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[Tirigon]

yukidama wrote...

I just want more than "a banana fits perfectly in our hands and is able to be peeled, that is evidence of intelligent design."

Bananas being able to be peeled AND even fitting in hands and ...elsewhere... IS convenient, though.

[sylvanaerie]

WOOT my Cousland boy just fought Sten in Haven, I have never done that before! It was TOTALLY WICKED!!!

[Addai]

Xandurpein wrote...

That's pretty much it. It's up to everybody to decide for themselves what they believe, but I personally feel that the day government allows parents to control what their kids learn in school, that is a very sad day. School should be a place where kids learn science, not have their mind closed by narrow dogmas. But I guess I'm derailing the thread. Please go back to posting all those snapshots of hunky al instead.

I see this a little differently.  Parents are ultimately in control of a child's formation.  The rights of a family are more sacred than that of a state, within limits (I'm a bit of a libertarian).  And both sides are mired in narrow dogmas, whether they acknowledge it or not.  I would actually prefer a classical education where students have a firm grasp of the philosophical basis for science, in addition to the systems and ways of thinking of modern science.  That philosophical basis includes religious ideas, however, not just rationalistic ones, and if you politicize the educational institutions so much that it becomes impossible to talk about them without lawsuits cropping up, our civilization is headed for dark days.  Thankfully I think postmodernism has loosened things up a bit even among the science eggheads.

But yes, diversions diversions.

This guy would knock heads and put it all right.

[Tirigon]

sylvanaerie wrote...

WOOT my Cousland boy just fought Sten in Haven, I have never done that before! It was TOTALLY WICKED!!!

How do you get to do this?

[Axekix]

sylvanaerie wrote...

WOOT my Cousland boy just fought Sten in Haven, I have never done that before! It was TOTALLY WICKED!!!

Never?  You newb.

[mellifera]

Addai67 wrote...

yukidama wrote...

Addai67 wrote...

yukidama wrote...

Many Americans, such as myself, would agree with you.

Then again I went to a very liberal school where someone actually cried during a faux debate where they were forced to argue for "intelligent" design.

The problem is that modern science has become so political that it has overstepped itself.  If people remembered that it was all based on natural philosophy, there wouldn't be these silly debates.  Well, there would still be debates because that is the nature of intellectual inquiry, but they wouldn't be so fruitless.  As it is, the "science only" crowd postures and the "intelligent design" crowd reacts and no one gets anywhere because they're trying to win stupid legal battles for control of institutions.

I'm biased because history of science is one of my hobby interests, though.  I like all the metaphysical stuff in between the hard science.  These work profitably together or else we wouldn't have made the advances we have.

I actually agree with you, especially after reading about the history of psychiatry and medicine I see things a bit differently than I used to. I just don't agree with the intelligent design idea, nor believe it should be taught in a science class. In my high school we were taught about both but while both were addressed in our philosophy and literature classes, only one was addressed in the science classrooms. I just want more than "a banana fits perfectly in our hands and is able to be peeled, that is evidence of intelligent design."

Oh I agree, the ID people are as caught up in modernism as the rationalists.  They're both fighting over the same patch of ground without realizing the playing field is larger and more important.  And both have become so political that their integrity has gone out the window.  That hurts everyone.

The education system here is really screwed up, I think. I'm actually more worried about ethnic studies being banned from some schools (in Arizona, I dunno what crazy juice their governor has been sipping) because it promotes "ethnic chauvinism", rather, than you know, celebrating our multicultural heritage and making kids aware of the past even though it is not always pretty. As someone who majors in anthropology and area studies, it makes me really depressed and scared for the future :| It scares me that history isn't seen as important enough to be taught uncensored. If we don't know and learn from it,we are doomed to repeat it...

But this is a maaaaaaaaaaaaaajor derailment, back to whatever we were talking about.

[LadyDamodred]

Axekix wrote...

@LadyD: Do you happen to have some free FF-writing time coming up? I'd kind of like to pick your creative brain about something. :>

Pick away!  If you want, you can PM through the forums, or if you have AIM/MSN, I can pass my screen names along and we can chat there.

Edit:  And thank you.  I'd like to think I'm good with creating characters, and you guys are certainly helping foster than belief. 

Modifié par LadyDamodred, 30 mai 2010 - 08:38 .

[Addai]

sylvanaerie wrote...

WOOT my Cousland boy just fought Sten in Haven, I have never done that before! It was TOTALLY WICKED!!!

You've never done this before??  I always look forward to that, weirdly enough.  Though the first time it happened, I just stood there not willing to fight at first.  Until he took down half my health with one blow.

[Sarah1281]

yukidama wrote...

Xandurpein wrote...

Sarah1281 wrote...

yukidama wrote...

Axekix wrote...

yukidama wrote...

They're not twins, her sister is like a year or two younger than her. But I guess you haven't watched the Disney Channel within the last 5 years or so. There are kids in my house so I am unfortunately subjected to all the teen bimbos they create.

Ahh, hehe I see.  Actually I just looked up an interview with her on youtube... that put an end to her mystique rather quickly.

Hahaha, yeah, that's the way it tends to work out. They're on my sh!tlist after this interview of theirs where they were trashing evolution because (direct quote) "Evolution is silly. Monkeys? Um, no."

Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but come on...

It depresses me how many people I know who literally think the theory of evolution is that first there were monkeys and some of them turned into humans.

This NOT a silly attempt by a European to bash USA, as there are so many admirable things about the U.S.  but personally I think that the way schools in many places in USA no longer teach evolution as the only theory with a scientific backing is deplorable.

Many Americans, such as myself, would agree with you.

Then again I went to a very liberal school where someone actually cried during a faux debate where they were forced to argue for "intelligent" design.

In my sophomore year of high school two of my friends and I were forced to argue against gay marriage and we were big supporters so we basically just said 'yeah, the bible said it's evil' and we won. It was pathetic.

You know, I actually think my Mahariel could kill Alistair in a romance. She's a crazy person who can't keep her origin straight so if she tried to be Queen as she thought she was a HN and Alistair refused she might very well get pissed and just let Anora kill him due to some of her more violent potential origins.

[sylvanaerie]

I usually take the persuade. THis time I didn't and I kicked his ass. I got approval from him for it too. It was WICKED!!

[LadyDamodred]

Addai67 wrote...

Merilsell wrote...

Addai67 wrote...

I come bearing Alistair-elf kisses.  Gate kisses, to be precise.  Without the clipping from his pauldrons (if he's wearing massive armor), they are super squee.

Happy gates kiss #1- I love you

Happy gates kiss #2- No goodbyes

Sad gates kiss- I'll never forget you

I think the "no goodbyes" one is my favorite.  On the sad kiss, the look in Alistair's eyes during the kiss just kills me. 

D'aaaaw I wanted to see them ...since...forever. So Addai, I love you for those vid's <3 

Hi Merilsell, thanks.  It took a lot of fiddling to get them how I wanted.  Grrr that you can't control your followers once you get into Redcliffe castle, to do armor and weapon changes.  It meant I had to fight that stupid ogre alpha about five times.  But I just love that there's something more than just Alistair walking off at the gates.  That always felt odd.

Hey I wrote up another bit for my Mahariel character.  I'm reading yours, too, in chunks.  Hurrah for the Dalish. 

Quick review for ya.  I really like it so far.  Though I must ask, was there supposed to be a line break between past/present events?  ff.net sucks if you use *** for breaks b/c it doesn't recognize them.

Modifié par LadyDamodred, 30 mai 2010 - 08:41 .

[Addai]

TotoroTori wrote...

Addai67 wrote...

I come bearing Alistair-elf kisses.  Gate kisses, to be precise.  Without the clipping from his pauldrons (if he's wearing massive armor), they are super squee.

Happy gates kiss #1- I love you

Happy gates kiss #2- No goodbyes

Sad gates kiss- I'll never forget you

I think the "no goodbyes" one is my favorite.  On the sad kiss, the look in Alistair's eyes during the kiss just kills me. 

oh my gosh I want that mod


here's a sad kiss video too it was aglitch that happen in the game..

www.youtube.com/watch

Aw, that is sweet!  See I think a cheek nuzzle is more intimate than a kiss sometimes.

Modifié par Addai67, 30 mai 2010 - 08:41 .

[Sarah1281]

Addai67 wrote...

sylvanaerie wrote...

WOOT my Cousland boy just fought Sten in Haven, I have never done that before! It was TOTALLY WICKED!!!

You've never done this before??  I always look forward to that, weirdly enough.  Though the first time it happened, I just stood there not willing to fight at first.  Until he took down half my health with one blow.

I've never done it. Sten just likes me too much by the time we get to Haven, I guess...

[TotoroTori]

sylvanaerie wrote...

WOOT my Cousland boy just fought Sten in Haven, I have never done that before! It was TOTALLY WICKED!!!

You fought with the big kitty!

[Addai]

LadyDamodred wrote...

Quick review for ya.  I really it so far.  Though I must ask, was there supposed to be a line break between past/present events?  ff.net sucks if you use *** for breaks b/c it doesn't recognize them.

Yes, there was.  <_<  I've never used ffnet before, so I'm stumbling around a bit.

Thanks for your review!  All good points.

Modifié par Addai67, 30 mai 2010 - 08:43 .

[LadyDamodred]

Addai67 wrote...

LadyDamodred wrote...

Quick review for ya.  I really it so far.  Though I must ask, was there supposed to be a line break between past/present events?  ff.net sucks if you use *** for breaks b/c it doesn't recognize them.

Yes, there was.  <_<  I've never used ffnet before, so I'm stumbling around a bit.

Yeah, I didn't realize it til I saw someone else mention it.  I felt like such a twit.  There's --- button that you can use to insert a line to show breaks.

Edit:  Also, the longer review is not me.  They do make good points, though.  But since I know you here, I would probably send those along through PM. 

Modifié par LadyDamodred, 30 mai 2010 - 08:46 .

[Merilsell]

Addai67 wrote...

Merilsell wrote...

Addai67 wrote...

I come bearing Alistair-elf kisses.  Gate kisses, to be precise.  Without the clipping from his pauldrons (if he's wearing massive armor), they are super squee.

Happy gates kiss #1- I love you

Happy gates kiss #2- No goodbyes

Sad gates kiss- I'll never forget you

I think the "no goodbyes" one is my favorite.  On the sad kiss, the look in Alistair's eyes during the kiss just kills me. 

D'aaaaw I wanted to see them ...since...forever. So Addai, I love you for those vid's <3 

Hi Merilsell, thanks.  It took a lot of fiddling to get them how I wanted.  Grrr that you can't control your followers once you get into Redcliffe castle, to do armor and weapon changes.  It meant I had to fight that stupid ogre alpha about five times.  But I just love that there's something more than just Alistair walking off at the gates.  That always felt odd.

Hey I wrote up another bit for my Mahariel character.  I'm reading yours, too, in chunks.  Hurrah for the Dalish. 

Heh, I have this pleasure with my console version. Sigh. But oh well, there is always my imagination recreating this scene or to extend it. Pity I can't ram mods into the xbox, lol. So all the more thx for the vids, I really appreciate your effort <3

I was pleased to see you have published your FF over there on ff.net. I have finally read it and have reviewed. I'm never really good in writing reviews beyond the usual stuff though, so don't mind it too much.

So the other one is an ongoing story, I take it? Well, welcome to the miracles of fanfiction Will read it now. Oh, don't stress yourself with my story, my new beta is still busy with catching up, so only 8 (nine with prologue) of 15 chapter are beta-read atm...and aside that my chapter are usually very loooong (4500 words minimum) I think by the end of it I have created a novel, lol

But yay for the Dalish *bump fist*

[Sarah1281]

Addai67 wrote...

LadyDamodred wrote...

Quick review for ya.  I really it so far.  Though I must ask, was there supposed to be a line break between past/present events?  ff.net sucks if you use *** for breaks b/c it doesn't recognize them.

Yes, there was.  <_<  I've never used ffnet before, so I'm stumbling around a bit.

Thanks for your review!  All good points.

I used to do a line with "- -" centered to show breaks but recently that has completely vanished and now I'm getting all these reviews saying 'why don't you have story breaks? It's confusing.' Stupid ff.net.

[Addai]

Sarah1281 wrote...

Addai67 wrote...

LadyDamodred wrote...

Quick review for ya.  I really it so far.  Though I must ask, was there supposed to be a line break between past/present events?  ff.net sucks if you use *** for breaks b/c it doesn't recognize them.

Yes, there was.  <_<  I've never used ffnet before, so I'm stumbling around a bit.

Thanks for your review!  All good points.

I used to do a line with "- -" centered to show breaks but recently that has completely vanished and now I'm getting all these reviews saying 'why don't you have story breaks? It's confusing.' Stupid ff.net.

If it's such a common problem then people should realize what's going on.

[soignee]

why do people always moan about the line breaks with ff.net? I just write the story and use three asterixes, then manually put the breaks in myself with the editor. Gives you a chance to flick through the story again and check for any errors too.

[Addai]

LadyDamodred wrote...

Yeah, I didn't realize it til I saw someone else mention it.  I felt like such a twit.  There's --- button that you can use to insert a line to show breaks.

Edit:  Also, the longer review is not me.  They do make good points, though.  But since I know you here, I would probably send those along through PM. 

Oh, right.  Yes all good points, and I recognized the problem with perspective changes.  If I was going to do it right, I would probably write the scene first from my PC's perspective, then switch to Alistair.  I was trying to be economical, I suppose.

I really don't like writing for Alistair.    It feels like I'm in someone else's closet rummaging around.

[Addai]

soignee wrote...

why do people always moan about the line breaks with ff.net? I just write the story and use three asterixes, then manually put the breaks in myself with the editor. Gives you a chance to flick through the story again and check for any errors too.

Where's this editor?  I've been trying to figure out how to get in and fix a few things without having to re-upload and re-publish.

[soignee]

in the document section. If you click "edit" next to the document you want it takes you to a basic editor system where you can bold, underline and put in linebreaks.

[Sandtigress]

Addai67 wrote...

soignee wrote...

why do people always moan about the line breaks with ff.net? I just write the story and use three asterixes, then manually put the breaks in myself with the editor. Gives you a chance to flick through the story again and check for any errors too.

Where's this editor?  I've been trying to figure out how to get in and fix a few things without having to re-upload and re-publish.

click on the Publish tab, and from there, Document Manager (Upload).  It will list the chapters you've uploaded, and give you a chance to preview/edit the.

[Sandtigress]

soignee wrote...

why do people always moan about the line breaks with ff.net? I just write the story and use three asterixes, then manually put the breaks in myself with the editor. Gives you a chance to flick through the story again and check for any errors too.

ff.net's line breaks are ugly.  >.>  lol It's a minor thing, but I ahte them.  I use -~0~- now for breaks, though I miss my astericks.  Last couple of chapters I've checked that's shown up fine, but now I'm paranoid about it and go back and check periodically.