For Asians, children owe their lives, their everything to their parents. A virtuous person should dutifully obey and take care of their parents, especially when they get old and senile. How about Americans?

Piety, Patronage, Rationalism and Freedom. I did a random roll on a huge/marathon map and got Songhai and donut.

I had added a few extra civs to make up for the huge map. Ended as the science leader by a long shot, got allied with almost every CS and got Globalization before most civs even hit the info era.

That said, PIETY IS VASTLY UNDERRATED. Having a very dominant religion helps out a boat load. I was able to spam 3 GS in a row once I finished Rationalism. The extra gold greatly helps getting CS allies for extra everything you need. My growth was the only issue.

YOU ONLY HATE PIETY CAUSE YOU'RE TOO SCARED TO TRY IT

I'm combat level 116. If I'm going to be using piety on slayer tasks, am I better off using bandos armor with food or just using proselyte and protection prayers? Just looking for opinions.

When BNW moved Piety from the Classical Era to the Ancient Era - it really feels like the the Dev's unwittingly gave a huge nerf to the AI.Some maps and half the civs will pick Piety and will have their entire economy gimped for the remainder of the game. Not to mention it leads to a rather boring game as these civs will usually just sit for the first half of the game on 2 or 3 cities and not pose a threat.

Sometimes it produces interesting results as a Piety AI will get quickly stomped on by a Liberty/Honor AI like Assurbanipal - and that can lead to one civ gaining an early advantage. But from what I've witnessed it generally leads to a poorer game experience.

The social policies in Piety for Civ 5 seem like they are really dependent on having a Religion. I'm surprised then that they didn't make the pre-req for opening Piety to either have a Religion or be in a later era (as G&K did).

It seems a bit ridiculous that in 1500bc a Piety Civ can take an ancient Pantheon (aka a proto-religion) & then go straight to an organised religion with Enhancer & Reformation beliefs that in many cases mirror political or philosophical treatises that were written by medieval theologians & philosophers like Augustine!

Conquest of the New World Deluxe introduced an interesting concept of minor religions. Maybe that is something that in hindsight should have been introduced in Civ 5 - with Enhancements to Pantheons?

In a way its too bad that Civ 5 didn't introduce a 4th policy tree for the ancient era that had an early focus on luxuries, enhancing your pantheon and with other bonuses on trade routes, citystates & diplomacy, The choice is either Tradition for a big capital or Liberty for wide or Honor for situational domination games - but whichever you pick every road leads to 4 cities and a national college...

It seems like you either get the choice of being an ancient despot with a god-complex like Hammurabi (Tradition)

or Ramses 2 (Liberty)

or a sadist like Sennacherib (Honor)

Were there no civilisation in the ancient world that wasn't ruled by a sociopath?

I think piety decay (where you passively lose piety over time) is bad and should be removed from the game. Here's why.

Piety decay makes optimal play more boring

Because of piety decay, characters are encouraged to play with a low turncount where possible. This encourages (for example):

• Manual exploration.
• Making sure you don't spend MP/HP unnecessarily, to avoid spending time regenerating it. For example, killing easy monsters in melee when a spell would be quicker and just as safe.

Piety decay is no longer necessary

Unless I'm much mistaken, the reason for piety decay is to make players do things. However, this is not a good reason (any more - it probably was once), because:

• There are no longer strong incentives to stay for a very long time on a level doing very little.
• The Zot clock is a perfectly good mechanism to stop the weird edge case plays that can sometimes make waiting or shouting for thousands of turns optimal.
• Piety decay acts very unevenly - several gods have none at all - and so is not a good mechanism for dealing with a cross-god issue.

Piety decay matters for some characters

One response to this is that you can ignore piety decay. And that's true for many characters - any sensible way of playing will make piety build up and up. But there are certainly some edge cases where this is not true. To take an example, if you play a Barachi of Sif, between fast piety decay, gifts slowing it down more, and slow movement meaning piety decays more, it is very hard to stay above 4*, reducing the gifts you get and the uses of the capstone ability. I'm doing this at the moment, and it's quite frustrating.

Piety decay is easy to replace

Just lower piety gain rates some amount.

Hey all, I wanted to start a game where I really make major changes to a religion, and was pretty disappointed to discover how it works in vanilla. Basically the piety cost to reform is very very steep, and once the new religion is "set" you can't make further changes in the future. Even when your ruler dies, you have to create a whole new religion. With the cost I'm pretty sure I could play a whole campaign and still not get the religion to the "final form" I want, and I'd be creating stupid sects along the way every time I change it. Any decent mods that can give me a bit more freedom?

If so, how was the game?

I want to follow the Dharma, and a teaching of the Dharma is respecting parents. The Buddha says that one way of respecting parents is by carrying on the family traditions. My parents are Christian pastors who think it's important that I believe in God (I'm agnostic about it) and traditional Christian doctrine (I don't think it is for me). I am drawn much more towards Buddhism. Here are my questions: Does carrying on family traditions apply to family religious traditions, especially if a family doesn't have many traditions beyond that? If yes, which traditions (saying grace before meals, going to church, etc.) should I carry on?

I graduated from college with zero student debt and my parents paid for all living expenses and tuition for my undergrad school (international student tuition too). This is the greatest gift my parents gave to me as without it, it would be extremely tough for me to get ahead in life.

They weren’t rich and my mom had to fight through hell to send me here.

So in my mind I know, once I make it, I am their safety net. I have an interesting conversation with my mom last night and with covid situation, they seem to struggle with cash flow and capital. They never asked for money but at the end, my mom admitted that they need the capital to survive the storm. I am a bit surprised as they had been running a very successful operation pre covid.

They don’t live here (the US) so I am wondering how to help them out (also if there is any tax ramifications). If you are in similar situation before, how do you fulfill your duty to your parents?

1. How to send them large capital overseas and if they pay it back, is there any tax ramification?

2. I have to prepare for the worst possibility. If they go under, I am willing to support them. How do you support your parents if they live overseas?

3. If they make it through this rough time, I want to help to invest their money so not all eggs go to one basket. Has anyone managed their parents finance this way?

Christina randall is a youtuber who posted a deep dive into don wells' background. Can't seem to copy the video's URL, but it's easily found on youtube using her name.

He raped his 5 year old stepsister at the age of 13. He got out of prison and the day he got out, raped her again. He is a pefophile and a psychopath. This act he's putting on is so obviously false. He's the guy they need to interrogate.

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I’m doing a Kushite Egypt run, and I’ve just usurped the Byzantine Empire. I want to restore Rome, as I’ve never done it so I can pop the achievement, and because Egyptian Rome sounds cool. Anyway, my current strategy is to conquer the de jure lands I need for Rome, very quickly convert to Orthodoxy, and then back to Kushite. Now, I want to know if converting will take away all of my piety or not. I don’t think it would be TOO much of an issue considering my current Emperor is Learning focus and gaining 10 piety a month currently, but also how viable is this? I really don’t want to screw this file up since I’ve got so far.

Thank you in advance!!

Ideas and suggestions please? Tenets and such? Help a man to praise the Sun!

I'm the king of uppland, father was forced to convert to Catholicism but I want to go back to astatru. Married an astatru wife but it costs 50k to adopt her faith. Made my son asatru but he was murdered and I'm left with 5 catholics

I was driving for Uber down there a few minutes ago and I was forced to make a U-turn before that intersection. I saw police tape but of course I don’t know what had happened.

>Ali Bin Ibrahim, from Muhammad Bin Isa Bin Ubeyd, from Yunus who said: Abu Abdullah (asws) said to Abbaad Bin Kaseer Al-Basry Al-Soufy:
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>‘Woe be unto you, O Abbaad! You have been deceived yourself by (merely) abstaining from your stomach and your genitals. Allah (azwj) Mighty and Majestic has Said: “[33:70] O you who believe! be careful of (your duty to) Allah and speak the right word [33:71] He will put your deeds into a right state for you”. You must realise that Allah (azwj) will not Accept from you anything until you speak the truth and just word (do not only rely on the meditation but accept the truth, the Wilayah of Amimah (asws))’.
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>Grading:
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>Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi: صحيح ظاهرا - Mir‘at al ‘Uqul Fi Sharh Akhbar Al al Rasul (5 / 260)

-Rawdad al-Kafi, H81

Hi. I've always wondered about this. A few years ago I read "bushido the way of the samurai" by inazo nitobe. In the introduction, he says something like "the two wheels of Japanese morality are obligation and filial piety. This study is incomplete. I cannot speak to the latter because I do not understand the western equivalent." I read the book, but I always wondered about the gap. I know Inazo's book was biased and is more philosophical and literary than scientific, and was even used as propaganda by the imperial Japanese government during WWII. But still, I do want to try to understand the perspective more. Are there any texts, whether philosophical or sociological, about filial piety in Japanese culture?

> "The Gods have no mercy, that's why they're Gods."

^(The Great Sept of Baelor, King's Landing | The 7th Moon 405 AC)

Lynesse Tarly

The Great Sept of Baelor was the epitome of magnificence in the architectural realm. The center of religion for the Faith of the Seven was far greater than that of Honrhill's Sept.

Lynesse had never been to King's Landing prior to her father's appointment as Hand of the King. When news came to her home of his newfound position, she couldn't help but jump with glee at the thought of visiting and remaining in the greatest city in all of Westeros. Her mind clouded with illusion of all the things she would see, all the people she would meet and all the books she could read.

When the city of King's Landing came into view, Lynesse could depict some of its more prominent structures from its skyline. She could see the arching dome of the Great Sept and the grand towers of the Red Keep atop Aegon's Hill.

When they arrived at the gates, the great bells began to ring. Their voice was deep and sonorous, and the long slow clanging filled Lynesse with a sense of dread. The ringing went on and on, and after a while she heard other bells answering from the Great Sept of Baelor on Visenya's Hill. The sound rumbled across the city and the countryside like thunder. The Tarly entourage fell silent as they approached the gates of the city, all of them felt the same dread Lynesse did.

The king was dead and all she had thought of during the trip was how much fun she'd have. It was inconsiderate and she felt guilty.

In an effort to repent, Lynesse had decided to not attend the feast thrown for King Galladon but rather stay in the Great Sept alongside the other septons and septas praying for his soul to be welcomed with open arms by the Seven. Her mother and handmaidens would join beside her in silent temperance as they moved from one face to the other, lighting candles and whispering prayer.

In spite of this, Lynesse's curiosity always got the best of her. Her eyes would always flee to corners and walls inside the Great Sept decorated with paintings of the seven-pointed star and sculptures depicting the Seven different aspects of the godhead. She enjoyed looking at the stained glass and how its colors danced and reflected inside.

There was a rich history to be learned here, the very ground beneath them held stories of their past. Like how the Great Sept was built over an already existing underground chapel that existed long

Going through a campaign as Bengal, where one of the missions requires less than -33 piety. Bengal starts as a Sunni nation (thus the piety mechanic) but I've just switched to Sikh for that sweet morale bonus so now I'm missing the piety mechanic. Is this mission now locked until I switch back to a muslim religion?

Thought the only way to deal with this is to go back to Sunni, complete the mission, then switch back to Sikh and just absorb the -200 prestige on the way.

Hey guys! I've been working on this homebrew. I'd love your feedback. Working on getting the Piety 25 abilities to be more balanced and comparing some of the ones that were used in Tal Andrews' DMsGuild Faerun document by putting them as options on here. The final one will either pick one of the ones on here or include an entirely new feature. Check it out.

Homebrewery Link

I’m joining a homebrew campaign where we’ll be using the Gods and the Piety system associated with them from Mythic Odyssey of Theros.

I’m looking to play an Aberrant Mind Sorcerer most likely, but are there specific Theros Gods that you think may fit an Aberrant Mind sorcerer? I don’t have a nailed down backstory yet, but if I’m serving a god, I think it’d make sense I received my powers from a god.