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    But we live in a world with only a physical realm. Is it possible to quantify and describe something as ephemeral as the Ideals and Connections of the Spiritual realm? Or the effects of perception on the Cognitive? I'm not sure.
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    I'm pretty sure he was asking after the Mad Homeless guy, the one with the "city" made out of garbage and who sees himself as a god.
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    In the real world, physicists describe the universe using mathematical relationships. In the Cosmere, could math be accurately used in a similar fashion to describe the Cognitive and/or Spiritual realms?
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    Is this confirmed? IIRC it's only speculation.
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    ChayShan. Dakhor sounds like far more than my sanity could handle. Also, I don't fancy the idea of being sacrificed just so some priest like Dilaf can teleport somewhere. Would you rather live in the Cosmere without knowledge of it (misting or other low-level power) or outside it with the answer to every RAFO'd question?
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    Shardblades can cut aluminum: (Source)
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    I wonder if we analyze these magic systems with too much of an eye on the intent of the shards. The Intent Honor or Cultivation is only relevant to how one gains the powers, not what those powers entail. So this idea seems incorrect to me in the light of this WoB: Emphasis mine. This makes sense with what @Argent said about Honor being about bonds (IIRC that's correct, but brief search didn't find anything). The nature of Honor is expressed in how surgebinding is attained, not in the particular powers being expressed. Furthermore, it isn't necessarily true that all spren capable of forming a Nahel bond are a mixture of Honor and Cultivation. Emphasis mine.
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    WoB on Allomantic FTL!
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    See, this is where I'm not sure. Certainly the allomancer is affecting a target, but does any of the investiture actually remain with that target after they stop affecting it? It seems logical to assume that it would have to be part of the system, but looking at it from a newtonian physics perspective, it doesn't seem like any realmatic "work" has been done on the target.
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    When you make notations all over the margins of your cosmere books, about all the connections and behind-the-scenes stuff. When you use Jasnah killing the thugs as a discussion scenario in philosophy class, and then quote Nohadon to ague your point.
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    In physics when we say that energy is conserved (cannot be created or destroyed) we (in order to make it simple to work with) limit that to the energy existing in a closed system. If given the scenario of on allomancer burning steel and pushing on a bit of metal, what would have to be included in the definition of "the system" in order for investiture to be conserved within that system?
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    I definitely think Hoid's place is as joker. He can be very powerful or useful (depending on the game), but he doesn't belong to any particular suit/series. Also, @Radiant Returned, have you read secret history? No spoilers, but if you haven't it could definitely influence your choices for mistborn characters.
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    When the clue for your friend's crossword is "small crustacean" and your immediate response is "Cremling."
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    @Sean Monahan Don't take the cookie. It's not worth it.
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    That sure doesn't look like near-impossible to me. I only wish I could draw things that well.
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    If that's the case, then what differentiates the godmetals from other metals? Are they somehow more pure? Also, I doubt that the spiritual manifestation of investiture is somehow investiture in it's natural state. While investiture usually resides in the spiritual, WoB says it transcends the three realms. I certainly agree that solid investiture appears as solid in every instance I can think of where we see it, but I'm not sure on the rest of this theory.
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    Source IIRC he was asked once if anything weird would happen, and gave out a RAFO. Can't find the WoB right now. Additional comment: Is thought the cognitive equivalent of matter or of energy? Or is the comparison flawed, because there isn't a rough equivalent?
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    When you have an account on this website.
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    Is the "creature in Tukar" Mraize mentions the philosopher guy that Lift meets in Edgedancer?
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    I wasn't thinking so much about how physical spacetime stretch would affect the other realms so much as how those realms might have their own equivalents. For example, if thought is the "stuff" of the cognitive realm like mass is the stuff of the physical, then cognitive expansion/contraction could be thought of as the cognitive equivalent of gravitational distortion.
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    Does physical spacetime stretch and distort in the cosmere like it does in our universe? If so, do similar transformations occur in the cognitive and spiritual realms?
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    When you here the name Lauren as Laral as you're working the cash register, and you put Laral on their receipt before realizing the mistake.
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    I don't think that what happened to TLR can be described as an "ascension" in the same way as Vin ascending when she breathes in the mists, or Sazed when he takes Ruin and Preservation. The power in tWoA was enormous, but it wasn't enough to keep TLR in an ascended state permanently. Additionally, when TLR "ascended", Leras was still alive, and preservation still had a shardholder. I highly doubt that one shard can have two people ascend to be the shardholder at the same time (or at least that the current shardholder wouldn't allow another to fully ascend). Furthermore, Sazed ascended without ever using the WoA, so clearly it is not a necessity.
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    And I wasn't even the one to convert any of them, I found out about this b/c one of my friends was initiating the thing and wanted me to come along for the ride to explain some of the in-depth things they weren't aware of. That friend of mine had self-converted and then converted almost every single one of them on the basis of it being good and clean, which is pretty persuasive among a bunch of nerdy mormon high-schoolers.
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    When you and all of your sanderfriends got together about once a month to eat chouta, carry a homemade bridge around BYU campus, sing Sanderson-inspired song and recite the first KR oath, and talk Sanderson. When each of you has a cosmere - mostly bridge four - name (I was Nazh). The joys of living in Utah, that there are some 15 of us. Sadly, the two group leaders have now left for their LDS missions, and the group fell apart.
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