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| Displayed name | Rantallion |
| Member number | 147 |
| Title | This Side Towards Enemy |
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| Registered | Thursday, October 11 2001 07:00 |
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This Side Towards Enemy
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written Saturday, May 3 2003 13:05
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quote:OK, so it's not exactly what Djur wrote, but it made me laugh. The area I live in is effectively a white enclave. Not deliberately, but merely because most of the Asian immigrants went to the mill towns of the north of England. I can't say I've ever really known any black people well, although I'm friends with a number of Indians. I've never seen racism, but when the owner of the local Chinese takeaway moved across town, he soon moved back due to the appalling racist abuse prevalent there. Racism isn't just due to the amount of people of race X in an area. It's simply because race X is different from room Y and if there's one thing that unites all morons everywhere, it's neophobia. Posts: 1000 | Registered: Thursday, October 11 2001 07:00 |
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| Palm Sunday in General | |
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written Thursday, May 1 2003 11:48
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Constantine is a saint. Edward the Confessor is a saint. Vladimir I is an (Orthodox) saint. All these people were guilty of cold-blooded murder, in the case of the first and third of close relations. Yet they're still saints. In many ways, they're saints because of political expediency. To a lesser extent, when Mother Theresa is canonised, it'll be politically expedient as she's someone a great many people revere. But she was only human. And humans aren't perfect. Nor for that matter is X conservative. Or ignorant or biased. You've exhibited all those qualities and done so with much less eloquence than X. Although I couldn't say for sure that he'll quibble over the devil-worship bit. Posts: 1000 | Registered: Thursday, October 11 2001 07:00 |
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written Thursday, May 1 2003 11:39
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If Jesus is Greek, it'd be Iesos, and the nominative plural would be Iesoi. Jesus is a transliteration into Latin from the Greek. Posts: 1000 | Registered: Thursday, October 11 2001 07:00 |
| The meaning of life. in General | |
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written Thursday, May 1 2003 11:12
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The one saying that you're exaggerating the amount of criticism you get. Posts: 1000 | Registered: Thursday, October 11 2001 07:00 |
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written Tuesday, April 29 2003 09:48
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Perfect example of subjectivity- Davey whining that 99% of General jumps on him to criticise every post he makes, the implication being that this criticism is unjustified. Whereas an objective observer would most likely come to the conclusion that people tend to object to your posts when they believe that there is a logical fallacy in them and for the most part do it politely. Sure, so I'm destroying my own argument by making this post. But I did have something worthwhile to say- If nobody wants to respond to a post of yours, that is your decision. And cloying self-pity does not change that. Posts: 1000 | Registered: Thursday, October 11 2001 07:00 |
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written Tuesday, April 29 2003 09:42
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If you'd actually read other posts, rather than just posting what appear to be random platitudes from a slightly unbalanced philosopher, you'd notice that there's a good argument that Easter and Christmas shouldn't be sacred, particularly as it was already stolen by another corporation (of a kind, the Church) from religion (the Roman pantheon.) Posts: 1000 | Registered: Thursday, October 11 2001 07:00 |
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written Tuesday, April 29 2003 09:36
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Ikari, there's one major problem with direct democracy by computer. Somebody hacks your system, and your nation is up the proverbial creek without a paddle. And if there's the technology to make something resistant to hacking, there's the technology to negate the previous technology. Posts: 1000 | Registered: Thursday, October 11 2001 07:00 |
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written Monday, April 28 2003 11:15
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I do not say you sacrifice virgins to Beelzebub on a blood stained altar, David, but if you say that lying is the only sin you've ever committed, then you either don't recognise some things accepted as sins as sins, you're not very observant or you're not stimulating your mind enough. There's a good argument using the Pauline epistles to claim that your denials that Alec is Christian are sinful. Naturally, this depends on age to a large extent. Seven year olds and (to a lesser extent) eighty-seven year olds are both unlikely to be frequently guilty of the sin of lust. But if we're going to get dogmatic about it, Scorp has made good arguments that the Western lifestyle is gluttony (look around, I think they may be in Crossfire) and if nothing else, there's always pride. I'd opine that 2 Peter tells us to beware of false prophets, so I happen to believe that when you say you follow the teachings of the Bible, you're more than likely to have fallen into this hole, but that's just my strange heretical views and twisting of the words to my own ends. No malice intended, but it's not an assertion which I think you can support. Posts: 1000 | Registered: Thursday, October 11 2001 07:00 |
| Happy Easter. in General | |
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written Sunday, April 27 2003 08:23
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*sigh* It's group 3. Penes. On the (fairly safe) assumption it isn't neuter. Like postmortems should be postmortes. For that matter, Jesus is apparently the exact same name as Joshua, just pronounced differently. It's Hebrew or Aramaic so giving it a Latin ending makes no sense. Posts: 1000 | Registered: Thursday, October 11 2001 07:00 |
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written Sunday, April 27 2003 08:10
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In my opinion, the question is flawed. Meaning is utterly subjective. If the universe occurred without a god, then no meaning is necessary. A thing is, but it doesn't have to have been created for a reason. If it's a god, then there may be a reason, but with said god being all-powerful, omniscient and the like, the reasons are probably incomprehensible. It's an over-simplistic answer, but then I've always hated philosophy of this kind. I tend to look for an obvious answer then go and do something that I feel is worthwhile. You can look for meaning or you can do something and perhaps find a meaning for you, even if you don't realise you have. Posts: 1000 | Registered: Thursday, October 11 2001 07:00 |
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written Sunday, April 27 2003 07:54
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Passover is the Jewish festival celebrating the escape of the Israelites from Egypt. More specifically, celebrating the Angel of Death flying over killing the firstborn of each Egyptian family, but leaving the Jews as they had painted lamb's blood on their doors. The Last Supper was a Passover meal. Posts: 1000 | Registered: Thursday, October 11 2001 07:00 |
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written Sunday, April 27 2003 06:12
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Not to be a pedant (LIES), but I always thought it was spelt zeitgeist. Since I've never had occasion to use the word however and am too lazy to go downstairs and get a dictionary, I'm more than likely wrong. Not that it matters. I don't want to see Christmas and Easter de-commercialised. I want to see them de-Christianised. I speak as someone who is half-Christian, half agnostic trying to follow the teachings of Jesus. When you consider that Christmas and Easter were both intended to replace pagan customs and its generally believed that Jesus was actually born in spring, there's no real reason why the two couldn't be combined. It was 2000 years ago, after all, so the exact date is utterly inconsequential. Christmas buoys up the spirits of many during winter when one can leave the house in darkness in the morning and return in darkness at night. Bit it needn't be religious. I'd like to see Easter given a set date (which would by the way help to regularise school timetables) whilst a Christian Christmas/Easter would take place at the same time of Passover as one would expect. Incidentally, what is the original Hebrew name for that? If you want to increase the numbers of Christians, however, there's one simple solution. Take the bits from the OT which tie in most with the NT and are most interesting (parts of Isaiah stay, Ecclesiastes to show tolerance to other viewpoints, selected Proverbs and Psalms etc.) Any bits which are more relevant to 9th century BC Israel/Judah should be consigned to bible scholars. Some provision could be made for preserving verses at random. It wouldn't make sense, but it would confuse the hell out of the sort of people who claim the bible predicted Rabin's assassination. Then once the supernumerary parts have been ritually burnt and sown with salt or whatever highly insensitive ritual is deemed appropriate (NB I am NOT serious) you should turn to the NT. Matthew is 90% identical to Luke. That can almost all go. Take what you will from John. Sift through Luke with a fine tooth comb to find the stuff which is essential to being a Christian. The rest can go. Which, by the way, removes the need for Christmas anyway. Add what you're left with to Mark. One nice simple gospel. Then publish an unabridged version taking all four gospels and the apocryphal ones (including gospel of Judas Iscariot, because I happen to think the concept is rather interesting) seperately. Back to the original bible. I won't say what to take from Acts and the Letters. Try to get rid of anything misogynistic, racist, or clearly intended for Nazarene Christians/2nd century Roman citizens. Take a huge cocktail of hallucinogenic drugs. Write whatever comes into your head and swap it for Revelations. If you're lucky, you may get away with it. Voila- a new bible. Market like those Beginners' Guides to Zen they sell at the counters in bookshops. Watch every Christian denomination in the world combine to call for the burning of the authors at the stake. Isn't togetherness lovely? Posts: 1000 | Registered: Thursday, October 11 2001 07:00 |
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written Thursday, April 24 2003 11:11
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Hot cross buns are effectively just bread, only sweeter. Palm Sunday and Easter aren't especially special occasions for me. I've still got some faith, although not in organised religion, but I don't tend to think about my belief around Easter because it has little outward appearance of a link with Jesus. Posts: 1000 | Registered: Thursday, October 11 2001 07:00 |
| Hybrids Anonymous or How to Differentiate an Opaki from a Choirboy in General | |
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written Wednesday, April 16 2003 11:49
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The zebra-horse hybrid is at my local zoo. Called a 'zeedonk.' Although there are actually several. I don't know if they're sterile. The zoo does make a tidy profit in selling their dung as novelty compost though. Posts: 1000 | Registered: Thursday, October 11 2001 07:00 |
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written Friday, April 11 2003 06:57
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I thought we had an Announcements forum from the beginning too. Probably wrong though. Posts: 1000 | Registered: Thursday, October 11 2001 07:00 |
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written Thursday, April 10 2003 09:22
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Second incarnation of the boards. We started on Ikonboard, but moved to UBB in September due to a variety of minor bugs (most of which UBB tends to exhibit) and also because Spidweb decided that although Ikonboard was free, it's protection against hacking was inferior. Posts: 1000 | Registered: Thursday, October 11 2001 07:00 |
| Does anybody use the berzerk skill? in Nethergate | |
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written Wednesday, April 9 2003 11:09
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I tend to use the Berzerk trait on Roman fihgters too. It's not historically true, but nor is four Roman soldiers fighting alone without formation, or elves and magic and the bulk of the game. Posts: 1000 | Registered: Thursday, October 11 2001 07:00 |
| Hybrids Anonymous or How to Differentiate an Opaki from a Choirboy in General | |
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written Wednesday, April 9 2003 09:00
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You're thinking of Sss-Thsss. I mentioned his grandfather, Sss-Thoss. The storyline is blank enough for either viewpoint to be possible. Posts: 1000 | Registered: Thursday, October 11 2001 07:00 |
| Hybrids Anonymous or How to Differentiate an Opaki from a Choirboy in General | |
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written Tuesday, April 8 2003 07:43
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Alternatively, round up all the Nephilim and ship them in chains to the markets of Almaria and Draco and those who don't die of dysentery and aren't beaten to death by their owners will have the chance to watch human society in its sophistication and majesty. A human/nephil crossbreed is unlikely. It would require that both have the same amount of chromosomes, for one thing. Posts: 1000 | Registered: Thursday, October 11 2001 07:00 |
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written Monday, April 7 2003 08:38
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Maybe the reason you find less sliths in human cities is because the sliths have a deeper infrastructure, whereas human cities are a good deal less likely to be ripped apart by adventurers than flimsy nephilim settlements. I've always imagined Sss-Thoss' expulsion from the Slith homelands to be more political than anything else, and that demon-worship probably came later as an ally to get back at his opponents at home. I'd imagine the Sliths generally live in tribes and the leaders of the largest and most powerful tribes form a council. I suspect that the conditions in the Slith homeland are more amenable to them and therefore there is a greater population by far. This means more breeding pools, hence more tribes. This means it would be near impossible for one tribe alone to gain hegemony. However, I'd imagine that the leader of the most powerful tribe (or maybe the most respected warrior) would be made overall warchief for the tribes to fight rebels and the like. I'd assume Sss-Thoss was one such warchief and was expelled after a power struggle between those like him who favoured strengthening the warchief's power as a prelude to kingship and those who wished to keep his power in check and subservient to the council. Then a civil war most likely erupted, but I'd assume a coalition of the Council's supporters would have vanquished the Warchief's party. Sss-Thoss was most likely captured (otherwise he'd just have stuck with guerilla warfare) and since killing him would unleash all hell, exiled to Avernum/Exile. Why do I think this? If it had been less, it would more likely have been like an Athenian ostracism. Sss-Thoss and those of his followers who had been captured/surrendered would have been allowed to leave. I suspect that more of his supporters might have remained to fight a guerilla war. The bit at Lost Bahssikava was most likely a propaganda piece, since although I don't doubt Sss-Thoss dabbled among the dark arts (perhaps to help him gain hegemony) I do doubt either that so many would have followed him into exile or that he would not have recanted (or if he had refused to recant, I'd assume he'd have been killed.) This is all conjecture. If you like it, all to the good. If not, form your own views. Posts: 1000 | Registered: Thursday, October 11 2001 07:00 |
| Around the place in however long it takes! in General | |
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written Wednesday, February 19 2003 02:18
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ADoS asked me to pass on a message saying he'll be away for a couple of days. Whatever that means for this thread, note it. Posts: 1000 | Registered: Thursday, October 11 2001 07:00 |
| Should it be made at all? in Blades of Avernum | |
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written Friday, November 8 2002 14:10
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I'm fairly sure that provided the same bunch of incompetents don't sign up to beta BoA as did BoE, BoA should be a little better than its predecessor, but much more complicated. I'll wait until it comes out before deciding whether it's worth registering or whether I should just wait for Pyg. Posts: 1000 | Registered: Thursday, October 11 2001 07:00 |
| Nethergate 2 ? in Nethergate | |
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written Tuesday, October 29 2002 12:29
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If it was going to be done, it would have to be in the 5th century after the ROmans leave and the Saxons arrive. However, the problem is that this is the period the historical Arthur lived if he existed at all, and Nethergate 2 as some Arthurian piece of crud is not something I want to see. Posts: 1000 | Registered: Thursday, October 11 2001 07:00 |
| more than 4 characters ! in Blades of Avernum | |
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written Tuesday, October 29 2002 12:24
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It's not an accident. NPCs are all secretly double agents who hate you. Of course, I wouldn't mind their firestorming if they didn't complain when I returned the favour. Posts: 1000 | Registered: Thursday, October 11 2001 07:00 |