
- Matthew 25:30—“weeping and gnashing of teeth”
- Luke 13:28—“weeping and gnashing of teeth”
with verses that mention wailing and gnashing but not weeping.
- Matthew 13:42—“wailing and gnashing of teeth”
- Matthew 13:50—“wailing and gnashing of teeth”
The Bible never uses both weep and wail because in all of these cases they are just alternate translations of the same original word. So which form do we see in allusions to these Bible passages in LDS scripture?
- Mosiah 16:2—“weep, and wail, and gnash their teeth”
- Alma 40:13—“weeping, and wailing, and gnashing of teeth”
- D&C 19:5—“weeping, wailing a
Like how other species evolved to eat poisonous foods or produce poisons, would it be the same for us in this hypothetical. I'm a curious idiot and not sure how this works
Not talking about controversy (put them if they are controversial) or anything, just about those cultural traditions that make no sense in today's society but take place every year and are defended even by the state.
I'll start: Spain is a secular country, in which religion has no power at all... until the holly week starts. Here you can see how the Spanish legion sing their anthem (and prior to that the national anthem is played) while they walk with the "Christ of the good death". It doesn't hur anyone but it's like "how is this still in place and why everybody (even non religious people) love it so much"
Honestly, I don't know what's more impressive - the 4 straight SB appearances or the fact that they didn't win a single one of those four.
How would the early 90s Bills be remembered if they won 1 or 2 of those SBs?
Edit: To all the Patriots' fans taking this as another post shitting on the Patriots, this isn't even about that. It was more about pointing out how impressive the Bills' feat is considering that even the Patriots, one of the greatest organizations in history, failed to even match the achievement.
I know that the Bills didn't win a SB and they would rather have 1 win than 4 straight winless appearances but the fact that they're the only team to ever have this accomplishment doesn't receive as much credit as it should imo.
