Well, it sure has been a while.
I've never been one to post much. I used to run the unofficial chat for a while and some of you maybe know me from there. Somehow my ten-year anniversary of joining RF came and went without fanfare among what's honestly quite a load of exhaustion from that little...
Oh, I love to play, but giving the "right" interpretation too early ruins the fun of discovery, I think. I'll put the rest of this post in spoiler tags so people don't have to find my answer to it.
It's been a while since I laid my eyes on a Bible, so there's a high chance I've forgotten the nuances, but Jesus has always struck me as an apocalyptic figure. He not only speaks of the kingdom to come, he's repeatedly reminding his followers that earthly business soon doesn't matter (except in...
Rivers are falling
away and away.
Rivers are falling
who made you this way?
-- O snowflakes,
thine youth is white and light
till cold brings its sorrows
and shines you bright
and falling, yet desperately clinging
is that glacier on my head;
till you crash,
the rooms ashaking
the river...
Writing is tough. Getting published is tough. Finding an audience after you've been published, even by a large imprint, is still really tough too. I know I keep writing despite all of that because it's how I express how I experience the world, but also because it's so satisfying when even a...
I've been managing just fine without being one, but you better be used to jumping from Nietzsche to sex and then five minutes later to soap or stuffed animals. Our discussions cover all parts of life, really :D
Judging by this thread, I better stay out of saunas with American tourists, that's for sure. It's common here for people of all ages and sexes to mingle, stark naked, in a sauna together without there being long discussions on the optics of it. A person entering a public place naked comes there...
An interesting question indeed, and one I rarely think about in every day life. The more I sit here thinking about it, the less I think I believe in chance, which I know strays into deterministic territory and aside the question, but bear with me.
If our current model of physics is to be...
Here's where the two of us clearly disagree. A god who tries to steer you by threatening to hurt you is a tyrant and a sadist, and I'd rather go to hell than enter a heaven where people justify the suffering of others. If your faith truly was the one true faith, your willingness to help people...
Any god who ever allows killing another human being is no god of mine. Ever.
It all sounds so simple until you realise one day someone will want to kill you (or exile you or any number of hideous things people do to each other). Because you don't believe like they do. Because you used to...
Personally I don't associate darkness with death and destruction, more silence and solitude. The destructive aspect seems like a misunderstanding and/or intentional smear campaign by light-oriented religions (looking at you, Zoroastrianism). Sitting in the dark after a long hectic day can be...
What's happening with Google (and that is easy to game, which explains the drop in quality) is that Google has recently started ranking sites less by how popular it is and more by how well it complies with Google's ideas of what the internet should be. So for example mobile friendly sites now...
I've played in both factions, but Alliance for most of that time. Currently I'm Horde though, which is a nice change. I mained priest for... years, with druid a close second. That said I'm reasonably familiar with all healing classes apart from monk, because that's the sort of player I am. Raids...
As @Rival well points out, there's been a variation in point of view in narration for a long, long time. I recently read a book that flows between first person, second person and third person without any effort, but that one's an outlier.
Especially limited third (meaning you get to view the...
Life's less problematic when you don't **** people off :p Social sanctions are very real and made to be more inconvenient than doing what's "right" (whatever the norms are in your given society), so in a way it's always easier to be good than bad.
The more interesting bit is personal values...