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    "I was speaking," Job said confidently, "metaphorically. Farewell, little Bob, you've got this. Just remember my advice." Then he leapt away to the valley of stupid character ideas. I'll just copy it over here (and add a bit to it), wasn't very long: Deep below, in the darkest dungeons of the keep, wrapped in chains, was the king. His head was slumped, his expression grim. He looked every bit the defeated monarch. He did not look up as Simon approached. "The Smith? You mean-" The priest gasped. "The Smith of Dreams? You can truly commune with him?" Oh duh, yeah. Indeed, it opened at Omen's current location. Normally, this would have been good. Normally, Omen was in an innocent location. Unfortunately, today was not a normal day for Omen. Indeed, today, he was at the bottom of the ocean. Water blasted out of the hole in reality with enough force to shear through concrete, aimed directly towards Inkwell's face. I'd typed up a whole other post on my phone but it got deleted when I tried to post it, so now I'm retyping it on my computer.
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    Malevolence sneered, leveling Darkseeker at Bacon’s heart. “I’ll make this easy. Give me the Pages, and I will allow you to continue living.” Drops of liquid darkness began collecting along the axe’s edge, dripping to the ground with a hiss. “Well, just… suplex the wind. Grabbing it is easy. Observe.” Job grabbed the wind’s hand gently. “Has anyone ever told you how beautiful your eyes are?” He asked in a deadpan tone. There are multiple Bacons, and the one where Malevolence is would be very difficult to get to. That Bacon is inside a vault designed by Malevolence, Sequence, and Cricket to keep out Rebus. “I know not.” Whispered the priest. “But with the council gone… you must be protected. If you perish, there will be no one to elect your replacement.” did you see my post from the king’s perspective?
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    Well, the thing is that heresy trials are equally or even more so not in the Bible. There are commands for what to do if someone sins repeatedly and unrepentantly in the church: basically bring attention to their sin, give them every chance to repent, then if they don’t, kick them out in the hope that doing so will make them realize just how dire their sins are and repent of them. Killing people is, notably, not ever commanded of Christians. I don’t know that it’s outright forbidden in all cases (self defense etc.) but certainly the Church should never be executing people for heresy. I would hope that such a realization is what has caused the modern-day less killing based on theological differences. As a Baptist myself, I am curious: did you make a profession of faith prior to your baptism? Because really the whole reason infant baptism is wrong is because The person being baptized should believe in Jesus and have accepted Him into their heart first. Baptism alone has no ‘saving power’ even if you have knowledge of Christ, and in the Bible Christians are always seen being baptized after they believe.
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    It is a tangent, but even if they're not, you can still ask the question of 'why doesn't God raise up new apostles?' Paul, for example, was an apostle even though he didn't follow Jesus during His earthly ministry. People went astray regardless of prophets. The people of Israel were constantly turning from God to follow false religions that included rituals such as sacrificing children, even while the prophets were preaching to them. I think that today Christians have the scriptures giving us the truth. We have the Holy Spirit to help us interpret the scriptures. I think that if a Christian honestly studies the scriptures they will agree on the most important, saving doctrines, even if they don't agree on every detail. God has given us what we need now. We don't need further scriptural revelation, so no more prophets, no more apostles. Does God still work in other ways to preserve His church from false teachers and doctrines? Of course. But I don't believe he does it by giving new revelation to new prophets/apostles. He guides events more subtly than that.
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    I doubt he will, since prophets seemed to be a thing that happened only up until the coming of Jesus, with John the Baptist being the last OT style prophet in my opinion. Nowadays I think that we have the word of God, we know all we need to know in order to follow Him and lead others to salvation. and while God will, does, and has undoubtedly raised up great Christians to defend the faith, I don't think he needs to give them new inspired messages to do so. For example, Martin Luther and the Reformers, fighting back against a Catholic church that had become corrupt in its actions, even if its theological viewpoints were correct. (many of the issues that sparked the reformation have henceforth been resolved. For example, indulgences are no longer sold. And because I'm doubtless biased on the issue, here's a Catholic source on the issue of indulgences if you're curious) God didn't always choose people who always tried to do their best to follow Him. Jonah, for example, absolutely refused to do what God told him to do and actively ran away after God commanded him to give warning to a people group he did not like. And people rarely listened to the prophets, even when the prophets did follow God faithfully. Ultimately though, I think that prophets are just unnecessary. the Bible already tells Christians what the rest of time will look like until Jesus returns. It's in Revelations: trials and tribulations that will get worse and worse and worse until He returns.
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    Yep! New ones can always be found.
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    From my understanding, historically what we do is we split off into a new denomination when that happens. Not the greatest solution honestly. And there are many groups that misinterpret some of the most important parts of Scripture like the Atonement of Christ or salvation by faith alone, but I think, personally, that churches disagreeing on non-essential details is better than one flawed authority that has some very wrong views (in my opinion, obviously Catholics think differently, and they do have many good arguments for their beliefs. Division among churches is a significant problem in Christianity I would say and Protestantism has made that worse, but I think it is the better alternative.
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    " I awoke to darkness." The priest explained. "My eyes could not see. I heard only screams. Screams and... laughter. The laughter of the damned, it seemed." He shivered. " When at a long last the darkness faded, twas' naught but I left." -- Deep below, in the darkest dungeons of the keep lay the king. Slumped on the floor, defeated. He did not look up as Simon approached.
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    "Of course you can!" Exclaimed Job. "I do it all the time while mountain climbing." "I'll take three of those green bills in exchange." The shopkeeper said. The priest hung his head. "Darkness indeed. They are vanished, gone in their entirety. All but I." I assume the king is in a dungeon? -- "Oh, hey Bacon" Said Subversion. "By the way, Sequence died too." The vault looked different from what Bacon remembered. it's walls were darkened and crackled with Ennulling energy. Further, he did not seem to be in the same place any longer. No longer did Bacon feel gentle ambience of Sequence's world. now he felt only emptiness around him. A door opened at the far end of the Vault, and Malevolence stepped through. "Now, the moment of truth." The villain Had changed since Bacon last had seen him circular scars covered his face, and instead of his typical technological suit of armor he held a wicked black battle axe. "Are my protections sufficient to keep you trapped here? They were intended to prevent Rebus from teleporting in, but will they prevent you from teleporting out?" Context: Malevolence revealed his intent to claim the Witherord while you were gone. After sequence's death Everyone/Ivisyre took control of Sequence's world and former status as a narrator, so Malevolence teleported the vault holding bacon to another location so that he could keep control of it and take the pages from Bacon once you returned. He also got a cool Mordite weapon from the Dreamsmith that changes with his soul. Post where he revealed himself. @xinoehp512 Bargain mart-*sputters indignantly*
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    I am not an expert on the reformation by any means, so I could certainly be wrong about the details. But as a protestant, the reformation happened because of what we see as an incorrect view of where authority comes from. Broadly speaking, Protestants believe that infallible authority only comes from the Bible, while Catholics believe that infallible authority comes from the Bible and the church, or the Pope, specifically. Although I will note that they don't believe the Pope is infallible. More that, when the Pope is speaking with the authority of his office, he is infallible (not 100% on the exact terminology, but that's the gist of it). The Reformation was specifically spurred on by several abuses of the Church's power, such as the selling of indulgences. What are indulgences? pieces of paper that you buy from the church that will supposedly shorten the amount of time you spend in purgatory. What is purgatory? Basically, Catholics believe that since living Christians are not perfect and Christians in heaven are, that after a Christian dies, they must go through purgatory to be made perfect, a painful, long process depending on how sinful you were. Purgatory is not a Protestant belief, I believe the generally accepted belief is that we are perfected instantly upon death. There were other issues as well, there were other significant issues and disagreements on issues such as the church's (as an institution) role in salvation, baptism, the Lord's Supper, the Priesthood, and the lack of translation of scripture into the common language. As for the infallibility of the Bible, I believe that the Bible is in fact infallible. It was written by humans, but they were inspired by God while doing so. I believe it is wholly accurate historically (when it speaks of historical events) and spiritually. I do not believe every word of the Bible is literal. I do believe that there can be scribal errors in the Bible, since we have records of them happening, but also that they are minor and do not change the Bible's message.
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    I do not believe @Oltux72 was attempting to justify polygyny or Straff Venture's actions, merely pointing out that without TLR around to prevent it, nobles like Straff, with harems to create armies of allomancer children, would be much more common. Looking at the history of earth, polygyny was already common among the powerful. Add in the benefit of allomancer children? Many more nobles would have harems and act as Straff did. Does that make it right? No. Would that be better/worse than the system under TLR, where many nobles simply added murder to rape? Hard to say, since at least in the harems the women would not be murdered and would likely be well-treated if they had allomantic heritage. The point, if I understand Oltux's argument, is that TLR is responsible for the system he set up. Many of the nobles are terrible, terrible people, but TLR set up the system that allows them to be so evil, and is thus the most important thing to focus on. So yes, the movie should focus on how terrible the system that TLR set up is, which includes showing how terrible the nobility is, but it should show that so we know that TLR is the person responsible for this messed up world. Mm, that's more of a sideplot in book two, until the end at least. I would say the main theme of book two is: Now that we have freedom, can we keep it? In that sense we need someone like Straff, who would be just as bad or worse than TLR as a ruler (at least short-term, since he's not immortal), in order to provide a 'was it worth it' angle to the books.
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    "Of course not." Said Job. "I was only demonstrating."
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    Farewell, for now. Job demonstrated a suplex-like motion, pretending to grab the air (but not actually doing so obviously, as he didn't want to kill the wind yet) and flipping backwards, throwing the imaginary air over his head and slamming it down onto its back. "See?" He asked Bob. Job looked at the spear. He felt an odd desire to throw it back up into the heavens from which it came.
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    Because Ribbon seems to care very much about you, though you've given her little reason to. Now that you're a withergeist, I suspect the relationship will only worsen. Anti-hero/anti-villain don't exist yet, which means they are findable. Job grinned, flexing his muscles and leaping forward to grab Bob's hands. "Of course I know how to defeat the wind. The same way you defeat anybody: A suplex." "Ye poer foel." Whispered the High Priest of Current Events "I'd tell ye to pray to yer god fer mercy, but he ain't got no mercy in him. Weep, rejoice, and tremble, fer ye are in yer god's grasp." Even as the High Priest of Current Events finished saying this, a man running in the ceremonial gait of The Exhausted Messenger Bringing Dire News appeared at the bottom of the temple steps. He was a lesser priest of Plot, from the Ghanderflaffle temple by the patterning of his robes. The man ran up the steps, gasping ceremonially for breath, and threw himself to the ground before the High Priest of Plot. "Oh Highest Priest of Plot," He murmured in ceremonial tones with downcast eyes, "I bring to you News Most Dire, from Plot's Temple in the Empire of Ghanderflaffles."
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    The shopkeep sniffed. “What use’ve i for somethin’ fancy like that? I’ll take those bills, bill’ll change em for me down at the billchanger.” “I” said the voice, “am Job.” Job was a six-foot seven beast of a man, with muscled arms as wide as Bob’s torso, a six pack visible through his sweatshirt, and a magnificent black mustache that naturally curled into spiraling points. “I’m here to help, little Bob. I heard you were in trouble.” “Ye old foel!” Spat the High Priest of Current Events. “Inklings are no dark gods. That be the withergeists, an’ I serve neither. I- The Priest’s eyes glazed over again, and a shudder ran through him. He did not speak until the vision passed, however. “Oh ye pitiable soul.” He whispered sadly. “Hope, and pray to yer’ shattered god, that the Protagonist comes in hurryin’ and not in laggin’. For if he don’t, a’ll be aweepin at yer’ fate.” Let’s go with the optimist route and say they totally succeeded with that kingdom, coming out with a magic crown made from Prismite, granting whoever wears it similar powers to a Narrator, although not allowing them to Narrate their own body or soul and A couple captive witherabbits, although they’re uncontrollable.
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    How have you been doing recently?

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      NameIess

      I've been good, been getting adjusted to married life (which is great) and looking for jobs (which is less great)

    3. xinoehp512

      xinoehp512

      Congratulations on your marriage! :D

      And good luck in your search for employment.

    4. Frustration

      Frustration

      Xino, you're still here!

      Awesome to see you're alright.

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    “And I will deliver.” Whispered Malevolence. Then he vanished, finally, in a crackle of lightning. good. You should get back to Ribbon. I eagerly await your interactions with her.
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    “And that be the problem!” Exclaimed the High Priest of Current Events. A shudder ran through the man, causing him to drop the sacred glass of Currency. Coins spilled in all directions, but the High Priest ignored them. His eyes had begun to glow with a radiant light, and when he spoke, his voice was followed by the echo of a thousandfold holy chorus. “I proclaim unto ye’, oh foolish and self-absorbed one. No Protagonist shall arise till all awaitin’ be done, and those who fight for good get to adoin’ instead. Oh ye, most lowly of worms, ye who serve a shattered god, know this: ye shall weep tears of bitter sorrow afore the Protagonist appears, but those tears shall be naught if both fell Blades are not giv’n up!” The woman snorted. “Well, what d’you got?”
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    "Hah! And no one touches me either. 'Xept for my wife and kids, a'course." Said the High Priest of Current Events. "Philosophically, then, it all cancels out." The woman nodded, moving into the building. She emerged a few moments later, holding a few bundles. "Here y'are. That'll be seventeen cressmarks and three ilks."
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    Lyric leaned closer to Jack, carefully not looking at the shopkeeper. "Some, er, Some jerky, potatoes, and fresh vegetables would be nice. I do not... strictly need to eat, but going to long without is... strenuous."
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    The High Priest of Current Events slapped the High Priest of Plot on the back. "Now that's a real prophecy. If yer right f'course. Sword of light fer the prize? That's news to me! As for the Lost Pages..." He shrugged. "Already been found, dependin' on yer point o'view."
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    "Oh, that's a much better warning." The High Priest of Current Events smiled and took a sip of holy wine. "Much better. Only happened... thirty, forty pages past? Give or take." "That's a stupid question. Th' point of life's to avoid Narrators and live a happy life." The shopkeeper shook her head at the pair's foolishness. "I'll go get your suppl's. I don't s'pose you'll be wanting anything in the way of food?"
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    The High Priest of Current Events was shielded from the smiting by his great faith and piety (and also his rubber boots) "He probably felt bad for yah, prayin' away in that temple after the Antagonist had been around for 200 pages or so already."
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    "And? I do not seek to defeat him utterly in this exchange, merely to defeat him. Antagonists can lose, even The Antagonist." The High Priest of Current Events stared at him incredulously. "A bit late in the telling, aren't yah?"
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