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I would take oblivion to be perfectly honest. And not just because I actively disbelieve any sort of life after death. To put it bluntly, there is something strangely comforting in knowing that no mater how good or bad, easy or hard your life was at the end it just goes away and the universe contin...

But if you can choose your fate, you can choose someplace other than the "heaven depicted in most religions" and avoid "skipping around idyllic green gardens with all your desires provided to you." You can specify a place where that would not be the case. Where you would not grow...

Huh. I don't generally come across stuff like "let's nuke country x" or whatever... Does it mainly show up in Non-Scifi Debates? Because I mostly keep to Creative Writing/The Index, and Space Battles/BROB subforums. I think when people say stuff like, well, just check Alyeska's signature.....

I recommend Fullmetal Alchemist. If you want to watch the anime, I seriously suggest you go for the second one which follows the manga. (The first was started before the story was finished, so...) This second anime is called Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood. Hm. For what it's worth, the series drove...

Huh. How much control do parents have over their children? What happens if the two parents disagree on how to raise their child? What if the father wants a girl, and the mother wants a four-armed girl? How do you handle divorce? Simply clone the child and let each parent raise the child? How do you ...

Hmm... I wonder how Rand Paul and others would react if people took their "obligation -> slavery" arguement and applied it to the abortion topic. I'm morbidly curious to see how they'd backpedal or if they'd just throw up another layer of hypocrisy or doublethink.

Well, my point was Detect Evil would not be useful in figuring out if someone had committed a crime *by itself*. It might make an interesting social tool for other things, but it shouldn't be used as a guilt detector. I'm more curious as to what would happen if we used Detect Evil on our public serv...

Edit: Also, I hate metaphysics, and I hate it twice over when it coincides with morality. Who wants to live in a world where a "detect evil" spell is all it takes to convince a judge and jury you're guilty of something? What is so bad about that? In practical terms it is similar to widesp...

This is very neat and cool and awesome, and thanks for sharing this!


But, uh.. why call it a "shooter"? It's more of a lego-ball moving rube goldberg contraption?

This made me chuckle a bit.


But, er, how exactly is this "art imitating art"? Where has this been before...?

Why exactly are people assuming that people would flock to religions as a safety umbrella against the eldritch horrors? The OP only says that certain actions may bring doom; it says nothing about how certain religions can actively stave them off. So why go for a religion? They never did anything bef...

Usually, in my experience "Balance of Good and Evil" just means that you can't kill the top Bad Guys because they are an inherent part of the system. Or if you do smoke 'em, something else replaces them--and not in the usual "vacuum of power" way but more like a spontaneous outbr...

" Blue and Orange Morality ." If it were just animals that were considered to be amoral, that'd be fine. But when thinking, language-using beings are described as being "neither/above good and evil" it pisses me off. NO, dude, if something tortures puppies and burns kittens "...

Oh dear. This first contact is going to be an... unpleasant surprise for this optimistic fellow...


Good intro so far. Are we going to be seeing more of what happens from both sides of the, er, universe? That is, what happens back on DW Earth, and the.. trials the experimental ship goes through?

Artemas wrote:

Aren't the Imperial officers all played by British actors? Why would the British be obcessed about a movie where they are a ruthless empire that rules the galaxy with an iron fist

Because they miss it?

Okay, but why then focus on the JEDI aspect of the movie?

Since this has been bumped recently... for those who don't know yet: Aeon Entelechy Engel, the rewrite, has been posted on SpaceBattles' Creative Writing forum. The first chapter prologue, anyway. Go check it out there.

Aeon entelechy Evangelion (ANE rewrite) prologue.

Good story. One of few mixups I found: The fire reflected wide as I raised my shield in an arc and deflected it. He went for a gun. He moved quickly for a gun. I was faster. "He went for a gun. He moved quickly for a gun." is repetetive/redundant... And I guess when Duncan is mumbling &quo...

Er, IIRC thaumaturgy is the are of spells that deal with circles and finding symbolic items to forge a connection between a small thing and a big thing. Molly hasn't been shown to do any thaumaturgy yet, beyond being able to close a circle--which BUTTERS managed to do, and her attempts at potions (w...

What I don't get is... what does the article mean by "apologists for pantheism"?

What do pantheists need to be apologizing for..?

1) The most powerful American meta was Captain Liberty and he turned out to be an evil bastard back when Blackheart was a kid. Public trust in metas had already taken a beating. The story is about Blackheart, who is alienated from the mundane world. He doesn't see much of it directly. This will cha...

I'm not sure I understand how the bad guys are going to cause a split between humans and metahumans with their tactics. Thus far, quite a few metahumans have been killed during their ramprages, either trying to stop them or by being collateral damage. There were the metas killed in NYC, Manhattan be...

Without spoiling things, one thing I can tell you (if you haven't read the book by now): the Skinwalker really IS freaking scary and nasty. It is NOT like the TV-version skinwalker. To give you an idea: take a loup-garou. Give it a brain. Shapeshifting powers. MAGIC. Then add on hundreds upon hundre...

One reason could be... it's much easier to be more sympathetic to, or emotional about, starving children in Africa, than moonrocks. Most likely any arguements they might bring up to defend the short-term projects... are based on nothing but air and fallacious reasoning.

warn healthcare workers and chaplains that the therapy " lacks scientific credibility " and could expose people to " malevolent forces ". I think this was my favorite part of the article. Combined with "There is so much bad information about reiki, anti-Christian informatio...

Ugh. Yep, now I do feel stupid. Should've realized it upon seeing that everynumber in the second row differed by 81...

Well, thanks a lot for answering.