The characters are finally coming together for my first CoM game.
We have Zeke, Rift of Anubis, who works as a Zookeeper and can raise the dead with a special connection to raising animals. He can also turn into a large black dog and carries the HaltCanon 3000, a hand gun that accommodates net canisters and tranq darts.
Hannible Grimmson, Rift of the Phoenix, who works as a medical examiner and cooks to clear his mind of the stresses of the city. He learned (through an accident) that eating the flesh of the recently deceased allows him to get visions of their life and final moments. Since this accident he has also found that he can summon armor wreathed in a corona of flames and a sword called The Firebrand.
Amelie, the embodiment of Ragnorak, and yoga instructor/health nut. Her ability to cause so much destruction competes with her innate peaceful nature and comforting nature.
Finally Tinsley, the Rift of Santa Claus, a mechanic whose car can fly and teleport. He can sense the innate good and evil in others and locate others by focusing on them.
I have heard Hindus say that there is one god and their other Gods are different versions and different interpretations of that one god, that all worship is of that one no matter what form it takes.
This is called Soft polytheism, soft polytheism is the belief that multiple Gods are different versions, different interpretations, and different expressions/aspects of one god.
Monotheists always use this to say "all Gods of polytheistic religions are the same god of monotheistic religions, just have different names for the one", or "all polytheistic religions worship the same monotheistic god" or "all Gods are the same one god, all Gods are different versions and different interpretations of one god"
I have also seen many monotheists give this type of answer when asked why they say the Polytheistic Gods are "myths" while the monotheistic god isn’t on Quora, they say "Polytheistic Gods are myths because they are personifications of various phenomena in nature, but the monotheistic god is not a myth because it's not a personification of various phenomena in nature!! ..."
Do you have any good arguments against monotheists that say "all Gods are the same one god" and "polytheistic Gods are myths because they are personifications of various phenomena in nature, but the monotheistic god is not a myth because it's not a personification of various phenomena in nature"?
If yes, do you know of any depiction of them in art, carricatures, propaganda, etc.? I'm thinking about something like this:
So some years ago I figured out my mind makes numbers to have a certain personalities - like 1 is a stubborn loner, 7 is a sneaky seducer, 5 is a bit of poser with good heart and so on and so on...
Also I think it is the reason I struggle with higher mathematics, consider this:
A) 9 - 7 = 2;
B) y = (8 + sin(x))/(log(x) - 7);
For me (A) is some sort of relationship triangle - emotions and personalities involved - but nothing too exhausting.
However (B) is almost Game Of Thrones - multi level political machinations with love and betrayal. And this is just school maths - at uni - integrals, matrixes etc - it was just too much ;) - imagine a GOT, SW, Matrix, Mahabharata crossover in 7 dimensions.
So the struggle to solve equation - its not enough just to do the logic, it is also this 'drama' overcast on top of it, that takes away concentration, speed and energy.
Can anyone relate to this? Or I am only like this in the whole Universe? :)
Thanks!
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Exactly what it says on the tin. I’m bored and this and imaginary friends in general are a big fascination for me lately, ask me anything! :D
Sorry if it’s been asked or not allowed but I think everyone has or had a friend/relative that is a “Janelle”. Mine was Gabby. Got pregnant on purpose to a dead beat guy, clings onto any man that will give her slightest bit of attention, liar, multiple engagements, abandonment issues (her baby daddy left because he wasn’t allowed to go to the bathroom with the door close) I could go on ... so what’s yours?
[EDIT] For clarity, this is a game. I was unsure whether to include that in the title or not but it seems I should have included it.
Fun drinking game: Bashing the show's allegorical mid-climax and expecting a trite, passe ultimate fight of ultimate good versus magical evil in the same breath that you praise the books for examining the human heart at war with itself.
One of the main topics of the Fallout franchise is how after all the war society manages to survive and thrive to some degree, becoming phoenixes and rising from the nuclear ashes of the old world. New Vegas is particularly strong on this theme as instead of being set in a truly savage wasteland it happens in a somewhat civilised part of the United States and in the game we are a power who decides what to do with that land, if make it akin to the old world but with improvements ( Mr.House ), let a new nation take it ( NCR ), let the crude yet effective savage new society invade it ( Cesar ) or stay independent and strong ( Independent )
If we play the Lonesome Road DLC we discover that before the events of the Game there was a great town called Hopeville that was in its path of becoming a nation ( Similar to Shady Sands who ended becoming NCR ) but that then the Courier came and unknowingly destroyed the entire area by activating some nuclear ICBM's that were kept underground.
So, here's what I think. The Courier is the personification of the Great War and its aftermath, he is both a destroyer and a builder. No matter how many times humanity is purged there will always be survivor struggling and fighting to build a new tomorrow. He's a Courier because that's the message that he's carrying.
It seems to me when I look at them that ancient magic systems stem from ancient maps of how the world works, ancient maps of the shape of the universe. They must work by some form of the map becoming the territory, perhaps an effect of the fact that our picture of the world is a chimera existing mostly inside our minds, shadows and shapes cast into our brains through our senses, Plato's cave where the watchers are tied down so they can see only the shadows from the world cast on the cave wall, never the real world.
Magic systems all seem ultimately derived from basic human understandings, the basic primate models of how things work. The spirit and god system, where all external forces might be possessed of purpose. Categorization systems, like the classic earth, air, water, and fire and more complicated systems like the Kabbalah, etc., are progressively more complex understandings of what things are made of and influenced by, mixed with ideas about what purpose, what motivations and thinking beings, what spirits and gods are behind what in the way of constituents and outside forces.
So magic seeks to assign thought and purpose to the part of the world, the part of human perception, that is not derived solely from the input of the senses, and seeks to worship, merge with, negotiate with, or control such entity(s). We make a map of the world in our minds, and sometimes it looks to us like we change the world by interacting with that map rather than the world. Whether anything paranormal happens, or if we are interacting with and programming substructures of our minds which have a remarkable amount of control over what the world looks like to us, is pretty hard to determine.
But what I want to know is why we practice magic derived from primitive views of how the world works, rather than study of modern views of the structure of the universe. Why earth, air, water, and fire, rather than electron, proton, and neutron; why is not, say, the tiny and almost massless electron orbiting a proton thousands of times as "large" equated with Shiva and Shakti, Shiva being the tiny hard clear point of consciousness orbiting and impregnating with purpose the power and creative potential of the much larger Shakti, together giving rise to all there is to see and touch? Why is not the observation that in nature things that are forced together, such as in chemical combining of matter (fire), or gravitational combining of matter (fusion), give rise to great energy release som
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