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 Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2007 9:23 am
The Marvel hero was "Werewolf by Night" or something... XP It's an obscure one too... rolleyes
I will do a sort of sketch of the plot though. And I hope it's better than Snape fan fics. XD
Tom Marvolo Riddle was an ingenious name too. XD
I've got most of the main characters set out, and a few secondary ones... but I really need to flesh them out some more. A lot more...
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Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2007 12:19 pm
Cube B The Marvel hero was "Werewolf by Night" or something... XP It's an obscure one too... rolleyes I will do a sort of sketch of the plot though. And I hope it's better than Snape fan fics. XD Tom Marvolo Riddle was an ingenious name too. XD I've got most of the main characters set out, and a few secondary ones... but I really need to flesh them out some more. A lot more... Never heard of that hero. Good luck with it. 3nodding
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Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2007 12:42 am
I would find out where waldo is. xd
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Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2007 8:38 am
Hmmm.... two thoughts when it comes to this.
If I did it for my own means, (and it was possible within said time frame) I would try to gain the abliity to speak every language/form of communication in the world. Why I would do this... well, I don't know. There would be something unparallel about being understand everyone. No limitations of expression what one truely believes to say, no confusion and everything would be like a song of meaning or something like that.
For the more wordly side of myself, I'd... well, try to understand the world. Learn the patterns of the Earth, understand the movement of currents, the formation and movements of all things that effect the natural world we live on. And because of that, I'd try to give the knowledge to improve everyone's lives, such as improving farming, healing nature, and finding more ways to hamornize with the earth instead of ripping her apart so much for our human desires. Which in true, might help society, but eh, who knows?
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Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2007 2:52 pm
All depends on circumstance. 3nodding
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Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 8:50 am
Blind Dog Pride Quote: I was taught that non-christians/jews would go to hell for not knowing the lord. Which is true. Quote: I was also taught that anyone who needed the Lord would have him revelaed to them. Also true. Quote: Why is it then that there are more people on Earth that don't know god than do, even though they have just as many problems as us? If the guess in my last post couldn't answer this, then it could be something that only He knows. Quote: How is it just for people who were never taught of (or in history never even heard of) god to go to hell? I have no idea how the Bible addresses this, but I'm sure that God does something. Here's an idea, though it would seem more Pagan than Christian: One method would be re-incarnation, to where if a soul does not have the chance to find God in one life, then it will be restored some time after death to be given another chance, and this process is repeated either until they make a choice about God (either accepting him or walking away from him), or at the end of time. Once again, this is just a theory. Quote: Friendships with no talking do fade away, but then why can't he talk to me? I felt the same way a few months ago. God 'talking' isn't necessarily Him verbally contacting you, though he is capable of doing it through anyone around you. It's a hard concept to get at first, and even harder to explain, but it's through what happens in your life that he teaches you, and speaks to you. Quote: If god has plans for our whole lives, why does he plan for us to sin? Free will. Quote: If we really had free will he couldn't have plans for our lives. Very true, but he does lead us in the right directions, he can plan how two people will end up in the same spot at the same time, which could affect both of their lives in great ways. A good example of how he does things like this is the quote I stated: Everything happens for a reason. In my mind, everything we do is a mixture of free will, and the free will of others. God Himself made our personalities, which affects our free will. So in some ways, perhaps God designed how our free will works. Very confusing. I can't back up my theories 100%, since I'm going purely based on what comes to mind and heart. I have not read the Bible, I plan on it, but since I haven't, I can't give you any quotes from it regarding these questions. There's always the possiblity that none of these questions have answers yet, but one thing you need to do is have faith. If you can't always believe in your mind, believe in your heart. I've always taken to what I think is a more sensible relgion.
Something (someone?) planned evolution (I don't understand why god can't have planned it? It makes sense), but it's obviously omnipotent and impossible to fathom etc.
I just live my life to make myself happy, but that only works because I'm not happy if the people around me aren't.
=P
If he has any choice in what we do, then we don't have complete free will.
It's as simple as that.
The only way it would work would be if he tempted us to do things, and that doesn't seem right, and in any case he'd have to compromise other people's free wills to a point.
I've never read the entire Bible either, but I believe a lot of it is embelished and metaphorical.
Also, it has probably been edited and changed multiple times when it was translated to Arabic, to Greek etc.
What we have now isn't very accurate.
Of course, the church still has to follow and believe every word because if they say Genesis was a metaphor, people will abuse this and find ways around the lessons everyone should follow, no matter what they believe.
In any case, there's nothing to debate because there's no proof of either side, so it's just opinions.
D=
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Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 8:59 am
Cube B Blind Dog Pride There's nothing wrong with being overly optimistic, those are the people who at least attempt to get things done. While the overly pessimistic would do nothing, thinking it is futile. Which means the optimists have the upper-hand. Aside from that, what would you want to teach yourself? For example, learning about a specific animal, disease, teaching yourself a language, computer programming, anything. I know, but it seems strange to think that there's one thing out there that would make everyone happy with everything. XD But I can dream. Well, to teach myself? Well, that would be a bit selfish, but I'd like to learn how to write. I mean, I can do the making up a plot part, and I'm witty. It's just that... to me, all of my plot ideas seem... unoriginal. XP And don't even get me started on Grammar, or literary devices, or making long enough chapters... There's this one story I made... It's about this college student who heads off to college, only to discover his fellow classmates aren't quite normal... or human for that matter. But it was inspired directly off a D20 Modern game... so even though I made most of the setting up, it amounts to bad fanfiction at most... and I need to flesh out the characters more. Though I did have the inital idea for it years ago (set in a small town instead of a city, and with only three of the characters really though up. Zach (The Protagonist), Vincent, and Zoe. The other two (Ari and Donna) were added in when I changed the setting... And it still seems cliche) And don't even get me started on my Avatar... Every time I think up something, I find someone else has already thought of it, and in some cases copywrighted it... Like, I had thought up this backstory for my avatar, and then later I found out that some random minor Marvel Comics superhero had the exact same one. And I don't even read marvel comics... or most comics for that matter. And when I was writing names for the characters in the book, one of the ones I picked that was particularly fitting was Arianna. And then I read HP7... and JK used the same name for one of her characters... xp So yeah... perhaps how to be original, and better grammar. Because I really want to write, since it's fun, and it makes people happy. I mean... books make me happy anyway. The ability to write is an amzing gift not many really posses and I understand why you want it.
I've always thought of myself as an excellent writer, but whenever I review things, I'm not so hot.
I've never written anything more than a three page short story that was for school and rushed.
=P
I'd love to teach myself to write plots.
I definitely know grammar and spelling, which are easily checked anyways, and I know I can create characters and settings.
The only thing preventing me from writing a science fiction novel is I have absolutely no plots.
The closest thing to a plot I have is something about an AI where AI is illegal, and then there's a relationship or something.
O.o
I can't help with your story, because I've never read anything like that, and if your main problem would be originality I'd have nothing to compare it to.
Dx
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Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 12:31 pm
The Lady of Moof If I did it for my own means, (and it was possible within said time frame) I would try to gain the abliity to speak every language/form of communication in the world. Why I would do this... well, I don't know. There would be something unparallel about being understand everyone. No limitations of expression what one truely believes to say, no confusion and everything would be like a song of meaning or something like that. I'd probably do the same, or at least attempt to perfect Spanish and start learning German and Japanese. Quote: For the more wordly side of myself, I'd... well, try to understand the world. Learn the patterns of the Earth, understand the movement of currents, the formation and movements of all things that effect the natural world we live on. And because of that, I'd try to give the knowledge to improve everyone's lives, such as improving farming, healing nature, and finding more ways to hamornize with the earth instead of ripping her apart so much for our human desires. Which in true, might help society, but eh, who knows? That'd be pretty cool.
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Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 12:39 pm
Hermes Something (someone?) planned evolution (I don't understand why god can't have planned it? It makes sense), but it's obviously omnipotent and impossible to fathom etc. A lot of scientists and other people are completely turned off of Christianity/Catholicism/Judaism because they believe whole-heartedly that the Earth is billions of years old. In actuality, regardless of religion, there is a good chance that is true. And Christianity even backs up that theory. Somewhere in the Bible, it says something along the lines of "God is not limited by time". So in short, the Earth was created in 7 days in God's time (which could actually be billions of years in Human time). Quote: I just live my life to make myself happy, but that only works because I'm not happy if the people around me aren't. =P In my opinion, that's a good thing to live by. I find myself in the middle of two sides: those people who live purely for self-happiness, in which they turn away from the Lord, and those who live 100% for God, leaving their happiness behind. From what [little] I know, God doesn't want us to be on either side of that, He would like us to enjoy life as much as possible, but to also serve Him and help others. So I try to live by what I think He wants, which is to help others find Him, and to live a happy and fulfilling life. Quote: If he has any choice in what we do, then we don't have complete free will. It's as simple as that. The only way it would work would be if he tempted us to do things, and that doesn't seem right, and in any case he'd have to compromise other people's free wills to a point. Good point, and I have no idea how to answer something like that. I'll find out the answer some day though. Quote: I've never read the entire Bible either, but I believe a lot of it is embelished and metaphorical. Which is why I have a hard time understanding some of it. Quote: Also, it has probably been edited and changed multiple times when it was translated to Arabic, to Greek etc. What we have now isn't very accurate. Which would be a good reason to learn ancient and dead languages, Hebrew would be a nice start. Quote: In any case, there's nothing to debate because there's no proof of either side, so it's just opinions. D= Opinion-based discussions are more fun than debates anyway. razz
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Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 12:43 pm
Hermes I've always thought of myself as an excellent writer, but whenever I review things, I'm not so hot. Holy crap, we're like brothers. I don't see a single thing that differs between us in this quote. I tried reviewing albums a couple times, but it didn't really work out how I wanted it to. I'm great (I think) in stories/essays/what ever, but I'm pretty crappy at reviews. Practice makes perfect I guess, some day I'll learn to write them. Quote: I've never written anything more than a three page short story that was for school and rushed. =P I wrote a ~6-7 page essay on the Reformation. Quote: I'd love to teach myself to write plots. I definitely know grammar and spelling, which are easily checked anyways, and I know I can create characters and settings. The only thing preventing me from writing a science fiction novel is I have absolutely no plots. The closest thing to a plot I have is something about an AI where AI is illegal, and then there's a relationship or something. O.o Same here with the first few lines. I don't really write plots at all, the only thing I've really done lately is my Gaia one.
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Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 1:57 pm
Blind Dog Pride Hermes Something (someone?) planned evolution (I don't understand why god can't have planned it? It makes sense), but it's obviously omnipotent and impossible to fathom etc. A lot of scientists and other people are completely turned off of Christianity/Catholicism/Judaism because they believe whole-heartedly that the Earth is billions of years old. In actuality, regardless of religion, there is a good chance that is true. And Christianity even backs up that theory. Somewhere in the Bible, it says something along the lines of "God is not limited by time". So in short, the Earth was created in 7 days in God's time (which could actually be billions of years in Human time). Quote: I just live my life to make myself happy, but that only works because I'm not happy if the people around me aren't. =P In my opinion, that's a good thing to live by. I find myself in the middle of two sides: those people who live purely for self-happiness, in which they turn away from the Lord, and those who live 100% for God, leaving their happiness behind. From what [little] I know, God doesn't want us to be on either side of that, He would like us to enjoy life as much as possible, but to also serve Him and help others. So I try to live by what I think He wants, which is to help others find Him, and to live a happy and fulfilling life. Quote: If he has any choice in what we do, then we don't have complete free will. It's as simple as that. The only way it would work would be if he tempted us to do things, and that doesn't seem right, and in any case he'd have to compromise other people's free wills to a point. Good point, and I have no idea how to answer something like that. I'll find out the answer some day though. Quote: I've never read the entire Bible either, but I believe a lot of it is embelished and metaphorical. Which is why I have a hard time understanding some of it. Quote: Also, it has probably been edited and changed multiple times when it was translated to Arabic, to Greek etc. What we have now isn't very accurate. Which would be a good reason to learn ancient and dead languages, Hebrew would be a nice start. Quote: In any case, there's nothing to debate because there's no proof of either side, so it's just opinions. D= Opinion-based discussions are more fun than debates anyway. razz I think the world must be as old as evidence shows.
Why would we be so wrong.
I agree about the 'god's time' thing, because it just makes sooo much more sense.
It goes back to the bible not being a metaphor though.
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You're quite the wise little man.
=P
I totally agree with you.
The old story of Isaac being willing to sacrifice his son for God confuses me.
Who could sacrifice their own child, even if god told them to directly.
O.o
That's one of the few less common bible stories I know that is actually useful.
Ask a pastor or something for me someday.
I'd love to ask my youth leaders these things but I think they'd quietly get mad and realise I don't actually support the religion of youth events, just the fun and community that comes of it.
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Apparantly there are literal and modern translations of the bible on the internet.
You could look into that, but I think it would be mostly just talking about the religious meaning of each passage is, not writing it plainly.
I'm not learning hebrew!
D=
I've taken german for 9 years and I'm no where near being able to read a bible.
Anyways, they probably don't have any totally original bibles left.
It's nice to have an actual point to argue about, even at a friendly level.
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Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 2:07 pm
Blind Dog Pride Hermes I've always thought of myself as an excellent writer, but whenever I review things, I'm not so hot. Holy crap, we're like brothers. I don't see a single thing that differs between us in this quote. I tried reviewing albums a couple times, but it didn't really work out how I wanted it to. I'm great (I think) in stories/essays/what ever, but I'm pretty crappy at reviews. Practice makes perfect I guess, some day I'll learn to write them. Quote: I've never written anything more than a three page short story that was for school and rushed. =P I wrote a ~6-7 page essay on the Reformation. Quote: I'd love to teach myself to write plots. I definitely know grammar and spelling, which are easily checked anyways, and I know I can create characters and settings. The only thing preventing me from writing a science fiction novel is I have absolutely no plots. The closest thing to a plot I have is something about an AI where AI is illegal, and then there's a relationship or something. O.o Same here with the first few lines. I don't really write plots at all, the only thing I've really done lately is my Gaia one. Don't get me wrong.
I'm still known by others to be an excellent writer, even amazing from some of my class mates.
Which I can't say didn't surprise me, but hey.
xD
I've written a review or two on movies, and they were by far some of the best in the class each time, but I have no passion for that.
It's like forcing something and it ends up sounding like someone else talking, albeit talking well.
My weakest point by far is essays.
I wrote a two page essay once.
=O
It was in the middle of last year, and I got the third lowest mark in the class.
51%
I still got the award at the end of the year for most skilled Language Arts student.
;D
Don't ask me how, that essay must not have counted for marks.
I don't write story stuff ever either, I jsut really wish I did.
The reason that I don't is that I can't think of any good ideas.
I really am concidering doing something with my gods though.
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I've always written great things when I've had a topic, but I can't make my own topic or theme.
When we got a writing test thing the topic was a lost dog poster, and I managed to pull a three page short story thing out of it, and my teacher loved it and said it would have been perfect if I'd had more time.
It was a humerous tale of how a stressed out middle aged husband accidently drops a couch on the dog from a second floor window.
xD
Just for your reference, 7/10 people in my class killed the dog in some way, and that includes the people who chose the other topic to write about.
My friend (who accidently buried the dog in a half finished swimming pool)has a little brother whose class did the same topics and he was the only one in his class to kill the dog.
O.o
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Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 2:27 pm
Hermes You're quite the wise little man. =P Sadly, I'm a complete idiot when speaking. Typing is so much easier to get words out with. Quote: Ask a pastor or something for me someday. I was thinking more along the lines of not finding out while alive, but who knows, maybe some pastor has an answer. Quote: I'd love to ask my youth leaders these things but I think they'd quietly get mad and realise I don't actually support the religion of youth events, just the fun and community that comes of it. >> << What kind of church do you go to? As for youth events, I feel similarly, it's not that I don't support the religion part though, it's that there is little religion involved, with small groups we just hang out and rarely talk about anything. It's hard to find something to talk about sometimes, we hear the Bible stories and explanations in church, so we have little need to go over that outside of church. Quote: I'm not learning hebrew! D= Quote: I've taken german for 9 years and I'm no where near being able to read a bible. Anyways, they probably don't have any totally original bibles left. True. Spanish is pretty fun to learn though, aside from just cussing people out. Quote: It's nice to have an actual point to argue about, even at a friendly level. Honestly, I don't know what we're arguing about. I try not to think to hard when typing this stuff, my brain must be in my fingers at the moment. (I'm sure that last sentence could be turned into some sort of dirty joke. gonk )
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Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 2:34 pm
Hermes I've written a review or two on movies, and they were by far some of the best in the class each time, but I have no passion for that. It's like forcing something and it ends up sounding like someone else talking, albeit talking well. My weakest point by far is essays. I'd love to learn how to write better reviews, but I lack just a bit of passion, I just don't feel strongly enough about most things to where I could fork out 1,000 or so words. Quote: I wrote a two page essay once. =O It was in the middle of last year, and I got the third lowest mark in the class. 51% Wow. surprised Quote: I don't write story stuff ever either, I jsut really wish I did. The reason that I don't is that I can't think of any good ideas. I really am concidering doing something with my gods though. >> << Good luck with that. I should probably force myself to write at least a little bit for my plot. I haven't really done anything in a while, and I'd like to put out a complete Part 2 before I have to start my Summer Reading stuff. Quote: I've always written great things when I've had a topic, but I can't make my own topic or theme. And yet you suck at essays? xp Quote: When we got a writing test thing the topic was a lost dog poster, and I managed to pull a three page short story thing out of it, and my teacher loved it and said it would have been perfect if I'd had more time. It was a humerous tale of how a stressed out middle aged husband accidently drops a couch on the dog from a second floor window. xD Quote: Just for your reference, 7/10 people in my class killed the dog in some way, and that includes the people who chose the other topic to write about. Nice. Quote: My friend (who accidently buried the dog in a half finished swimming pool)has a little brother whose class did the same topics and he was the only one in his class to kill the dog. O.o He must have been in like Kindergarden or 1st Grade. Everyone past grade 3 or so would've loved to kill a dog. gonk
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Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 3:57 pm
Blind Dog Pride Hermes You're quite the wise little man. =P Sadly, I'm a complete idiot when speaking. Typing is so much easier to get words out with. Quote: Ask a pastor or something for me someday. I was thinking more along the lines of not finding out while alive, but who knows, maybe some pastor has an answer. Quote: I'd love to ask my youth leaders these things but I think they'd quietly get mad and realise I don't actually support the religion of youth events, just the fun and community that comes of it. >> << What kind of church do you go to? As for youth events, I feel similarly, it's not that I don't support the religion part though, it's that there is little religion involved, with small groups we just hang out and rarely talk about anything. It's hard to find something to talk about sometimes, we hear the Bible stories and explanations in church, so we have little need to go over that outside of church. Quote: I'm not learning hebrew! D= Quote: I've taken german for 9 years and I'm no where near being able to read a bible. Anyways, they probably don't have any totally original bibles left. True. Spanish is pretty fun to learn though, aside from just cussing people out. Quote: It's nice to have an actual point to argue about, even at a friendly level. Honestly, I don't know what we're arguing about. I try not to think to hard when typing this stuff, my brain must be in my fingers at the moment. (I'm sure that last sentence could be turned into some sort of dirty joke. gonk ) Typing's always easier.
Organise your thoughts, think it out, then s**t it out.
Talking's just step 3, sometimes repeatedly.
The problem is, even with the answer from a pastor or anyone, if the church is right I'm screwed.
O.o
Our church doesn't have a specific denomination.
We're just us.
It's kind of odd.
With youth it was really fun when it started, but then the events became less fun when we got worse leaders, and the more boring leaders are progressively more conservative (for lack of a better word at the moment).
Of course, with that comes emptier events, and now none of my friends come regularly except one, and that's only because her parents are even more religious than her.
Now I've stopped going.
Meh.
German's not that great.
It always sounds really angry, no matter what you say.
xD
We're really just talking about whatever coems up now.
xD
So much for religious discussion, but our short talk was quite encompassing.
My sentences just sort of flow out when I type.
I often don't have more than a vague clue what I'm going to say until it's down and I recite it in my head while I type it.
Especially with theories and plots and stuff for Gaia.
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