Trutharchivist

Kaladin, Kelsier and Marsh. Hoid can hurt only one of them. What I mean is, I can't reply elaborately because if I do, someone immediately replies with a short post that makes mine irrelevant. I like to think that this kind of messages fit better in TPBM, though I don't own any of those threads. Why do Americans use miles? And why, whenever I try to think of the length of something in English, I automatically think of feet?

Trutharchivist buried himself in his linen, trying to ignore the "set fire to the sun" and "set people on fire" thing. He should've known that this facility would work like that. He stood up, took his bags and went to the exit.

Irrational, but it's also irrational to ignore them. What is the velocity of a burdened swallow? And why are you doing your best to make everything here short?

Hello and welcome! I hope your Shardaholic tendencies will die out a bit after some time, but at the same time, I hope you'll stay active. I believe you'll fit in here. I'd have added a couple of warnings about the crazyness of this place, but as it seems you were (probably) just about everywhere, so you already know. Plus, you probably are just as crazy as we all are, so welcome to the party! Also, yeah, I welcomed you twice in the same message. What is your favorite Brandon Mull book?

Didn't read the series, don't have one. Sorry! Though, since so many of you here seem to like it, maybe I should try. My favorite non-sanderson author is a homo sapiens sapiens, a female sample of the kind, of Welsh ancestry and British nationality. Said author is also dead, BTW. It is this way, quite frankly, because I don't know authors who aren't homo sapiens sapiens. Well, except maybe Brandon Sanderson, who is either a robot, a Shard, or actually a very scary human being. What is who and who is what?

Forescouts were the first people to scout the Hell continent, I think. But you probably better check the Coppermind. IIRC, Silence is a descendant of them, though they weren't in the far past.

It's from Shadows for Silence in the Forests of Hell. Did you read it?

No! No, we killed you. WE KILLED YOU! On another note: yes, this is awesome. And also, when you put a bunch of book nerds together, they will create a monster, apparently. And @Toaster Retribution (the creator of the thread) willing, we can report the OP and have it transferred to general Cosmere, to discuss the crazyness of the Hemalurgic Beaver and his fabrials.

"... You're here! Have you seen Talnic? We were supposed to appear in a book shop, not... Wherever here is." It was all very peculiar. Valzwyn was with him, Talnic the Shadow, Sef, Orpheus and Cara when they went to the Ideal Realm. Oh, and the boy who came to life, Ni, was there, too. But then... He just appeared in this room, with all those weird people. Then he recalled the note. "Oh, I got this note." He said. "I have no idea what it means." He walked over and handed it to her.

Gal was... Ultimately baffled. "Can someone please explain to me what's going on?" He asked aloud.

First thing first: Ixthos, you started a religion discussion thread without tagging me? I could've missed it entirely! That aside, moving on: I'm an Orthodox Jew. Generally, our faith is defined by the Thirteen Faith Principals of Maimonides (aka Rambam). They are as following: 1. That there's a G-d. 2. That this G-d is One, and there is nothing that can second Him, nor be equal to His Oneness. 3. That He has no body, nor the likes of a body. 4. That he was always in existence. This belief could have been phrased to mean that the world was created by G-d, but Maimonides tried to prove that even if you believe that the world always existed, as many people believed in his time, you can believe in Judaism, even though he himself probably didn't believe in that. 5. That G-d alone is worthy of worshipping, and nothing beneath Him is worthy of it. 6. That G-d contacts with mankind through His prophets. 7. That Moses is the greatest prophet ever and the father (in a way) of all the others, before him and after him. Moses - or Moshe, as is his Hebrew name, is different from other prophets in multiple ways, including: his prophecies came directly from G-d, while awake, without shocking him in any way, and sometimes - when he himself asked, a like other prophets, who got their prophecies through angels, while asleep, and even though it was only through angels it made them physically weak, and got them only when G-d decided to give them prophecies. 8. That the Torah is directly from G-d, including both Written and Oral Torah, and that not even a single phrase was written according to Moshe's ideas, and of course not someone else's, and the Torah we have today is this same Torah. 9. That the Torah is the only one that will ever be, and will never change or be replaced. 10. That G-d knows what happens in the world. 11. That all men will be rewarded according to their deeds. 12. That the Messiah, one of king David's descendants, will come one day and lead us. 13. That the dead will one day live again. I've written it already in a PM - hope it's not going too heavy on that. That is an interesting point. I don't know about the English word, but the modern Hebrew word used for religion - dat - comes Frome the old Persian word for law. A word of the same root is still used to this day in Indo-European languages - data, meaning information. Thus, there are people who don't like calling Judaism a "dat", probably because it's more than just rules. The problem with faith, though, may be the exact opposite: to think that faith is enough in and of itself, without any deeds tied to it. Thank you for reading, and have a good morning/day/evening/night!

"Agreed." Said Trutharchivist. "I mean, the sun works on nuclear fusion, doesn't it? What's with fire turning it off?"

Funny you should say that, my country's capital city is where I live. Then again, Israel Is also far smaller than China, and a large percentage of the population lives in our capital, I think. TPBM lives in the southern hemisphere.

Sorry on advance for the double post. I thought that maybe we can turn this thread to a general Jewish discussion. If enough people will want that, I'll change the thread's name, tags and perhaps the OP. Anyone interested?

Hello! Trutharchivist here. I'm pretty sure I'm fine, mentally, though I do have better terms of servitude in the IDF due to a mental clause - I get two nights at home every week, and the reasoning to that is related to some of my experiences here, theoretically related to my mental health. I don't argue, but I don't think I have a really serious problem. I still emphasize with people who have to deal with mental illness. My pfp is there since Mental Health Month from the previous year, so I didn't change it.

Nope! Middle east, probably Asia. I live in Israel, hello there! I don't see why you think your idea is demented. If Alice in Wonderland and Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy can pass as stories, yours hardly seems demented. Fantasy and SciFi are all about imagination. Why not go wild with it? TPBM finds themselves weird sometimes.

No, I didn't with how people speak of it, maybe I should try. Keeper of the Lost Cities, right? Ooo, xkcd! Also, I still have a tab of it open. And I'm not sure whether or not I regret it. TPBM has read the Chronicles of Ancient Darkness (I did only up to the third book, as no more books were translated to Hebrew. I'm planning on continuing though).

Trutharchivist looked around him. "Umm... I stay out for one Shabbos and what the glank happened here?" There appeared to not be anything around anymore. Except for people - and chickens - in shardplates. Oh, and a fellow on fire who was working on something. "You know what, I probably should go..."

Trutharchivist blinked. A burning person that somehow knew his name. A man with a Shardblade. And let's not forget the crazy chickens, who now started attacking a person that was eating a sandwich. And now he pulled off a Doofenshmirtz. Ooookay. Wait, on second thought... He looked down and saw that, yep, he had a name tag on. That explains it. "I'll be in my room." He eventually said, and pulled his head back inside, going on to take his medicine... And realizing that he should sleep.

Huh. That was kind of weird, but the signature on the box seemed legitimate. Though... Trutharchivist poked his head out again. "Are there any interesting activities I can participate in? Ones without chickens in shardplates, if possible, though a lightsaber is cool."

That was a quick succession of weird things, but Trutharchivist tried to stay calm. Those chickens have shardplates, why not? And he was pretty sure that the guy running away from them had a lightsaber, of all things. And he was still running. He continued towards his room and entered it, looking suspiciously at the number. A moment later, he poked out of his room. "Is the medicine kosher? I'm a Jew, can't take it otherwise."

"Say what? A naturally occurring... Oh, no, I see. How did it get a shardplate? Can chickens become Radiants now?"

Trutharchivist just happened to pass by at the moment, and a chicken to the face made him stumble. "What the glank is going on here?" He asked.

"Thanks. Hmm... 56, you say? As in, eight times seven? Oh, this cursed number... I always forgot it in multiplication tables. Oh, well. I'll go on to settle in the room." He enters with a bag that seems suspiciously full of books, and a weird, round sidebag.