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New Village Idiot? in General | |
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written Wednesday, May 31 2006 21:05
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Voted for third. I think giving rather insulting titles will not take anyone higher then such a title. My suggestion - Country Style title. -------------------- 9 masks sing in a choir: Gnome Dwarf Slith Giant Troll Troglo Human Nephil Vahnatai "If the mask under mask to SE of mask to the left of mask and to the right of me is the mask below the mask to the right of mask to the right of mask below me is the same, then who am I?" radix: +2 nicothodes: +1 salmon:+1 Posts: 203 | Registered: Tuesday, March 14 2006 08:00 |
My God can beat up your God! in General | |
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written Wednesday, May 31 2006 18:26
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quote:The ignorance is always frightening. Shall I take this one on my personal account? :( Slarty, thanks for ranking my n00bness :) [ Wednesday, May 31, 2006 18:27: Message edited by: Ford Prefect ] -------------------- 9 masks sing in a choir: Gnome Dwarf Slith Giant Troll Troglo Human Nephil Vahnatai "If the mask under mask to SE of mask to the left of mask and to the right of me is the mask below the mask to the right of mask to the right of mask below me is the same, then who am I?" radix: +2 nicothodes: +1 salmon:+1 Posts: 203 | Registered: Tuesday, March 14 2006 08:00 |
My God can beat up your God! in General | |
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written Wednesday, May 31 2006 09:52
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quote:Is it now more understandable and acceptable, after I changed "worship" to "listen to"? If it does, than take my apologize for making a mistake at first. I don't think that shoult be inspected so scrupulously. Or should it? And next time I promise to place some idiotic smile after a bit of sarcasm, like I said about form that counts. quote:Written down for wisdom. Although the meaning of the word is anyone who is expected to deliver a holy word of God. Since there was only one such person for Christians it became a name personal. So let us consider it was my mistake. quote:I hope you won't be insulted if I refuse? I got your point, hope you'll get mine. Otherwise see what I said before in this post. ;) P.S. The phrase in its sarcastic meaning "it is the form that counts" can be a trademark of M.Straczynski and his B5 [ Wednesday, May 31, 2006 09:57: Message edited by: Ford Prefect ] -------------------- 9 masks sing in a choir: Gnome Dwarf Slith Giant Troll Troglo Human Nephil Vahnatai "If the mask under mask to SE of mask to the left of mask and to the right of me is the mask below the mask to the right of mask to the right of mask below me is the same, then who am I?" radix: +2 nicothodes: +1 salmon:+1 Posts: 203 | Registered: Tuesday, March 14 2006 08:00 |
In this topic, I celebrate my inability to shut up. in General | |
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written Wednesday, May 31 2006 09:27
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Congratulations! 6000 happy returns of your names to you! :) Whatever should that mean :) -------------------- 9 masks sing in a choir: Gnome Dwarf Slith Giant Troll Troglo Human Nephil Vahnatai "If the mask under mask to SE of mask to the left of mask and to the right of me is the mask below the mask to the right of mask to the right of mask below me is the same, then who am I?" radix: +2 nicothodes: +1 salmon:+1 Posts: 203 | Registered: Tuesday, March 14 2006 08:00 |
Peer Review Process (was Evolution Stuff (was What is Religion, exactly?)) in General | |
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written Tuesday, May 30 2006 22:40
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Waylander, you should have warned that picture is not for nervous p-p-p-people... :) -------------------- 9 masks sing in a choir: Gnome Dwarf Slith Giant Troll Troglo Human Nephil Vahnatai "If the mask under mask to SE of mask to the left of mask and to the right of me is the mask below the mask to the right of mask to the right of mask below me is the same, then who am I?" radix: +2 nicothodes: +1 salmon:+1 Posts: 203 | Registered: Tuesday, March 14 2006 08:00 |
Ghosts of Stalin in General | |
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written Tuesday, May 30 2006 22:37
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quote:I think that there will be no better phrase to end the main theme of this thread! Salmon, cheer up! And thanks :) -------------------- 9 masks sing in a choir: Gnome Dwarf Slith Giant Troll Troglo Human Nephil Vahnatai "If the mask under mask to SE of mask to the left of mask and to the right of me is the mask below the mask to the right of mask to the right of mask below me is the same, then who am I?" radix: +2 nicothodes: +1 salmon:+1 Posts: 203 | Registered: Tuesday, March 14 2006 08:00 |
Peer Review Process (was Evolution Stuff (was What is Religion, exactly?)) in General | |
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written Tuesday, May 30 2006 22:27
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quote:I can, since I've studied through it thoroughly. Still I cant explain the speed of light, which is not from Einstei theory. E.g. let's put a projector on a jet plane. Why on Earth the speed of light from this projector is the same as from any other, standing still? :) As for useful results from religion - you can't know that untill you meet the creator. :) -------------------- 9 masks sing in a choir: Gnome Dwarf Slith Giant Troll Troglo Human Nephil Vahnatai "If the mask under mask to SE of mask to the left of mask and to the right of me is the mask below the mask to the right of mask to the right of mask below me is the same, then who am I?" radix: +2 nicothodes: +1 salmon:+1 Posts: 203 | Registered: Tuesday, March 14 2006 08:00 |
My God can beat up your God! in General | |
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written Tuesday, May 30 2006 20:46
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quote:That was already explained by me. FYT. Mohammed OR Muhammad. Muhammed is a common name. quote:Like you sir used to say, it is lack of my personal vocabulary. I think I wanted to say something similar to "listen to the words of" instead of worshipping. My hope was for that it is form that counts, not the concrete content of my phrase. Edit: On a second thought I searched (yahooed) for meanings of the 12th Imam. Firstly, Mohammed is called a holy prophet. That sound much more like messiah, if from Aramaic it means the anointed one. Stupid UBB doesn't show the transcriptional symbols. :( Secondly, here is rather compact information about the twelth Imam and his attitude to Jesus, Allah and some more interesting info in form of FAQ :) . Anyone is welcome to read. Now I know, that in Islam variant Jesus is a follower of the 12th prophet Imam Mahdi, still, he is called a messiah, but on the other point he is also called a prophet. [ Tuesday, May 30, 2006 21:21: Message edited by: Ford Prefect ] -------------------- 9 masks sing in a choir: Gnome Dwarf Slith Giant Troll Troglo Human Nephil Vahnatai "If the mask under mask to SE of mask to the left of mask and to the right of me is the mask below the mask to the right of mask to the right of mask below me is the same, then who am I?" radix: +2 nicothodes: +1 salmon:+1 Posts: 203 | Registered: Tuesday, March 14 2006 08:00 |
Ghosts of Stalin in General | |
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written Tuesday, May 30 2006 07:19
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Nikita, what was that insult for? TM, I was talking not about changin the status quo. Seemes like you've missed the word in my post. It was an analysys from the point of view not the nation but its leaders. So 1. It is more of a statement. 2. No. Whatever do you mean sayin "stifling line of argument", by the way? It is "stifling" that confuses me. 2.5 Power really corrupts, but only the minds of those, who posess. 2.99 I haven't got the last statement: otherwise of what? But definitely, I'm not calling you a one. 3. I wanted to say, isn't struggle for better life is in other way called a competition? But your example is really a cruel image of something to be called a competition? -------------------- 9 masks sing in a choir: Gnome Dwarf Slith Giant Troll Troglo Human Nephil Vahnatai "If the mask under mask to SE of mask to the left of mask and to the right of me is the mask below the mask to the right of mask to the right of mask below me is the same, then who am I?" radix: +2 nicothodes: +1 salmon:+1 Posts: 203 | Registered: Tuesday, March 14 2006 08:00 |
My God can beat up your God! in General | |
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written Tuesday, May 30 2006 04:12
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quote:I'm sorry, but in our language the meaning is almost the same. -------------------- 9 masks sing in a choir: Gnome Dwarf Slith Giant Troll Troglo Human Nephil Vahnatai "If the mask under mask to SE of mask to the left of mask and to the right of me is the mask below the mask to the right of mask to the right of mask below me is the same, then who am I?" radix: +2 nicothodes: +1 salmon:+1 Posts: 203 | Registered: Tuesday, March 14 2006 08:00 |
A Thousand Words in General | |
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written Tuesday, May 30 2006 04:09
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I hope that such thing is about SomethingAwful only. Otherwise, bring down mine, too. :( -------------------- 9 masks sing in a choir: Gnome Dwarf Slith Giant Troll Troglo Human Nephil Vahnatai "If the mask under mask to SE of mask to the left of mask and to the right of me is the mask below the mask to the right of mask to the right of mask below me is the same, then who am I?" radix: +2 nicothodes: +1 salmon:+1 Posts: 203 | Registered: Tuesday, March 14 2006 08:00 |
Ghosts of Stalin in General | |
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written Tuesday, May 30 2006 03:58
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quote:Ok. LUKE... I'M YOUR MOTHER better? Edit: Or did you mean the point of TM? That's more like true. Actually, as Dikiyoba said, I better wait for explanation from your side. Count that my expression as a failed joke. [ Tuesday, May 30, 2006 04:04: Message edited by: Ford Prefect ] -------------------- 9 masks sing in a choir: Gnome Dwarf Slith Giant Troll Troglo Human Nephil Vahnatai "If the mask under mask to SE of mask to the left of mask and to the right of me is the mask below the mask to the right of mask to the right of mask below me is the same, then who am I?" radix: +2 nicothodes: +1 salmon:+1 Posts: 203 | Registered: Tuesday, March 14 2006 08:00 |
A Thousand Words in General | |
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written Tuesday, May 30 2006 00:40
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Malevich, turn on the light, please! -------------------- 9 masks sing in a choir: Gnome Dwarf Slith Giant Troll Troglo Human Nephil Vahnatai "If the mask under mask to SE of mask to the left of mask and to the right of me is the mask below the mask to the right of mask to the right of mask below me is the same, then who am I?" radix: +2 nicothodes: +1 salmon:+1 Posts: 203 | Registered: Tuesday, March 14 2006 08:00 |
My God can beat up your God! in General | |
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written Tuesday, May 30 2006 00:29
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quote:To continue this thought, or better to say, to correct a little I should say this: it is not an imperfect worshipping of ... oh, I'm afraid to put this word in context of this thread... God. But the main disagreement of mentioned religions is worshipping God's "messiah". For Judaists he hasn't yet come, for christians Christ is a synonym to messiah, and for Muslims it was Mahomet. Judaists deny both. Christians deny one. Muslims do not deny any, but worship the last one. An interesting article I found while searching for some detailes for my post. The article is pouring light on the origins of Tamplier's idol Baphomet: - an old-french variant of Mahomet - from greek words Baph and Metis="immersion of wisdom". -------------------- 9 masks sing in a choir: Gnome Dwarf Slith Giant Troll Troglo Human Nephil Vahnatai "If the mask under mask to SE of mask to the left of mask and to the right of me is the mask below the mask to the right of mask to the right of mask below me is the same, then who am I?" radix: +2 nicothodes: +1 salmon:+1 Posts: 203 | Registered: Tuesday, March 14 2006 08:00 |
Peer Review Process (was Evolution Stuff (was What is Religion, exactly?)) in General | |
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written Monday, May 29 2006 23:55
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Salmon, please make a little prompt: waht was the long post about, so it was cut-edited down to one line about hats and pigeons? :) -------------------- 9 masks sing in a choir: Gnome Dwarf Slith Giant Troll Troglo Human Nephil Vahnatai "If the mask under mask to SE of mask to the left of mask and to the right of me is the mask below the mask to the right of mask to the right of mask below me is the same, then who am I?" radix: +2 nicothodes: +1 salmon:+1 Posts: 203 | Registered: Tuesday, March 14 2006 08:00 |
Ghosts of Stalin in General | |
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written Monday, May 29 2006 23:19
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The more I read this line, the more I get lost in termins. But that' won't be that bad, unless that I'm sure Kel and TM are on the way to lose the main idea, too. The global thoughts on possibility or impossibility of manipulating with human society both in their minds and as a result in their deeds seem to lead nowhere but dictatorship, no matter what ideas were followed at the start. TM said that in society, where a person is struggling in to make his/her life better along with the lives of his/her relatives plus "...and is prompted to do so by the society's ideology and the gov't's methodology...", no competition can be maintained. What is a competition then, were it not the struggle for better life? Back to the topic, I can't say anything to Kel, since he didn't take part in discussion. So, I think Slartucker got it wrong, since there was no arguing. Goes like: LUKE... I LIED... Edit: quote:That's exactly where anarchy originates from. [ Monday, May 29, 2006 23:28: Message edited by: Ford Prefect ] -------------------- 9 masks sing in a choir: Gnome Dwarf Slith Giant Troll Troglo Human Nephil Vahnatai "If the mask under mask to SE of mask to the left of mask and to the right of me is the mask below the mask to the right of mask to the right of mask below me is the same, then who am I?" radix: +2 nicothodes: +1 salmon:+1 Posts: 203 | Registered: Tuesday, March 14 2006 08:00 |
Ghosts of Stalin in General | |
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written Sunday, May 28 2006 21:19
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quote:I'm sorry for making myself unclear. By the vanguard theory I meant communizm, how Marx first represented it, but not the theory of achieving communism by Lenin. quote:I may seem too cynic, but I think citizens have no idea, who are those people who decide. As Douglas Adams said, President is a formal appointment, whose aim is to distract everyone's attention off the real government. :) quote:Is it what Huckleberry Finn always said about his "sandwiches"? :) quote:That's definitely not communism :) . I captured some time in my life living - and studying - in USSR. The only thought there of paying for education was horrible :( . Nowadays the educational system is made to pay for it :( I agree that all around the world people will place on the first place struggle for their place under the Sun, and only on the second they will work hard for society. Breaking this way of thinking exactly means getting rid of human nature. It didn't work for leninists. I doubt it can work for anyone else. Though kibbutzim idea is nice, it is too small society. Hey, may be that's the way out? Despite breaking human thought patterns split the society into small groups before. :) That wasn't serious. -------------------- 9 masks sing in a choir: Gnome Dwarf Slith Giant Troll Troglo Human Nephil Vahnatai "If the mask under mask to SE of mask to the left of mask and to the right of me is the mask below the mask to the right of mask to the right of mask below me is the same, then who am I?" radix: +2 nicothodes: +1 salmon:+1 Posts: 203 | Registered: Tuesday, March 14 2006 08:00 |
Slith fort (A1) in The Avernum Trilogy | |
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written Sunday, May 28 2006 17:42
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quote:Well, I was not going to discuss TB books here, still, the thing I was talking about - creation of lizrad men by magic for some strange purposes - hasn't been written in any book of TB yet. It is just from his plans of uniting two of his storylines into one - from interview with him and from his official website. So what are you talking about? The Wishsong definitely not his best creation, but that was not what I was trying to tell. After the "First King" there came out a trilogy of "Voyage of 'Jerle Shannara'", which was rather interesting, and mwellrets playing a big role in third book of it. His latest trilogy of "High Druid" is still unaccessible in Russia, so I can't say anything good, or bad about its content. Edit: TYPO [ Sunday, May 28, 2006 17:48: Message edited by: Ford Prefect ] -------------------- 9 masks sing in a choir: Gnome Dwarf Slith Giant Troll Troglo Human Nephil Vahnatai "If the mask under mask to SE of mask to the left of mask and to the right of me is the mask below the mask to the right of mask to the right of mask below me is the same, then who am I?" radix: +2 nicothodes: +1 salmon:+1 Posts: 203 | Registered: Tuesday, March 14 2006 08:00 |
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written Sunday, May 28 2006 07:47
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quote:That's exactly what I forgot to add. Marx only mentioned communism as a possible way to perfect society. And he also stated the necessary conditions, like tilth to farmers, factories to workers, and establishing labor unions. But as in maths, a functional needs not only necessary conditions, but also starting values. And here is what Lenin proposed: socialism. And at that time the only way for him to start with it was with a slogan: "We shall build a new world on the ruins of an old one, and an old one we shall bring to ruins first". It took 70 years to see a mistake, because every new leader saw the new world in his own way. -------------------- 9 masks sing in a choir: Gnome Dwarf Slith Giant Troll Troglo Human Nephil Vahnatai "If the mask under mask to SE of mask to the left of mask and to the right of me is the mask below the mask to the right of mask to the right of mask below me is the same, then who am I?" radix: +2 nicothodes: +1 salmon:+1 Posts: 203 | Registered: Tuesday, March 14 2006 08:00 |
Slith fort (A1) in The Avernum Trilogy | |
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written Sunday, May 28 2006 07:15
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Just to make a parallel, if it is possible, there is a lizrad like people in Terry Brooks Shannara series. Depicted very much alike Slithzerikai in Avernum/Exile series. The same way of breeding - if I remember that well enough. All the nation of mwellrets (lizard men) is presented as evil, with inborn ability to hypnotize. But that is all offtopic, except for that they were created by magic. The whole nation. This is somehow in close relations with Drakefyre's vahnatai creationism theory and Aran's novel "Crystal Song" :) P.S. I'm not sure whether I should have placed a tm, or copyright after the name of the novel. Anyway, it is worth reading :) Edit: Put in some valuable refinement [ Sunday, May 28, 2006 17:47: Message edited by: Ford Prefect ] -------------------- 9 masks sing in a choir: Gnome Dwarf Slith Giant Troll Troglo Human Nephil Vahnatai "If the mask under mask to SE of mask to the left of mask and to the right of me is the mask below the mask to the right of mask to the right of mask below me is the same, then who am I?" radix: +2 nicothodes: +1 salmon:+1 Posts: 203 | Registered: Tuesday, March 14 2006 08:00 |
Ghosts of Stalin in General | |
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written Sunday, May 28 2006 01:59
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Well, if you read works of Lenin or Marks, you shall see, that true Communism in its final state is rather unachievable. I can't imagine a country not using money system at all. :) A great number of people mix two political statings: communism and socialism. Soviet Union since its foundation was aimed to gain true communizm through socialism state, but actually already after the end of period of New Economical Politics 1924-1933 the way to communizm appeared to be much harder. So political state in Soviet Union was socialism. Please, do not call people, who believed in communism stupid or even worse - evil. If you read about communism not from NY Times, but from "Capital" by Marx, you can understand, why a lot of people believed in bright future working hard to achieve communism. The main problem is that it cannot be achieved through tyrany. Actually, nothing can be. So there is the failure of vanguard leaders, but not the theory. As for me, I can accept communism if some genius can show the real way to it. But nowadays all the former leaders again talk about socialism. That sux. Also I accept democracy. BUT from the definition of this word, or better to say, from its translation, it is citizens, who decide. Any country with one key figure: president, monarch, emperor, shah, etc. is not a democratic one. By definition. Make a social poll questioning: do you trust the election system in your country? Any guess what do you get? I know the results for our counrty and for some other. -------------------- 9 masks sing in a choir: Gnome Dwarf Slith Giant Troll Troglo Human Nephil Vahnatai "If the mask under mask to SE of mask to the left of mask and to the right of me is the mask below the mask to the right of mask to the right of mask below me is the same, then who am I?" radix: +2 nicothodes: +1 salmon:+1 Posts: 203 | Registered: Tuesday, March 14 2006 08:00 |
Ancient Mystery: Solved! in General | |
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written Sunday, May 28 2006 01:34
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quote:The Big Club theory showed a better example :) -------------------- 9 masks sing in a choir: Gnome Dwarf Slith Giant Troll Troglo Human Nephil Vahnatai "If the mask under mask to SE of mask to the left of mask and to the right of me is the mask below the mask to the right of mask to the right of mask below me is the same, then who am I?" radix: +2 nicothodes: +1 salmon:+1 Posts: 203 | Registered: Tuesday, March 14 2006 08:00 |
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written Saturday, May 27 2006 22:17
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Everytime I start to think on this question, I come to a conclusion that the process musthave been more complicated than spontaneous birth of a chicken from an egg layed by non-chicken. Also here this question may bring the discussion on genetics again, doubling "The Big Club Theory" :) -------------------- 9 masks sing in a choir: Gnome Dwarf Slith Giant Troll Troglo Human Nephil Vahnatai "If the mask under mask to SE of mask to the left of mask and to the right of me is the mask below the mask to the right of mask to the right of mask below me is the same, then who am I?" radix: +2 nicothodes: +1 salmon:+1 Posts: 203 | Registered: Tuesday, March 14 2006 08:00 |
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written Saturday, May 27 2006 10:04
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quote:A good quest, by the way. Makes sense in adventuring. But that time Gnass is really a poor village. So bringing there more sliths will make it a hard day. A foundation of a kindergarten at some place, where foundlings of all the nations will be brought and taught to behave together is a good deed! :) -------------------- 9 masks sing in a choir: Gnome Dwarf Slith Giant Troll Troglo Human Nephil Vahnatai "If the mask under mask to SE of mask to the left of mask and to the right of me is the mask below the mask to the right of mask to the right of mask below me is the same, then who am I?" radix: +2 nicothodes: +1 salmon:+1 Posts: 203 | Registered: Tuesday, March 14 2006 08:00 |
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written Saturday, May 27 2006 09:54
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The Worst Man, thank you. I think I'm a bit too impulsive when someone is stupidly insulting anyone without a simple bit of idea of what he is talking about. And I couldn't find a good answer without breaking the CoC here. Alo, :) Not mine phrase, but sounds nice: Tyrany with elements of democracy is the same thing as constipation with elements of diarrhoea. -------------------- 9 masks sing in a choir: Gnome Dwarf Slith Giant Troll Troglo Human Nephil Vahnatai "If the mask under mask to SE of mask to the left of mask and to the right of me is the mask below the mask to the right of mask to the right of mask below me is the same, then who am I?" radix: +2 nicothodes: +1 salmon:+1 Posts: 203 | Registered: Tuesday, March 14 2006 08:00 |