LINESII- Into the Darkness- Part II

[North King]

What with the centuries of Swades living there and it being renamed and rebuilt and the lack of any Oneists near by....the lists goes on.

Tellus has seen odder things. Such as entire civilizations which seem to have a somewhat disturbing love for sharp metal things.

 

[Swissempire]

Tellus has seen odder things. Such as entire civilizations which seem to have a somewhat disturbing love for sharp metal things.

OOC: Would you rather we loved two sticks that are crossed and some dirty hippie who may or may not have died on such a contraption?

Or is worshiping a little fat man who's belly should be rubbed for good luck better?

A dancing elephant suit your fancy?

Or perhaps we should wear tiny little hats upon our head and ritually cut our babies penises, to be normal of course.

To be more Tellus-ish, perhaps worshiping crystals and being obsessed with glass is better.

Or veil our women and blow ourselves up. I like that plan the best.

Note: These are not my views on the above religions, nor a intended insult to them. I'm just trying to demonstrate how a lot of beliefs are pretty crazy.

 

[Thlayli]

What with the centuries of Swades living there and it being renamed and rebuilt and the lack of any Oneists near by....the lists goes on.

I was more referring to the fact that if it did get recaptured, it wouldn't be by me.

 

[~Darkening~]

OOC: Would you rather we loved two sticks that are crossed and some dirty hippie who may or may not have died on such a contraption?

For a second, I didn't realize you were talking about religion .

 

[Lord_Iggy]

Good point Swiss.

 

[Thlayli]

So, will we see the update before or after global warming melts the Yukon into a giant puddle?

 

[das]

Would you rather we loved two sticks that are crossed and some dirty hippie who may or may not have died on such a contraption?

lurker's comment: That's three sticks, Latinate heretic!

Anyway, what is interesting is that we have at least two major religions with a particular fascination with various mineral resources and products. I wonder if future multiversial culturologists would tie that to a particular importance of mining in this world (you know, like the "shepherd religions" were tied to the importance of cattle herding in the Middle East)?

 

[Lord_Iggy]

The Yukon isn't that icy Thlayli.

At worst it will become completely glaciated again, or maybe turn into an arctic desert.

 

[Jono]

I worship fruit!

^{Thought I should get it out in the open before it became an "issue"}

 

[Kentharu]

and i hate spam.... oh look... spam -_-

 

[Jono]

Hey, I'm going to write a story about how the worship of fruit evolved. Just need to sleep beforehand.

 

[Lord_Iggy]

That will be an interesting story. And it will make Fairhelt sound somewhat ridiculous, IMHO.

 

[Silver Steak]

Update progress and ETA? Just copy/paste the values on one of them panels for us.

 

[Cuivienen]

What with the centuries of Swades living there and it being renamed and rebuilt and the lack of any Oneists near by....the lists goes on.

Centuries is more than a slight exaggeration. It fell in 1592, and it's currently 1677.

 

[North King]

Note: These are not my views on the above religions, nor a intended insult to them. I'm just trying to demonstrate how a lot of beliefs are pretty crazy.

I know beliefs are crazy, but most of the religions you mentioned are focused on things other than what you mentioned; only Christianity actually holds the example that you said as a particularly important tenet of their religion. On the other hand, your religion is named after sharp things. If it were a small subset to the spiritual values, I could understand, but yours is so focused around the sharp things (as told by your religion's name) that it borders on nonsensical.

 

[LittleBoots]

But, Swiss, you forgot a few.

How about the view that the entire universe is a simply a brute fact? The one that holds that it makes much more logical sense for the entirety of existence just happened to pop out of nonexistence than for there to be something that created that universe.

Then there's the one that holds that all scientific principles are infallible, when in fact any scientist worth his salt knows that all of science rests on first principles that are necessarily unprovable. Oh, and, as a corollary, that scientific principles hold in all cases... except one - that the universe required a cause.

Finally, there's the one where people actually believe that they can know for a fact that there exists no transcendent being! I know, its nuts, but people actually believe that they have the kind of knowledge necessary to know such a thing, essentially, transcendent knowledge of everything - knowledge only one being could even be thought to have.

Its a crazy, crazy world and silly people will accept all kinds of cracked ideas. Unexamined beliefs are hard to hold, but some people are just happy to rest in the knowledge they must be right. Make no mistake, theists and atheists alike commit the same Socratic sin, but when the dark forces of ignorance gather, the forces of reason must rally Glad to see we're on the same side.

Make no attempt to place me, I claim Resident Gadfly status

 

[Nylan]

I know beliefs are crazy, but most of the religions you mentioned are focused on things other than what you mentioned; only Christianity actually holds the example that you said as a particularly important tenet of their religion. On the other hand, your religion is named after sharp things. If it were a small subset to the spiritual values, I could understand, but yours is so focused around the sharp things (as told by your religion's name) that it borders on nonsensical.

LC: Not all Christians share that love of crossed sticks

 

[Cuivienen]

LC: Not all Christians share that love of crossed sticks

Like whom? Iconoclasts? Even the originally iconoclast Protestants have mostly abandoned the position. It's a central tenet of nearly all Christianity.

 

[Nylan]

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints

The link explains some basic beliefs. We hold that the faith of the members is our symbol, rather than a cross.

 

[North King]

The point being that the man dying on the cross was important to their religion, where as carrying around Buddha statues or veiling women are not central to their respective faiths.