Liahona

Thank you, Voidus. That sounds like some awesome advice that you can bet I'll be using. Frequently. And I'll be sure to ask you questions when you've got time.

:musical_note: If we fall, we will fall together :musical_note:

18 hours ago, Shining Silhouette said:

What if they're contacting you from the future? Or the past?

What if it's you contacting yourself from another dimension?

Then, unless they give me instructions on what to do ("Go to the library, and under the stairs is a brick that isn't quite like the others. Push it and walk through the portal that appears."), there's really not much I can do to help them. XD

"Calano is dead?"

Not a very detailed game plan, but at least there's something. If they're in another dimension, I don't really know what I can do for them.

Just now, Shining Silhouette said:

What would you do?

Ask them where they are, get there as quickly as possible. Do my best to hold in my questions ("Where did you learn telepathy?!?!") until when we're not in immediate danger.

3 minutes ago, Shining Silhouette said:

What's your favorite thread?

What's something you like to think about?

Jazz, yea or nay?

Excellent question. Probably Sanderson Memes, it always gives me a laugh.

What would I do if one of my friends randomly telepathically contacted me, asking for help?

Yea. I don't listen to it as much as I'd like, but it's a lot of fun.

Lia un-melts from a puddle into a human. She looks around in a state of confusion. "What is happening?" she asks.

I am joining the DMing-with-no-experience club! Well, I have a little bit of experience with being a player in a campaign, but this'll be my first time being the DM. I have my campaign mostly ready, and there's a guy in my group who understand the mechanics of D&D better than I do, so I can ask him for help when I need it. This is gonna be fun.

You know you gotta get your right hand man back!

On 9/14/2022 at 7:34 AM, CalanoCorvus said:

So here's a funny little story;

Throughout the mainstream covid years (2020-early 2022) I suffered from mental, emotional, and spiritual burnout, and turned to some... not great things in an attempt to retain my happiness and sanity.

I thought it was working.

It wasn't.

I commited some very agregious sins, and over the past few months, all the lessons in Priests Quorom and Sunday School have been about repentance. I don't think it was a coincedence.

And I was in Priests Quorom just this past sunday, and the bishop (i love my bishop he is so cool) was giving a brilliant lesson on, you guessed it, repentance.

And, I guess it finally clicked for me, everything I was doing wrong, and I decided right then and there, that it. Would. Stop.

So that night, I went into my closet, knelt down, and spoke to my Heavenly Father for the first time in 2 years. I spoke to him as if he were in the room with me, and I was just... talking to him. Not using prayer-speak, just... talking.

I asked Him for guidance. I asked Him for help. I asked Him what I should do.

I didn't get a verbal response, but I did get a feeling. An overwhelming feeling of love, and of the Spirit.

I had forgotten what the Spirit had felt like, and I vowed then and there, that I would try as hard as I could to never lose it again.

It is now wednesday. I've prayed nightly to my Heavenly Father, and have felt His hand in my life already, even though it's been three days.

And I have a beautiful testimony that He is there, and that He listens, and that the Spirit can be felt, no matter what you've done. The Savior will take your sins upon him, and you will be made clean.

Isaiah 1:18 says it best; "Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. Though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool."

I love you all, and I urge you to pray to Heavenly Father whenever the need arises.

That's amazing, Calano. Thank you for sharing this. 

On 7/12/2022 at 6:15 PM, Wizard Apocalypse100 said:

I'm not Mormon, though I am interested about it's faith and teachings.

Any questions in particular?

Watch your tone-

You're absolutely right, John should've shot him in the mouth, that would've shut him up

How has being religious impacted me? Well, I'm alive, and I enjoy being alive. Religion is responsible for at least ninety percent of that.

Rain: yea or nay?

Lee called you out, we called his bluff

I need something to listen to while cleaning. Give me anything history, story related, random topics, writing, whatever, I don't really care so long as it's clean. Do be warned, I do tend to not like a book, movie, podcast, whatever not because of anything wrong with it, but for a reason I can't put my finger on, so if I happen not to like it that's really not because I think it stinks.

Space or the ocean?

Have you played the Legend of Zelda?

Snow or rain?

Where'd you put the syrup?

Y'know, the one sound the sheep makes... that one.

On 5/20/2022 at 1:34 PM, Bondsmith-Edgedancer said:

Do you write? 

What genre of music do you like to listen to? 

What's your favorite (music) artist?

What do you put on your sandwiches?

What's your favorite school class?

I try. Most of my story ends up in my head rather than on paper, but it's getting there.

Most anything electronic (chill, lofi, electroswing, anything that doesn't have a gritty/hard sound), Christain stuff, the occasional musical.

Probably Vexento, I gotta say.

Cheese and jam my only love.

I loved Teaching as a Profession. 

I reserved every other seat in the movie theatre!

Sorry, I sneezed.

LOOK STEALING THE GRAPES ISN'T THE ANSWER

*winks and falls asleep with a smirk*

Moo juice best juice.

I don't like... any of Star Wars? *flees*

On 5/20/2022 at 9:44 AM, The Bookwyrm said:

I've been spending a lot of time recently thinking about how I would survive if I started falling the wrong way in specific rooms. I also think about how I would get home if gravity turned off without floating off into space.

Help, I wonder the same thing frequently.

On 5/20/2022 at 2:16 PM, CalanoCorvus said:

"i like spatulas :)."

Rubber spatulas my one and only love.

10 hours ago, Chaos said:

Time for me to jump into this, because I'm very curious about something for those of you who believe: what is a spiritual experience?

I'm an atheist, but was raised technically Christian. I say "technically" because my dad never opened his Bible and never took us to church. It was easy for me to fall away from religion, and it was unnecessary to my worldview. But I can truly say that I don't think I have ever had a spiritual experience in my life. I am married to the most incredible woman, I've seen gorgeous views in nature, all sorts of amazing things, but I couldn't say I ever felt anything spiritual in any of this, or anything.

I am genuinely fascinated with religion because I don't really understand it. I get it intellectually for a variety of reasons, but I feel like I completely lack the ability to comprehend what it's like. I think in my own fantasy works, I end up writing about religious characters because I like exploring this, even though I don't really get it myself.

The way I have spiritual experiences is very abstract, I think. The best I can explain it is some sort of "feeling" I have in my "heart" - I use quotation marks because it's not entirely a feeling and I know it's not in my heart because it turns out your heart isn't in the center of your chest, yet in my quote unquote heart I'm able to process things differently. 

This feeling is a sort of... warmth, like going outside right in the morning when the air is crisp and clear and the sunshine is right on you. It feels alive, yet not in an adreneline sort of way. Like you just woke up, feeling well rested, after not getting enough sleep for weeks. That feeling of quiet joy and relief and hope. 

There are of course spiritual experiences that are more of an experience. From little tender mercies like a pipe being in exactly the right place to keep my niece from falling off a rock wall (natural) and hitting her head to straight-up miracles like my mother and brother somehow making it home safe from France despite being incredibly sick. There have been things I've seen and experienced that continually convince me that there's someone looking out for me that knows me personally and loves me despite my faults. I'm convinced that there's no way that all of these things I've seen in my life happened by chance. Prayers answered, help given. I wouldn't be surprised if there was a scientific way to explain it, but that wouldn't detract from the spiritual aspect of it. In my opinion, science is just our way to figure out how God made this world work, and a lot of it is way over our heads. XD

No, just trying to find easier access for some of my commonly used threads. I must be thinking of the NaNoWriMo forums or something XD. Thank you!