Jedal

2 minutes ago, Delightfully Smoak said:

If he really believes what he's saying then he's an anti-Semitic dirtbag and I have no sympathy. I'm not gonna let anti-Semitism go unchallenged if it's within my power and safety to do so. 

My point is, your militant desire to disprove him is probably what's feeding him. I don't want to make you mad, so please know I have no hatred for you.

28 minutes ago, Delightfully Smoak said:

I just almost wrote Catholic troll instead of Catholic church. 

 

"So whats with McDonalds"

"WHO GAVE THEM SO MUCH LAND *incoherence* INSURANCE PAYOUTS! THINGS NEED TO CHANGE!"

 

Ok but seriously whats up with that and insurance?

NOT BOTHERED TO FIX AUTOCORRECT. *angry troll noises*

 

edit: ok I admitted to another person on the thread that I was trolling and this guy has mysteriously gone silent.

Why do you troll him? i mean, I get the enjoyment factor, but what if he REALLY believes in what he's saying? It's best to just ignore him if he's an obvious troll.

Well, if I remember correctly, even after the Bridge Four Parshman was transformed into Stormform, he still retained some sort of independence, as he was disgusted by the actions taken by his kinsmen.

3 minutes ago, Silverblade5 said:

I personally liked it due to the significance it gave to math and mathematicians.

Sure, I get that. But I mean in terms of actually storytelling, it just seemed to be your run of the mill history movie.

On 4/2/2017 at 10:15 PM, Slowswift said:

Agreed. 

Though, the discussion about whether or not religious adherence is due to a Big Brother-type thing is a whole other can of worms.  

Sorry to grab your quote about a month after you said it, but for me, it truly began as a Big Brother sort of necessity, because as a child, who really wants to follow some dumb old rules made by some long dead dude. But wait, if you do, then you get to live forever and have happiness and do whatever you want. It began as a sort of greed, but eventually as I matured I started to internalize the ethics being told to me, and now, I don't even think that it's necessary that there is a God or heaven, just that I do the right thing and that I try to live a good life (not to say that I always do).

46 minutes ago, Silverblade5 said:

I just watched Hidden Figures, and it was amazing!!!

I've watched the movie multiple times, since my family is obsessed with it, and I genuinely want to know why everyone likes it so much. I'm not trying to offend anyone, but to me, it just seems like any other historical drama. Sure, it does have good themes about racism and overcoming hate, but I just don't get what makes it so great. Maybe it's the fact that I'm not a historical movie guy.

2 minutes ago, Darkness Ascendant said:

Nah your face isn't fat @Jedal And we've spoken about your eyes already XD

Also, if you grow your hair long, and wear a blindfold, perhaps dye your hair black as well...

 

I should just meet Brandon and talk entirely in High Imperial. That would throw him for a loop.

On 4/28/2017 at 11:06 AM, The Flash said:

I met my girlfriend because of Brandon sanderson. Met her at a dance because I was looking for somebody who liked Brandon sanderson and within minutes we were nerding and now we are saying and it's a great relationship  oh and when Brandon met us I got a fistbump because of a bondsmith shirt she gave me (which in and of itself was amazing, me getting of school and my parents taking us 6 hours away to Boston for the day). 

damnation you have luck. Wish I had your luck.

16 hours ago, Straff Venture said:

That means a lot  I didn't expect this thread to still have any replies, so thanks for the pleasant surprise.

You necro'ed my necro!

Since this seems to be a very terse thread, I will follow in suit.

Welcome. Develop your own opinion on cookies. Have an upvote and enjoy your stay.

I'm feeling mega sick. Like there are bugs crawling inside of my body and making me warm and cold and I can't see right and everything is twisting and turning. I can't speak or think. I just slept for twelve hours and I'm still storming sick.

Maybe I'll finally finish the story...

1 hour ago, Captains Domon said:

I think my mind is somewhere near Neptune. However, this feels like a sermon, not a rant.

 

I think that's what it became quickly lol

5 hours ago, Darkness Ascendant said:

I'm not going to be looking at you the same way again 

Because if that was the sum of you're unconscious, implying that sleep depravity is when the unconsciousness comes to rave.

Then...the sum of you're existence is going to be something special indeed.

Upvotes! and keep em coming!

8 hours ago, Hemalurgic_Headshot said:

Preach it, man!

Jokibg aside, that was true poetry, my friend. Reached right in and pulled the philosophy strings of some internal instrument.

Upvotes!

Thanks  I really appreciate it, I guess I tried to put a positive spin on fate and predestination 

Just now, TwiLyghtSansSparkles said:

The option should be right on your profile. If you click on your profile picture, it should take you to a page that lists your most recent posts. At the top will be a little box, like the reply box in a thread, that'll say "Write a public message on your own feed." Start typing there, and you should be good to go.

Well, it doesn't seem to exist anymore on mine. I distinctly remember seeing it before, but no longer.

46 minutes ago, A Budgie said:

So how do people manage to post status updates and activity on their profiles? I cannot find the thing that lets you do this...

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Every single human being is the sum of the unconsciousness. Every single decision ever made leads to our conception, and the birth of our souls from the womb of thought. We all sit on a leash of dreams and fears, driven by the long dead stars and heroes of pre-history. In a sense, humanity in its entirety is a puppet to fate. God, or whatever you believe in, created and ended the world in a single moment, and all we do is fuel the fires of a dead engine. To the eye of the beholder, we are wondrous, unique to a fault. But objectively, we are all just reconstituted stardust, our souls fabrications of the community.

Therein lies the paradox of humanity. We are individual, believing ourselves to be the one true person in all of existence, but our oneness with our self and connection to others are chains and ropes, keeping us tied to the puppeteer. As incredibly depressing as this is, keep heart, for we can trust in the movement of dead things to keep our race afloat. Barring any sudden changes at time's start, we shouldn't be wiped out, lest it were for a purpose.

This paradigm, this incessant hum in the back of our minds, drags forth the colossus, for what purpose even the dreaming stars do not know. Maybe we are a cocoon, a garden, or a workshop. Conversely, humanity may be the death throes of some organism, some dying being of cosmic importance. Take heart in the fact that we have either yet to live or have lived, serving as mere atoms in the body of some great work of art. We are a masterpiece already created and yet yearning to begin.

Our existence is a noble one, for we drive forth the world, bring fourth new generations, weave threads and cut sentences short. The lifeblood of reality sits within our fingertips. If one person were to change the rhythm, the cosmic chord would shatter. Maybe that hero who was meant to save the princess ends up breaking his leg and dying to the dragon. Your very existence, no matter how short, no matter how long, is critical to the goal of our Creator.

We are not simply a link in the chain, but each and every single individual is equal to the sum of this journey, in essence, we are all gods ourselves. Within us we carry the past and future, we control the shift of thoughts and words and actions. Every creed, color and gender unites to sing a song of harmony, no matter how discordant the individual notes. Without Hitler, could we have had Ghandi? Without Mozart, would there have been no Trump? The workings of the world are too great for us mere mortals, simply live.

While we may seem to have no autonomy, each and every one of us must remember that we hold the reigns to a cosmic steed. We are sheltered in the actions of our ancestors, yet in our birth we must accept the duty of continuing the chain, either through our own actions or how we inspire others, subtly or not. Live life to the fullest, do your duty. Love, laugh, cry, scream, give birth, lose a friend, inspire a painting, dwell on the past, look to the future. Everything we do is the right thing, so long as you deem it so. Your beliefs are those of the world, and their beliefs belong to you.

Well, my Jewish friend has just spammed my group chat saying "You worship a zombie". I laugh. Then my inflammatory Muslim not-so friend decides to use this as an opportunity to tell us why Jesus doesn't exist and everyone is a pig for not being Islamic and that we are all worse than him. Strange how some people use religion to mask their true beliefs, huh?

9 hours ago, Darkness Ascendant said:

This is a contingency message should I not see you all again
I would like you all to know that the amount of love I have for you is insurmountable and indescribable.
This is just a fallback, do not take it seriously unless you don't see me for a month.
I love you all
Goodbye.

Dude. Git back on right now or I find a way to get to where you live and make you get on. People are worried bro

Similar to you, I also enjoy writing. I'm not super active about it, since I'm actually a pretty terrible reader(I skim most of the writing, I only read for plot).

But I try to make interesting concepts.

Everything sounds epic in six words.

1 hour ago, Faceless Mist-Wraith said:

In Shadows of Self we see that f-steel gives the user some amount of mental speed, despite the fact that it stores physical speed. I haven't see an exact answer to why this is, besides how feruchemy doesn't harm the user, so this is my best guess.

My theory is that it physically accelerates the chemical process in your brain, resulting in the increase in mental speed. The way I see it, if a feruchemist taps speed allowing them to move quickly, their body has to adapt to do internal processes quickly as well (heartbeat, blood flow, breathing, etc.). Following that logic, the synapses in a feruchemist's brain would be affected as well.

Anyone have any alternate theories?

I think the theory is great, but wouldn't that also make it so that people age faster? If everything is moving more quickly, wouldn't cell death and reproduction and all sorts of processes related to life and death also speed up? That would mean that F-Steel users would have dramatically reduced lifespans.

All of these people talking about the interesting countries they live in... And here I am getting coerced into giving money while I was at the Book of Mormon

5 minutes ago, I am Witless said:

Hello, I am Witless. This is the first fandom online forum thingy that I've joined, so I'm not very sure how this whole thing works. I've read all of Sanderson's books (except for Mitosis, Firefight,and Calamity), and am currently annotating Elantris, WoK, and WoR. I still only kindofish get how the shards and everything fit together, but I'm excited to watch his world coalesce. Alcatraz versus the Evil Librarians and The Stormlight Archive is where most of my knowledge and interest lies, so I'll probably be found on those boards.

Quick question, how do you set a profile picture and a tagline?

Thanks!

Hi! Have an upvote and welcome to the Shard! It's ok if you accidentally double posted, everyone does it once in a while. If you have any questions about the Cosmere or Shards, you could ask me or post your question somewhere.

Welcome!

2 hours ago, Relevart Drahs said:

So I call myself the Shard Traveler for many reason. The first of which is my is to own and read every Brandon Sanderson book ever owned so I can know and talk about the entire Cosmere. The second would be because I plan to be the apprentice of Hoid when some day he can't carry on... for any peculiar reason. So far I've read the books of Mistborn, Stormlight Archives, Alcatraz V.S. the Evil Librarians, Reckoners, Elantris, WhiteSand, DragonSteel, and WarBreaker which are all very REAL and FACTUAL history books of the Cosmere. My real and full name is Relevart Drahs, But you can call me Reli. Also it's Shard Traveler backwards! Also I'm a GIRL, and might I had that also keeps her safe hand covered. I hope you can to me because I really am with the 17th Shard all the way.  

                          Shard Traveler 

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