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| Topic: So you've graduated Whateley. What now? |
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| Re: So you've graduated Whateley. What now? [message #76668 is a reply to message #76611 ] |
Wed, 22 May 2013 00:08 |
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 GuesssWho
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Registered: December 2011 |
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I remember reading somewhere that giving every poor person a dollar and putting in the bank for a hundred thousand years would solve all our problems. Because when the poor people came back they'd be told the original dollar was removed for bank fees and they'd go on a rampage.
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| Re: So you've graduated Whateley. What now? [message #76670 is a reply to message #76611 ] |
Wed, 22 May 2013 00:16 |
 khade
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Registered: May 2011
Location: Rockies |
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Frankly giving anyone anything physical for free isn't going to solve anything, the real solutions are going to be from education and allowing those educated to change the system. Welfare is useful, but it teaches bad habits and leads to abuse of the system.
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And because money is an idea, and an agreement that these pieces of paper and metal and bits of code in a computer have the value we say they do, giving someone money isn't going to solve anything.
[Updated on: Wed, 22 May 2013 00:18]
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| Topic: Controlled Hallucinations Which Only Affect Their Creator. |
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| Re: Controlled Hallucinations Which Only Affect Their Creator. [message #76666 is a reply to message #76634 ] |
Wed, 22 May 2013 00:00 |
GinnCaster5
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Registered: March 2012 |
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I'm gonna just PM this to you, just in case this ruins my limited rep here.
[Updated on: Wed, 22 May 2013 00:02]
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| Re: Controlled Hallucinations Which Only Affect Their Creator. [message #76667 is a reply to message #76271 ] |
Wed, 22 May 2013 00:07 |
Singer
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Registered: November 2011 |
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Spellcasting is nothing more or less than sending out a request to whatever you want to hear you and waiting to find out. Frankly, a devout Christian is far more of a 'witch' than even most Wiccans are. Although when I say 'devout' I mean someone who goes to church regularly, whatever church they choose to go to, and gives prayer on a very regular basis, and I say this with no intention to insult any creed.
I find no creed to be perfectly true, but I still live by the basic teachings of Yesua. Not that most others do anymore, regretfully.
...That's dangerously close to being extremely rude, I'm going to back away slowly from that.
Interesting tidbit, maybe? The King James translation of the bible pulls the line of witchcraft out of context and warps it to be as xenophobic as possible. It's not 'Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live' so much as 'Thou shalt not suffer a Practitioner of the Dark Arts to live'. Which is good, because many saints and popes of ages bygone would qualify as witches.
...Oh buggery. I do hope nobody takes offense.
Sing you a song, I'm the Singer
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| Re: Controlled Hallucinations Which Only Affect Their Creator. [message #76669 is a reply to message #76271 ] |
Wed, 22 May 2013 00:10 |
khade
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Registered: May 2011
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There is more to the world than we humans are aware of, than our sciences can yet explain, as a Christian myself, I firmly believe that what we can do and can find were set up by God, but I can take no offence at what someone else believes. Modern view of magic is that the religions of the book would see them all as evil, but in the past there was a view of good magic vs bad magic.
And ripping into an author of the setting you like because they are talking about their own religion can probably be put under the 'not very wise' category.
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| Re: Controlled Hallucinations Which Only Affect Their Creator. [message #76671 is a reply to message #76271 ] |
Wed, 22 May 2013 00:21 |
Singer
Messages: 46
Registered: November 2011 |
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Oh buggery, and now my post is completely out of context. >.< I was responding to Gnn, but he edited it out. ^^;;
I quite like studying religion. It's interesting, seeing the views everyone has had before, and how they've changed or stayed the same as time goes by. And so many of them have some commonality between them, it makes you wonder what all happened that we don't really have any way of learning about.
Sing you a song, I'm the Singer
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| Forum: The Crystal Hall |
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| Topic: Ponies are back |
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| Re: Ponies are back [message #76673 is a reply to message #68455 ] |
Wed, 22 May 2013 01:22 |
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Sir Lee
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Registered: May 2005
Location: São Paulo, Brazil |
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Actually, in French an unicorn would be called a "Licorne." Check for instance the Tintin book, referring to the name of a ship (that had an unicorn as figurehead):
"Le Secret de la Licorne" -> "The Secret of the Unicorn"
I have seen it claimed (by Piers Anthony, whom Wikipedia blames for the current usage of "Alicorn" for "Winged unicorn," so you should take this with a big spoonful of salt) that the radical "Cornus" (horn) as referring to unicorns keeps gathering articles:
Latin - Cornus ("Horn")
French - Le Cornus -> Licorne ("The Horn")
Arabic - Al Licorn -> Alicorn ("The The Horn")
English - The Alicorn ("The The The Horn")
Don't call me Shirley. You will surely make me surly.
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Sent from my Bugs Industries® bPhone™
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| Re: Ponies are back [message #76674 is a reply to message #68455 ] |
Wed, 22 May 2013 02:11 |
khade
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Registered: May 2011
Location: Rockies |
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I don't object to being wrong, it lets me learn new stuff.
So what should a winged unicorn be called? Anyone want to make suggestions?
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